Episode · How I Write · 2023-09-28
Books mentioned on The Secret to Writing with Emotion, Without Oversharing | with Ava | How I Write Podcast
David Perell discussed Impro by Keith Johnstone. Also mentioned: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson, and Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Discussed“Murakami was one of, I remember I first read him when I was a teenager and I read, yeah, the Wind Up Bird Chronicle and just read nothing but Murakami for like the next few months.”
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Pineapple Street
Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson is a contemporary novel set in Brooklyn Heights that follows the complicated lives and emotional entanglements of an affluent family.
Recommended“I just read a great novel called, I think it's called Pineapple Street. I'm just about to finish it. But it's basically just about like, it's about a family. It's about a family that lives in like Brooklyn Heights and it's like, Very good.”
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Impro
Discussed“Have you read the book Impro? No, I wanted to read that for so many years. I'm sure like 70 people have recommended it to you. I basically read it because so many people kept mentioning it to me.”
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Everything I Know About Love
Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton is a witty, deeply relatable memoir charting the author's messy and heartfelt navigation through young adulthood, romance, and female friendship in London.
Discussed“Yeah, um, I don't know if you've read Dolly Alderton. She's like a, she's a novelist and essayist. She's mostly in the UK. Um, Or she's like more popular there. But she's really awesome. And in her book of essays, I think it's called Everything I Know About Love.”
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