Corie Adjmi, LIFE AND OTHER SHORTCOMINGS: Stories

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 30 December 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Zibby is joined by Corie Adjmi to discuss her short story collection, Life and Other Shortcomings, which was an International Book Award winner. The two talk about how Corie's marriage has inspired so much of her work, the phase of her life when she decided to try her hand at writing, and the ways in which her children have gotten involved in her career. Corie also shares why she decided to write this book as a series of stories about one character and how her role in the Orthodox Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn inspired her upcoming debut novel.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.1	If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids.
0:12.9	Check it out, and you'll hear from 49 authors about all sorts of things moms don't have time to do.
0:17.9	All the authors have been on this podcast. Also, check out my TikTok at With Zibby and Tracy.
0:22.8	My other podcast, Sex Talk with Zivie and Tracy.
0:25.8	Check out Moms Don't Have Time to Write on Medium.
0:28.5	And of course, my new publishing company called Zivie Books.
0:32.3	And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids.
0:36.9	Hi.
0:37.4	Hi. Hi.
0:37.8	Hello.
0:38.4	Enjoy the show.
0:40.7	Corey Adjmi is the author of Life and Other Shortcomings, Stories.
0:45.1	Corey's award-winning fiction and personal essays have appeared in dozens of publications,
0:49.0	including North American Review, Indiana Review, South Dakota Review, Huff Post, Motherwell, and Kveller.
1:11.2	Life and Other Shortcomings, her collection of short stories is Corey's first book-length publication and has won an American Fiction Award, a Best Books Award, and I-BPA Ben Franklin Award. She currently lives in New York. Welcome, Corey. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss life and other shortcomings stories. Thank you so much for having me. I'm happy to be here. I'm delighted to talk to you.
1:17.6	I feel like I sort of know you, having read many of your essays on your website and everything.
1:23.1	And I do want to talk about this book, but can we first discuss your becoming a doula
1:27.0	and parting
1:28.2	traffic on Fifth Avenue to have your daughter give birth despite the traffic? That is a heroic
1:34.4	mom's story, I have to say. It's a story that it just couldn't have happened any other way.
1:40.6	We were totally in gridlock and I was her doula. I did become a dola because it was COVID and I
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