Ep 168: Nina LaCour 2.0

Nina LaCour, author of We Are Okay, winner of the 2018 Printz Award, and other contemporary YA titles like Everything Leads to You and Hold Still, joins me to talk about how she's expanding her teaching role with The Slow Novel Lab, and an exciting new podcast venture called Keeping a Notebook.   Nina LaCour Show Notes Nina LaCour's first First Draft interview Lorde's album Pure Heroine We Are Okay Nina's interview on Yin Chang's podcast, 88 Cups of Tea Alfred Hitchcock The Castle of Otranto, a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole Virginia Woolf Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights Frida Kahlo (Artist) Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour Keeping a Notebook (and the episode featuring Sarah Enni) The Slow Novel Lab "On Keeping a Notebook" by Joan Didion Sara Zarr's podcast This Creative Life NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) Save the Cat SquareSpace MailChimp Nina's short story in the Foreshadow YA online YA anthology collection Writing the Breakout Novel: Worksheets by Donald Maass Hamline low residency MFA program