Amy Koppelman, A MOUTHFUL OF AIR

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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"No one tells you how scary it is to become a mom. You're responsible for a whole other life." Amy Koppelman joined Zibby for an IG Live to talk about her book, A Mouthful of Air, which is being re-released to celebrate the premiere of its film adaptation, which Amy wrote the screenplay for and directed. They talk about why so many women suffer during the postpartum period in silence, how Amy wanted the book to help start a conversation about maternal mental health eighteen years ago, and the experience of adapting a very personal book for the screen with Amanda Seyfried.

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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.
0:32.9	And my website is Zibby Owens.com.
0:34.8	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:40.4	Amy Copleman is the author of A Mouthful of Air. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and got her
0:45.5	MFA and Fiction from Columbia University. She is the author of the critically acclaimed novels,
0:50.5	A Mouthful of Air, which I am going to talk to her about in this Instagram live,
0:55.0	I Smile Back and Hesitation Moons. She co-adapted I Smile Back for the screen, which starred
1:00.2	Sarah Silverman and premiered at the 2015 Sundance, Toronto, and Doville Film Festivals to high acclaim.
1:06.3	A mouthful of air is coming out in October as a movie with Amanda Saferead starring and we talk all about
1:13.3	that. Anyway, we did this as an Instagram live and I hope you enjoy our discussion. I know I did.
1:19.4	All right. Welcome, Amy. Thanks for coming on moms don't have time to read books also on Instagram
1:24.1	live today to discuss a mouthful of air. Your beautiful, sort of haunting and dark but not provoking novel.
1:32.9	Thank you.
1:33.9	You're my first interview.
1:36.0	Really?
1:36.6	Yes, the novel originally came out, I guess, like, 18 years ago or almost 18 years ago.
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