![]() So that’s where the book sort of started. And that bar obviously was inspired by many of the bars documented in wide open town. So that is when she starts going to a lesbian bar that she finds out about called the Telegraph Club. So these two books have nothing to do with each other, but in my brain, somehow they combined to create this character in my head, Lily, a 17 year old Chinese-American girl who really wants to be a rocket scientist like her Aunt Judy, who works at JPL and Lily simultaneously, is starting to think that she might be a lesbian. The first was Wide Open Town, a queer history of San Francisco, and the other was Rise of the Rocket Girls, which was about the women computers who worked at the Jet Propulsion Lab in the 1940s and 50s. I’ve been reading two different nonfiction books. And so the idea for that short story came out of two books. ![]() S2: The novel actually came out of a short story that I wrote for a queer, a historical short fiction anthology called All Out. I wonder if you could tell us about the book’s origins. Last night at The Telegraph Club won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. ![]() S1: Malinda Lo, thank you so much for joining us today.
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