Season 3, Episode 42-Marieke Nijkamp & Katie Bernet

About this episode

Megan Bjerke interviews Marieke Nijkamp and Katie Bernet about their respective works and themes of fear, love, and narrative control.

Join me as I welcome #1 NYT bestselling author Marieke Nijkamp to talk about her 10 year anniversary release of ’This is Where it Ends’ and debut author Katie Bernet to talk about her thriller ’Beth is Dead.’ Tune in to hear Marieke and I chat about how fear and helplessness influences decisions and how friendship and love gives us the courage to get through what happens, and to hear Katie and I chat about taking inspiration from a classic but still creating a fresh narrative and how who has control of the truth shapes us.

People in this episode

Host: Megan Bjerke

Guests: Marieke Nijkamp, Katie Bernet

Topics covered

• fear and helplessness
• friendship and love
• thriller literature
• inspiration from classics
• narrative control

Keywords

• Marieke Nijkamp
• Katie Bernet
• This is Where it Ends
• Beth is Dead
• thriller
• fear
• friendship
• narrative

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: This is Where it Ends, Beth is Dead

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