Dave Eggers, WE BECAME JAGUARS

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

Moms, Entertainment, Arts, Books, Reading, Parenting, Inspiration, Literary, Connection

4.5 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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"Generally speaking, kids are just so full of wonder and awe and enthusiasm for everything that they are, in a way, the best audience." NYT Bestselling Author and literary legend Dave Eggers talks with Zibby about the ins and outs many people don't know about 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, listeners. We have totally booked live coming up this fall, and I hope you'll be a part of it.
0:06.0	We have three events in New York City, September 19th, 25th, and 30th, in New York, where I'll be doing six interviews live each day.
0:14.1	We also have a petite retreat in Greenwich on October 4th.
0:18.0	Go to Zibbimedia.com and event or and or event bright and search the events and please
0:24.7	come. I can't wait to meet you in person. Hi, this is Zibby Owens and you're listening to the
0:32.2	award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. I'm also the host of Moms Don't
0:37.1	Have Time to Lose Weight and I'm the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose
0:37.8	Weight, and I'm the editor of The Anthology, which you should run out and buy called
0:42.1	Moms Don't Have Time to a Quarantine Anthology. All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19
0:47.2	vaccine research. And I'm the editor-in-chief of Moms Don't Have Time to Write a new publication
0:52.4	on Medium, and we're accepting submissions,
0:55.1	so please send your personal essays there. And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on
0:59.5	Instagram at Zibby Owens, and my website is Zibby Owens.com. Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
1:06.4	Dave Eckers is the award-winning and best-selling author of many books, including The Circle,
1:11.7	the Monk of Mocha, her right foot, lifters, and the heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
1:17.9	He is founder of McSweeney's, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces
1:22.6	books, a humor website, and a journal of new writing. McSweeney's quarterly concern.
1:27.5	Eggers is also the co-founder of 826 Valencia, a youth writing center which has inspired
1:32.7	dozens of other centers worldwide.
1:35.1	Today we'll be talking about his new children's book.
1:37.7	We became Jaguars, which is amazing.
1:40.4	So enjoy my conversation with this literary legend.
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