Ep 124: John August

John August—screenwriter known for Go, Big Fish, and more, and
host of the Scriptnotes podcast—on his debut middle grade
adventure novel, ARLO FINCH IN THE VALLEY OF FIRE (out Feb. 6!).
John talks about the tricks authors have that screenwriters
don’t, what made him think of recording his entire process of
writing, selling, and debuting ARLO, the shadow of Harry Potter
over all MG, and podcasting as an American art form.


 


John August Show Notes


Go (movie)


Big Fish (movie)


Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (movie)


Aladdin (movie)


Scriptnotes (podcast)


Launch (podcast)


Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Three Investigators (book)


Premiere Magazine


Nora Ephron


Steven Soderbergh


Sex Lies and Videotape (movie)


Star Trek: The Next Generation


Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston


Charlie’s Angels (movie)


A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle


How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell


Craig Mazin (screenwriter)


Serial (podcast)


John Gruber’s podcast, The Talk Show


John’s blog post about writing Arlo Finch


The Nest by Kenneth Oppel


To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee


The Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan


The Magnus Chase series by Rick Riordan


Lord of the Flies by William Golding


Call Me By Your Name (movie)


Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman (book)


“Story of a T-Shirt” by Planet Money


Startup (podcast)


Robert Ludlum


Ira Glass


Freedom app


NaNoWriMo