Author Emma Straub on Time Travel and Owning A Bookstore

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

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🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re chatting with New York Times bestselling author and owner of Books are Magic, Emma Straub! She’s the author of five novels, including This Time Tomorrow, which came out on May 17.

We ask her about her path to becoming an author, and chat about the process of writing This Time Tomorrow. And as the first bookseller on the podcast, we ask Emma about how Books are Magic came into her life and she shares the surprises that come with owning a bookstore!

Find Emma at @emmastraub on IG, @emmastraub on Twitter, and at emmastraub.net

Emma’s Book recs

By the Book by Jasmine Guillory

The Dead Romantics Ashley Poston (Out June 28)

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Out July 5)

What we read this week!

Olivia - Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Becca - Flying Solo by Linda Holmes

Obsessions

Becca - Anthropologie Mini Latte Bowls

Olivia - Free People (generally)

This Month’s Book Club Pick: Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, welcome back to Bound on Paper Podcast. I'm Becca Freeman and I'm Olivia
0:21.1	Mentor.
0:22.1	And today we're talking to author and bookstore owner Emma Strob.
0:26.0	I am very excited for you all to listen to this one.
0:29.2	Where we get into it though, should we do some highs and lows?
0:32.0	Yes, tell me you're high.
0:34.2	Jinks. Tell me you're high.
0:37.0	Okay, fine. My high was that Jake went away for the weekend and he likes to like go camping
0:46.0	and hiking and I'm not sure why he has to hike and then also sleep on the ground after
0:50.6	walking on the ground outdoors.
0:53.0	I totally agree, but he did that. I'm glad that he has his thing. I'm happy for him.
0:58.3	And then on the flip side, I had a weekend to myself. I do not have that very often.
1:03.7	So it was just me and Winnie. I rewatched the first season of Bridgerton because I never
1:08.6	had like fully watched it and it was just great. And I read my book outside in the sun.
1:15.1	We went to the farmers market. I ate like a pastry in the park alone. I was just like in
1:19.3	silence all weekend too, which is amazing. Just like the quiet, just my own thoughts.
1:25.2	It was great. I loved it. I love that for you. One question back to Jake. Is he doing this
1:33.6	by himself? Indeed. Yeah. Oh, that's weird. So I had to have him write me like a document.
1:41.9	I was like, you need to tell me who I need to call and win. Should I not hear from you
1:47.2	by XYZ time? He did have like one bar of service. I was getting updates. But yeah, he's
1:53.7	very into camping and hiking and spends like many months like planning it and like weighing
2:00.3	the items that go into his backpack and buying all this expensive gear. I don't know.
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