Author Lily Brooks-Dalton

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.9 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This week on Wheels Off, author Lily Brooks-Dalton joins Rhett from her home in Los Angeles to talk about her creative endeavors as a writer. Lily and Rhett discuss adapting her books into film, the experience of releasing a memoir when she was just 25 years old, and memorizing her favorite books before she even knew how to read. Lily tells Rhett about the unique method she uses to get inside the minds of her favorite authors, and shares some advice for aspiring writers. Lily Brooks Dalton's novel, Good Morning, Midnight (Random House, 2016), has been translated into 17 languages and is the inspiration for the film adaptation, The Midnight Sky. Her memoir, Motorcycles I’ve Loved (Riverhead, 2014), was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Wheels Off is brought to you by Osiris Media. Hosted and produced by Rhett Miller. Co-produced by Kirsten Cluthe in partnership with Nick Ruffini (Revoice Media). Editing by Justin Thomas. Production Assistance by Matt Bavuso. Music by OLD 97’s. Episode artwork by Katherine Boils. Show logo by Tim Skirven. Upcoming episodes of Wheels Off include actress Paget Brewster, singer-songwriter Allison Russell, producer & songwriter Jeff Barry, and more. Revisit Season One of Wheels Off with Rosanne Cash, Rob Thomas, Will Forte, Lydia Loveless, Allison Moorer, Ted Leo, Paul F. Tompkins, Jen Kirkman, and more. This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also ask Alexa to play it. Please leave us a rating or review on iTunes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, Cyrus.
0:04.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:09.4	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:11.0	That's when it got wheels off.
0:14.0	We shot it up and we ain't gonna starve.
0:17.0	I said like you, like it a night.
0:19.0	That's when they got wheels off.
0:24.8	Lily Brooks Dalton is a writer.
0:32.1	Her best known work is her most recent book that came out five years ago,
0:38.7	Good Morning, Midnight,
0:45.4	that was turned into a movie, a film, sorry, called The Midnight Sky, starring George Clooney.
0:59.0	Her first book was a memoir called Motorcycles I've Loved, and she is deep into some further projects that you will hear us talking about. So to call her a novelist isn't exactly right, but she's not a memoir. Either she's a writer. In fact, as we
1:06.7	discuss in this conversation you're about to hear, she is not content. It's stopping there.
1:14.6	She's going to try other media as well, and it's all storytelling, as you'll hear her explain.
1:24.0	It's all diving into the human experience and finding the truth at the heart of it.
1:30.6	I don't mean to put words in her mouth, but that's the impression I get of where she's coming from.
1:38.7	Please listen to the interview.
1:40.4	I did not do justice just then to the experience of speaking with Lily Brooks Dalton.
1:46.8	She's really, you know what, I don't want to spoil it. I think she's really cool. That's all I'll say.
1:53.0	I think she's really cool and smart and deep and thoughtful. She doesn't seem content to give easy pat answers.
2:04.6	Like she really thinks about the wisdom she's going to drop on you.
2:09.1	So, man, I was so excited to get to speak to her.
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