Debut author! Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn, LOOSE OF EARTH: A Memoir

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🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Debut author Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn joins Zibby to discuss LOOSE OF EARTH, an arresting memoir and bold exposé of love, unbending religious fanaticism, disease, forever chemicals, and one family’s desperate wait for a miracle that never came. Kathleen describes her childhood in a conservative, evangelical family in Texas and the diagnosis and eventual death of her father. She touches on her family’s obsessive quest for faith-based healing over conventional medicine, the broader environmental issues tied to her father’s illness, and the responsibility she bore as a young caretaker. Finally, she describes the challenges—and cathartic power—of writing about such a painful past.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and I am the host of this podcast. Moms don't have time to read books.
0:08.1	I am also a newly minted USA Today bestselling author of the novel, Blank.
0:14.2	I've created a whole community of book lovers around this podcast, a publishing company, reading retreats, a bookstore, and more. Learn more
0:22.2	at Zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zivie Owens or join the community at Zivie Readers.
0:31.4	Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn is the author of Luce of Earth, a memoir. Kathleen teaches in the
0:37.3	University of Chicago Creative Writing Program.
0:39.8	She is a Pushcart Prize nominee whose work has appeared in Colorado Review, Gwarnica, Gulf
0:44.6	Coast, Pleiades, and Swamp Pink, and was listed as a notable in Best American Essays.
0:49.6	Welcome, Kathleen.
0:51.0	Thank you so much for coming on Moms and Have Time to Read Books to discuss
0:54.3	Luce of Earth a memoir. Thank you. I'm delighted to be here. I've just been so excited. I love the
1:01.3	podcast and it's sort of a dream just to be in conversation with you. And I'm so grateful for all
1:07.6	that you do for books and love your work. So thank you for this conversation.
1:12.5	Thank you for saying that. I read your book in basically one sitting. And at the end,
1:18.7	I was crying and my kids like came over and were like, mom, are you okay? And I was like,
1:24.5	I just had to sit there. And I was like, you guys, I just read this so sad. I mean, it's happy. I was like I just had to sit there and I was like you guys I just read this so sad I mean
1:29.3	it's happy I was like her you know I mean it's not a spoiler to say your dad died and that's part of
1:34.8	the book but it was so moving I just I haven't cried like physically cried at a book in a long
1:43.7	time where I just had to sit there and like
1:45.7	kind of recover. And not to say it was all terrible, you know, not to say it was like, you know,
1:51.3	an unpleasant reading experience, you know, it just was so moving. Anyway, you're a beautiful
1:57.2	writer and the book was so moving. And oh gosh anyway oh that means a lot to me thank you
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