Anthony Doerr, CLOUD CUCKOO LAND: A Novel
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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"I love to use my work as a way to rectify my ignorances." Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr joins Zibby to talk about Cloud Cuckoo Land, which is out in paperback today! The two discuss the piece of often forgotten history that inspired one-third of this story, how the pandemic and our current political climate impacted Anthony's reading and writing, and why he wanted to depict the power of storytelling. Zibby also asks Anthony about the experiences depicted in his 2007 memoir, Four Season in Rome, and what life is like now that his twin sons have left for college.
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| 1:13.7 | Anthony Dore is the author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, a novel. He is also the author of All the Light |
| 1:19.2 | We Cannot See, which I absolutely loved, as did like a bazillion other people, but I loved it. |
| 1:24.8 | Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the Alex Award, and a number one New York Times bestseller. |
| 1:31.6 | He is also the author of the story collection's memory wall and the shell collector, the novel about grace, and the memoir four seasons in Rome. |
| 1:39.5 | He has won five O'Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the National Magazine Award for Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Dora lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons. Welcome, Anthony. Thank you so much for coming on Moms. Don't have time to read books. I'm so excited to have you. Oh, thanks so much, Zibbe. It's a joy to be here. |
| 2:02.0 | Thank you. Your latest book is Cloud Cuckoland, as basically everybody in the planet already |
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