Adrienne Brodeur, LITTLE MONSTERS

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🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Bestselling author Adrienne Brodeur joins Zibby to discuss Little Monsters, a kaleidoscopic and riveting novel about Cape Cod, complicated families, and corrosive, long-buried secrets. Adrienne delves into her fascinating characters and then reveals how her own complex relationships and experience with family secrets influenced this novel. (You can read all about that in her incredible memoir Wild Game.) She also talks about her job as the director of Aspen Words, a literary nonprofit; the books she has read recently and loved; and her best advice for aspiring writers.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:06.7	This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.
0:14.9	I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.
0:21.9	Our books are already out now.
0:23.5	You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.
0:25.6	And we have a magazine called ZibbyMag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle
0:31.2	features.
0:31.8	That's at Zibbymag.com.
0:33.1	We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.
0:35.4	And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop
0:40.3	at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of
0:47.9	our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018.
0:56.1	And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy it. Adrienne Broder is back on Mom's Don't
1:05.9	Have Time to Read Books, a second time after her amazing memoir, Wild Game. Now she's back with a novel called
1:12.7	Little Monsters. Adrian is the author of Wild Game, which I mentioned, which was selected as a
1:18.2	best book of the year by NPR and the Washington Post, and is in development as a Netflix film.
1:23.4	She founded the literary magazine Zoe Trope, All Story, with Francis Ford Coppola, and currently
1:28.3	serves as executive director of Aspen Words, a literary nonprofit and program of the Aspen Institute.
1:34.8	She splits her time between Cambridge and Cape Cod, where she lives with her husband and children.
1:39.6	Welcome, Adrienne. Thanks so much for coming back on Moms Don't have time to read books to discuss your novel Little Monsters. Congratulations.
1:47.8	Well, thanks so much for having me, Zubby.
1:49.7	Oh, it's my pleasure. As you know, I was like the biggest fan ever of Wild Game as like everyone else in the world was.
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