Truer Words

Tirzah is the author of the upcoming JANE AUSTEN MURDER MYSTERIES, starting with PRIDE AND PREMEDITATION, and has a story in the new RURAL VOICES: 15 AUTHORS CHALLENGE ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT SMALL TOWN AMERICA anthology. Tirzah can be found on Instagram @tirzah.price and Twitter @tirzahprice. Her website is TirzahPrice.com.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Publisher's Weekly review of RURAL VOICES

The Boyfriend Project by Farrah Rochon

You're Wrong About . . .

Why Are Dads?

The War

Buffy

Angel

New York Film Festival

The West Wing

The West Wing reunion

Ted Lasso

4 Reasons Why I Love Hopepunk by Robin Galbraith

Parks and Recreation

Schitt's Creek

Dickinson

The Morning Show

The Trial of the Chicago 7

American Utopia

Romeo + Juliet

Weetzie Bat

Moulin Rouge

Oklahoma!

RURAL VOICES: 15 AUTHORS CHALLENGE ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT SMALL TOWN AMERICA edited by Nora Shalaway Carpenter

Our episode with Nora Shalaway Carpenter

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Agatha Christie

Death Comes to Pemberley

Georgette Heyer

Dangerous Alliance by Jennieke Cohen

Newt's Emerald by Garth Nix

Lady Sherlock series by Sherry Thomas

The Agency series by Y.S. Lee

Dear America

Vermont College of Fine Arts

Writing for Children and Young Adults program at VCFA

Bookriot

Taylor Martindale Kean (Tirzah's agent!)

Forest App

SelfControl App

The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery

Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner

Real Men Knit by Kwame Jackson

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham-Jones

When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole

The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

Bodyguard on the BBC/Netflix

Designated Survivor

Tirzah's articles on Book Riot

All the Books Book Riot podcast

Read This Book newsletter for Book Riot

About Us:

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].

Hayley is the author of two middle grade novels, The Turnaway Girls and The Sisters of Straygarden Place. Hayley can be found on Twitter @hayley_chewins. Her website is HayleyChewins.com.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Common Cause

Sign up to do Election Protection!

Vote Save America

Postcards to Voters

NYC Board of Elections

One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London

UnREAL on Lifetime

PEN15 on Hulu

That's So Gay': How 'PEN15' Nailed the Heartbreaking Experience of the Closeted Y2K Middle-Schooler - The Daily Beast

Literally, What Did We Do When We Were 13? - The Cut

The West Wing

Bath Spa University

Kate DiCamillo

David Almond

Karen Foxlee

Neil Gaiman

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Shelley Tanaka

Noisli

Blue Ticket by Sophie Mackintosh

The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh

The Emperor's Blades by Brian Stavely

The Court of Miracles by Kester Grant

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

About Us:

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].

Samantha has received a Ruth Stone Poetry Prize and a Vermont Poetry Society prize, and her manuscript "Jewel Tones" was a semifinalist with the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry's 2019 First Book Prize. She coordinates author events at Bear Pond Books and is the Poetry Series Editor at Rootstock Publishing. Her chapbook, "Birth of a Daughter," is availabl now from Kelsay Books. Samantha can be found on Instagram @sampoetmfa and Twitter @Samanthakolber. Her website is SamanthaKolber.com.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Museum of the City of New York

Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner

The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary

The Switch by Beth O'Leary

Kerry Winfrey

Our episode with Kerry Winfrey

Tweet from R.O. Kwon:

I've never been more convinced of the absolute necessity of art. Often, the best part of my day has to do with art of some kind, books, photos, music, movies, all of it; often, it's the only good part of my day. It's like my pandemic Popeye spinach & artists, I thank you

New Girl

The Complications of Hilma af Klint lecture

The Parent Trap (1998 Lindsay Lohan version)

The Parent Trap (Hayley Mills version)

Bewitched

Julie and the Phantoms

Julie and the Phantoms novel by Micol Ostow

Our episode with Micol Ostow

Adventure Time

The Duchess

Fleabag

The X-Files

All the President's Men

Dick

Dick, the 1999 teen Watergate comedy, captures the enduring weirdness of political scandals by Alissa Wilkinson

The People vs. OJ Simpson

OJ Simpson: Made in America

Veep

Register to vote

What is a Chapbook? from Writer's Digest

Kelsay Books

Keep This to Yourself by Kerrin McCadden

The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms by Ron Padgett

Fruit Rot by James R. Gapinsky

Hunger Mountain Journal for the Arts

Rootstock Publishing

To the Man in the Red Suit by Christina Fulton

Kirkus Reviews

Bear Pond Books

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

Libro.fm

Bookshop.org

Poetry Foundation

Poetry 180 ed. by Billy Collins

Best American Poetry 2019 ed. by Major Jackson

Chen Chen

Ilya Kaminsky

Jericho Brown

Ocean Vuong

Sylvia Plath

Please Excuse This Poem edited by Brett Fletcher Lauer and Lynn Melnick

Ada Limon

I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara (*I said "East Bay" but it's about the Golden State Killer)

I'll Be Gone in the Dark series

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Saving Ruby by Catherine Adel West

About Us:

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].

Sarah is the author of several books, most recently Guantanamo Voices. Sarah can be found on Instagram @sarahmirk and Twitter @sarahmirk. Her website is mirkwork.com.

Mentioned in this Episode:

The Stranger

Portland Mercury

Bitch Media

Popaganda

You Do You by Sarah Mirk

Sex from Scratch by Sarah Mirk

Open Earth by Sarah Mirk, illustrated by Eva Cabrera and Claudia Aguirre

March graphic novels

Making the Met exhibit

Making the Met audio tour narrated by Steve Martin

A Rogue of One's Own by Evie Dunmore

Girl Gone Viral by Alisha Rai

New Girl

What We Do in the Shadows

The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert

Black Enough anthology edited by Ibi Zoboi

The X-Files

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

The Nib

The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

Pose

The Great

About Us:

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].

Kristina is the author of I Wanna Be Where You Are and Now That I've Found You. Kristina can be found on Instagram @kristinaforest_ and Twitter @kristinaforest. Her website is kristinaforest.com.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Leo Fuchs: Special Photographer from the Golden Age of Hollywood

Matt Sayles / Matt's instagram

The Black List

The Black List Earmovies archive - Selznick's Folly (based on a book of the same title) is the Hattie McDaniel biopic. We can't link to it directly but you can listen or download it on the page; there is also a separate episode featuring an interview with screenwriter Gesha-Marie Bland.

Heidi Joyce's Stand Up Against Domestic Violence

Randall Craig Fleischer

Youngstown Symphony Orchestra Virtual concert with Randall Craig Fleischer

Brother Jimmy's

Wet Hot American Summer

What We Do in the Shadows

A French Village

Rick Steves' Europe

Travel Man

The Trip / The Trip to Italy / The Trip to Greece

The Durrells in Corfu

No Offense by Meg Cabot

Rachel Fershleiser

Jasmine Guillory

Nora Roberts

Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn

Romancing the Beat by Gwen Hayes

How Vivian Stephens Helped Turn Romance Writing Into a Billion-Dollar Industry. Then She Got Pushed Out - Texas Monthly

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Roman Holiday

Sabrina

Diahann Carroll

Audrey Hepburn

Marilyn Monroe

Dorothy Dandridge

The Philadelphia Story

Katharine Hepburn

Jimmy Stewart

Cary Grant

Sidney Poitier

Harry Bellafonte

Denzel Washington

John David Washington

Dakota Johnson

Melanie Griffith

Tippi Hedren

The Birds

Antonio Banderas

Bright Lights

Fisher Stevens

Clint Eastwood

Scott Eastwood

Mamie Gummer

Evening

Jamie Lee Curtis

Janet Leigh

Tony Curtis

Sunset Boulevard

Pommes Frites

The New School MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults

David Lubar

Sarah Dessen

Hamline MFA

Jill Santopolo

Our episode with Christina Bryza

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

The Last Dance

Chloe x Halle

The Gift - Beyoncé

Black is King - Beyoncé

About Us:

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].

Micol is the author of over 50 books for kids and young adults. Micol can be found on Instagram @micolostow and Twitter @micolz. Her website is micolostow.com.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Mediabistro.com

Save the Cat! Writes A Novel by Jessica Brody

Our episode with Erin Foley Chan

Save the Cat! by Blake Snyder

Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon

Beach Read by Emily Henry

The Turnaway Girls by Hayley Chewins

Now That I've Found You by Kristina Forest

Clive Cussler

Mary Higgins Clark

Christopher Pike

R.L. Stine

Sweet Valley High

Francine Pascal

Get a portrait from the Sweet Valley High portraitist

Mean Girls movie / Mean Girls novelization by Micol

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Riverdale / Riverdale book series by Micol

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina - Sarah Rees Brennan

Sabrina the Teenage Witch series with Melissa Joan Hart

Charmed

Angel

Archie Comics

Amy Berkower

Writers House

Jodi Reamer

Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa by Micol

Alloy

Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar

MediaBistro

Stephenie Meyer

John Green

Kami Garcia

Ally Condie

Vermont College of Fine Arts

Feed by M.T. Anderson

ttyl by Lauren Myracle

Hamline MFA

The New School

NYU MFA

David Levithan

Kathi Appelt

Uma Krishnaswami

Tim Wynne-Jones

Louise Hawes

family by Micol

So Punk Rock: And Other Ways to Disappoint Your Mother by Micol and illustrated by David Ostow

The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Heeb Magazine

The Devil and Winnie Flynn by Micol and illustrated by David Ostow

David Ostow in The New Yorker

How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff

Alex Segura / Alex on Twitter

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M.T. Anderson

Sullivan, Who Is Always Too Loud by Micol, illustrated by Brian Biggs

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

The Worst Bestsellers Big Little Lies podcast episode

The Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll

Patricia Cornwall

Tana French

Marvel Cinematic Universe movies

Guardians of the Galaxy 2

Captain America

About Us:

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].

Kate is the author of the young adult novel Elysium Girls. Kate can be found on Instagram @katepentecost and Twitter @pentecostelle. Her website is katepentecost.com.

Mentioned in this Episode:

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

$279 a Day: Good Luck Finding a Cheap Rental Car in N.Y.C

Slow Novel Lab with Nina LaCour

Party of Two by Jasmine Guillory

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Angel

Buffering the Vampire Slayer podcast

Angel on Top podcast

Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall

Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner

Tirzah Price

Real Men Knit by Kwana Jackson

Beach Read by Emily Henry

Akira Kurosawa

Seven Samurai

A Bug's Life

Weird West

Attack on Titan

The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

The Dust Bowl Ken Burns documentary

No Man's Land Historical Society

Dust Bowl Museum at No Man's Land

Mark Karlins

April Lurie

Susan Fletcher

Louise Hawes

Sara Crowe

Pacific Rim

Lord Byron

Rudyard Kipling

The Great Unknowable End by Kathryn Ormsbee

Truer Words episode with Kathryn Orsmbee

Once Upon a Crime

Unsolved Mysteries

Where the Crawdad Sings by Delia Owens

Studio Ghibli

About Us:

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].

Anna is the author of the debut YA novel, I KISSED ALICE. Anna can be found on Instagram @ab_is_writing and Twitter @almost_anna. Her website is annabirchbooks.com.

Mentioned in this Episode:

The Baby-Sitters Club on Netflix

The Baby-Sitters Club series by Ann M. Martin

Clueless

Babysitters Club style/Claudia's homage to Clueless

Dick streaming on Showtime

Pump Up the Volume

Christian Slater

Samantha Mathis

Radio Days

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

The Beastie Boys

BabySitters Club audiobooks

Caboodles

Rachel Shukert

Glow

Love Me by Rachel Shukert

Starstruck by Rachel Shukert

Smash recaps for Vulture by Rachel Shukert

Kathryn VanArendonk's review of The Babysitters Club

Babysitters Club graphic novels

Raina Telgemeier

Harry Potter series

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat

The Iliad by Homer

The Odyssey by Homer

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Circe by Madeline Miller

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by C.S. Lewis

Jessica Dore

The Creative Tarot by Jessa Crispin

Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck

Art Nouveau tarot deck

Golden Thread tarot deck

Sailor Moon tarot deck

Maggie Stiefvater tarot deck

PitchWars

The Language of Cherries by Jen Marie Hawkins

A Dangerous Year by Kes Trester

Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass

The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman

The Bride Test by Helen Hoang

Well Met by Jen DeLuca

Thank You Books in Crestwood, Alabama

The Emperor's New Groove

The Anatomy of Story by John Truby

The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

Grand Designs

Property Brothers

The Restoration Man

Escape to the Country

Escape to the Continent

The Martian

HAIM

Carly Rae Jespen

Hozier

About Us:

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].

Ann is the author of the young adult horror novels FIVE MIDNIGHTS and CATEGORY FIVE, co-author of SISTER CHICAS, as well as the Director of Student Recruitment for Vermont College of Fine Arts. Ann can be found on Instagram @anndavilacardinal and Twitter @anndcardinal. Her website is annhcardinal.com.

Mentioned in this Episode:

America to Me on Starz

Irène Némirovsky

Suite Française

Slow Novel Lab

Nina LaCour

Dracula

Lockdown: Stories of Crime, Hope, and Terror During a Pandemic

Vermont College of Fine Arts

Brendan Reichs

Cory McCarthy

Julie Larios

Tim Wynne-Jones

Sharon Darrow

Tor Teen

A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow

Lucifer

Midsommar by directed Ari Aster

Hereditary directed by Ari Aster

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

About Us:

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].

Robyn is the author of several young adult novels, including YOU DON'T LIVE HERE, which comes out June 2nd. Robyn can be found on Instagram @robynschneider and Twitter @robynschneider. Her website is robynschneider.com.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Our Black Lives Matter post with lists and links

Our Modern Minstrelsy by Kekla Magoon

Black Book, TV Show, and Movie Recommendations #BlackOutTuesday by Akilah Brown

Kristina Forest Believes Black Girls Deserve Happy Endings Too

The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider

Extraordinary Means by Robyn Schneider

Invisible Ghosts by Robyn Schneider

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Grey's Anatomy

The West Wing

See Jane Write: A Girl's Guide to Writing Chick Lit by Sarah Mlynowski and Farrin Jacobs

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

Infinity Son by Adam Silvera

The Beautiful by Renee Ahdieh

The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

The Great on Hulu

The Witcher on Netflix

The Favourite

Hayao Miyazaki scores on Spotify

Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist

Lullaby (Goodnight, My Angel) on Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist

Lullaby (Goodnight, My Angel) original by Billy Joel

Veronica Mars

The OC

About Us:

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].