Daphne Merkin, 22 MINUTES OF UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Zibby has been a fan of Daphne Merkin’s for a long time and was over-the-moon excited to talk to her about her latest novel. Turns out, Daphne has been writing this story — about being seemingly trapped in a relationship with the “wrong” guy — on and off for the past 30 years!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast.
0:12.1	Moms don't have time to read books. Thanks so much for listening to my podcast. If you like what you hear,
0:17.1	please follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens and also at Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
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0:50.3	Their website is Thehelm.com, and they actually just recently featured this very podcast in their list of 22 podcasts by women that are worth listening to or something like that, which was very, very nice of them.
1:01.9	Anyway, I hope you enjoy, and thank you to The Helm for sponsoring.
1:05.6	I was over the moon excited when Daphne Morkin and her team reached out to be on my podcast because I've been a fan of hers for a long time. Anyway, if you don't know her, Daphne Merton and her team reached out to be on my podcast because I've been a fan of hers for a long time.
1:13.3	Anyway, if you don't know her, Daphne Merton is the author of the novel Enchantment, which won the
1:18.0	Edward Lewis Wallent Award for Best Novel on a Jewish Theme, as well as two collections of essays,
1:23.5	and the memoir This Close to Happy, which I read recently and is by my bed and is just so great.
1:28.9	She is a former staff writer for The New Yorker, and her essays frequently appear in the New York Times,
1:33.9	Book Forum, The New Republic, Departures, L, Travel, and Leisure, Tablet, and many other publications.
1:39.3	She's taught writing at the 92nd Street Y, Marymount Manhattan College, and Hunter College,
1:44.1	and she currently teaches in Columbia University's MFA program. She lives in at the 92nd Street Y, Marymount Manhattan College, and Hunter College.
1:47.6	And she currently teaches in Columbia University's MFA program.
1:52.5	She lives in New York City, and her new novel is called 22 Minutes of Unconditional Love.
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