Ep 18: Libba Bray

The only thing better than getting to chat with YA icon Libba
Bray (author of New York Times best-selling series A GREAT
AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY, Printz award-winner GOING BOVINE, and
genuinely terrifying historical paranormal THE DIVINERS, among
others) about writing was getting to chat with her about life.
Libba is as hilarious as she is wise, and our conversation was so
fun, I decided to cut it into two parts rather than leave an hour
or more on the cutting-room floor. In this episode, Libba talks
about having her rock collection stolen as a kid, that one time
Wes Anderson helped stage a play she wrote, and talks about how
growing up in Texas set her head at a certain tilt.


Libba Bray Show Notes


Seven Samurai, directed by Akira Kurosawa


Citizen Kane


The Legend of Boggy Creek


The Planet of the Apes


American Gigolo


The Exorcist


Christopher 'Kit' Marlowe


Lois Lowry (her BEA speech)


CHARLOTTE'S WEB by E.B. White


I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS by Maya Angelou


THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD by Zora Neale Hurston


FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS by Ernest Hemingway


THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH by Norton Juster


Aaron Sorkin


Harold Pinter


The Thin Man


Bringing Up Baby


The Marx brothers


Neil Simon plays


Woody Allen


Pitch Perfect


Agent Sarah Burnes


No Country For Old Men


HOW TO SAY GOODBYE IN ROBOT by Natalie Standiford


Rushmore


David Sedaris


Johnny Thunders


Singin’ In The Rain


Fitness Focus Form and Function with Marky Mark


Richard Simmons


Cindy Crawford


THE LAMB WHO SAVED EASTER 


Peter Marks, theater critic of the New York Times and the
Washington Post


New York International Film Festival


Mawkish