Elite ultrarunner! Katie Arnold, BRIEF FLASHINGS IN THE PHENOMENAL WORLD
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Zen practitioner and elite ultrarunner Katie Arnold chats with Zibby about BRIEF FLASHINGS IN THE PHENOMENAL WORLD, a wise, contemplative memoir of destruction and healing written about her struggle to overcome a life-shattering injury. Katie starts by describing her harrowing whitewater rafting accident—the event that opens the novel and unearthed deeper issues in her life and marriage. She then delves into the Zen philosophy that helped her, her deep connection to nature, and the power of finding beauty in everyday experiences. She ends with invaluable advice for aspiring writers.
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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, |
| 0:19.5 | reading retreats, a bookstore, and more. |
| 0:21.8 | Learn more at zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zivie Owens or join the community at |
| 0:28.4 | Zibby Readers. |
| 0:31.1 | Katie Arnold is back on the podcast for her latest book, Brief Flashings in the Phenomenal |
| 0:37.2 | World. Katie is the author of the |
| 0:39.3 | critically acclaimed memoir Running Home, which is what she came on to talk about last time in 2019. |
| 0:45.5 | Oh my gosh. She is a contributing editor and former managing editor at Outside Magazine, where she |
| 0:50.2 | worked on staff for 12 years and created the popular Raising Rippers column about bringing up adventurous children outside. |
| 0:57.5 | I obviously could not write that column. |
| 0:59.9 | Her 2018 essay and Outside won a strong kid, encouraged play, not competition, was nominated for a National Magazine Award and Service Journalism. |
| 1:07.9 | She has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Travel and Leisure, Runner's World, ESPN, the magazine, Elle, and many others. Her long-form profiles have been named Runner Up in the Best American Sports Writing, 2008, and nominated for a Western Publishing Association Magazine Award. Her essays have been anthologized in Women's Best Friend, another Mother Runner, and P.S., what did I tell you? |
| 1:30.3 | She is the editor of the photography book Rio Grande and Eagles View, published by Wild Earth Guardians, and actually I think it's Rio Grande. |
| 1:39.9 | She is the author of the photography book, Rio Grande, and Eagles View, published by Wild Earth Guardians. |
| 1:46.2 | Welcome, Katie. Thanks so much for coming back on Mom's No Tem to read books, as you just reminded me. |
| 1:50.5 | It was five years ago. My gosh, where is the time ago? |
| 1:53.6 | And this is brief flashings in the phenomenal world, Zen, and the Art of Running Free. |
| 1:59.6 | Congratulations. |
| 2:02.6 | Thanks, Lib. It's great to be back. |
| 2:08.9 | Okay, so we met first to talk about running home. Why don't you give like the two to three line synopsis of that so people know and we get all caught up and then you can delve into this |
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