In this Unabridged podcast episode, we're talking with Katherine Center about her latest book, What You Wish For, which released on July 14th. Katherine shares her first experience as a writer, writing fan fic about Duran Duran, why clown socks are the most fashionable apparel, and how she sets out to fight for joy. Bookish Check-in Ashley - Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half Jen - Jennifer Weiner’s Big Summer Sara - Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds’s Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning Katherine - Will Storr's The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better Other Mentions Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Brit Bennett's The Mothers Katherine Center's Happiness for Beginners Katherine Center's Things You Save in a Fire Katherine Center's How to Walk Away Katherine Center's The Lost Husband Ingrid Fetell Lee’s Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness Katherine Center's thoughts on reading for joy on her website Archie comics Stranger than Fiction Interested in what else we're reading? Check out our Featured Books page. Want to support Unabridged? Check out our Merch Store! Become a patron on Patreon. Follow us @unabridgedpod on Instagram. Like and follow our Facebook Page. Subscribe to our YouTube channel. Check out our Teachers Pay Teachers store. Follow us @unabridgedpod on Twitter. Subscribe to our podcast and rate us on Apple Podcasts or on Stitcher. Check us out on Podbean.

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