Helen Schulman, LUCKY DOGS
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Zibby interviews New York Times bestselling author (and Zibby’s 1993 summer writing class instructor!!) Helen Schulman about Lucky Dogs, a dazzling and propulsive book about two women on opposite ends of a high-profile sexual abuse scandal. It explores love, power, betrayal, and obsession. Helen describes the heartbreaking Me Too story that inspired this novel and delves into her fascinating female characters. She also talks about her teaching career, her writing process, her screenplays, her next projects, and how the aftermath of the pandemic is still affecting her and the people around her.
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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. |
| 0:21.9 | Our books are already out now. |
| 0:23.5 | You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com. |
| 0:25.6 | And we have a magazine called ZibbyMag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle |
| 0:31.2 | features. |
| 0:31.8 | That's at Zibbymag.com. |
| 0:33.1 | We have classes at Zippy Classes.com. |
| 0:35.4 | And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop |
| 0:40.3 | at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of |
| 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 it. Helen Shulman is the author of Lucky Dogs, a novel. Helen is the |
| 1:07.6 | New York Times best-selling author of six novels, including Come With Me and This Beautiful Life. |
| 1:13.4 | Helen has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Foundation for |
| 1:17.2 | the Arts, Sundance, Aspen Words, and Columbia University. |
| 1:21.0 | She lives in New York City. |
| 1:22.3 | And by the way, she was my teacher at the fiction writing program I attended at Bennington |
| 1:26.9 | College when I was a junior |
| 1:28.4 | in high school. Welcome, Helen. Thank you so much for coming on moms don't have time to read books |
| 1:32.8 | to discuss your latest novel, Lucky Dogs. Thank you so much for having me. As we were just discussing, |
| 1:39.5 | I've been following your career for many years because I took your class for the summer at Bennington College in 1993, |
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