Talking to Aaron Hartzler, author of WHAT WE SAW (out Sept. 22!) and RAPTURE PRACTICE, about YA memoir, desert hippies, and taking others off the hook for your happiness.
Aaron Hartzler Show Notes
DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY by Erik Larson
MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL by John Berendt
The New Yorker: The Lessons of Steubenville; Life After Steubenville; Trial by Twitter
Josh Sundquist WE SHOULD HANG OUT SOMETIME: EMBARRASSINGLY, A TRUE STORY
Paige Rawl, Ali Benjamin POSITIVE: A MEMOIR
POPULAR: VINTAGE WISDOM FOR A MODERN GEEK by Maya Van Wagenen
Nic Sheff TWEAK: GROWING UP ON METHAMPHETAMINES
Kate Sullivan, Senior Editor of YA & MG books at Delacorte
THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN by Sherman Alexie
Michael Bourret, agent with DGLM
GLASS CASTLE Jeanette Walls
Julia Sweeny, IF IT'S NOT ONE THING, IT'S YOUR MOTHER
Ira Glass, This American Life
Billy Ray, screenwriter
Holly Goldberg Sloan, COUNTING BY 7S
Erin Jade Lange, author of BUTTER (listen to her First Draft interview here)
New Yorker article: The Scourge of Relatability
Melissa de la Cruz OFF THE BOAT
David Leviathan, HOLD ME CLOSER: THE TINY COOPER STORY, and Tiny Cooper musical
GODLESS by Pete Hautman
Laura McNeal DARK WATER
FAR FAR AWAY by Tom McNeal
Maria Semple THIS ONE IS MINE, WHERE’D YOU GO BERNADETTE
Natalie Goldberg WRITING DOWN THE BONES
Anne Lamott BIRD BY BIRD: SOME INSTRUCTIONS ON WRITING AND LIFE