Eirinie Carson, THE DEAD ARE GODS

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Zibby interviews British debut author and model Eirinie Carson about The Dead Are Gods, a raw, striking, and beautifully intimate new memoir–a love letter and time capsule– that explores grief, Blackness, and recovery after the death of her dearest friend Larissa. Eirinie describes what Larissa was like and reveals how a never-ending eulogy, essays she wrote to process her grief, and emails unexpectedly turned into a book. She also describes the novel she is working on now (it involves postpartum and murder!), balancing writing and motherhood, her hopes to normalize grief, and her participation in Zibby’s Wine Country Retreat in September. (Did you get your ticket yet??? Go to www.zibbyretreats.com!)

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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.
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0:47.9	our other offerings. 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.
1:03.4	Irony Carson is the author of the Dead Are Gods, a memoir. Irony actually is going to be one
1:09.0	of our authors at our upcoming retreat in the Santa
1:12.7	Barbara Wine Country, which you should all check out at zibbyretreats.com. Irony is a black
1:18.6	British writer, born to a Jamaican father and Scottish mother and raised in southeast London.
1:23.4	She currently lives in Northern California with her family and has been published in the
1:27.1	Sonora Review.
1:28.2	She is a frequent contributor to Mother Magazine.
1:31.1	The Dead Our Gods is her debut book.
1:33.3	Hi.
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