Melissa Albert, New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel Wood and its forthcoming sequel, as well as Tales from the Hinterlands, talks about stuffing her debut book with secret book recommendations, the borderlessness of being a young reader, and loving angry girls in fiction.
Melissa Albert Show Notes
The Baby-Sitters Club by Ann M. Martin
Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner
Hook (movie)
Philip Pullman’s Grimm Brothers translation
Roshani Chokshi’s forthcoming trio of novellas
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo (listen to her First Draft episodes here and here)
Tales of the Peculiar by Ransom Riggs (listen to his First Draft interview here)
A Spark of Light (Barnes & Noble exclusive edition)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor (listen to her First Draft interview here)
Francesca Lia Block (listen to her First Draft interview here)
His Hideous Heart by Dahlia Adler
Working Partners (work for hire book company in England)
George Saunders essay about what writers really do when they write
Sadie by Courtney Summers (listen to her First Draft interview here)
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
The Twilight Zone (TV show)
Radiance by Catherynne Valente
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Romeo + Juliet (movie)
Love Lists, a blog post by Stephanie Perkins
Emma Chastain, writer
The North Texas Teen Book Festival
Welcome to Night Vale (podcast)
The Magicians Trilogy by Lev Grossman
The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke
Ira Glass A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray (listen to her First Draft interviews here and here)