Ep 160: Tochi Onyebuchi

Tochi Onyebuchi, author of CROWN OF THUNDER, the second book in the BEASTS MADE OF NIGHT series--which is out now--talks about the audacity of new writers' ideas, writing himself and his family into a book for the first time, and being an award-winning witness.   Tochi Onyebuchi Show Notes The Los Angeles TImes Festival of Books (listen to my interview with the festival's Associate Director of Events Programming, Maret Orliss, here) Korn Linkin Park The Wikipedia entry of Nigerian-Americans Lie Down In Darkness by William Styron Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay Renee Ahdieh (listen to her First Draft interview here) Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo (manga) The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault Eugène Delacroix, French Romantic artist Sabaa Tahir (listen to her First Draft podcast here) Marie Lu (listen to her First Draft podcast interviews here and here) Leigh Bardugo (listen to her FIrst Draft podcast interview here) Black Panther (movie) Afrofuturism Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (listen to her First Draft podcast here) John Cheever Mad Men (TV show) Paul Thomas Anderson (filmmaker)