Ep. 91 The People Who Change Us with Vanessa Hua
Our guest today is Vanessa Hua. Vanessa is the author of A River of Stars and a columnist at The San Francisco Chronicle. We talk today about the differences between writing a column versus a novel, the people who change our lives without knowing, and untraditional motherhood.
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Everything we talk about on today's episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.
A River of Stars by Vanessa Hua
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Little House Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li
Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres
What is the What by Dave Eggers
The Sixth Man by Andre Iguodala
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
The Other Side by Lacy M. Johnson
The Reckonings by Lacy M. Johnson
Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen
The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
How Much of These Hills is Gold by C. Pam Zhang
Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
The Golden State by Lydia Kiesling
Like a Mother by Angela Garbes
Motherhood So White by Nefertiti Austin
We Live for the We by Dani McClain
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
The Ripped Bodice (Culver City, CA)
The Booksmith (San Francisco, CA)
City Lights Booksellers and Publishers (San Francisco, CA)
Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts (Berkeley, CA)
Books Inc. (Multiple Locations in Northern California)
Book Passage (San Francisco, CA)
The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal
Dear Girls by Ali Wong
Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
Hundred-Year Walk by Dawn Mackeen
Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
Rad American Women by Kate Schatz
The Gutsy Girl by Caroline Paul
There There by Tommy Orange
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
1984 by George Orwell
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dear America by Jose Antonio Vargas
All the Presidents Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976)
If It Happened There (Slate)
"Picking the Best Memoirs Since 1969" (The New York Times)
"How to Mourn a Glacier" (Lacy M. Johnson, The New Yorker)
"Ep. 90 Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson -- The Stacks Book Club (Jason Reynolds)" (The Stacks)
"Ep. Mothering and Social Justice with Dani McClain" (The Stacks)
"How a Stint at The Bachelorette Turned Me Into a Novelist" (J. Ryan Stradal, Vanity Fair)
Spotlight (Tom McCarthy, 2015)
By the Book (The New York Times)
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