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.
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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
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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