Ep 135: Maret Orliss

Maret Orliss, Associate Director of Events Programming for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, talks about how authors can stand out to festival programmers, what the L.A. Times is doing in response to sexual harassment accusations in the book world, and the best Margaret Atwood festival story.   Maret Orliss Show Notes Cecil Castellucci Lisa Yee The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman Reading Aloud, Nate Corddry's books podcast Brandy Colbert Amy Spalding John Scalzi Roxane Gay Jacqueline Woodson Far From the Tree by Robin Benway Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert I Believe in a Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo The Way You Make Me Feel by Maurene Goo Not the Girls You're Looking For by Aminah Mae Safi Grace and the Fever by Zan Romanoff I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara Patton Oswalt The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory Her new book, The Proposal Sophia of Silicon Valley by Anna Yen Stealing the Show: How Women Are Revolutionizing Television by Joy Press Murphy Brown (TV show) You Play the Girl by Carina Chocano, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) Amerca by Morgan Jerkins Queer Eye (TV show)