First Draft Episode #289: Catie Disabato

Catie Disabato, author of adult literary novels The Ghost Network and her newest, U Up?

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will, Await Your Reply, and Stay Awake was Catie’s creative writing professor at Oberlin

• Edan Lepucki, New York Times bestselling author of California and Woman No. 17. Edan’s latest project is Mothers Before, a collection of essays and photographs based on the popular Instagram Mothers Before, which Edan created. She is also the co-host, with fellow writer Amelia Morris, of the podcast Mom Rage.

• The ghost-network-by-catie-disabato.html">New York Times review of Catie’s debut novel, The Ghost Network

• Kirsten Reach, former editor at Melville House and current fiction editor at the Kenyon Review

• “Catie Disabato’s Novel ‘U Up?’ Renders LA’s Magic In Dark Bars And Chaotic Text Messages,” an interview with Catie by Zan Romanoff in CNMN magazine. Zan Romanoff, journalist and author of A Song to Take the World Apart, and Grace and the Fever, appeared most recently on First Draft to discuss her latest YA novel, Look. Listen to her interview here.

• Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker

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• Edan Lepucki, New York Times bestselling author of California and Woman No. 17. Edan’s latest project is Mothers Before, a collection of essays and photographs based on the popular Instagram Mothers Before, which Edan created. She is also the co-host, with fellow writer Amelia Morris, of the podcast Mom Rage.

• Rufi Thorpe, author of The Girls from Corona del Mar and Dear Fang: With Love, and The Knockout Queen.

• Miranda Popkey, essayist and debut author of Topics of Conversation.

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