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Hi, I'm here today with Amber Tamlin, who is an author, actress, and director.

She has been nominated for an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and an Independent Spirit Award for

her work in film and TV.

She co-wrote and directed the critically acclaimed feature film, Painted Black. She's the author of three books of poetry, including the bestseller, Dark Sparkler, and the novel Anyman. Her latest book is Era of Ignition, coming of age and a time of rage and revolution. She's a contributing writer for The New York Times, a poet in residence at Amy Poller's Smart Girls, and a founding member of Times Up. She currently lives in New York with her husband, actor David Cross. Welcome, Amber. Thanks for coming on moms and have time to read books. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to talk about your latest book era of ignition, coming of age, and a time of rage and revolution, which has like the best cover ever. Thank you. It's so cool. It's like bright pink and red and black. And it's like, how can you not want to read it? Not that I should judge by the cover. No, it's good. I feel like it's a very straightforward, direct cover. Simple, easy. Totally. So tell listeners what is Era of Ignition about and like what made you write it right now?

So Era of Ignition really looks at this sort of wild chaotic world that we're living in right now

and especially in the United States post Me Too and Times Up in the last two, sort of since that has happened.

But also since Donald Trump has been elected and this sense of we're not able to control

what is happening.

And there seems to be a lot of anger and a lot of protests and a lot of questioning about

supremacy and identity and all of the things that should matter to us as a

country and as a culture, things like white feminism, for instance, which is a very triggering

word for a lot of white women. Whereas in this book, I really offer that it's important to lean

into that and to not be afraid to be uncomfortable. So my argument for the book is really looking at

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