The Unlikely Author, featuring Matt de La Peña
Write-minded: Weekly Inspiration for Writers
English - March 02, 2020 09:00 - 36 minutes - 18.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 372 ratingsBooks Arts health business interview entrepreneurship culture productivity comedy politics entrepreneur leadership Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: The Art (and Cost) of Reckoning, featuring Kiese Laymon
In this week’s episode, Matt la Peña shares how explores how he went from being a non-reader as a kid to becoming a writer and author as an adult, which involved falling in love with Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street. Brooke and Grant talk with Matt about #ownvoices, the power of YA to effect meaningful change in readers’ lives, and the experience of being a working-class writer.