First Draft Episode #296: David Arnold

David Arnold is the New York Times bestselling author of Mosquitoland, Kids of Appetite, and The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik, talks about his latest genre-bending YA sci-fi, The Electric Kingdom, out now!

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Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• The Hardy Boys by Franklin W. Dixon

• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkein

• LOST (TV show)

• X-Files (TV show)

• Sphere by Michael Crichton

• Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators

• Courtney C. Stevens, author of Faking Normal, Dress Codes for Small Towns, and more. Listen to her First Draft interview here.

• Ruta Sepetys, #1 New York Times bestselling and Carnegie-winning author of Between Shades of Gray, Out of the Easy, and Salt to the Sea. She talked about her newest novel, Fountains of Silence, in a recent First Draft interview.

• Hootie and the Blowfish (band)

• Alanis Morissette (musician)

• Elliott Smith (musician)

• Switched on Pop, a podcast about the making and meaning of popular music hosted by musicologist Nate Sloan and songwriter Charlie Harding and produced by Vulture

• “The Culture Warped Pop, For Good,” by Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding in The New York Times

• Director and screenwriter Michel Gondry

• Arrival (movie)

• Eric Heisserer (screenwriter of Arrival)

• Ted Chiang, author of short story collections including Exhalation and Stories of Your Life and Others, which includes Story of Your Life, the basis for the film Arrival

• Jóhann Jóhannsson (score for Arrival)

• Hildur Guonadóttir (musician)

• Slow Meadow (band)

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• Anna Carey, author of the speculative/genre-bending This is Not The Jess Show and of The Eve Trilogy (Eve, Once, Rise) and the Blackbird series (Blackbird, Deadfall).

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

• Justin Reynolds, author of character-driven stories with speculative twists, The Opposite of Always and Early Departures.

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