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Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:
- The Hardy Boys by Franklin W. Dixon
- Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
- The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkein
- LOST (TV show)
- X-Files (TV show)
- Sphere by Michael Crichton
- Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
- Courtney C. Stevens, author of Faking Normal, Dress Codes for Small Towns, and more. Listen to her First Draft interview here.
- Ruta Sepetys, #1 New York Times bestselling and Carnegie-winning author of Between Shades of Gray, Out of the Easy, and Salt to the Sea. She talked about her newest novel, Fountains of Silence, in a recent First Draft interview.
- Hootie and the Blowfish (band)
- Alanis Morissette (musician)
- Elliott Smith (musician)
- Switched on Pop, a podcast about the making and meaning of popular music hosted by musicologist Nate Sloan and songwriter Charlie Harding and produced by Vulture
- “The Culture Warped Pop, For Good,” by Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding in The New York Times
- Director and screenwriter Michel Gondry
- Arrival (movie)
- Eric Heisserer (screenwriter of Arrival)
- Ted Chiang, author of short story collections including Exhalation and Stories of Your Life and Others, which includes Story of Your Life, the basis for the film Arrival
- Jóhann Jóhannsson (score for Arrival)
- Hildur Guonadóttir (musician)
- Slow Meadow (band)
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- Anna Carey, author of the speculative/genre-bending This is Not The Jess Show and of The Eve Trilogy (Eve, Once, Rise) and the Blackbird series (Blackbird, Deadfall).
- David Levithan, editorial director at Scholastic and the author of many young adult novels, including Boy Meets Boy, and speculative fiction juggernaut Every Day, and co-author with Rachel Cohn of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares.
- Justin Reynolds, author of character-driven stories with speculative twists, The Opposite of Always and Early Departures.
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