First Draft Episode #217: Ruta Sepetys

Ruta Sepetys, #1 New York Times bestselling and Carnegie-winning author of Between Shades of Gray, Out of the Easy, and Salt to the Sea, talks about her newest novel, Fountains of Silence.

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Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode

• I was watching Goodfellas, and not having a great time, until I got sidetracked by reading all about the Lufthansa heist, which is fascinating!

• One of Ruta’s first jobs in L.A. was as an intern for songwriter Desmond Child. He encouraged Ruta to start her own business managing musicians.

• Ruta’s op-ed for NPR about when her book Between Shades of Gray came out at the same time as E.L. James’s 50 Shades of Grey, and many readers purchased the wrong title

• The Pact of Forgetting, enacted in 1975, in which Spain vowed to forget the past as it transitioned from a dictatorship to democracy.

• General Francisco Franco built Valley of the Fallen as a memorial to those who died in the Spanish Civil War, and he was buried there. Spain exhumed.html">has exhumed and relocated his body.

• Hear Ruta talk in depth about her interview style with Yin Chang on 88 Cups of Tea

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