Ep 54: Aaron Hartzler

Talking to Aaron Hartzler, author of WHAT WE SAW (out Sept. 22!) and RAPTURE PRACTICE, about YA memoir, desert hippies, and taking others off the hook for your happiness. Aaron Hartzler Show Notes Teen Read Week Ellen Hopkins Nicky Weinstock DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY by Erik Larson MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL by John Berendt The New Yorker: The Lessons of Steubenville; Life After Steubenville; Trial by Twitter Dan Savage Josh Sundquist WE SHOULD HANG OUT SOMETIME: EMBARRASSINGLY, A TRUE STORY Paige Rawl, Ali Benjamin POSITIVE: A MEMOIR POPULAR: VINTAGE WISDOM FOR A MODERN GEEK by Maya Van Wagenen Nic Sheff TWEAK: GROWING UP ON METHAMPHETAMINES Kate Sullivan, Senior Editor of YA & MG books at Delacorte THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN by Sherman Alexie Michael Bourret, agent with DGLM Andrew Smith GLASS CASTLE Jeanette Walls Julia Sweeny, IF IT'S NOT ONE THING, IT'S YOUR MOTHER Ira Glass, This American Life Billy Ray, screenwriter Holly Goldberg Sloan, COUNTING BY 7S Erin Jade Lange, author of BUTTER (listen to her First Draft interview here) New Yorker article: The Scourge of Relatability Melissa de la Cruz OFF THE BOAT Malinda Lo A.S. King Tim Federle David Leviathan, HOLD ME CLOSER: THE TINY COOPER STORY, and Tiny Cooper musical GODLESS by Pete Hautman Laura McNeal DARK WATER FAR FAR AWAY by Tom McNeal Maria Semple THIS ONE IS MINE, WHERE'D YOU GO BERNADETTE Natalie Goldberg WRITING DOWN THE BONES Anne Lamott BIRD BY BIRD: SOME INSTRUCTIONS ON WRITING AND LIFE