After embracing her desire to write in her thirties and putting herself on a steep learning curve, Rachel Cantor found her voice with two lively and funny novels, A HIGHLY UNLIKELY SCENARIO and GOOD ON PAPER. She and James debate whether it's harder to make people laugh or bring them to tears, and she details the difficulties of translation and the Arnold Schwarzenegger approach to novel writing. Plus, Meredith Scott describes the great work of the Children's Literacy Foundation (CLiF) and, finally, her daughter, Zoey Irwin, talks about her book club and why reading is important for kids.
Rachel Cantor: http://rachelcantor.com/
Rachel and James Discuss:
James Joyce
T.S. Eliot
Agatha Christie
Tim Burton (film director)
WAR AND PEACE by Leo Tolstoy
Ross Macdonald
THE ARTIST'S WAY by Julia Cameron
WHAT IF? WRITING EXERCISES FOR FICTION WRITERS by Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter
Leslie Epstein
Theo Epstein
CASABLANCA (film)
REDIVIDER
ONE STORY
Matthew Salesses
Melville House
Italo Calvino
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA)
EILEEN by Ottessa Moshfegh
HOMESICK FOR ANOTHER WORLD: STORIES by Ottessa Moshfegh
Katie Kitamura
WE, THE DROWNED by Carsten Jensen
The Bronte siblings
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Children's Literacy Foundation (CLiF): http://clifonline.org/
Meredith and James discuss:
We Need Diverse Books
First Book
The Eric Carle Museum
Elephant and Piggie books by Mo Willems
Everybody Wins
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Zoey and James discuss:
The Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling
THE LAND OF STORIES by Chris Colfer
SHILOH by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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