Claire Messud, A DREAM LIFE
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Author Claire Messud joins Zibby to discuss her latest novel, A Dream Life, which she actually wrote years ago before abandoning it at the recommendation of a mentor. The two talk about Claire's original inspiration for the story, as well as who she believes most readers will connect with, and the main misconception about novellas. Claire also shares her journey to becoming a writer, why her famous novel, The Emperor's Children, was almost never written, and the semi-autobiographical project about her family she is working on next.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now. |
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| 0:10.7 | It is a daily podcast 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or |
| 0:21.1 | less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this |
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| 1:13.7 | Claire Massoud is the author of a dream life. She's also the author of many other books, |
| 1:18.6 | including the best-selling novels, The Emperor's Children, which, by the way, I read and loved, |
| 1:23.4 | the woman upstairs, also read that, and The Burning Girl. She lives with her family in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and teaches at Harvard University. |
| 1:31.4 | You may have heard of it. |
| 1:32.7 | All proceeds from the publication of her new novel, A Dream Life, go to Wires, an Australian Wildlife Rescue Organization. |
| 1:39.3 | Welcome, Claire. |
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