Ep 135: Maret Orliss

Maret Orliss, Associate Director of Events Programming for the
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, talks about how authors can
stand out to festival programmers, what the L.A. Times is doing
in response to sexual harassment accusations in the book world,
and the best Margaret Atwood festival story.


 


Maret Orliss Show Notes


Cecil Castellucci


Lisa Yee


The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood


Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman


Reading Aloud, Nate Corddry’s books podcast


Brandy Colbert


Amy Spalding


John Scalzi


Roxane Gay


Jacqueline Woodson


Far From the Tree by Robin Benway


Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert


I Believe in a Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo


The Way You Make Me Feel by Maurene Goo


Not the Girls You’re Looking For by Aminah Mae Safi


Grace and the Fever by Zan Romanoff


I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the
Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara


Patton Oswalt


The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory


Her new book, The Proposal


Sophia of Silicon Valley by Anna Yen


Stealing the Show: How Women Are Revolutionizing Television by
Joy Press


Murphy Brown (TV show)


You Play the Girl by Carina Chocano, winner of the National Book
Critics Circle Award


This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black,
Female, and Feminist in (White) Amerca by Morgan Jerkins


Queer Eye (TV show)