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I have no reason to share a draft with anyone.

The only reason I'll share a draft with someone early, why is because I want some to be like, I like it.

Bad idea.

If that's why I'm sharing a draft, don't share it, you know?

Yeah.

I have to like it. Like, I have to be the one to fight for it.

Like, I just got pissed. Like, I just was working on a theater project and I got some notes and I did not like them. And I was pissed for days. Like, bad mood, like, family, like, keeping their

distance from me because they were like, mom's mad.

But when someone who believes in what you're trying to do, it's this great feeling of camaraderie.

Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them.

I'm your host, Tracy Thomas, and today I am joined by author and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Kiara Alegria Hooties to discuss her new novel,

The White Hot. The story is about April Soto, a young mother who makes the pivotal decision

to walk away from her daughter and her entire life in a desperate search for her own freedom. Today,

Kiara and I talk about her writing as a playwright and how that compares to writing her first

novel. We talk about the need to explore women's pleasure and anger and the syllabus of

books that came to Kiara and helped her to write this novel. Just a reminder, our book club

pick for November is We the Animals by Justin Torres.

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