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Back to Episodes🔒 Interview with Chris Whitaker - All The Colors Of The Dark
Description
We sit down with Chris Whitaker to chat about All the Colors Of The Dark. He shares personal details about how trauma early in life helped him write this book but also meant it took years to complete. Listen to the end for what book he would recommend and where he likes to spend time when not writing.
Order: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/761187/all-the-colors-of-the-dark-a-read-with-jenna-pick-by-chris-whitaker/
Personal Website: https://sites.prh.com/chriswhitaker
Article about the TV adaptation: https://deadline.com/2024/06/ucp-to-adapt-chris-whitakers-new-novel-all-the-colors-of-the-dark-into-series-1235978405/
TW: Discussions of childhood abuse, violence, some explicit material
Brief Show Notes:
0-1:00 Intro
2:30 Sliding Doors Discussion
4:30 His discussion about following these characters for 27 years
10:00 Discussion about Kristin Hannah
11:30 - 17:00 TW child abuse - description of his personal life and how it impacted this book
18:00 Alternate ending options
20:00 TW Discussion of abortions and patient/doctor relationships
25:00 Discussion around how weeks of research would go into writing one paragraph
31:00-36:00 Listener/member Questions
37:00 Reader roundup 5 quick answer questions
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Music is Ur Karma (Instrumental Version) by Craig Reever.
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