Ep 54: Aaron Hartzler

Talking to Aaron Hartzler, author of WHAT WE SAW (out Sept. 22!)
and RAPTURE PRACTICE, about YA memoir, desert hippies, and taking
others off the hook for your happiness.


Aaron Hartzler Show Notes


Teen Read Week


Ellen Hopkins


Nicky Weinstock


DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY by Erik Larson


MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL by John Berendt


The New Yorker: The Lessons of Steubenville; Life
After Steubenville; Trial by Twitter


Dan Savage


Josh Sundquist WE SHOULD HANG OUT SOMETIME: EMBARRASSINGLY, A
TRUE STORY


Paige Rawl, Ali Benjamin POSITIVE: A MEMOIR


POPULAR: VINTAGE WISDOM FOR A MODERN GEEK by Maya Van Wagenen


Nic Sheff TWEAK: GROWING UP ON METHAMPHETAMINES


Kate Sullivan, Senior Editor of YA & MG books at Delacorte


THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN by Sherman Alexie


Michael Bourret, agent with DGLM


Andrew Smith


GLASS CASTLE Jeanette Walls


Julia Sweeny, IF IT'S NOT ONE THING, IT'S YOUR MOTHER


Ira Glass, This American Life


Billy Ray, screenwriter


Holly Goldberg Sloan, COUNTING BY 7S


Erin Jade Lange, author of BUTTER (listen to her First Draft
interview here)


New Yorker article: The Scourge of Relatability


Melissa de la Cruz OFF THE BOAT


Malinda Lo


A.S. King


Tim Federle


David Leviathan, HOLD ME CLOSER: THE TINY COOPER STORY, and Tiny
Cooper musical


GODLESS by Pete Hautman


Laura McNeal DARK WATER


FAR FAR AWAY by Tom McNeal


Maria Semple THIS ONE IS MINE, WHERE’D YOU GO BERNADETTE


Natalie Goldberg WRITING DOWN THE BONES


Anne Lamott BIRD BY BIRD: SOME INSTRUCTIONS ON WRITING AND LIFE