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This week we're finishing our review of Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng.

We're talking books that make you question yourself, the casting call for the Amazon Prime miniseries and using favours to get power over people.

We're also talking the subtle brilliance of Celeste Ng's storytelling, the weight of impossible decisions and the dangers of prescriptive community planning.

Harley's giving Marvel credit both on and offscreen and Holly is binge watching the streaming adaption. Neither will be relocating to Shaker Heights.

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This week we're reading Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng.

We're talking the cost of a baby, raising children outside their cultures and a nuanced delivery of heavy social themes.

We're also talking characters who grow,  the choices women face in becoming, or not becoming, mothers and the weight of the decisions we make.

Holly wonders if Mia is a virgin mother and Harley wonders why no one played the Shake Heights edition of King Solomon.

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Reading Philip Salom's Sweeney and the Bicycles, Arinze Ifeakandu's God's Children Are Little Broken Things and Celeste Ng's Our Missing Hearts with Shakespearean scholar Huw Griffiths and novelist Nova Weetman

This week, I am joined by Cat Acree, Deputy Editor of BookPage Magazine. We chat about how we select our next picks, changes in the publishing industry and Cat shares some of her favorite recent reads! 

Book recommendations: 

On the Rooftop by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton 

Trust by Hernan Diaz

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng

Grown Ups by Marie Aubert

The Furrows by Namwali Serpell

Other Book recommendations:

Drunk on Love by Jasmine Guillory

Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie

The Foulest Thing by Amy Tector

A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti

Three Muses by Martha Anne Toll

The Lemon S.E.  Boyd

Liberation Day by George Saunders

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

Now is Not the time to Panic by Kevin Wilson

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I hope you all have a wonderfully bookish week!

In this episode of Parallel Fiction, Heather and Jeff cover stories that seem to just pile on.  We’re talking about Sh*tshows!  In this episode, our hosts bring two stories where the characters are put through a lot with seemingly no end in sight.

Heather presents her summary of the 2017 Celeste Ng novel Little Fires Everywhere.  Heather tries to find redeeming qualities in every sub plot, which is told form a heavy and bleak view point.  Despite all of the hardships faced in this novel, Heather really enjoyed reading this story and sympathizes to a lot of the relationships that are tarnished by each of the characters.  The last few pages had her in tears.

Did you know?  The town of Shaker Heights in the novel is writer Celeste Ng’s real life hometown.

Jeff follows up with his outline of 2008 comedy Tropic Thunder directed & starring Ben Stiller.  Also staring Jack Black, Nick Note, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Cruise, and Robert Downey Jr, Tropic Thunder is a film within a film depicting fictional actors trying to make a movie.  Hilarity ensues when this dark comedy takes a side step, killing off the fictional movie’s director and leaving the team of ego driven buffoons stranded in dangerous territory.  Jeff gives us the high’s and lows of the movie, and has a disclaimer about how a lot of the humor in 2008 has not aged well, and may be offensive to some audiences.

Fun Fact!  Robert Downey Jr. was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for this role, but lost in 2008 to Heath Ledger and his portrayal of the Joker.

Following these reviews, Heather and Jeff dive into commonalities between the two works such as hilarity in the uncontrollable, situations going from bad to worse, how to get through, and what’s left at the end.

Listen in to hear Jeff and Heather’s candid thoughts on the masterpiece scenes of each story, how Tropic Thunder and Little Fires Everywhere compare, and how Jeff and Heather relate the two. Share this episode with anyone who you think would enjoy!

Heather’s rating for Little Fires Everywhere: Super Nice – A great story that inspires the reader to reflect & appreciate what they have

Jeff’s rating for Tropic Thunder: Nice – A funny movie but not for every audience.

Watch Tropic Thunder here: https://www.amazon.com/Tropic-Thunder-Ben-Stiller/dp/B001H5X7I4

Read Little Fires Everywhere here: https://www.amazon.com/Little-Fires-Everywhere-Celeste-Ng/dp/0735224293

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Showrunner Liz Tigelaar joins host Jenny Curtis to talk about her illustrious career in television, from beginning as an intern on a hit show to creating LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE. Throughout the conversation they discuss: 

• 0:38 - LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE being nominated for five Emmy awards. 
• 1:07 - Adventuring in quarantine. 
• 2:00 - Beginning her career in the industry on DAWSON’S CREEK. 
• 3:30 - Her first writing partner, Holly Henderson, and the value of starting out with a partner.
• 7:05 - The steps of the ladder of writers and producers and her path up the ladder on AMERICAN DREAMS.
• 8:41 - Her experiences from show to show as her titles changed. 
• 10:31 - Her first experience as a showrunner on LIFE UNEXPECTED.
• 12:10 - Being on the CW with MELROSE PLACE before LIFE UNEXPECTED
• 12:50 - Unintentionally putting herself in the story of her show. 
• 13:43 - Being in an overall deal with ABC
• 14:42 - Her takeaway from working on various shows and why she wasn’t the best fit for ONCE UPON A TIME. 
• 16:13 - Working as a team on CASUAL
• 17:52 - The difference she found between streaming and network shows. 
• 19:33 - Having LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE come to her from Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington
• 20:22 - Finding the show from what the book provided. 
• 22:05 - How she linked the themes and found her story arc. 
• 22:40 - The continuous process of finding your voice in your work
• 24:18 - The opening and closing moments of the show and how she put a twist in the show that was slightly different from 
• 25:50 - The complexities of the character of Elena and exploring the levels of her prejudice and privilege. 
• 28:20 - The collaboration between Liz, Reese and Kerry in bringing Elena and Mia to life. 
• 29:28 - The power of Mia being unapologetic. 
• 31:11 - The actors working to create Young Mia and Young Elena. 
• 32:18 - The famous photo differing from the actress who plays Young Mia. 
• 33:58 - Creating the photo that could believably be an extremely valuable work of art
• 36:05 - The adoption storyline and the conversations on what the right ruling would be in the court case. 
• 38:06 - The differing view on Pearl and Mia’s definition of belonging and the conversations of motherhood in the writers room.
• 39:45 - The scene in the show that Liz is proudest of. 
• 41:30 - The day on set Liz would live over and over if she could. 
• 42:40 - The set hawk
• 43:33 - Getting to create a life in storytelling. 

   

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  Hosted and Produced by: Jenny Curtis

  Edited and Co-produced by: J Whiting

  Executive Producer: Stuart Halperin

  Theme Music by: Celleste & Eric Dick

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Fernando Castañeda recomienda Little Fires Everywhere que pueden ver en Amazon Prime Video. Basada en el best-seller de Celeste Ng, esta serie sigue los destinos entrelazados de los Richardson, una familia aparentemente perfecta, y una madre y una hija que cambian sus vidas drásticamente. La historia explora el peso de los secretos, la naturaleza del arte y la identidad, el feroz llamado de la maternidad y el peligro de creer que seguir las reglas puede prevenir el desastre.

Confira os destaques do caderno Na Quarentena desta sexta-feira (22/05/20)

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We meet One Story Magazine’s 2014 Literary Debutantes, a collection of fiction writers who have published their first full-length books in the past year: James Scott (The Kept), Rachel Cantor (A Highly Unlikely Scenario), Ben Stroud (Byzantium), Celeste Ng (Everything I Never Told You), Molly Antopol (The UnAmericans), David James Poissant (The Heaven of Animals), and Amelia Kahaney (The Brokenhearted). Also – reviews of The Book of Unknown Americans, by Christina Henríquez, and The Log of the SS Mrs. Unguentine, by Stanley Crawford; and new releases for July 15th – July 31st, 2014. Find all the titles discussed in this episode at greenlightbookstore.com/radio2 .