First Draft with Sarah Enni

Ibi Zoboi is the New York Times bestselling author of National Book Award Finalist American Street, Pride, My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich and co-author with prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of Punching the Air. She joins us to talk about her first work of non-fiction Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler.

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Category:Literature -- posted at: 9:13am PDT

Jacqueline Woodson is a 2020 MacArthur Genius fellow, National Book Award winner, Newberry, Caldecott, and Coretta Scott King winner, former National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Brown Girl Dreaming, Red at the Bone, Another Brooklyn, Before the Ever After and many, many more. She joins us to talk about her picture books with Rafael López, The Day You Begin and The Year We Learned to Fly.

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Category:Literature -- posted at: 12:00am PDT

First Draft Episode #337: Lamar Giles

Lamar Giles, author of the acclaimed novels Fake ID, Endangered, Overturned, Spin, Not So Pure and Simple. He joins us to talk about his middle-grade series The Last Last-Day-of-Summer, Last Chance for Logan County, and and The Last Mirror on the Left.

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Category:Literature -- posted at: 9:10am PDT

First Draft Episode #336: Varian Johnson

Varian Johnson, award-winning author of The Parker Inheritance, Twins, The Great Greene Heist, joins us to talk about his most recent middle-grade, Playing the Cards You’re Dealt.

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Category:Literature -- posted at: 12:00am PDT

First Draft Episode #335: Kekla Magoon

Kekla Magoon is the award-winning author of many novels and nonfiction books for kids and teens, including How It Went Down, The Season of Styx Malone, and her newest, Revolution In Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People.

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Direct download: FD_-_Kekla_Magoon_mixdown.mp3
Category:Literature -- posted at: 12:00am PDT

First Draft Episode #334: Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-seven novels, including My Sister's Keeper, Nineteen Minutes, Small Great Things, and two young adult novels with daughter Samantha van Leer, Between the Lines and Off the Page. She joins to talk about her latest, Wish You Were Here.

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Direct download: FD_-_Jodi_Picoult_mixdown.mp3
Category:Literature -- posted at: 12:00am PDT

First Draft Episode #333: Karen M. McManus

Karen M. McManus is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of young adult thrillers, including the One of Us Is Lying series (now a Peacock TV show), Two Can Keep a Secret, The Cousins, joins to talk about her latest, You’ll Be the Death of Me.

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Direct download: FD_-_Karen_McManus_mixdown.mp3
Category:Literature -- posted at: 12:00am PDT

First Draft Episode #332: Chloe Gong

Chloe Gong is the New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights and its sequel Our Violent Ends.

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Direct download: FD_-_Chloe_Gong_mixdown.mp3
Category:Literature -- posted at: 11:40am PDT

First Draft Episode #331: Oliver Jeffers

Oliver Jeffers, visual artist, climate activist, and author and/or illustrator of several New York Times bestselling picture books, including The Day the Crayons Quit, How to Catch a Star, The Fate of Fausto, and Here We Are, joins us to talk about his newest picture book, There’s a Ghost In This House.

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Direct download: FD_-_Oliver_Jeffers_2021_mixdown.mp3
Category:Literature -- posted at: 12:00am PDT

First Draft Episode #330: Roseanne A. Brown

Roseanne A. Brown is the New York Times bestselling author of YA fantasy novels A Song of Wraiths and Ruin and its sequel, A Psalm of Storms and Silence.

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Category:Literature -- posted at: 8:14am PDT