Laura van den Berg returns to discuss her brilliantly unsettling new novel, THE THIRD HOTEL. She and James discuss her three research trips to Havana, film adaptations, women in horror, crucial details, and her thought log, which is exactly what it sounds like. Then Marya Brennan talks about a Writing Blood Oath and her work as the NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program Director.

Laura van den Berg: http://lauravandenberg.com/

Laura and James Discuss:

Jenny Halpert

Kate Sharp

THE BURNING SEASON

Naomi Watts

The Tribeca Film Festival

Claire McCarthy

ARRIVAL dir by Denis Villeneuve

“Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang

SCREAM dir by Wes Craven

THE BABADOOK dir by Jennifer Kent

A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT dir by Ana Lily Aminpour

VERTIGO dir by Alfred Hitchcock

THE SHINING dir by Stanley Kubrick

Shelley Duvall

PIANO by Jean Echenoz

James Longenbach

Marya Brennan, NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program Director: https://ywp.nanowrimo.org/

Marya and James Discuss: 

Annie Hartnett

Robbie!

Aimee Bender

DEEP WORK by Cal Newport

NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program

THE THINGS THEY CARRIED by Tim O’Brien

Chris Baty