Alexandra Andrews, WHO IS MAUD DIXON?: A Novel

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Alexandra Andrews joins Zibby for an impromptu therapy session and conversation about her debut novel, Who is Maud Dixon? The two joke about how many drafts of the story Alexandra wrote before reaching publication, why she hates when other writers say they hate writing, and what it's like being married to another author.

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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 Moms 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.
0:32.8	And my website is Zibby Owens.com.
0:35.0	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:39.8	Alexandra Andrews is the author of Who Is Maude Dixon? Alexander has worked as a journalist, editor, and copywriter in New York
0:45.2	and Paris. Who is Maude Dixon is her debut novel. Publishers Weekly named her a writer
0:50.2	to watch in 2021. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband and children.
0:55.8	Welcome, Alexandra. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read bugs to talk
1:00.0	about who is Maude Dixon. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so thrilled to be here.
1:04.0	I'm thrilled to have you. So for readers who might not have read this back in March when it came out,
1:10.4	sorry for the delay here
1:12.0	in recording and getting this episode out, could you tell them what Who Is Maude Dixon is about?
1:17.4	Of course. Who is Maude Dixon is about an ambitious young assistant in the editorial world,
1:24.2	who then got the job as the assistant to a world famous but pseudonymous writer
1:28.7	like Elena Ferranti. And first, she's just, this woman who just becomes her mentor. And then
1:34.7	our young narrator, Florence Darrow, decides maybe she should take a shortcut and steal her mentor's
1:41.4	life. It's sort of similar now to the plot in a way. Have you read that book?
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