Annabelle Gurwitch, YOU'RE LEAVING WHEN?

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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"I try to write these stories that actually redeem experiences because complaining would just be too easy.” Annabelle Gurwitch talks with Zibby about making lemonade out of lemons (figuratively and literally — she grows a lemon crop every year!), and shares how writing has helped her to find the silver linings in the aftermath of her divorce.

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0:33.7	Hi, this is Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology, which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology. All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research. And I'm the editor-in-chief of moms don't have time to write
0:55.5	a new publication on Medium. And we're accepting submissions. So please send your personal essays there.
1:01.2	And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens. And my website is Zibbyowens.com.
1:07.3	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
1:15.7	Annabelle Gerwitch is the author of You're Leaving When, Adventures in Downward Mobility.
1:22.1	She's the New York Times best-selling author of the memoir, I See You Made an Effort, and Wherever You Go, There You Are.
1:24.0	Annabelle is the former host of TBS's Dinner and a Movie. With essays appearing in the New Yorker,
1:29.4	New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and more. She makes regular appearances on PBS News Hour,
1:35.3	real-time with Bill Marr, and NPR. A finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor Writing,
1:40.6	she is one of the most recognizable female humorists, giving insightful and
1:45.0	inspiring talks on finding humor in life's challenges, the redemptive power of storytelling,
1:49.5	aging, and Jewish and humanist-themed messages. She frequently serves as MC for charitable events
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