Alex George, THE PARIS HOURS: A Novel

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Zibby is joined by Alex George to talk about his latest novel, The Paris Hours, as well as his many other literary endeavors. Alex shares how he was inspired to write this novel after hearing a story about Marcel Prout's real-life maid, what writing was like for him throughout the pandemic, and why he made the career leap from lawyer to novelist. Alex and Zibby also talk about the Unbound Book Festival which he helped found, as well as the Skylark Bookshop which is Columbia, Missouri's first independent bookstore.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.0	I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology,
0:12.2	which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology.
0:16.8	All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research.
0:20.4	And I'm the editor-in-chief of M don't have time to write a new publication on Medium.
0:25.0	And we're accepting submissions, so please send your personal essays there.
0:29.1	And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens.
0:32.9	And my website is Zibby Owens.com.
0:34.8	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:39.5	Alex George is the author of The Paris Hours, which is now out in paperback, a native of England, Alex read law at Oxford
0:45.2	University, and worked for eight years as a corporate lawyer in Paris and London. He has now lived
0:50.4	in the Midwest of the United States for the last 16 years. We talked about why.
0:54.8	He is the founder and director of the Unbound Book Festival and is the owner of Skylark Bookshop,
1:00.5	an independent bookstore in downtown Columbia, Missouri. And by the way, he is on the indie
1:04.8	bookseller advisory board for Zimby Books. Alex is the author of the Paris Hours, a good
1:09.6	American, and setting free the kites. Welcome, Alex. Thanks so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books. Alex is the author of The Paris Hours, A Good American, and Setting Free the Kites. Welcome, Alex. Thanks so much for coming on Mom's Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss the Paris Hours, No, and Paperback. Hi, Zibi. Thank you for having me. It's great to be here. You are a beautiful, beautiful writer. I mean, the way you describe things, the scenes, the, you know, the interspersing of French and English and different characters' perspectives all sprinkled throughout and all the little details.
1:35.6	It's really, really beautiful writing.
1:38.0	So I'm sure you know this.
1:39.4	But anyway, I just wanted to throw it out there.
1:43.0	Oh, well, thank you.
1:44.1	I tell you, I mean, speaking,
1:45.1	I mean, no one can ever hear that quite a minute. So it's always lovely to hear. Thank you.
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