Sabaa Tahir, NY Times bestselling author of the An Ember in the Ashes series, shares spooky happenings in the desert hometown, waxes poetic about good journalistic writing, and talks giving suffering children a happy ending in her books, being an eight-year overnight success, and writing books in elbows of time.
Sabaa Tahir Show Notes
The Shannara series by Terry Brooks
Dragon Riders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
Ansel Adams (photographer)
Stranger Things (TV show)
Seven Daughters and Seven Suns by Barbara Cohen and Bahija Lovejoy
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
"Living a Half-Life While Waiting for Those Lost," the Washington Post story about women in Kashmir
Image of Liberian child soldier wearing a teddy bear backpack, Georges Gobet/Getty Images
Margaret Stohl (listen to her First Draft interviews here and here)
George R. R. Martin “gardener or architect”
All the President’s Men (film)
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
My Left Foot (movie)