This week we’re chatting with Lygia Day Peñaflor, the author of several YA novels, her most recent being Creep: A Love Story.

If you’ve listened to the radio or any kind of streaming service, you’ve almost certainly heard Radiohead’s song Creep, and it was this song that partly inspired Lygia’s story. We chat with Lygia about obsession among the young adult crowd and how her work as a teacher of child stars on television and movie sets such as Gossip Girl and Boardwalk Empire helped her see that she could live out her dream of being an author.

Creep: A Love Story is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection and Publisher’s Weekly called it “spine-chillingly disturbing.”

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Books Mentioned In This Episode:

2- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

3- Unscripted Joss Byrd by Lygia Day Peñaflor

4- All of This is True by Lygia Day Peñaflor

5- You by Caroline Kepnes

6- The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

7- Macbeth by William Shakespeare

8- Atonement by Ian McEwan

9- The Body by Stephen King

10-Mystic River by Dennis LeHane

11- Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

12- His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

13- Nothing To See Here by Kevin Wilson

14- Edie Richter is Not Alone by Rebecca Handler

18- Now is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson

19- The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

20- Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

Movies/Shows mentioned--

2- Shrinking (Apple +, 2023)

3- The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

4- Atonement (2007)

5- Stand By Me (1986)

6- Mystic River (2003)

7- Fleishman is in Trouble (HULU, 2022)

8- His Dark Materials (2022)

9- Stranger Things (Netflix 2022)