Dave Eggers, WE BECAME JAGUARS
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In this special weekend re-release, Zibby speaks to New York Times bestselling author and literary legend Dave Eggers about We Became Jaguars, a breathtaking picture book about a child and a grandmother who transform into jaguars and journey into the undiscovered world of nature. Dave describes the ins and outs of the publishing process, how he began writing picture books, and the Young Editors Project, which allows young children to help workshop picture books before they’re published.
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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. |
| 0:25.7 | And we have a magazine called Zibi 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. |
| 0:39.1 | called Zibby's Bookshop at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. |
| 0:45.3 | I hope that you are able to enjoy some of our other offerings. |
| 0:48.8 | 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 it. Today's weekend re-release is with Dave Eggers. We're |
| 1:06.5 | nearing the end of our weekend re-release series. But how can you miss hearing about Dave Eggers from Dave Eggers? So cool. I hope you enjoy our chat together. Dave Eggers is the |
| 1:16.8 | award-winning and best-selling author of many books, including The Circle, The Monk of Mocha, her right |
| 1:22.3 | foot, lifters, and the heartbreaking work of staggering genius. He is founder of McSweeney's, an independent |
| 1:28.9 | publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a humor website, and a journal of new |
| 1:33.9 | writing. McSweeney's quarterly concern. Eggers is also the co-founder of 826 Valencia, a youth |
| 1:40.1 | writing center which has inspired dozens of other centers worldwide. Today we'll be talking |
| 1:44.9 | about his new children's book. We became Jaguars, which is amazing. So enjoy my conversation with this |
| 1:51.6 | literary legend. Welcome, Dave. Thank you so much for coming on Mom's Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
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