Avery Carpenter Forrey, SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT: A Novel

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Zibby interviews debut author Avery Carpenter Forrey about Social Engagement, a bitingly sharp and wickedly funny novel about a bride whose marriage implodes on her wedding night. It is an unputdownable critique of millennial wedding culture… and the lies we tell on social media. Avery describes the neverending wedding season that inspired this novel and admits she is part of the culture she makes fun of. She also talks about her path to writing, her thoughts on social media, how she is balancing a new book and a new baby, the novel she is working on now, and her best advice for aspiring writers.

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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.
0:23.5	You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.
0:25.6	And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle
0:31.2	features.
0:31.8	That's at Zibbymag.com.
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 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of
0:47.9	our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018.
0:56.1	And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy. Avery Carpenter Foray is the author of Social Engagement,
1:06.6	a novel. Avery is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in the cut, GQ, and elsewhere.
1:47.0	As managing editor at The Skim, she co-wrote the number one New York Times bestseller, How to Skim Your Life. She holds an MFA and fiction from NYU and lives in Connecticut with her husband and daughter. Welcome, Avery. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss social engagement, a novel. Thank you so much for having me, Zibi. I'm so excited to be here. Your cover is like my favorite color, blue. So I'll just, you know, sleep with the sky, you know, next to my bed forever. You know, something blue, which I love for wedding season. Yes, perfect. Bring it with you if you have any on your calendar this summer or just put in your beach bag.
1:48.2	Yes, exactly.
1:49.4	That's very smart.
1:52.4	Okay, tell listeners what your book is about, please.
1:57.9	So social engagement is about a bride whose marriage implodes on the night of her wedding.
2:02.2	And after this disastrous breakup, you don't know what happened in the fight,
2:08.4	but we find her in the honeymoon suite with an empty pizza box, stained dress, and she's scrolling through her phone to try to figure out what went wrong. And she looks through her
2:11.8	Instagram feed and her camera roll to piece together what happened. And, you know, there are fraught
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