Daisy Alpert Florin, MY LAST INNOCENT YEAR
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Zibby speaks to debut author Daisy Alpert Florin about My Last Innocent Year, a propulsive, evocative, and dark coming-of-age story about Isabel Rosen and the sexual assault that throws her final semester at an elite New Hampshire school into controversy, chaos, and an affair with a married professor. Daisy talks about 90s campus culture and her protagonist’s experience with sexual assault and grief (which, Daisy shares, was unexpectedly inspired by her own mother’s premature death). Finally, Daisy shares the books she's loved recently and describes her career trajectory, from newspaper reporter and preschool teacher to stay-at-home mom and published author.
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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. |
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| 0:25.6 | And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle |
| 0:31.2 | features. |
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| 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. Daisy Alpert Florin is the author of my last innocent year, |
| 1:07.0 | a novel. Daisy attended Dartmouth College and received graduate degrees from Columbia |
| 1:11.3 | University and Bank Street Graduate School of Education. She is the recipient of the 2016 |
| 1:16.3 | Catherine Gherfine Writing Fellowship at Sarah Lawrence College and was a 2019-20 fellow in the |
| 1:22.4 | bookends novel revision fellowship where she worked with founding director Susan Scarf Merrill, a native New Yorker, |
| 1:29.1 | Daisy lives in Connecticut with her family. My Last Innocent Year is her debut novel. |
| 1:34.2 | Welcome, Daisy. Thank you so much for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books to Discuss |
| 1:38.1 | My Last Innocent Year, a novel. Thank you for having me. Delighted to be here. |
| 1:43.7 | No, it's such a joy. To set the stage for this book, I just wanted to read this quick passage so you could tell us where you weigh in on this. So it goes, did you hear about Jason? He asked. Yeah, I'd been shocked that Jason, Kelsey's boyfriend, had been rejected. He was what, this is a, I should preface this more. There's a |
| 2:01.7 | seminar. There's an important seminar to which you had to apply to be accepted with this fabulous |
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