Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, GOOD COMPANY
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
"The exciting thing about deciding to do something later in your life is that you have all these skills that you just didn't have in your twenties." Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney tells Zibby all about starting her career as a writer in her forties, how the writing process has differed between her two novels, and getting high praise from her son on her latest book, Good Company.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology, |
| 0:12.2 | which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to a quarantine anthology. |
| 0:16.8 | All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research. |
| 0:20.4 | And I'm the editor-in-chief of Moms Don't Have Time to Write a new publication on Medium. |
| 0:25.0 | And we're accepting submissions, so please send your personal essays there. |
| 0:29.1 | And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibi Owens. |
| 0:32.9 | And my website is Zibi Owens.com. |
| 0:34.8 | Okay, now back to this amazing podcast. |
| 0:40.4 | Cynthia Dapri-Sweeney is the author of Good Company, a novel. Her debut novel, The Nest, spent more than six months on the New York |
| 0:45.8 | Times bestseller list. The book was a Barnes & Noble, Discover Great Writers Pick, a best fiction |
| 0:50.7 | finalist for the Goodreads Choice Award, and was named one of the best books of 2016 |
| 0:55.2 | by People, The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Amazon, Refinery 29, and others. |
| 1:01.5 | The Nest has been translated into more than 27 languages and optioned for film by Amazon Studios. |
| 1:07.7 | Cynthia holds an MFA from the Bennington Writingiding Seminars and lives in Los Angeles with her husband |
| 1:12.3 | and sons. |
| 1:13.8 | Welcome, Cynthia. |
| 1:14.8 | Thank you so much for coming on moms. |
| 1:16.5 | Don't have time to read books. |
| 1:17.9 | Thank you for having me, Zavi. |
| 1:19.3 | I'm really excited to talk to you. |
| 1:20.8 | I have to say your book, The Nest, was front and center for a whole year of my life because |
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