Anissa Gray, LIFE AND OTHER LOVE SONGS

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Zibby is joined by author, award-winning journalist, and repeat MDHTTRB guest Anissa Gray to discuss Life and Other Love Songs, a riveting, complex, and astonishingly moving African American family saga about a father’s sudden disappearance and how it unravels the lives of the family members he leaves behind. Anissa talks about her decision to write from different perspectives and time periods, the real-life disappearance that inspired this story, and the difficult events that happened in her own life while she wrote it. Zibby loved this book so much that she chose it for Zibby's Book Club in June!!

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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.
0:56.5	And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy. And Nessa Gray is the author of life and other love songs. And actually
1:07.0	for those of you who are in my book club, you can go to zibbies bookclub.com.
1:11.2	This is my pick for, I think, June.
1:13.8	We will be reading this together, and I'm very excited.
1:16.8	Anissa is a senior writer at CNN Worldwide and a contributor to Emmy and DuPont Columbia
1:21.7	award-winning coverage of some of the most consequential stories of our time.
1:26.5	She began her career at Reuters as a reporter
1:28.8	based in New York covering business news and international finance. Born in St. Joseph, Michigan,
1:34.4	Gray studied English and American literature at New York University. She lives in Atlanta,
1:38.8	Georgia with her wife. And this is her second time on the podcast. Welcome, Annissa.
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