E.A. Hanks, THE 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Zibby chats with Vanity Fair and New York Times contributor E. A. Hanks about her sparkling, heartfelt, poetic new memoir, THE 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road, which follows her solo, cross-country journey across the American southwest. E. A. Hanks shares the inspiration behind the road trip and then delves into her complex relationship with her mother, whose journals and poetry become part of the emotional terrain of the book. She also talks about grief, identity, navigating trauma, and the ongoing effects of her unconventional childhood.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
| 0:24.0 | look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't |
| 0:29.3 | have to. |
| 0:30.3 | Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day. |
| 0:36.2 | For more information, go to zibbimedia.com and follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens. |
| 0:44.7 | E.A. Hanks is the author of The Ten, a memoir of Family and the Open Road. |
| 0:50.0 | E.A. Hanks lives in Los Angeles, California. |
| 0:52.9 | Formerly a staffer at Vanity Fair. She has contributed to Time, |
| 0:56.7 | The Guardian, the New York Times, and others. Welcome, Elizabeth. Thank you so much for coming on to |
| 1:02.2 | talk about the 10, a memoir of family and the open road. Congrats. Well, thank you so much. I appreciate it. |
| 1:08.0 | This is my very first interview. Oh, my gosh. Well, this will be easy |
| 1:11.5 | because it's not formal at all. You just chit-chat and, you know, I just, you know, regular conversation. |
| 1:17.5 | You can ease me in. I'm used to being on that side of the conversation. So this is a nice, I feel. |
| 1:23.2 | Yeah. This is a safe space. I appreciate it. |
| 1:25.8 | Oh, this usually make mine first for people because it's so |
| 1:29.0 | gentle. And I'm just here to boost and have no agenda other than... We love. We love a soft landing. |
| 1:36.1 | Exactly. I opened the book and like immediately laughed because Mumat, I don't even know how to pronounce it. |
| 1:43.3 | I, you know, my bookstores in Santa Monica. |
| 1:45.0 | Your guess is as good as anybody who looks like us. Yeah, for sure. So the book opens there, |
| 1:51.7 | which is like a turnoff when you're on ocean in Santa Monica, when you turn the sign. And I always |
| 1:57.4 | wonder, like, what is that? And you go in that, and that is just the |
| 2:02.4 | tip of the iceberg of things you might wonder and that we learned through your story. |
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