A Natalie Portman Book Club Pick! Colombe Schneck, SWIMMING IN PARIS: A Life in Three Stories
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
French documentary film director, journalist, and bestselling author Colombe Schneck joins Zibby to discuss SWIMMING IN PARIS, the Natalie Portman Book Club Pick and a brilliantly written, searingly intimate piece of biographical fiction about a woman experiencing all of life: friendships, love, sex, abortion, and swimming. Colombe shares why she finally felt compelled to write about her abortion in a burst of raw emotion after decades of silence. She also touches on the trauma carried by her Holocaust-survivor parents, the realities of growing up in a liberal Parisian environment, the death of a close childhood friend, a painful breakup, and the solace she found in swimming.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and I am the host of this podcast. Moms don't have time to read books. |
| 0:08.1 | I am also a newly minted USA Today bestselling author of the novel, Blank. |
| 0:14.2 | I've created a whole community of book lovers around this podcast, a publishing company, |
| 0:19.5 | reading retreats, a bookstore, and more. |
| 0:21.8 | Learn more at zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zivie Owens or join the community at |
| 0:28.4 | Zibbi readers. |
| 0:31.7 | Kalam Schneck is the author of Swimming in Paris, a Life in Three Stories. |
| 0:36.5 | Palom is a documentary film director, a journalist, |
| 0:39.6 | and the author of 12 books of fiction and nonfiction. This book, Swimming in Paris, was the |
| 0:45.2 | Bellatrice book club pick. She has received prizes from the Academy Francaise, Madame Figuero, and |
| 0:51.8 | the Societ des Jean de Léttres. |
| 1:00.4 | The recipient of a scholarship from the Villa Medici in Rome, as well as a Stenthal grant from the Institute Francais, |
| 1:06.3 | she was born and educated in Paris, where she still lives, and I bet I just impressed you with my French accent. |
| 1:14.6 | Welcome, Colombe. Thank you so much for coming on Moms Don't have time to read books to discuss swimming in Paris, a life in three stories. |
| 1:15.3 | Bravo. |
| 1:17.1 | Merci, beaucoup. |
| 1:21.6 | Thank you so much to read this book and to welcome me at your podcast. |
| 1:22.4 | It's a great honor. |
| 1:23.8 | Oh, to be it. |
| 1:30.0 | I said already, I'm a petit bit of French, but I will not do that now because it is embarrassing. |
| 1:32.2 | Anyway, swimming in Paris. |
| 1:34.6 | Beautiful, beautiful book. |
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