First Draft Episode #343: Abdi Nazemian

Abdi Nazemian, screenwriter and author of Stonewall Honor book Like a Love Story talks about his most recent YA, The Chandler Legacies.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• Abdi’s first First Draft interview

• TIME’s 100 Best YA Books of All Time

• Rebecca Serle, author of The Dinner List, In Five Years, and the forthcoming One Italian Summer

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

• The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank

• The White Lotus (TV show)

• The Gilded Age (TV show)

• Ordinary Joe (TV show now streaming on Hulu and Peacock)

• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport

• The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

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• David Levithan, editorial director at Scholastic and the author of many young adult novels, including Boy Meets Boy, Every Day, and co-author with Rachel Cohn of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares. Hear his First Draft interview here.

• Catie Disabato, author of The Ghost Network and the new adult contemporary novel U Up? Hear her First Draft interview here.

• Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of Red, White, and Royal Blue, talks about their latest queer rom-com, One Last Stop. Hear their First Draft interview here.

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