Helen Ellis, SOUTHERN LADY CODE

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🗓️ 16 April 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The hilarious, refreshing Helen Ellis makes me laugh out loud in this light-hearted conversation about her decades in the publishing industry and being a Southern girl transplanted in the Big Apple.

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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.
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0:33.7	i'm here today with helen ellis helen novelist, essayist, and professional poker player.
0:39.6	Can't wait to hear about that. Her debut novel, Eating the Cheshire Cat, came out in 2001.
0:44.2	Her most recent release was a collection of stories called American Housewife, which was
0:47.9	actually spurred by a Twitter post that went viral. Her upcoming essay collection, Southern
0:51.9	Lady Code, launches in April 2019. Helen is the host of podcast Southern Lady Code launches in April 2019.
0:54.8	Helen is the host of podcast Southern Lady Code, a champion of the literary magazine One Story, Helen received her MFA from NYU.
1:01.8	Raised in Alabama, she lives with her husband in New York City, right near me.
1:05.3	So welcome, Helen.
1:06.4	Thanks so much for coming on Mom's Don't Have Time to Read Books.
1:09.2	My pleasure.
1:44.6	I'm intimidated by your microphone. I know. It's larger than when I'm used to. I mean, you know. This girth. Amazon, so I could go on and on about the like events. So I want to start, if you don't mind. I know you have Southern Lady Code coming out. You have this new podcast. There's like so much to talk about. But I wanted to hear from the beginning. You came to New York when you were 22 with, you know, hopes of being a writer. And your career has sort of gone in waves, and it's so interesting. And I just wanted to hear a little bit about the beginning when you landed. Your career has gone in waves in Southern Lady Code for for it you had 15 years of complete failure that is not what I said was it is what happened um took a break you
1:51.4	no I failed you did not no it's fine it really is fine I have no problem with the word I'm not a
1:58.7	best you know achievement ribbon type of lady. You know, you have to
2:03.5	fail. And when you fail and you fail and you fail, when you do have success, you know, at 45,
2:11.1	when American Housewife came out, and then again with Southern Lady Code at 48, it is all the more delicious.
2:19.7	So I moved here at 22 on my 22nd birthday, and I didn't know a soul.
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