In this Unabridged podcast episode, we're talking with Katherine Center about her latest book, What You Wish For, which released on July 14th. Katherine shares her first experience as a writer, writing fan fic about Duran Duran, why clown socks are the most fashionable apparel, and how she sets out to fight for joy.
Bookish Check-in
Ashley - Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half
Jen - Jennifer Weiner’s Big Summer
Sara - Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds’s Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning
Katherine - Will Storr's The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
Other Mentions
Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Brit Bennett's The Mothers
Katherine Center's Happiness for Beginners
Katherine Center's Things You Save in a Fire
Katherine Center's How to Walk Away
Katherine Center's The Lost Husband
Ingrid Fetell Lee’s Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness
Katherine Center's thoughts on reading for joy on her website
Archie comics
Stranger than Fiction
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