Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.

I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.

Our books are already out now.

You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.

And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle

features.

That's at Zibbymag.com.

We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.

And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop

at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of

our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018.

And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy. And Bidi is the author of Onlookers stories and has been

included in five O'Henry Award collections in the Best American Short Stories and the Best American Short Stories of the Century.

She is the recipient of the Penn Malamud Award for Achievement in the Short Story.

In 2005, she received the Ray Award for the Short Story.

The former Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia,

she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and of the American Academy of Arts and creative writing at the University of Virginia. She is a member of the American

Academy of Arts and Letters and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She and her husband

live in Maine, Virginia, and Florida. Welcome, Ann. Thank you so much for coming on moms.

Don't have time to read books to discuss onlookers and, you know, life in general. I'm very happy

to be here. Well, why don't you start out by talking about

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