Episode 110: Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Maggie Tokuda-Hall is a writer and podcaster based in San Francisco, CA. Maggie’s debut YA novel, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, is a swashbuckling pirate fantasy, and it’s also a nuanced and subversive story about colonialism, the power of storytelling, and the cost of violence. In our conversation, Maggie and I talked about her love of working in multiple forms and genres, the presentation of race in her novel, and writing the horrificness of violence. Then in the second segment, we discussed how to talk to our kids about problematic books and authors.

(Conversation recorded April 29, 2020.)

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Show Notes:

• Maggie Tokuda-Hall
• Maggie Tokuda-Hall - The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea
• Maggie Tokuda-Hall - Also an Octopus
• Drunk Safari
• Maggie Tokuda-Hall - Fear and Loathing in Utero (Catapult)
• Maggie Tokuda-Hall - “On Violations, Macarons, and the Pursuit of Beauty I Can Control”
• Patrick Ness - The Knife of Never Letting Go
• Barbara Park - Junie B. Jones
• Lynne Reid Banks - The Indian in the Cupboard
• Nicole Chung - “E. B. White’s Lesson for Debut Writers: It’s Okay to Start Small“
• F Troop
• James S. A. Corey
• Never Have I Ever

Transcript

Episode Credits

• Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
• Music: Podington Bear
• Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo