Anna Pitoniak, THE HELSINKI AFFAIR

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Zibby speaks to repeat MDHTTRB guest Anna Pitoniak about THE HELSINKI AFFAIR, an intricate and unputdownable female-centric spy thriller about an ambitious, young CIA officer who is given a Russian conspiracy to untangle, only to discover that her father, an ex-CIA officer, is mysteriously linked to it, forcing her to choose between him and her country. Anna describes the challenges and joys of writing in the spy thriller genre with a strong female protagonist. She also talks about character development, her favorite writing spot (hint: it’s a library on the Upper East Side), and her next book.

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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.
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0:25.6	And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle
0:31.2	features.
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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 one one one three montana avenue at 11th street in san monica i hope that you are able to
0:47.0	enjoy some of our other offerings but this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in
0:53.3	2018 and no matter what i do this is basically my of all of it and started in 2018. And no matter what I do, this is basically
0:56.5	my favorite thing. Enjoy. Anna Potoniak is back on Mom's Don't Have Time to read books
1:06.3	the second time for her new novel, The Helsinki Affair. Anna is the author of The Futures, Necessary People,
1:12.9	Our American Friend, and now the Helsinki Affair. She graduated from Yale, where she majored in
1:17.6	English and was an editor at the Yale Daily News. She worked for many years in book publishing,
1:22.5	most recently as a senior editor at Random House. Anna grew up in Whistler, British Columbia,
1:27.4	and now lives in New York
1:28.4	City and East Hampton. Welcome, Anna. Thanks so much for coming back on Moms Don't Have Time to
1:32.9	to Read Books to discuss the Helsinki Affair. Thank you for having me back, Zibi. I'm so happy to be here.
1:38.4	Can you please tell listeners what your latest novel is about? Sure. So the Helsinki affair is a female-centric spy thriller in the
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