Ep 117: Jasmine Warga

Jasmine Warga, author of My Heart and Other Black Holes and her
newest, Here We Are Now, on reading teaching empathy and
complexly imagining others’ internal worlds, family mythologies
as social currency, the glorification of happiness, and the
trouble with idolizing your friends.


 


Jasmine Warga Show Notes


Runebinder by Alex R. Kahler (listen to his First Draft interview
here)


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Twilight by Stephenie Meyer


Elin Hilderbrand


The Jungle Book (movie)


Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling


"Why Everyone Should Read Harry Potter," in Scientific American,
featuring a study showing that people who read Harry Potter have
more empathy


Gabriel Garcia Marquez


Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV show)


Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block


Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky


Virginia Woolf


Jonathan Safran Foer


White Teeth by Zadie Smith


The Giver by Lois Lowry


Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell


Victoria Schwab (listen to her First Draft interview here)


Spoon theory


I Am Not Your Guru (documentary)


Frances Bean Cobain


Almost Famous (movie)


Emery Lord