Another long overdue episode with a FANTASTIC guest! Philly-based lawyer-turned-writer Farah Naz Rishi has written YA, sci-fi, romance, and a heartbreaking memoir ‘Sorry for the Inconvenience’. Pop in your airpods, grab a hot drink, go for a walk, listen how you please, but don’t miss how this Pakistani-American Muslim writer became a TikTok sensation, how she wrote the book that ‘broke Mindy Kaling’s heart’, and of course her favorite books and hometown Philadephia hang outs!

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SHOWNOTES for Ep. 97:

Connect with Farah through her website and Instagram

Buy Sorry for the Inconvenience and Farah’s other books here

Books and other stuff we discussed on the show:

Robin Hobb’s books

R.F. Kuang’s books

Ursula LeGuin’s writing schedule

Philly’s fab restaurant Mawn (I tried it based on Farah’s tip and it is AMAZING, but now apparently hard to get a table!)

Free Library of Philadelphia

Harriet’s Bookshop in Fishtown

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Special thanks to Soumya Saksham, Sudipta Biswas and the team at The Media Tribe for audio-post production!

Ep. 97: The craft of writing in the age of BookTok - with environmental lawyer turned author Farah Naz Rishi

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