Ep. 91 The People Who Change Us with Vanessa Hua

Our guest today is Vanessa Hua. Vanessa is the author of A River of Stars and a columnist at The San Francisco Chronicle. We talk today about the differences between writing a column versus a novel, the people who change our lives without knowing, and untraditional motherhood.

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Everything we talk about on today's episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.

• A River of Stars by Vanessa Hua

• Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

• The Little House Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder

• All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

• Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li

• Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres

• What is the What by Dave Eggers

• The Sixth Man by Andre Iguodala

• Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala

• All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung

• Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot

• The Other Side by Lacy M. Johnson

• The Reckonings by Lacy M. Johnson

• Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen

• The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante

• R. O. Kwon

• Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

• Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

• How Much of These Hills is Gold by C. Pam Zhang

• Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha

• Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

• Damon Young

• The Golden State by Lydia Kiesling

• Like a Mother by Angela Garbes

• Motherhood So White by Nefertiti Austin

• We Live for the We by Dani McClain

• Jasmine Guillory

• The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

• The Ripped Bodice (Culver City, CA)

• The Booksmith (San Francisco, CA)

• City Lights Booksellers and Publishers (San Francisco, CA)

• Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts (Berkeley, CA)

• Books Inc. (Multiple Locations in Northern California)

• Book Passage (San Francisco, CA)

• The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal

• Dear Girls by Ali Wong

• Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine

• Hundred-Year Walk by Dawn Mackeen

• Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann

• Mo Willems

• A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara

• Rad American Women by Kate Schatz

• The Gutsy Girl by Caroline Paul

• There There by Tommy Orange

• The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

• 1984 by George Orwell

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Dear America by Jose Antonio Vargas

• San Francisco Chronicle

• University of California at Riverside

• All the Presidents Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976)

• Robert Redford

• If It Happened There (Slate)

• Golden State Warriors

• "Picking the Best Memoirs Since 1969" (The New York Times)

• "How to Mourn a Glacier" (Lacy M. Johnson, The New Yorker)

• Oprah

• Mao Zedong

• "Ep. 90 Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson -- The Stacks Book Club (Jason Reynolds)" (The Stacks)

• BookCon

• "Ep. Mothering and Social Justice with Dani McClain" (The Stacks)

• "How a Stint at The Bachelorette Turned Me Into a Novelist" (J. Ryan Stradal, Vanity Fair)

• Spotlight (Tom McCarthy, 2015)

• Herb Caen

• Art Hoppe

• By the Book (The New York Times)

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