Ep 171: Melissa Albert

Melissa Albert, New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel Wood and its forthcoming sequel, as well as Tales from the Hinterlands, talks about stuffing her debut book with secret book recommendations, the borderlessness of being a young reader, and loving angry girls in fiction.   Melissa Albert Show Notes Vera Nabokov The Baby-Sitters Club by Ann M. Martin Lolita Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner Wise Child by Monica Furlong Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie Hook (movie) Charles de Lint Helen Oyeyemi Philip Pullman’s Grimm Brothers translation Roshani Chokshi’s forthcoming trio of novellas Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado Kelly Link Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo (listen to her First Draft episodes here and here) Tales of the Peculiar by Ransom Riggs (listen to his First Draft interview here) Flannery O’Connor Time Out Chicago A Spark of Light (Barnes & Noble exclusive edition) Barnes & Noble YA Blog The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell Feed by M. T. Anderson Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor (listen to her First Draft interview here) Francesca Lia Block (listen to her First Draft interview here) His Hideous Heart by Dahlia Adler Working Partners (work for hire book company in England) George Saunders essay about what writers really do when they write Sadie by Courtney Summers (listen to her First Draft interview here) The Cruel Prince by Holly Black The Twilight Zone (TV show) Radiance by Catherynne Valente The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien Romeo + Juliet (movie) Love Lists, a blog post by Stephanie Perkins Emma Chastain, writer The North Texas Teen Book Festival Welcome to Night Vale (podcast) The Magicians Trilogy by Lev Grossman The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke Ira Glass A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray (listen to her First Draft interviews here and here)