Maret Orliss, Associate Director of Events Programming for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, talks about how authors can stand out to festival programmers, what the L.A. Times is doing in response to sexual harassment accusations in the book world, and the best Margaret Atwood festival story.
Maret Orliss Show Notes
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman
Reading Aloud, Nate Corddry’s books podcast
Far From the Tree by Robin Benway
Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
I Believe in a Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo
The Way You Make Me Feel by Maurene Goo
Not the Girls You’re Looking For by Aminah Mae Safi
Grace and the Fever by Zan Romanoff
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
Her new book, The Proposal
Sophia of Silicon Valley by Anna Yen
Stealing the Show: How Women Are Revolutionizing Television by Joy Press
Murphy Brown (TV show)
You Play the Girl by Carina Chocano, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) Amerca by Morgan Jerkins
Queer Eye (TV show)