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First Draft Episode #243: Opening the Mailbag with Tochi Onyebuchi Tochi Onyebuchi is the author of Beasts Made of Night, its sequel Crown of Thunder, War Girls and its forthcoming sequel, Rebel Sisters (out in October), and his adult fiction debut Riot Baby, published by Tor.com in January 2020.
Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Life Cycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang
Great Work of Time by John Crowley
Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle
Succession (TV show)
The New Yorker
The Nation
Tochi’s appearance on The Daily Show, and the T-shirt he wore on the show (designed by John Karel and sold by Dusty Cat merchandise)
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse (movie)
Burning (Korean film)
Watchmen (TV show)
A Black Lady Sketch Show (TV show)
Queen and Slim (movie)
Goliath is one of Tochi’s next two books with Tor Dot Com and it sounds amazing!
I want to hear from you!
Have a question about writing or creativity for Sarah Enni or her guests to answer? To leave a voicemail, call (818) 533-1998.
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First Draft Episode #243: Opening the Mailbag with Tochi Onyebuchi Tochi Onyebuchi is the author of Beasts Made of Night, its sequel Crown of Thunder, War Girls and its forthcoming sequel, Rebel Sisters (out in October), and his adult fiction debut Riot Baby, published by Tor.com in January 2020.
Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Life Cycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang
Great Work of Time by John Crowley
Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle
Succession (TV show)
The New Yorker
The Nation
Tochi’s appearance on The Daily Show, and the T-shirt he wore on the show (designed by John Karel and sold by Dusty Cat merchandise)
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse (movie)
Burning (Korean film)
Watchmen (TV show)
A Black Lady Sketch Show (TV show)
Queen and Slim (movie)
Goliath is one of Tochi’s next two books with Tor Dot Com and it sounds amazing!
I want to hear from you!
Have a question about writing or creativity for Sarah Enni or her guests to answer? To leave a voicemail, call (818) 533-1998.
Subscribe To First Draft with Sarah Enni
Every Tuesday, I speak to storytellers like Veronica Roth, author of Divergent; Linda Holmes, author and host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast; Jonny Sun, internet superstar, illustrator of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Gmorning, Gnight! and author and illustrator of Everyone’s an Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too; Michael Dante DiMartino, co-creator of Avatar: The Last Airbender; John August, screenwriter of Big Fish, Charlie’s Angels, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; or Rhett Miller, musician and frontman for The Old 97s. Together, we take deep dives on their careers and creative works.
Don’t miss an episode! Subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. It’s free!
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Is there someone you think would love this podcast as much as you do? Please share this episode on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or via carrier pigeon (maybe try a text or e-mail, come to think of it). Just click the Share button at the bottom of this post!
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