Peter Stone First Draft with Sarah Enni

Peter Stone, debut author of THE PERFECT CANDIDATE, talks about his time in Washington (before the onset of the 24-hour news cycle), how interns run the world, and how writing a speech for his wife led him to finally try a novel.
 
Peter Stone Show Notes
The Firm by John Grisham
YALLWEST
YALLFest
Watergate (for more, listen to Slow Burn Season 1)
Monica Lewinsky (for more, listen to Slow Burn Season 2)
Chandra Levy
The My Favorite Murder podcast episode about Chandra Levy’s death
The NPR Politics podcast
The Wilderness (by Crooked Media)
JonBenet Ramsey
Laci Peterson
Newt Gingrich
Old Ebbitt Grill (bar in Washington, D.C.)
The Beautiful Creatures series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl (listen to her First Draft interviews here and here)
The Robert Mueller Investigation
George Papadopoulos
Edward Snowden
Whitewater (for more, listen to Slow Burn Season 2)
Vince Foster (for more, listen to Slow Burn Season 2)
House of Cards (TV show)
Scandal (TV show)
The Pelican Brief (movie)
The Hunt for Red October (movie)
Ben’s Chili Bowl (restaurant in D.C.)
Tortilla Coast (restaurant in D.C.)
Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe
Neil Gaiman’s quote about writing while inspired