Celebrity author! Edward Burns, A KID FROM MARLBORO ROAD
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Actor, director, and writer Edward Burns joins Zibby to discuss A KID FROM MARLBORO ROAD, a poignant, bittersweet coming-of-age story set in the summer of 1980 about a boy on the cusp of adolescence navigating his parents’ troubled marriage, his mother’s depression, and the need to assert his independence while remaining close to her. Edward reveals that the story was inspired by his childhood memories, which he reminisced about with his mom during the pandemic, and then delves into the novel's themes of nostalgia, family structures, and evolving relationships. Finally, he talks about his work in independent filmmaking and shares his best advice for aspiring writers.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books, hosted by me, Zibi Owens. |
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| 0:42.6 | Edward Burns is the author of a kid from Marlboro Road, a novel. Born in Woodside |
| 0:48.1 | Queens and raised on Long Island, Ed Burns has made 14 feature films as a writer-director actor |
| 0:53.5 | and starred in many films, |
| 0:55.5 | including Saving Private Ryan. Burns' first film, The Brothers McMullen, premiered in competition |
| 1:00.8 | at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, winning the Grand Jury Prize. The film also won Best |
| 1:06.6 | First Feature at the 1996 Independent Spirit Awards. In 2015, he published independent Ed, |
| 1:13.0 | an inside look at his two decades as a pioneer in independent filmmaking. A kid from Marlborough |
| 1:18.0 | Road is his first novel based on his childhood memories and the Irish-American communities of the |
| 1:23.1 | Bronx and Long Island. Ed lives in New York City with his wife and two children. Welcome, Ed. Thank you so |
| 1:28.9 | much for coming on moms don't have time to read books to discuss your novel, A Kid from Marlboro Road. |
| 1:34.7 | Maybe I could say that again, a kid from Marlboro Road. You say it. Like Marlboro, like the cigarette, right? |
| 1:40.4 | I know, I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, anyhow, thank you for, you know, inviting me on, having me on, reading the book, and I'm just, I'm excited to talk about it. It's been a labor of love, so I'm glad you liked it. No, I did. I really, really enjoyed it. It's such a sense of time and place. This one summer, it's coming of age, summer before you turned 13. I have four kids myself. I've obviously |
| 2:02.4 | been a kid. I just, I feel all the emotions from the parent side to the, to the kid side, |
| 2:07.8 | and all of it. It's, it's like a beautiful slice of life. So tell listeners what it's about, |
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