Danielle Henderson, THE UGLY CRY
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Danielle Henderson talks with Zibby about her incredibly moving new memoir, The Ugly Cry. She details how reading helped her cope, shares her present-day family dynamics, and explains the roundabout way she ended up writing for television.
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| 0:41.1 | Welcome to Pub Day, Tuesday, where I'm featuring a few episodes of authors who have books coming out today. I hope you enjoy this one. |
| 0:46.6 | Danielle Henderson is the author of The Ugly Cry, a memoir. Danielle is a TV writer whose credits |
| 0:52.3 | include maniac, divorce, and difficult people. |
| 0:55.1 | A retired freelance writer and former editor for Rookie, she has been published by the New York Times, The Guardian, A Far Magazine, BuzzFeed, and The Cut. |
| 1:02.9 | A book based on her popular website, feminist Ryan Gosling, was released in 2012. |
| 1:07.9 | Danielle currently co-hosts the podcast, I Saw What You Did There with Millie de Chirico |
| 1:12.7 | about the weird ways we respond to and learn to love movies. She likes to watch old episodes |
| 1:17.6 | of Doctor Who when she is on deadline. One of her tattoos is based on the movie Rocky, |
| 1:22.7 | and she will never stop using the Oxford comma. A little literary joke for everybody here. |
| 1:28.7 | Anyway, enjoy the episode. |
| 1:33.4 | Welcome, Danielle. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss the ugly cry and memoir. Of course. Thank you for having me. It's my pleasure. So I read this book |
| 1:40.0 | over the long weekend with my kids around. And as these things kept happening, I was like, |
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