Bonus Episode: Adrienne Celt on Writing Time Travel, Drawing Cartoons, and Translating Russian Classics for Fun

Blind Date With a Book

In this special bonus episode, Kristen talks with Adrienne Celt, a novelist and cartoonist. Celt is the author of the novels End of the World House, Invitation to a Bonfire, and The Daughters, which won the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Award for Fiction and was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR. She has also published a collection of comics, Apocalypse How? An Existential Bestiary and publishes weekly comics at Love Among the Lampreys. We go deep on writing a book about friendship, Adrienne's writing inspirations, Silicon Valley, the importance of art, and translating Russian classics just for the heck of it. Adrienne also shares the books she's loved reading recently and answers questions from our dating app-inspired questionnaire in a lightning round.

Works Discussed

End of the World House by Adrienne Celt

The Daughters by Adrienne Celt

Invitation to a Bonfire by Adrienne Celt

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson

The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing

In the Eye of the Wild by Nastassja Martin, translated by Sophie R. Lewis

War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Severance (Apple TV+)

Yellowjackets (Showtime)

Somebody Somewhere (HBO Max)

Adrienne's Local Indie Bookstore

Antigone Books (Tucson, AZ)

Where to Find Adrienne

www.adriennecelt.com

Love Among the Lampreys

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Where to Find Us

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