Barbara Kingsolver (author of Demon Copperhead)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Barbara Kingsolver (Demon Copperhead) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Barbara joins the Armchair Expert to discuss why she loved to read as a kid, how there can be truth in writing fiction, and how she went from being a biologist to a novelist. Barbara and Dax talk about the struggle in being creative, the effects of structural classism, and why being an author is the best profession to have. Barbara explains how rural people are portrayed in the media, how her writing was influenced by the opioid epidemic, and how she tries to focus on accessibility in her novels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome welcome to armchair expert experts on experts. I'm joined by Monica
0:05.2	Lily Padman. Hi. Hi. How are you? Good. I made a bolonase last night.
0:11.3	You did. How did it turn out? As good as the last batch you gave me? I think so because I had
0:16.8	I started earlier so I didn't feel so rushed. Okay. I really could chop those
0:22.4	onions fine. Uh-huh. And the garlic?
0:25.0	Yeah, the garlic you're supposed to slice because you don't want it to burn.
0:29.0	So you wouldn't, it's not good for you because you would break out.
0:33.4	Yeah, that's okay.
0:35.1	It might be worth it.
0:36.2	I ate a shit load of it last time.
0:37.8	It was so good.
0:38.8	I mean, you let me know, I have extra.
0:40.6	And I found a gluten-free noodle that's in the fridge Saxon over at Lazy Acres. That's delicious actually.
0:47.0	Oh great. I'm glad you finally found a gluten-free pasta.
0:50.0	It made me want to make my own, it's been a long time.
0:53.4	I want that.
0:54.6	Here's is better now.
0:55.6	You've got wrong me.
0:56.8	Different and not better.
1:00.1	This is a rare occurrence.
1:02.0	It's the first time ever that you and I independently read books that we both loved on the same level and then we both were starving to talk to the author, which is such, we talk about it in the episode it's incredible the privilege
1:16.3	to be able to fall in love with the book and get to talk to the fucking author it's like
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