Amy Jo Burns, SHINER
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
A searing novel about Applachain heartbreak, Shiner is Amy Jo Burns’ story based on her own environment growing up. Listen to her talk to Zibby about trauma, secrets, loss and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast. |
| 0:12.1 | Moms don't have time to read books. Thanks so much for listening to my podcast. If you like what |
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| 1:25.8 | I thought you'd really enjoy and that would make great summer reads. A lot of these came out during the pandemic, and they're really worth your time, so I wanted to get them out. I hope you enjoy them. Amy Jo Burns is the author of the memoir, Cinderland, and Shiner, a novel which just came out this summer. Her writing has appeared in the Paris Review, Tin House, Plow Shares, Gay Magazine, |
| 1:45.5 | Electric Literature, Literary Hub, and the anthology, Not That Bad. Welcome, Amy Jo. Thanks so much |
| 1:51.3 | for coming on Moms. Don't have time to read books. Oh, thank you so much for having me. So happy to be |
| 1:55.6 | here. You have written not only Shiner and a memoir and so much else, but your personal essays we have to |
| 2:04.9 | talk about because they are so good. I just like kept reading one after another. But I know |
| 2:10.3 | that Shiner is your latest book. So let's talk about that first. Can you tell listeners, |
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