Dan Kois, VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES

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🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Zibby speaks to Slate editor Dan Kois about Vintage Contemporaries, a warm, big-hearted, and funny New York City coming-of-age novel about a literary agent assistant and the two friendships that change her life. Dan describes his protagonist Em, touching on her big-city aspirations and publishing job disillusionments (which, he reveals, were inspired by his own experiences in the industry). He also explains how this book came to be (it involves bits and pieces being written since the 90s and a more recent midlife crisis) and chats about his experiences in journalism, podcasting, and parenting.

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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.
0:23.5	You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.
0:25.6	And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle
0:31.2	features.
0:31.8	That's at Zibbymag.com.
0:33.1	We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.
0:35.4	And I recently opened a bookstore in L.a called zivis bookshop
0:40.3	at one one one three montana avenue at 11th street in san monica i hope that you are able to
0:47.0	enjoy some of our other offerings but this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in
0:53.3	2018 and no matter what i do this is basically my of all of it and started in 2018. And no matter what I do, this is
0:56.1	basically my favorite thing. Enjoy it. Dan Coise is the author of vintage contemporaries
1:06.2	a novel. Dan is an acclaimed journalist, writer, editor, and podcaster at Slate, where his work has been nominated for two National Magazine Awards and a Writers Guild Award.
1:15.8	He's the author of How to Be a Family, a memoir of parenting around the world, and with Isaac Butler, the co-author of The World Only Spins Forward, an oral history of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, which was in 2019 Stonewell Honor book.
1:29.3	His work has appeared in The New York Times and The New Yorker. He's a frequent podcast co-host
1:33.4	on Slate's Cultural Gab Fest and Mom and Dad are Fighting and a host of You Pick Tonight and The
1:39.4	Martin Chronicles. This is his debut novel, but his previous works of nonfiction have been
1:44.1	featured and reviewed in The New Yorker, New York Times Book Review, Vogue, Los Angeles Times, New York, Washington Post, Long Reads, and elsewhere. He lives with his family in Arlington, Virginia. Welcome, Dan. Thanks so much for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss vintage contemporaries. Thanks for having me, Zibi. Oh, it's a pleasure.
2:03.1	Please tell listeners what your book is about.
2:06.1	I like to call it a comedy about broken friendships.
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