A Zibby Summer Reads Pick: Destination—Paris! Glynnis MacNicol, I'M MOSTLY HERE TO ENJOY MYSELF: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Zibby chats with memoirist and podcast host Glynnis MacNicol about I’M MOSTLY HERE TO ENJOY MYSELF, an intimate, powerful, jubilant, and triumphant travelog about the radically pleasurable time she spent in Paris after spending the height of the pandemic entirely alone in her NYC apartment. Glynnis describes her five weeks abroad, reflecting on the liberation and joy she rediscovered. She touches on her book’s themes: food, friendship, and physical intimacy—and challenges the societal expectations surrounding middle-aged women.
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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. |
| 0:21.6 | Learn more at Zivimedia.com, or follow me on social at Zivie Owens or join the community at |
| 0:28.4 | Zivie Readers. Glynis McNichael is also back on the podcast, this time for I'm mostly |
| 0:36.2 | here to enjoy myself, one woman's pursuit of pleasure |
| 0:39.0 | in Paris. Her previous memoir, which we talked about on this podcast, is No One Tells You |
| 0:44.7 | This. It was named one of the best books of 2018 by Esquire, The Financial Times, and the CBC, |
| 0:50.4 | and was a 2019 New York Times paperback row pick. |
| 0:55.9 | McNichael hosted and produced Wilder, |
| 0:59.4 | a reckoning with the legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder for IHeartMedia. |
| 1:02.5 | It was an official Tribeca Festival, 2023 selection. |
| 1:07.7 | In 2021, she co-produced and story-edited IHeartMedia's Under the Influence podcast, |
| 1:09.2 | hosted by Joe Piazza. |
| 1:11.7 | It has been named to multiple best of lists. |
| 1:19.3 | She has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Cut, New York Daily News, Town and Country, the Daily Beast, Jen and L, among others. |
| 1:20.4 | Welcome, Glittes. |
| 1:23.6 | Thank you so much for coming back on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 1:29.5 | This time, your book is, I'm mostly here to enjoy myself, one woman's pursuit of pleasure in Paris. Congratulations. I didn't realize until you held it up, I kind of matched my shirt to the... |
| 1:34.9 | You did. Yeah, unintentional. You're feigning ignorance of this, but really, it was totally planned. |
| 1:42.5 | Oh my gosh. And listeners, Glynis was just reminding me, we first talked about her last book six years ago, which seems physically impossible to me because it just does. But yeah. |
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