A local author is out with the second book in her Gothic-inspired young adult fantasy series. Plus, a poetry collection about the Vietnamese-American experience. And finally, a look at the weekend arts calendar.
S1: It's time for Midday Edition on Kpbs. Today , we are talking with local authors and a contemporary ballet company to highlight San Diego's arts scene. I'm Jade Hindman. Here's to conversations that keep you informed , inspired and make you think. Author Adalyn Grace takes us through a gothic murder mystery turned romance in her latest novel.
S1: You are so welcome. We're so glad to have you here. So , I mean , first I want to talk about Belladonna. First , the inspiration for your series actually came from a moment where you envisioned your own death. Tell us more about that. S1: No doubt about that. There's also like some bridgerton influences in there , although more eerie , as you've mentioned.
S1: Wow. Another thing readers can expect in Foxglove is a love triangle between Cigna death and Death's brother fate. And , you know , love triangles are a popular staple of The Wire. S2: It's funny , I don't know if anybody remembers the website Neopets Growing up. That was my jam. I spent every day on Neopets and I found during my time there something called Guilds and role Playing , and I used to write these stories when I was probably about nine years old about wolves and kids with superpowers. And I just loved it so much. I would write thousands of words each day.
S4: So I was born in Vietnam. My family is from Hawaii , the central region of Vietnam. And I came when I was four. And so we were part of a later wave of migration in the 90s. So my father was part of the police force in Southern Vietnam. And so there was just more coordination with nations in the UN to accept refugees from Vietnam after 1975 , which was when the war ended.S4: You know , I think for is I would call it a tender age.
S4: So just kind of this duality or maybe the messy contradictions of the two feels really resonant for me. You know , how I how do I stay in relationship to the culture that I come from , even when at times and in different ways I might be disconnected from it ? So yeah , I feel like maybe a broader umbrella could be connection and disconnection.
S4: So his name is Jen Johnson. He actually is , I believe , from the area that my family is from. And he's written a lot of songs. So people might compare him to a Joan Baez or Bob Dylan from the US. And so I sometimes take words from his songs and explore some of the meanings behind them. I pull from them in particular because sometimes a word might have so many different layers to them , so many connotations that I can't fully explain.
S6: I think a couple of reasons leading up to it , but one of them being that we felt that there was more area to explore and more that we wanted to share and express as artists in , you know , kind of shifting the the focus of being more about the connection and the the experience between both artists and audience members. So I think that was really the initial launching point and the impetus for this kind of birth of the company.
S9: Who is , um. I don't even think it's as much about talent. It is about determination and curiosity and a desire to explore different avenues and ways to move things. I think ballet was one of the things that I found exciting. But I also grew up in gymnastics , and gymnastics is another completely different technique , but with one with a set of really stringent rules that cultivated my desire for discipline and. And excellence.
S9: Yeah. So York is a world premiere. My partner , Luca Renzi , and I were really inspired by the South Wales. Sync to real tracks on Spotify and found the plotting and beautiful. We have been exploring physically with lines and ripples. Things like dolphins jumping out of the water or birds flying in perfect harmony were really inspiring for us to watch and we wanted to kind of recreate those.
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