A Zibby Summer Reads pick! Teddy Wayne, THE WINNER
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Zibby speaks with award-winning author Teddy Wayne about THE WINNER, a dark, explosive literary thriller about an unemployed law school graduate who gets a summer job as a tennis pro at an exclusive, old-money community near Cape Cod, and gives lessons (and more…) to a divorced woman twice his age. Teddy delves into the real-life inspirations for the setting, his character development process, and his interest in depicting class and privilege in this story. He also reveals that he is working on the screenplay for a potential film adaptation (!), describes his journey to becoming a writer, and gives his best advice to aspiring writers.
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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, reading retreats, a bookstore, and more. Learn more |
| 0:22.2 | at Zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zibby Owens or join the community at Zibby Readers. |
| 0:31.4 | Teddy is the author of the winner, a novel. Teddy is the author of six novels and the winner of a Whiting Writers Award. Also, |
| 0:40.0 | winner of an N.A. Creative Writing Fellowship and a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award, |
| 0:44.4 | Penn Bingham Prize, and Dayton Literary Peace Prize, a former columnist for the New York Times |
| 0:49.7 | and McSweeney's, and a frequent contributor to the New Yorker. He has taught at Columbia University |
| 0:54.8 | and Washington University in St. Louis. He has developed films and series from his novels |
| 0:59.2 | with Columbia Pictures, HBO, MGM Television, and others. And the winner had a big announcement |
| 1:05.9 | with it as well. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the writer Kate Gretaidhead, and their |
| 1:10.6 | children. Welcome, Teddy. Thank Greathead, and their children. |
| 1:11.2 | Welcome, Teddy. Thank you so much for coming on. Momsdon have time to read books to discuss the |
| 1:15.1 | winner. Congrats. Thank you. I devoured this book. It's so good. It's, oh my gosh, |
| 1:22.1 | it's going to be such a hit. I'm just calling it now in case you were unclear that that was |
| 1:27.1 | going to happen. |
| 1:28.2 | It's so great. |
| 1:29.2 | Anyway, why don't you tell listeners what it's about and we'll go from there. |
| 1:33.1 | Sure. |
| 1:33.3 | The winner is the story of Connor O'Toole, who's a young law school graduate who finds himself |
| 1:38.4 | unemployed in the summer of 2020 during the pandemic. |
| 1:41.3 | To make money, he takes a job for the summer as a tennis pro at an old money wasp community near Cape Cod. |
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