Ann Hood, FLY GIRL: A Memoir
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Zibby interviews bestselling author Ann Hood about Fly Girl, a warm coming-of-age memoir about her time as a TWA flight attendant in the 70s and 80s. Ann describes the origins of her wanderlust, comments on the blatant sexism she witnessed on the job, and shares her most memorable in-flight stories, from playing Boggle with a passenger to seeing a man die to writing her first novels in the jump seat! She also talks about her brother’s tragic passing, her wonderful book tour (filled with flight attendant fans!), and the books on her TBR list.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now. |
| 0:07.8 | Thank you so much called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:10.7 | It is a daily podcast 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or |
| 0:21.1 | less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this |
| 0:25.9 | podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, |
| 0:31.8 | wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can |
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| 0:39.5 | but really you're here to learn more about the authors, |
| 0:42.2 | and that is what we're going to do. |
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| 0:58.3 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Anne Hood is the author of Fly Girl, a memoir. Anne is the best-selling author of the novels |
| 1:03.2 | The Knitting Circle, The Obituary Writer, and the Book That Matters Most, and the memoirs |
| 1:07.2 | Kitchen Yarns, Notes on Life, Love, and Food, and Comfort, A Journey Through Grief, which was named one of the 10 best nonfiction books of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly. Her new memoir, Fly Girl, is about her years as a TWA flight attendant during the late 70s and mid-80s. Welcome, Ann. Thank you so much for coming on moms, don't have time to read books. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here. |
| 1:29.2 | I really, really enjoyed your book as just telling you, I read every word. I could not get |
| 1:35.5 | enough of not only your experience being a flight attendant, but it's almost your whole coming |
| 1:41.4 | of age and how you got to where you were and how you started with your |
| 1:46.0 | teacher telling him or your college advisor saying like, well, I want to be a writer and him |
| 1:50.9 | being like, well, you can't do that to now where not only are you a wonderful author, but have |
| 1:55.7 | also written this beautiful memoir about your whole experience getting here. So anyway, |
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