An Empty Heart | With Zoe Lister-Jones | Encore
Modern Love
The New York Times
4.3 • 9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Modern Love The Podcast is supported by... |
| 0:05.0 | Produced by the Island at WBUR Boston. |
| 0:18.0 | From The New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love. |
| 0:23.0 | The New York Times |
| 0:28.0 | Stories of Love, Laws, and Redemption. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm your host, Megna Chacrabardi. |
| 0:41.0 | Most of us have had our hearts broken at some point or another. |
| 0:45.0 | Maybe you're in the thick of it right now. |
| 0:47.0 | If so, take heart. |
| 0:49.0 | Because this week's essay, written by renowned novelist Lily King, |
| 0:53.0 | offers a silver lining to heartbreak. |
| 0:56.0 | Zoe Lister Jones is known for her work in CBS's Life in Pieces. |
| 1:01.0 | She reads Lily King's essay, |
| 1:03.0 | An Empty Heart is One That Can Be Filled. |
| 1:08.0 | I was 31 before I got my heart broken. |
| 1:12.0 | It was spring. |
| 1:13.0 | I had quit my job and driven across country to an artist's colony in New England. |
| 1:19.0 | The kind of place that provides you with a cabin in the woods that is not within sight of any of the other cabins. |
| 1:25.0 | My residency was for eight weeks. |
| 1:27.0 | I hoped to finish my first novel there. |
| 1:31.0 | The poet arrived a week after I did. |
| 1:34.0 | He was too skinny, but his eyes were very blue. |
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