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Totally Booked with Zibby

Cathleen Schine, KÜNSTLERS IN PARADISE

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

Connection, Inspiration, Moms, Entertainment, Arts, Reading, Books, Parenting, Literary

4.4602 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Zibby speaks to bestselling author and repeat MDHTTRB guest Cathleen Schine about Künstlers in Paradise, a dreamy, captivating novel about an Austrian family of movie stars and musicians who flee to LA during WWII; decades later, during the pandemic lockdown, their stories are finally passed down to the next generation. Cathleen talks about the Jewish immigration experience, the beauty and allure of LA then and now, and her own lockdown experience. She also shares her best advice for aspiring authors and reveals what books she’s read recently and loved. 


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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.

0:56.5

And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy.

1:03.4

Kathleen Shine is the author of Kunstler's in Paradise, and this is her second time on the podcast.

1:08.9

She is the author of the Grammarians, the Three Wisements of Westport, and the Love Letter, among other novels. Kathleen has contributed to the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Magazine, and the New York Times Book Review. She lives in Los Angeles. Welcome, Kathleen. Thanks for coming back on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books to Discuss Cons books and discuss counselors in paradise well i'm really

1:29.6

happy to be back and it's good to see you it's good to see you too thanks so much we were just

1:35.1

talking about la weather and all of that and your book of course you know opens with somebody who

1:41.4

has never set foot in l.a or the u U.S., basically, except for New York,

1:45.9

like looking and seeing what this craziness that is L.A. is all about.

1:50.7

So it's, like, perfect to have you sitting there for this interview.

1:55.0

So tell listeners a little about the counselors and how they came from Vienna and the whole idea for this book and all of that?

2:05.2

Well, the counselors are a family, a Jewish family who live in Vienna.

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