Libba Bray (Part 1‪)‬ First Draft with Sarah Enni

The only thing better than getting to chat with YA icon Libba Bray (author of New York Times best-selling series A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY, Printz award-winner GOING BOVINE, and genuinely terrifying historical paranormal THE DIVINERS, among others) about writing was getting to chat with her about life. Libba is as hilarious as she is wise, and our conversation was so fun, I decided to cut it into two parts rather than leave an hour or more on the cutting-room floor. In this episode, Libba talks about having her rock collection stolen as a kid, that one time Wes Anderson helped stage a play she wrote, and talks about how growing up in Texas set her head at a certain tilt.
Libba Bray Show Notes
Seven Samurai, directed by Akira Kurosawa
Citizen Kane
The Legend of Boggy Creek
The Planet of the Apes
American Gigolo
The Exorcist
Christopher 'Kit' Marlowe
Lois Lowry (her BEA speech)
CHARLOTTE'S WEB by E.B. White
I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS by Maya Angelou
THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD by Zora Neale Hurston
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS by Ernest Hemingway
THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH by Norton Juster
Aaron Sorkin
Harold Pinter
The Thin Man
Bringing Up Baby
The Marx brothers
Neil Simon plays
Woody Allen
Pitch Perfect
Agent Sarah Burnes
No Country For Old Men
HOW TO SAY GOODBYE IN ROBOT by Natalie Standiford
Rushmore
David Sedaris
Johnny Thunders
Singin’ In The Rain
Fitness Focus Form and Function with Marky Mark
Richard Simmons
Cindy Crawford
THE LAMB WHO SAVED EASTER 
Peter Marks, theater critic of the New York Times and the Washington Post
New York International Film Festival
Mawkish