Okie Bookcast

Storytelling Beyond Genre w/ Shark Heart author, Emily Habeck

J Hall Season 3 Episode 7

Welcome to Chapter 54!

My guest is debut novelist, Emily Habeck, author of Shark Heart: A Love Story. Emily has a BFA in Theater from Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts as well as master’s degrees from Vanderbilt Divinity School and Vanderbilt’s Peabody College. Since it's release in August, Shark Heart has been named a USA Today Bestseller, a Book of the Month selection, a New York Times book review editor’s choice, and was the #1 Indie Next pick for August 2023. She is from Ardmore, Oklahoma and currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

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Books mentioned on the show:
You Could Make This Place Beautiful - Maggie Smith
Smile - Sarah Ruhl
Bluets - Maggie Nelson
Fellowship Point - Alice Elliot Dark


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