Bethanne Patrick, LIFE B: Overcoming Double Depression: A Memoir
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Zibby speaks to writer and book critic Bethanne Patrick about her brave, clear-eyed, and honest new memoir Life B: Overcoming Double Depression. Bethanne describes her life-long struggle with double depression and the life-changing treatment that has finally allowed her to feel joy. She also discusses the power of books as empathy-builders and then reveals how she slowly built a career around them. (She’s @TheBookMaven on Twitter and has over 200K followers!) She finishes off with 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. |
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| 1:03.2 | Bethann Patrick is the author of Life B, overcoming double depression, a memoir. |
| 1:08.9 | Bethann maintains a storied place in the publishing industry as a critic, |
| 1:12.4 | and as at the Book Maven on Twitter, where she created the popular hashtag Friday Reads, |
| 1:18.3 | and regularly comments on books and literary ideas to 200,000-plus followers. Her work appears |
| 1:24.3 | frequently in the Los Angeles Times, as well as in the Washington Post, NPR Books, and Literary Hub. She sits on the board of the Penn Faulkner Foundation and has served on the board of the National Book Critic Circle. She's also the host of The Missing Pages podcast. Bethann's essays and short fiction have appeared on L.com, the rumpus, VQR.com, and in the grace and gravity series. Her debut novel just came out. |
| 1:46.5 | Welcome, Bethann. Thank you so much for coming on moms don't have time to read books to discuss |
| 1:50.5 | life be overcoming double depression. I am really happy to be here. Zibi, thank you so much. |
| 1:56.6 | It's funny to say happy to be here when we're talking about depression. You know, |
| 1:59.8 | sort of ironic. That is true, but it when we're talking about depression. You know, it's sort of ironic. |
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