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