Episode 378: Ashley C. Ford

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Education, Arts, Books, News

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Ashley C. Ford is a writer and podcast host. Her memoir, Somebody's Daughter, is forthcoming from Flatiron Books. “For the first time I felt like I had so many more choices in my life than I originally thought I had. That was my first realization that I did not just have to react to the world, that I could be intentional in the world, and just curious about what came back to me.” Thanks to Mailchimp and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode. @iSmashFizzle ashleycford.net Fortune Favors the Bold [5:00] "Roger Loves Chaz" (Roger Ebert • Sep 2012) [11:34] The Giver (Lois Lowry • Houghton Mifflin • 1993) [17:47] Ford's commencement speech at Ball State [26:09] Ford's archive at Buzzfeed [41:00] "Ashley C. Ford’s Debut Memoir ‘Somebody’s Daughter’ Finds Home at Flatiron" (Paperback Paris • 2018) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:17.4	Who's on the show this week?
1:19.2	This week on the show is Ashley C Ford.
1:21.8	She's a writer. She hosts podcasts. She does all kinds of things. She's
1:27.4	working on a memoir. She was one of the rare people who is like, yeah, I'll come on the show
1:30.7	before my book is out. I appreciate that.
1:33.4	I appreciate that.
1:34.4	No, but the book I can tell you with some insider knowledge
1:38.2	is going to be pretty good.
1:39.9	But she's great.
1:40.5	She is incredibly fun to talk to and she arrived at her writing life in New York from Indiana which I don't know if we've had any like
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