Podcasts about Weetzie Bat

In the final episode of our first-ever Libro.fm Podcast Extravaganza, we interview author Steven Rowley. We discuss "The Guncle" and its sequel, themes of grief and humor in his books, his experience narrating his own audiobooks, and more. The episode concludes with the hosts discussing plans for Independent Bookstore Day. Photo credit: Afonso Salcedo READ TRANSCRIPT Use promo code: SWITCH when signing up for a new Libro.fm membership to get 2 extra free credits to use on any audiobooks. About Steven Rowley: Steven Rowley is the New York Times bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus, a Washington Post Notable Book of 2016, The Editor, named by NPR as one of the Best Books of 2019, The Guncle, a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist for 2021 Novel of the Year and winner of the 22nd Thurber Prize for American Humor, and The Celebrants, a TODAY Show Read With Jenna Book Club pick. His fiction has been published in twenty languages. All of his books are in development for feature film or television adaptation. Read Steven's books: The Guncle The Guncle Abroad The Celebrants Lily and the Octopus The Editor Books discussed on today's episode: Weetzie Bat by Francesca Block

Francesca Lia Block is the wildly prolific author of over 25 books, including her newest novel House of Hearts, and her writing memoir, The Thorn Necklace, and the YA classic Weetzie Bat. We discuss how writing is a source of healing, her parallel career as an MFA instructor, and her position as editor of Lit Angels, an online literary journal. SHELF TALKERS is a podcast from Village Well Books & Coffee in downtown Culver City, CA, where we interview authors on their books, writing process, and what they are themselves reading. We release bi-weekly. The hosts are Village Well booksellers Julia Elizabeth Evans and Jared Kassebaum. Village Well Books & Coffee is an independent book- and coffee-shop in the heart of downtown Culver City. Come through, grab a drink, and read a book! Check out our events! Mentioned by Francesca Lia Block in the episode: Lit Angels Invisible Man Their Eyes Were Watching God Beloved House of the Spirits One Hundred Years of Solitude Mentioned by Abby as our bookseller staff recommendation: Birnam Wood

This week we read Weetzie Bat and Witch Baby by Francesca Lia Block (both can also be found in the anthologized book Dangerous Angels). These books were massively popular with off-beat teens in the 90s and have a huge following. Will they still manage to charm jaded 30-somethings in the 2020s? Content warnings for the books: some dark themes including sexual assault and addiction. Also some really egregious cultural appropriation and outright stereotyping/tokenizing. If you want to read along with The Bookstore Challenge 2023, you can find Instagram graphics for your story or grid in this Google Drive folder. You can also join us on The StoryGraph to see what others are reading for each month and get ideas for your TBR: The Bookstore Challenge 2023. Get two audiobook credits for the price of one at Libro.fm when you sign up using the code BOOKSTOREPOD. Website | Patreon

Becca's DNF book pick for June's prompt is The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. The novel is Lahiri's follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning story collection, The Interpreter of Maladies.  Our next book is actually two books, Weetzie Bat and Witch Baby by Francesca Lia Block. Find it at your local bookstore or library (it's on Hoopla!) and read along with us. Content warnings: near-death experience, (possible) sexual assault If you want to read along with The Bookstore Challenge 2023, you can find Instagram graphics for your story or grid in this Google Drive folder. You can also join us on The StoryGraph to see what others are reading for each month and get ideas for your TBR: The Bookstore Challenge 2023. Get two audiobook credits for the price of one at Libro.fm when you sign up using the code BOOKSTOREPOD. Website | Patreon

Sometimes it doesn't take a lot of words to make an impact. Sometimes, specifically, less than 100 pages to change the life of a reader. Weetzie Bat bids you welcome: Welcome to LA, welcome to the late 80's, and welcome to a wonderland of wishes where anything can and does happen. Weetzie Bat and her best friend Dirk are the outcast cool kids living their best lives until 3 wishes turn everything on its head. The quest to find love and what love even means is at the core of this little book that will take you on a journey through love, death, growth, and discovering that it doesn't always have to be happily ever after. Sometimes, happily is enough. Websites Referenced: https://www.vogue.com/article/fairy-tales-alexa-demie-petra-collins-interview TW / CW: sexual assault, substance abuse, death of a parent, death of a grandparent, alchoholism, abortion For additional TW/CW information for your future reads, head to this site for more: https://triggerwarningdatabase.com/ Spoilers: none to our knowledge. Mentions: (please note these mentions have no spoiler context) Supernatural, You, Fairy Tales, The Magicians, Wicked Beauty, Pink Smog, The Infernal Devices, The Mortal Instruments, Gossip Girl, Sex and the City, The Craft, Cruel Intentions, ACOMAF, Throne of Glass *Thank you for listening to us! Please subscribe and leave a 5 star review and follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/) and on our TikToks! TikTok: ACOFAELaura : Laura Marie (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaelaura?) ACOFAEJessica : Jessica Marie (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaejessica?)

On this week's remote episode, the ladies discuss the Grammys, feeling old, the stellar male fashion on the red carpet, an Elder Millennial Teen round-up including: the Weetzie Bat TV series, the cancelation of Babysitter's Club, the saga of Courtney Love's memoir, and Wende Zomnir's new beauty brand. RIP Patrick Demarchelier, his oddly prolific pop culture moments, the Kardashian's recent media appearances, Pete's Valentine's gift to Kim, Kourtney non-wedding, wedding, a special conversation with Luke (yes *THAT* Luke) and Audrey Ferris , and SO MUCH MORE!Listen to Luke's Podcast, Jurassic Pod! Visual references for this episode can be found here:https://www.everyoutfitinc.com/episode-63This week's episode is brought to you by Framebridge. Need to frame your favorite creepshot of a celebrity or send someone the perfect gift? Go to Framebridge and use promo code OUTFIT to save an additional 15% off your first order.Want to hear our final thoughts on And Just Like That? Or Euphoria? The First Wives Club?  Or Deep Water? Become a Patron! Go to Patreon.com/EveryOutfitWE HAVE A HOTLINE! Disagree with us? Make your case and we may play it on the show. Questions, secrets, or gossip from the And Just Like That set are also welcome. Call 323-486-6773

The holidays can be hard, so let's ignore them for a little bit. Join Laura Marie and Jessica Marie as they reflect back on the books, people, and things that they are thankful for. Tune in for throw backs to middle school books, discussions on The Babysitters Club work ethic, and listener submissions for favorite book/quote and questions are also discussed. THANK YOU to everyone who participated! Please note that we wanted to respect listener submissions with things they shared with us and so we chose to keep idenities of submissions anonymous TW/CW: alcoholism and EDs No spoilers this episode, but mentions of the following books: The Plated Prisoner Series, Into the Land of the Unicorns, The China Garden, ACOTAR series, Blood & Chocolate, Weetzie Bat, A Walk to Remember, Throne of Glass series, Wait til Helen Comes, The Royal Diaries series, When We Were Gods, Shadowhunters, The Folk of the Air series, From Blood and Ash series, Love and Other Words, Hook Line and Sinker, Crescent City: House of Earth and Blood, People We Meet on Vacation, Fearless series, A Touch of Darkness, Neon Gods, Song of Achilles, Circe *Thank you for listening to us! Please subscribe and leave a 5 star review and follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/) and on our TikToks! TikTok: ACOFAELaura : Laura Marie (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaelaura?) ACOFAEJessica : Jessica Marie (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaejessica?)

Lovers and friends, a deliciously inspiring episode awaits you today. On this week's podcast episode, Toska sits down in conversation with the magical and illustrious author, Francesca Lia Block. We talk about how magic weaves into storytelling, her book, “The Thorn Necklace: Healing Through Writing”, Venus rituals, exploring alt-identities through crafting characters, etymology, love spells, the magnetism of Los Angeles, sipping strawberry “Rita-Hayworth”s, the power of sharing our stories with the collective, and SO much more. It was such an honor to have Francesca on the show. Cozy up and tune in. Francesca Lia Block is the bestselling author of more than twenty-five books of stories, nonfiction, and fiction, including the Weetzie Bat books, her series of magical-realism novels. She has received the Spectrum Award, the Phoenix Award, the ALA Rainbow Award, and the 2005 Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as other citations from the American Library Association, the New York Times Book Review, and Publisher's Weekly. Francesca's Links & Socials https://www.francescaliablock.com https://www.instagram.com/francescaliablock/ https://twitter.com/francescablock https://www.facebook.com/francescaliablock/ Purchase Francesca's Book - The Thorn Necklace Links & Socials Stay in touch ~ www.sexmagicsociety.com Access our online courses ~ https://sex-magic-podcast-s-school.teachable.com/courses (use code SCORPIOSZN for 20% off!) Join our community ~ www.patreon.com/sexmagicpodcast Connect on social media ~ www.instagram.com/sexmagicpodcast --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sex-magic-podcast/support

Jen + Lillian are all in their feelings today, so we're taking you back to the Pink Hotel for some more adventures with Weetzie Bat. But before we do, we explore the insidiousness of sex cults, tinkling when you sneeze, and—can we just talk about the missed opportunity that is LULA RUH-ROH? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/allthefucks/message

We know we've been missing in action for a hot minute, so this episode we let you know what's been going on in our lives and check in about what media has been ✨sparking joy✨. We've been doing everything from playing video games, to reading Webtoons and (gasp!) actual books, to (of course) watching KDramas. This episode has a little something for everyone! All the lit discussed this episode: star-crossed by Kacey Musgraves (https://www.kaceymusgraves.com/) Destiny 2 (https://www.bungie.net/) (and Antibaar, https://masseffect.fandom.com/wiki/Antibaar) Monthly Magazine Home (https://www.viki.com/tv/37882c-monthly-magazine-home) Because This Is My First Life (https://www.netflix.com/title/81167119) The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin (https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/n-k-jemisin/the-city-we-became/9780316509855/) Clawshot! by Ayme Sotuyo (https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/clawshot/list?title_no=621465&page=1) My Giant Nerd Boyfriend by Fishball (https://www.webtoons.com/en/slice-of-life/my-giant-nerd-boyfriend/list?title_no=958&page=1) Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block (https://www.francescaliablock.com/books/weetzie-bat) Lovestruck in the City (https://www.netflix.com/title/81340910) Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @SexLoveLit.

Join Jen + Lillian in the ultimate fairy garden—a gossamer pink shining oasis where punk rock lives, mermaids splash, and kisses are pure magic. Today, we are joined by our muse and hero, Francesca Lia Block—author of the Weetzie Bat books and countless other stories of girls finding their spark in Los Angeles. (Yes, this is a dream come true, and no, we are not okay.) — Find her fables and fairy tales wherever you buy your books, and for more information on her workshops and classes, please visit her here. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/allthefucks/message

In preparation for next week's Very Special Guest, Jen + Lillian once again venture into the punk rock fairy dreamscape of Weetzie Bat with Francesca Lia Block's follow-up novel, NECKLACE OF KISSES. We revisit Weetzie older, now a mother of two grown girls, and how she finds her magic again when all feels lost. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/allthefucks/message

In this episode, Kaelyn and her guest (and longtime booknerd friend), Jena, talk about Angela Carter and her collection The Bloody Chamber, a reimagining of some of the most well-known fairy tales. Of course, we also get largely off topic and talk about the concept of virginity, the unsexiness of the word "underpants" and the history of women's undergarments... The Socials: Jena's Instagram: @jena_bakes or @jena_sews (for historical costume stuff!) Other Podcasts Jena "Co-Hosted" On: Chasm Quest Books Mentioned: -Tamora Pierce YA series (The Immortals, Lioness, Circle of Magic... all are great) -Get in Trouble by Kelly Link (who wrote the introduction to Jena's copy of The Bloody Chamber) -The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter Artists Mentioned: -Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806), arguably most famous for "The Swing" -Felicien Rops (1833-1898), "The Librarian" -"50 Fascinating Works of Angela Carter Fan Art" on LitHub -Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) Films Mentioned: -Scary Stories Documentary (2019) Further Recommended Reading If You Like The Bloody Chamber: -Kissing the Witch by Emma Donaghue -Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat series -Get in Trouble and Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link -In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado References: "Angela Carter's Feminist Mythology" by Joan Acocello -The Sadeian Woman by Angela Carter -"Femme Fatale: Angela Carter's 'Bloody Chamber'" by Helen Simpson -Marxism Today Interview with Angela Carter -"Anthony Burgess's Banned Books" by Graham Foster --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ofprurientinterest/support

In this episode, Kaelyn and her guest (and longtime booknerd friend), Jena, talk about Angela Carter and her collection The Bloody Chamber, a reimagining of some of the most well-known fairy tales. Of course, we also get largely off topic and talk about the concept of virginity, the unsexiness of the word "underpants" and the history of women's undergarments... The Socials: Jena's Instagram: @jena_bakes or @jena_sews (for historical costume stuff!) Other Podcasts Jena "Co-Hosted" On: Chasm Quest Books Mentioned: -Tamora Pierce YA series (The Immortals, Lioness, Circle of Magic... all are great) -Get in Trouble by Kelly Link (who wrote the introduction to Jena's copy of The Bloody Chamber) -The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter Artists Mentioned: -Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806), arguably most famous for "The Swing" -Felicien Rops (1833-1898), "The Librarian" -"50 Fascinating Works of Angela Carter Fan Art" on LitHub -Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) Films Mentioned: -Scary Stories Documentary (2019) Further Recommended Reading If You Like The Bloody Chamber: -Kissing the Witch by Emma Donaghue -Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat series -Get in Trouble and Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link -In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado References: "Angela Carter's Feminist Mythology" by Joan Acocello -The Sadeian Woman by Angela Carter -"Femme Fatale: Angela Carter's 'Bloody Chamber'" by Helen Simpson -Marxism Today Interview with Angela Carter -"Anthony Burgess's Banned Books" by Graham Foster --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ofprurientinterest/support

This week, we’re catching up again and reading Francesca Lia Block’s cult classic, Weetzie Bat. This book was a wild ride, and some things we loved and others we weren’t too thrilled about.

In a first in Still Buffering 2.0 history, we all read a whole book! With no pictures! Just words! Sydnee was very into this book from her teendom, so we all took the plunge into the world of Weetzie Bat this week. Also, we learn how to play "Boat." Music: "Baby You Change Your Mind" by Nouvellas

First Draft Episode #281: David Levithan David Levithan is editorial director at Scholastic and the author of many young adult novels, including Boy Meets Boy, Every Day, and co-author with Rachel Cohn of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares. Sips By is the only mutl-brand, personalized monthly tea subscription box, which makes discovering tea fun and affordable! Use the code “firstdraft” for 50% off your first Sips By box at www.sipsby.com. On the Remember Reading podcast, discover the tales behind these beloved children’s book classics. Hear from award-winning authors like Meg Cabot, Katherine Paterson, and Tiffany Jackson, and guests as they uncover the unique story behind each story. Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode The Babysitters Club series by Anne M. Martin David launched PUSH, the Scholastic imprint still there today Jean Feiwel, Senior Vice President and Publisher, Feiwel & Friends, Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, Swoon Reads, Square Fish Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Dan Ehrenhaft, author of The Last Dog on Earth, Friend is Not a Verb, and That’s Life, Samara Brooks Sarah Mlynowski, author of Just a Boy and a Girl in a Little Canoe, I See London, I See France, and co-author of Upside-Down Magic The New York City Teen Author Festival Nancy Garden, author of Annie on My Mind, The Year They Burned the Books, and Endgame. Francesca Lia Block, Francesca Lia Block, author of more than 25 books, including seminal YA novel WEETZIE BAT, talks about her most recent book, THE THORN NECKLACE, a memoir-driven guide to healing through the craft of writing. (listen to her First Draft interview here) Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award and Newberry Honor winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming, Another Brooklyn, Miracle’s Boys and many more Brent Hartinger’s Geography Club Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson, New York Times bestselling author of of several YA novels, including 13 Little Blue Envelopes, Suite Scarlett, The Name of the Star, and Truly Devious: A Mystery. She has also done collaborative works, such as Let It Snow (with John Green and Lauren Myracle), and The Bane Chronicles (with Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan). (Listen to my interview with Maureen Johnson here) Lauren Myracle’s Kissing Kate Alex Sanchez’s The Rainbow Boys series Sara Ryan’s Empress of the World David edits Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games David edits Garth Nix, author of the Sabriel series, Angel Mage, and many more Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (movie) Bill Clegg, a literary agent formerly with WME and now at The Clegg Agency Gingerbread by Rachel Cohn Will Grayson, Will Grayson which David co-wrote with John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Looking For Alaska You Know Me Well with Nina LaCour (listen to her First Draft episodes here and here) Maggie Stiefvater, author of the The Raven Boys series, Shiver, and The Scorpio Races Alex Gino’s Stonewall Award-winning George 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 or send an email to mailbag @ firstdraftpod dot com! Subscribe To First Draft with Sarah Enni Every Tuesday, I speak to storytellers like Veronica Roth, author of Divergent; National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Jason Reynolds; Leigh Bardugo, author of Ninth House and the Grishaverse series; Creator of Sex and the City Candace Bushnell; YouTube empresario and author Hank Green; Actors, comedians and screenwriters Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham; author and host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast Linda Holmes; Bestselling authors and co-hosts of the Call Your Girlfriend podcast, Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow; Michael Dante  DiMartino, co-creator of Avatar: The Last Airbender; John August, screenwriter of Big Fish and co-host of the Sciptnotes podcast; 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. Track Changes If you’re looking for more information on how to get published, or the traditional publishing industry, check out the Track Changes podcast series, and sign up for the Track Changes weekly newsletter. Support the Show Love the show? Make a monthly or one-time donation at Paypal.me/FirstDraft. Rate, Review, and Recommend Take a moment to rate and review First Draft with Sarah Enni in Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts. Your honest and positive review helps others discover the show -- so thank you! Is there someone you think would love this podcast as much as you do? Just click the Share button at the bottom of this post! Thanks again!

In this this interview, Carrie Tippen talks Kara Keeling and Scott Pollard about their new book, Table Lands: Food in Children's Literature, published June 2020 by University of Mississippi Press. Table Lands contributes to a growing body of scholarship in the subfield of literary food studies, which combines the methods of literary analysis with the interdisciplinary theories of food, culture, and identity. Keeling and Pollard explain that they were first interested in food in children’s literature as symbols or metaphors, but in Table Lands, they have complicated their understanding of these moments as important cultural work. The didactic nature of children’s literature makes the genre a unique window into processes of cultural and identity creation as children learn manners, morals, food taboos, and appropriate behavior through the rewards and punishments doled out to fictional characters. Arranged roughly chronologically, the chapters explore food as a cultural signifier in familiar texts for children like Winnie the Pooh, Peter Rabbit, and Little House on the Prairie, along with some less canonical texts like 19th century cookbooks for children and Alice Waters’ books about her daughter Fanny. They range from the edgy YA series of Weetzie Bat novels to Maurice Sendak’s picture book In the Night Kitchen and the hit animated Disney-Pixar film Ratatouille. The book also attempts to represent the diversity of children’s literature in the US. The authors argue that Louise Erdrich’s Birchbark novels actively write against The Little House books which devalue, misunderstand, and erase indigenous culture to offer a counternarrative of the American West focused on Native American experiences of land stewardship and relationships to food. Similarly, the final chapter devoted to Thanhha Lai’s Inside Out and Back Again argues that Lai is writing against the representation of the refugee experience written by non-Vietnamese authors for non-Vietnamese audiences, revising and refuting what they call the “gratitude narrative” expected of refugees. Throughout Table Lands, Keeling and Pollard contextualize literary characters’ experiences with food into relevant literature on how food shapes the practice and performance of identity in everyday life.  Kara Keeling and Scott Pollard are Professors of English at Christopher Newport University. Kara is Director of the Childhood Studies Minor and teaches courses on Children’s and Young Adult literature. Scott teaches courses in World Literature and Food in Literature. Together they have authored a number of articles on the subject and edited the 2011 essay collection Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature from Routledge. Carrie Helms Tippen is Assistant Professor of English at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA, where she teaches courses in American Literature. Her 2018 book, Inventing Authenticity: How Cookbook Writers Redefine Southern Identity (University of Arkansas Press), examines the rhetorical strategies that writers use to prove the authenticity of their recipes in the narrative headnotes of contemporary cookbooks. Her academic work has been published in Gastronomica, Food and Foodways, American Studies, Southern Quarterly, and Food, Culture, and Society.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this this interview, Carrie Tippen talks Kara Keeling and Scott Pollard about their new book, Table Lands: Food in Children's Literature, published June 2020 by University of Mississippi Press. Table Lands contributes to a growing body of scholarship in the subfield of literary food studies, which combines the methods of literary analysis with the interdisciplinary theories of food, culture, and identity. Keeling and Pollard explain that they were first interested in food in children’s literature as symbols or metaphors, but in Table Lands, they have complicated their understanding of these moments as important cultural work. The didactic nature of children’s literature makes the genre a unique window into processes of cultural and identity creation as children learn manners, morals, food taboos, and appropriate behavior through the rewards and punishments doled out to fictional characters. Arranged roughly chronologically, the chapters explore food as a cultural signifier in familiar texts for children like Winnie the Pooh, Peter Rabbit, and Little House on the Prairie, along with some less canonical texts like 19th century cookbooks for children and Alice Waters’ books about her daughter Fanny. They range from the edgy YA series of Weetzie Bat novels to Maurice Sendak’s picture book In the Night Kitchen and the hit animated Disney-Pixar film Ratatouille. The book also attempts to represent the diversity of children’s literature in the US. The authors argue that Louise Erdrich’s Birchbark novels actively write against The Little House books which devalue, misunderstand, and erase indigenous culture to offer a counternarrative of the American West focused on Native American experiences of land stewardship and relationships to food. Similarly, the final chapter devoted to Thanhha Lai’s Inside Out and Back Again argues that Lai is writing against the representation of the refugee experience written by non-Vietnamese authors for non-Vietnamese audiences, revising and refuting what they call the “gratitude narrative” expected of refugees. Throughout Table Lands, Keeling and Pollard contextualize literary characters’ experiences with food into relevant literature on how food shapes the practice and performance of identity in everyday life.  Kara Keeling and Scott Pollard are Professors of English at Christopher Newport University. Kara is Director of the Childhood Studies Minor and teaches courses on Children’s and Young Adult literature. Scott teaches courses in World Literature and Food in Literature. Together they have authored a number of articles on the subject and edited the 2011 essay collection Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature from Routledge. Carrie Helms Tippen is Assistant Professor of English at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA, where she teaches courses in American Literature. Her 2018 book, Inventing Authenticity: How Cookbook Writers Redefine Southern Identity (University of Arkansas Press), examines the rhetorical strategies that writers use to prove the authenticity of their recipes in the narrative headnotes of contemporary cookbooks. Her academic work has been published in Gastronomica, Food and Foodways, American Studies, Southern Quarterly, and Food, Culture, and Society.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this this interview, Carrie Tippen talks Kara Keeling and Scott Pollard about their new book, Table Lands: Food in Children's Literature, published June 2020 by University of Mississippi Press. Table Lands contributes to a growing body of scholarship in the subfield of literary food studies, which combines the methods of literary analysis with the interdisciplinary theories of food, culture, and identity. Keeling and Pollard explain that they were first interested in food in children’s literature as symbols or metaphors, but in Table Lands, they have complicated their understanding of these moments as important cultural work. The didactic nature of children’s literature makes the genre a unique window into processes of cultural and identity creation as children learn manners, morals, food taboos, and appropriate behavior through the rewards and punishments doled out to fictional characters. Arranged roughly chronologically, the chapters explore food as a cultural signifier in familiar texts for children like Winnie the Pooh, Peter Rabbit, and Little House on the Prairie, along with some less canonical texts like 19th century cookbooks for children and Alice Waters’ books about her daughter Fanny. They range from the edgy YA series of Weetzie Bat novels to Maurice Sendak’s picture book In the Night Kitchen and the hit animated Disney-Pixar film Ratatouille. The book also attempts to represent the diversity of children’s literature in the US. The authors argue that Louise Erdrich’s Birchbark novels actively write against The Little House books which devalue, misunderstand, and erase indigenous culture to offer a counternarrative of the American West focused on Native American experiences of land stewardship and relationships to food. Similarly, the final chapter devoted to Thanhha Lai’s Inside Out and Back Again argues that Lai is writing against the representation of the refugee experience written by non-Vietnamese authors for non-Vietnamese audiences, revising and refuting what they call the “gratitude narrative” expected of refugees. Throughout Table Lands, Keeling and Pollard contextualize literary characters’ experiences with food into relevant literature on how food shapes the practice and performance of identity in everyday life.  Kara Keeling and Scott Pollard are Professors of English at Christopher Newport University. Kara is Director of the Childhood Studies Minor and teaches courses on Children’s and Young Adult literature. Scott teaches courses in World Literature and Food in Literature. Together they have authored a number of articles on the subject and edited the 2011 essay collection Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature from Routledge. Carrie Helms Tippen is Assistant Professor of English at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA, where she teaches courses in American Literature. Her 2018 book, Inventing Authenticity: How Cookbook Writers Redefine Southern Identity (University of Arkansas Press), examines the rhetorical strategies that writers use to prove the authenticity of their recipes in the narrative headnotes of contemporary cookbooks. Her academic work has been published in Gastronomica, Food and Foodways, American Studies, Southern Quarterly, and Food, Culture, and Society.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Well, hello from our homes to your homes! Since everything is literally on fire for the foreseeable future, and entertaining is what we do best, that's exactly what we're here to bring you during this frightening time. Quaranteeny will be an addition to our regular feed, stories and laughs and cringes on the daily from quarantine. We're bringing you a special treat today--we take turns reading Francesca Lia Block's beloved WEETZIE BAT, painting the perfect picture of an '80s Los Angeles fever dream, rife with pink glitter, lush flora, and punky magic fairy love. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/allthefucks/message

Read Me, Los Angeles is a colorful, lively, and informed celebration of all things bookish in L.A. past and present, including interviews with current L.A. writers; day trips in search of favorite fictional characters, from Marlowe to Weetzie Bat; author quotes galore; curated lists of the must-read L.A. books, from fiction to history to poetry; a look at where writers have lived and worked in the City of Angels; and insight into the city’s literary festivals, bookstores, publishers, literacy nonprofits, libraries, and more. Rich with photographs, book images, and vintage maps. Author Katie Orphan is in conversation with Liska Jacobs, the author of Catalina.

In this episode we talk about the Six of Cups, innocent pleasures, nostalgia for times past, and staying present in this delicious moment. We get INTO IT with one of our favorite literary heroes, Francesca Lia Block author of more than 25 books, from her first book Weetzie Bat to her latest The Thorn Necklace, we know you’re going to love what she has to say, so join us!**********************************Find out more about our special guest, writer Francesca Lia Block......take one of her classes or order her books at: https://www.francescaliablock.com/Grab a copy of The Thorn Necklace here.You can also follow her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter by clicking these links.**********************************To order Amanda's book, "Initiated: Memoir of a Witch" CLICK HERE.Amanda's References This Episode Include:“A Feminist Tarot: A Guide To Intrapersonal Communication” by Sally Gearhart with a little help from Susan Rennie“Modern Tarot” by Michelle Tea“Keywords for the Crowley Tarot” by Hajo Banzhaf and Brigitte Theler“Tarot as a Way of Life” by Karen Hamaker-Zondag“What is Nostalgia Good For? Quite Bit, Research Shows.” NYT article by John Tierney**********************************EMPEROR WORKSHOP INFORMATIONSign Up for Our "The Emperor in 2020 Workshop: Making Daddy Work For You" here -- or become a Jupiter-realm subscriber and get it as part of your membership (which will soon include an online forum to connect with other witches and witch-curious folx). In the workshop:You’ll learn to calculate your card of the year and your soul card numerology. And you’ll find out how the Emperor year will affect your soul card and your card of the year in particular.We’ve got exercises on how to locate your places of powerExercises to develop your intuitionA step-by-step how to on making your own Emperor altarRituals you can do to harness the power of the emperor year to build stamina, confidence and focus in 2020Invocations, songs, and gestures you can use to call in the Emperor (these are a BTW addition to our workshops and we think you’re going to find they’re REALLY special)A live call with Amanda to answer all your questions and help you get the most out of this year that is really calling us to claim our vision and share it with the worldAnd more!TO SIGN UP FOR THE WORKSHOP OR FIND OUT MORE, CLICK HERE**********************************Original MUSIC by Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs.This episode includes a clip of the band, Hole covering Nirvana's Pennyroyal Tea. **********************************Get in touch with sponsorship inquiries for Between the Worlds at betweentheworldspodcast@gmail.com.Or, contact Amanda to book a session, or Carolyn just to find out more, below:*****Amanda Yates Garcia (art witch, healer, writer):www.oracleoflosangeles.comTo sign up for Amanda's newsletter, CLICK HERE.To order Amanda's book, "Initiated: Memoir of a Witch" CLICK HERE.Amanda's InstagramAmanda's Facebook**Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs (musician, artist, producer):www.carolynpennypackerriggs.comCarolyn's Instagram**CONTRIBUTORS:Amanda Yates Garcia (host) & Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs (producer) & Francesca Lia Block (special guest). With editing help from Jiha Lee. The BTW image was created by Marian Minnis (tinyparsnip.com / instagram.com/tinyparsnip ) with text designed by Leah Hayes. 

When you're a weird, roly-poly, loner kid, you get creative with entertaining yourself. For Jen + Lillian, that meant tattered paperbacks of WEETZIE BAT, a clamshell VHS of LABYRINTH... and endless low-key erotica. So come dive under the blankets with us and don't forget your flashlight! -- Got something to share? Leave us a voicemail or email us at: allthef.ckspodcast@gmail.com. For more from Jen and Lillian, check out podcasts "Moonbase Theta, Out" and "The Body Poscast." --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/allthefucks/message

First Draft Episode #200: Special Anniversary Episode For the 200th episode of the First Draft with Sarah Enni podcast, previous guests sent in answers to questions like, where do you turn for inspiration? What are you hopes and dreams at this moment in your career? What do you do besides writing that makes you a more skillful storyteller? And, of course, any advice! Listen in to hear tips, tricks, and reassurances and encouragement from dozens of bestselling and award-winning writers! People Featured, and Links and Topics Mentioned, In This Episode Podcasts I listened to obsessively, which inspired me to start this podcast, include Fresh Air with Teri Gross, WTF with Marc Maron, and You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes Veronica Roth, author of the Divergent series, Carve the Mark duology and the forthcoming short story collection, The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future (listen to her First Draft podcasts here, here, and here) Kayla Cagan, author of Piper Perish and Art Boss (listen to her First Draft interview here) Will Hines, author of How to be the Greatest Improviser on Earth (hear his First Draft episode here) Sara Farizan, author of Here to Stay, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel, If You Could Be Mine (hear her First Draft interview here) Kass Morgan, author of The 100 series and Light Years (stay tuned for her episode of First Draft!) Tochi Onyebuchi, author of Beasts Made of Night, Crown of Thunder, and War Girls series Tochi recommends playing narrative video games, like God of War, Assassin's Creed, or Red Dead Redemption Leigh Bardugo, author of the Shadow and Bone series and Six of Crows duology, and the forthcoming adult novel, Ninth House , and more (listen to her First Draft interviews here and here) Josh Gondelman, author of the forthcoming memoir Nice Try, writer and producer of “Desus and Mero” and Emmy-winning writer for “Last Week Tonight on John Oliver” (hear his First Draft interview soon!) Maris Kreizman, author of Slaughterhouse 90210 and host of LitHub’s The Maris Review podcast Ryan Graudin, author of the Wolf by Wolf, Invictus, The Walled City, and more (hear her First Draft interview here) Sabriel by Garth Nix Jason Reynolds, author of Look Both Ways, the Track series, Long Way Down, As Brave As You, All American Boys, and many more (stay tuned for his episode of First Draft) The New Yorker The Newberry Award; The National Book Award; The Pulitzer Prize Stephanie Garber, author of the Caraval series (listen to her First Draft episode here) Elana K. Arnold, author of A Boy Called Bat, Damsel, What Girls Are Made Of, Infandous, and more (listen to her First Draft episodes here and here) Lance Rubin, author of Denton's Little's Deathdate, Denton's Little's Still Not Dead, and Crying Laughing (listen to his First Draft episode here) Freedom (computer app) Deep Work Work by Cal Newport Courtney Summers, including Sadie, Cracked Up to Be, This Is Not a Test, Fall for Anything, All the Rage, Some Girls Are (hear her First Draft episodes here and here) “Real Romance,” The New Yorker profile about Nora Roberts Mary H. K. Choi, author of Emergency Contact and Permanent Record (stay tuned for her episode of First Draft) The Venice Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia) and Dia:Beacon Bridget Tyler, author of The Pioneer and The Survivor (listen to her First Draft episode here) Scientific American, which Veronica just subscribed to Samantha Mabry, author of A Fierce and Subtle Poison and All the Wind in the World (listen to her First Draft episode here) Elissa Sussman, author of Stray and Burn (listen to her First Draft interview here) Abdi Nazemian, author of Like a Love Story, The Authentics, and The Walk-In Closet (listen to his First Draft interview here) Madonna, the queen of Abdi’s book The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron Morgan Matson, author of he Date, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour, The Unexpected Everything, and more! (listen to her First Draft interviews here and here) Julie Buxbaum, author of Tell Me Three Things, What to Say Next, and Hope and Other Punchlines (listen to her First Draft interview here) Danielle Paige, author of Dorothy Must Die, Stealing Snow and Mera: Tidebreaker (listen to her First Draft episode here) David Yoon, author of Frankly in Love (stay tuned for his episode of First Draft!) Zan Romanoff, author of Look (due Spring 2020) and A Song to Take The World Apart and Grace and the Fever (listen to her First Draft interview here) Writing Workshops LA Francesca Lia Block, author of Weetzie Bat, The Thorn Necklace, and so many more (listen to her First Draft episode here) Aminah Mae Safi, author of Not the Girls You're Looking For and Tell Me How You Really Feel (listen to her First Draft interview here) Alex London, author of Black Wings Beating, Proxy, The Wild Ones series and more (listen to his First Draft episodes here and here) Nina LaCour, author of We Are Okay, The Disenchantments, Everything Leads to You, Hold Still and more (hear her First Draft episodes here and here), and listen to Nina’s podcast, Keeping a Notebook Hamline University’s MFA program The Slow Novel Lab, Nina LaCour’s online course on writing Lilliam Rivera, author of Dealing In Dreams and The Education Of Margot Sanchez, (listen to her First Draft interviews here and here) Pseudonymous Bosch, aka Raphael Simon (author of the The Name of This Book is a Secret and the Bad Magic series, and more) and Shane Pangburn, who together created The Unbelievable Oliver and the Four Jokers (stay tuned for their First Draft episode!) Amy Lukavics, author of Daughters into Devils and The Ravenous (listen to her First Draft episode here) Maurene Goo, author of Somewhere Only We Know, I Believe in a Thing Called Love and The Way You Make Me Feel and Since You Asked (Listen to Maurene’s first, second, and third episodes of First Draft) That time Maurene interviewed Sarah Enni for this podcast! (The Sarah Enni episode of First Draft ) 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. 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Published in 1989, Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat is the story of an LA native named Weetzie Bat who finds and creates family on her own terms, alongside her best friend Dirk and their partners Duck and Secret Agent Lover Man (these names!). The book explores themes of identity, sexuality, addiction, and suicide, and is ultimately a celebration of transcendent love, acceptance, and inclusivity. On this episode, we discuss the book's queer themes, the beauty of found family, the problems with “cancel culture,” and the lessons that Weetzie Bat can teach all of us about how to be a good friend and ally. And don't even get us started on how beautiful the writing is!Thanks so much to author and illustrator Maia Kobabe for guesting on Episode 49! Maia identifies as nonbinary and queer, and eir first full-length book Gender Queer: A Memoir is now available from Lion Forge. Follow Maia on Instagram (@redgoldsparks) and Tumblr (@redgoldsparks), and learn more about eir work on Patreon.

Jessie talks with Francesca Lia Block about her recently published book on the craft of writing,The Thorn Necklace: Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process. Francesca Lia Block is the bestselling author of more than twenty-five books, including the award-winning Weetzie Bat series. Her writing has been called "transcendent" by The New York Times, and her books have been included in "best of" lists compiled by Time magazine and NPR. In this long-anticipated guide, Block offers an intimate glimpse of an artist at work and a detailed guide to help readers channel their own experiences and creative energy. Sharing visceral insights and powerful exercises, she gently guides us down the write-to-heal path, revealing at each turn the intrinsic value of channeling our experiences onto the page. Paul talks with K.J. Howe about her newest Kidnap-and-Ransom Thriller Skyjack. She is a Thriller and Barry Award nominee, and she has won several writing awards, including three Daphne du Maurier Awards for Excellent in Mystery and Suspense. While honing her fiction skills, KJ worked as a medical, health, and fitness writer. She then became involved with the International Thriller Writers as the Executive Director of ThrillerFest, the organization’s annual conference held every July in New York City. In preparation for writing The Freedom Broker series, which focuses on elite kidnap negotiator Thea Paris, KJ spent extensive time researching the dark world of kidnapping. She has interviewed former hostages, negotiators, hostage reintegration experts, special forces operatives, and K&R insurance executives.

Francesca Lia Block, author of more than 25 books, including seminal YA novel Weetzie Bat, talks about her most recent book, THE THORN NECKLACE, a memoir-driven guide to healing through the craft of writing. Francesca talks about meshing her life with that of her most favorite character, shares some incredibly useful writing exercises, and talks about *when* to do research.   Francesca Lia Block Show Notes Joni Mitchell Harry Houdini Linda Venis, former head of the UCLA extension Writers Program H.D., “Sea Rose” The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Jill Alexander Essbaum Fairies in the Kitchen: The Weetzie Bat Cookbook by Carmen Staton and Francesca Lia Block The Midnight Disease by Alice W. Flaherty Hypergraphia Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives by Louise DeSalvo Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

This week, Em and Destiny go into some movies, answer some questions, and then go deep on what they were like during high school. Spoiler alert: They were kind of embarrassing!Send us emails at podcast@abnormalmapping.com! Topics discussed: Deep Space 9 episode “Profit and Lace”, Edith Hamilton’s Mythology, Cocaine and Rhinestones, Coal Miner’s Daughter, Mamma Mia, Before Night Falls, History Boys, Childish Gambino’s new video, Thor: Ragnarok, Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block, Toby’s Lie by Daniel VilmureWe're a Patreon supported show! You can help keep us fed and keep the podcasts coming with a variety of reward tiers by going to patreon.com/abnormalmapping and pledging as little as $1 a month!Our featured song is "Siddhartha" by Dingotek Street Band, available under a Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License.

Jasmine Warga, author of My Heart and Other Black Holes and her newest, Here We Are Now, on reading teaching empathy and complexly imagining others’ internal worlds, family mythologies as social currency, the glorification of happiness, and the trouble with idolizing your friends.   Jasmine Warga Show Notes Runebinder by Alex R. Kahler (listen to his First Draft interview here) Vote for your favorite First Draft quotes from 2017! Then stay tuned for your chance to pre-order the First Draft 2018 Calendar! Twilight by Stephenie Meyer Elin Hilderbrand The Jungle Book (movie) Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling "Why Everyone Should Read Harry Potter," in Scientific American, featuring a study showing that people who read Harry Potter have more empathy Gabriel Garcia Marquez Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV show) Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Virginia Woolf Jonathan Safran Foer White Teeth by Zadie Smith The Giver by Lois Lowry Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell Victoria Schwab (listen to her First Draft interview here) Spoon theory I Am Not Your Guru (documentary) Frances Bean Cobain Almost Famous (movie) Emery Lord

In this episode we discuss Away We Go by Emil Ostrovski. Cash Money suggests the Lars von Trier film Melancholia and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Nate suggests More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera. Kim suggests Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Nathan suggests Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis and Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block. Lindsey suggests The Stranger by Camus. Molly suggests John Green and Andrew Smith.

With the launch of her first young adult novel, Diana Wagman along with Francesca Lia Block will discuss crossover between the YA genre and adult fiction. Extraordinary October (Ig Publishing) October is an ordinary girl. From her plain looks to her average grades, there seems to be nothing special about her. Then, three days before her eighteenth birthday, she develops a strange itch that won t go away, and her life is turned upside down. Suddenly, she can hear dogs talk, make crows fly, and two new and very handsome boys at school are vying for her affections. After she starts transplanting herself through solid rock, October learns that she is not ordinary at all, but the daughter of a troll princess and a fairy prince, and a pawn in a deadly war between the trolls and the fairies. Now October will have to use all of her growing powers to save her family, and stop a mysterious evil that threatens to destroy the fairy world.  In the fantastical vein of authors such as Julie Kagawa and Holly Black, Extraordinary October takes us on a magical journey from the streets of Los Angeles to the beautiful and mythical underground fairy kingdom.  Praise for Extraordinary October "In an auspicious debut for teens, adult author Wagman proves particularly adept at mixing genres and maintains a terrific balance between fantastical (and occasional macabre) happenings and genuine teen perceptions."--Kirkus Review Extraordinary October is author Diana Wagman’s first novel for Young Adults. She has written five novels for adults, most recently Life #6.  Her stories and essays have been published in The LA Times, Conjunctions, The Colorado Review and elsewhere and included in the anthologies LA Noir and MFA vs. NYC.   The Elementals (Griffin) From a star YA writer Francesca Lia Block, author of the Weetzie Bat books, comes an adult novel about a student, haunted by the disappearance of a friend, who must face the truth The Elementals is on one level a contemporary story about a young woman, Ariel Silverman, facing the challenges of her first years away at college in Berkeley, California, while her mother battles cancer at home in Los Angeles. But the book takes on deeper, stranger meanings when we contend with Ariel's obsession with the disappearance of her best friend, Jeni, who vanished without a trace a few years before. Her emptiness of spirit seems finally to find some healing with three mysterious, beautiful and seductive young people living in a strange old house in the Berkeley hills. But at what price?  Praise for The Elementals “The uniqueness of Ariel as a character as well as the mystery that unravels during the course of the book will make [The Elementals] appealing to both teen and adult readers… An engaging portrait.” – BUST Magazine   "The late great Diana Wynne Jones would approve of Lia Block's The Elementals, a hypnotic account of a girl's first years in college following the disappearance of her best friend on a school trip and the diagnosis of her mother's cancer. As a portrait of a troubled and impressionable girl, Ariel Silverman shimmers in the very air between page and eyelashes. Tam Lin meets the tabloids." —Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and Out of Oz Francesca Lia Block is the author of more than twenty-five books of fiction, non-fiction, short stories and poetry. She received the Spectrum Award, the Phoenix Award, the ALA Rainbow Award and the 2005 Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as other citations from the American Library Association and from the New York Times Book Review, School Library Journal and Publisher’s Weekly. She was named Writer-in-Residence at Pasadena City College in 2014. Her work has been translated into Italian, French, German Japanese, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Portuguese. Francesca has also published stories, poems, essays and interviews in The Los Angeles Times, The L.A. Review of Books, Spin, Nylon, Black Clock and Rattle among others. In addition to writing, she teaches fiction workshops at UCLA Extension, Antioch University,  and privately in Los Angeles where she was born, raised and currently still lives.

The Guests: Rommel Wood listen to Ear Hammer, Thursday evenings 8-10 pm EST, archive here: radiofreebrooklyn.com/show/ear-hammer/ rommelwood.com Ksenyia Yarosh, co-host of Bonnie and Maude, creator of “I Love Bad Movies” and co-organizer of The Brooklyn Zine Festival. www.kseniyayarosh.com Become a Part of the RFB Community: radiofreebrookyn.com/pledge The Books: “Goodnight Moon” by Margaret Wise Brown, Tomi Ungerer, “The Grief Recovery Handbook” by John W James and Russell Friedman, “Clan of the Cave Bear” by Jean M Auel, “Game of Thrones” By George R R Martin, “Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky, “M Train” by Patti Smith, “Gallapagos” by Kurt Vonnegut, “Cat’s Cradle” by Kurt Vonnegut, “Breakfast of Champions” by Kurt Vonnegut, “Olivia” by Ian Falconner, “The Boss Baby” by Marla Frazee, Cozy Classics for Kids, “Thunder and Lightning” and “Century Girl” by Lauren Redniss, “The Good Bones” by Margaret Atwood (Rommel’s favorite is “The Log”), “Color Me Good James Franco” by Mel Elliott, “Little House on the Prairie” by Laura Ingalls Wilder, “Nancy Drew” by Carolyn Keene, “Sherlock Holmes” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “On Writing” by Stephen King, “Delores Claiborne” by Steven King, “The Virgin Suicides” and “Middlesex” by Jeffery Eugenides, “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy, “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville, “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy, “Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens, John Grisham, “Edible Woman” by Margaret Atwood, Douglas Coupland, T C Boyle The Music: “Five Years” by David Bowie at the Beeb, “Space Oddity” by Seu George Actionable Takeaway: Make a zine! Put it on paper, print the paper, fold the paper, staple the paper. Films/TV Shows: Tomi Ungerer documentary on Netflix: “Far Out Isn’t Far Enough,” The Sesame Street Episode about death: “We all feel sad, Big Bird” talked about the passing of Mr. Hooper, Fresh Off the Boat “Louis Gives Eddie The Talk,” “Weetzie Bat” by Francesca Lia Block, “Forever” by Judy Blume, “Amy” Bookriot.com/2015/12/15/2016-book-riot-read-harder-challenge/ #ReadHarder #inkandworm #rfb #technicaldifficulties #childrensbooks #childrensbooksarepoems #childrensbooksaresongs #WORD #HousingWorks #bannedbooks #tomiungerer #uglyanimals #death #sex #parentsexplain #thetalk #sexscenesinbooks #sexybooksyoureadasateen #griefandboners #itchangedme #strongwoman #dogearsexscenes #kidsbooksareforeveryone #distil #lennythecat #droolingcats #margaretatwood #atwoodjunkies #literarytimecapsule #atwoodpoetry #bookriot #readharderbooks2016 #regencyromance #moodreading #moodmusic #jennorthrup #adultcoloringbooks #bubbletuesday #nylife #adultplayground #paperdolls #dannydevitopaperdoll #theresapaperdollforit #zines #patsyclinezines #fanzines #genresofzines #fig1andfig2 #hobbyzines #dontstopdrawing #deloresclaiborneminute #discoverbooksonIG #judgeabookbyitscover #humanrelations #obviouschildathumanrelations #molassesbooks

Francesca Lia Block is the author of Weetzie Bat a YA novel that is an absolute cult sensation and the ultimate punk rock fairy tale. Since writing that story when she was a student at UCLA, Francesca has published more than 25 books. She also teaches writing online and in LA and she's always collaborating with other creatives to create cool new projects. I love how Francesca's books weave magic into the fabric of everyday life and they all speak to the healing powers of art an love. I've read Weetzie Bat and the other Dangerous Angels books more times than I can count. Reading her stories growing up had such a profound impact on me. They shaped my personal style and my desire to cultivate a beautiful, adventurous, magical life. It was so exciting to interview her and she offered so many interesting insights to dig into.

Diana and Carrie talk the sparkly glam slinkster cool world of Weetzie Bat, including classic LA eateries, ubiquitous avocados, "fancy" family meals, questionable burrito contents, and strawberry sundaes with marshmallow topping. 

Los Angeles Review of Books Podcast #5: LARB Senior Editor Clarissa Romano talks to Francesca Lia Block about the "Weetzie Bat" series. Producer/Engineer: Oliver Wang