Robin Benway

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Robin is the National Book Award-winning author of FAR FROM THE TREE, as well as: EMMY & OLIVER, ALSO KNOWN AS, GOING ROGUE, THE EXTRAORDINARY SECRETS OF APRIL, MAY, AND JUNE and AUDREY, WAIT! Find Robin on Twitter: @robinbenway and Instagram: @robinbenway. Her website is robinbenway.com Show Notes: Books, authors, movies, TV, specials, and other media or institutions mentioned include: The Confusion of Laurel Graham by Adrienne Kisner Dear Rachel Maddow by Adrienne Kisner Rachel Cohn Looking for Alaska by John Green Twilight by Stephenie Meyer David Levithan Holly Black Baby-Sitters Club Sweet Valley High Ramona books by Beverly Cleary Beverly Cleary Mitch and Amy by Beverly Cleary Ribsy by Beverly Cleary Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary Ramona the Brave by Beverly Cleary Bianca Turetsky Baby-Sitters Club Netflix reboot Lucia Aniello Architectural Digest story Lucia Aniello Gingerbread by Rachel Cohn Audrey, Wait! by Robin Katy Perry The Movie: Part of Me by Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz It Might Get Loud by Davis Guggenheim Paul McCartney: The Love We Make by Albert Maysles and Bradley Kaplan Blackbird by Paul McCartney Heartbreaker by Mariah Carey Los Lobos The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, and June by Robin Going Rogue by Robin Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix The Quibbler podcast Emmy & Oliver Far From the Tree Cosmic Love - Florence and the Machine National Book Foundation / National Book Awards The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo Lisa Kudrow interview on Nerdist Meg Medina Noah Centineo To All the Boys I've Loved Before Rob Sheffield at Rolling Stone Taylor Swift Pitchfork The Ripped Bodice Sarah McLean Meg Cabot Judy Blume Samantha Bee Wifey by Judy Blume Tavi Gevinson Julie Klausner Starring Sally J. Freedman As Herself by Judy Blume Forever … by Judy Blume Hasan Minhaj Molly Ringwald Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume Bright Lights by Alexis Bloom and Fisher Stevens Becky Albertalli The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge by M.T. Anderson (Illustrated by Eugene Yelchin) Deep Creek: Finding Hope in High Country by Pam Houston Stevie Nicks Five Seconds of Summer Shrill Salt Fat Acid Heat Amy Spalding About Truer Words: Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy. You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at [email protected].

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