Allegra Goodman, SAM

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode (a live event for the Streicker Center!), Zibby speaks to author Allegra Goodman about Sam, a Read With Jenna pick, and a powerful and endearing coming-of-age story with poignant reflections on class, addiction, sacrifice, parenthood, and love. Zibby and Allegra talk about the protagonist, Sam, analyzing her neurodiversity, her love of climbing, her need for her father’s attention, and the realization that her parents are humans with flaws. Allegra also discusses the process behind her title and cover, how her writing has changed since becoming an empty nester, and the books and writers that have inspired her recently.

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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 Zibby Mag 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. Allegra Goodman is the author of Sam, a novel.
1:06.5	And this is from a live event at the Temple Emmanuel Stryker Center.
1:12.0	500 people were listening to Us Talk Live on a webinar, and this is the audio from it.
1:18.0	So enjoy.
1:19.1	Allegra Goodman is the author of five novels, two short story collections, and a novel for young readers.
1:23.9	Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and Elsewhere and has beenologized in the O'Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories.
1:30.0	She lives with her family in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1:32.9	Sam was chosen as a read with Jenna Pick on The Today Show with Jenna and Hoda and is one of Jenna's book club picks, which is great.
1:43.4	Thanks, Allegra.
1:44.0	Thanks, Marjorie.
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