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Jenny Torres Sanchez
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In the 38th episode of Truer Words, we speak with Jenny Torres Sanchez about Ray Bradbury, poetry, and magical realism. Jenny is the author of five young adult novels, including WE ARE NOT FROM HERE, which comes out May 19th. Jenny can be found on Instagram @jennytsanchez and Twitter @jetchez. Her website is JennyTorresSanchez.com.

Mentioned in this Episode:

The Slow Novel Lab

Nina LaCour

Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Hulu

Angel on Hulu

Extraordinary Means by Robyn Schneider

Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery

The Fall of Innocence by Jenny Torres Sanchez

The Half of It on Netflix

Cyrano de Bergerac

Front Desk by Kelly Yang

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino

Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum

Highlights Foundation

Highlights Magazine

Jody Casella

Las Musas

Laurie Halse Anderson

Jerry Spinelli

Because of the Sun by Jenny Torres Sanchez

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Prophecy Girl

Death, Dickinson, and the Demented Life of Frenchie Garcia by Jenny

All Summer in One Day by Ray Bradbury

Alex Villasante

Donna Higuera

Those Winter Sundays poem by Robert Hayden

John Green

A.S. King

Lauren Gibaldi

The Downside of Being Charlie by Jenny Torres Sanchez

Which Way Home

Disappeared by Francisco Stork

The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante

The Everything I Have Lost by Sylvia Zeleny

Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Land of the Cranes by Aida Salazar

About Us:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at truerwordspodcast@gmail.com.

Kathryn Benson
Jules Thomson
Photo Credit: Suzanne D’Corsey

Photo Credit: Suzanne D’Corsey

 
 

In the 37th episode of Truer Words, we speak with Jules Thomson about her musical influences, recording her first album, and writing fantasy novels. Jules can be found on Instagram @conjure_shrubs. Her album can be streamed on Bandcamp: Independence Day - Jules Thomson Effect.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Angel

Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration

Elaine Stritch singing “I’m Still Here” at Sondheim’s 80th Birthday Gala

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

A Parks and Recreation Social Distancing Special

Never Have I Ever

Mindy Kaling

Buffering the Vampire Slayer

Slayerfest ‘98

The Stories We Tell by Kristen Lepionka

Pride Prejudice and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev

The Ripped Bodice

Joule-Thomson Effect

Florence and the Machine

Maria Callas

The Indigo Girls

Steeleye Span

Antje Duvekot

Samson G USB mic

Blue Yeti

Noisy Girls

Cakewalk

Eleventh Hour Lecture Series: Iowa Writers Workshop

Mary Allen: Writing and the Power of Now

Writing Excuses

Write-Minded

Writers Aloud

How Fiction Works by James Wood

By Cunning and Craft by Peter Selgin

Virginia Woolf

Vladimir Nabakov

The Bonnie Road by Suzanne d’Coursey

King Princess

Muna

Janelle Monae

Julien Baker

Little Women by Greta Gerwig

Portrait of A Lady on Fire

Plants and People in Ancient Scotland

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre miniseries

You’re Wrong About

Queery by Cameron Esposito

About Us:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at truerwordspodcast@gmail.com.

Kathryn Benson