Hannah Pittard, WE ARE TOO MANY: A Memoir [Kind Of]
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Zibby interviews author Hannah Pittard, delving into her deeply personal journey as a writer. Hannah candidly discusses her struggle with credit card debt during grad school, a theme she later incorporated into her second novel, REUNION, as a form of confession and self-accountability. She also opens up about a painful personal betrayal involving her ex and close friend, explored in her sensational, genre-busting new memoir WE ARE TOO MANY. This betrayal led her to therapy, where she sought to understand her desires and relationship dynamics. The interview highlights Hannah's journey from overcoming financial and emotional challenges to finding her unique voice in the literary world.
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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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| 0:35.4 | And I recently opened a bookstore in L.a called zibby's bookshop |
| 0:40.3 | at one one one three montana avenue at 11th street in san monica i hope that you are able to |
| 0:47.0 | enjoy some of our other offerings but this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in |
| 0:53.3 | 2018 and no matter what i do this is basically my of all of it and started in 2018. And no matter what I do, this is basically |
| 0:56.5 | my favorite thing. Enjoy it. Hannah Petard is the author of We Are Too Many, a memoir kind of. |
| 1:07.8 | Hannah is the author of four novels. And her books have been recommended by the New York |
| 1:12.3 | Times, The Chicago Tribune, Oh, the Oprah Magazine, Time, The Guardian, and many others. She is the winner |
| 1:18.6 | of the Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, a McDowell Colony Fellow, and a graduate of Deerfield |
| 1:23.5 | Academy, the University of Chicago, and the University of Virginia. She also spent some time at St. John's College in Annapolis. She is a professor of English at the University of Kentucky and lives in Lexington with her boyfriend and stepdaughter. This episode was recorded live at the Miami Book Fair. We were up in a little room on top of the author's lounge, and Hannah and I did a |
| 1:46.6 | wonderful podcast sitting face-to-face, which was so lovely, and I truly enjoyed meeting her. |
| 1:51.7 | So thank you to the Miami Book Fair. Thank you to Moleskin, who is our sponsor. And thank you |
| 1:57.2 | to Hannah. We are thrilled that Moleskin is partnering with us again on another one of our |
| 2:02.4 | Zivie books titles. Hell if we don't change our ways, you can get 15% off paper and bags with |
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