Ep 100: Jennifer E. Smith

A lovely conversation with Jennifer E. Smith, author of The
Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, The Geography of
You and Me, and Hello, Goodbye, and Everything In Between, and
her most recent novel, Windfall. She talks about the teacher who
made all the difference, and some key questions, like: are we all
always writing the same story? And can you be an optimist and
believe in fate?


 


Jennifer E Smith Show Notes


Lauren Graham


Mary Higgins Clark


John Grisham


The Babysitters’ Club by Ann M. Martin


Saddle Club by Bonnie Bryant


Black Stallion by Walter Farley


Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls


Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt


Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson


Frederick Busch 


Elizabeth Strout


Justin Cronin


Ha Jin


Amanda "Blinky" Urban at ICM (agent)


Toni Morrison


Haruki Murakami


Donna Tartt


E. L. Doctorow


Cormac McCarthy


Jennifer Egan


Kazuo Ishiguro


Richard Ford 


Anna Quindlen


The Keep by Jennifer Eagan


The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford


Jennifer Joel (Jenn’s agent)


Looking for Alaska by John Green


Sarah Dessen


Emily Meehan (editor)


What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty


The Privileges by Jonathan Dee


The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh


Maurene Goo (listen to her First Draft interviews here and here)


Sliding Doors (movie)


Julie Buxbaum (listen to her First Draft interview here)