Eugene Yelchin (Ep. 89)

Eugene Yelchin (@EYelchin), author of Arcady's Goal (@HenryHolt), stops by to talk about his father's reliance on soccer as a survival tool while under Soviet terror, a main characters who refuses to change while he's being written, and the process of making sense of what you inherited.

Episode Notes
Eugene Yelchin's homepage

Eugene's video acceptance of the 2012 Newbery Honor for Breaking Stalin's Nose
"In Golden Times" PW article on the passing of Lucille Ogle, the creator of Golden Books
Purchase Eugene Yelchin's books from your local independent bookstore