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Totally Booked with Zibby

Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, ANONYMOUS SEX

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

Connection, Inspiration, Moms, Entertainment, Arts, Reading, Books, Parenting, Literary

4.4602 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Co-editors Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan join Zibby to talk about their anthology, Anonymous Sex, which features stories from 27 bestselling and award-winning authors, all published anonymously. The three discuss the confidentiality agreements that made this project possible, how Hillary and Cheryl's individual paths led them to collaborate on this during the early days of quarantine, and what messages they wanted to send about sex and connection during a time when everyone was far apart.


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0:00.0

Hi, this is Vivi Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast. Moms don't have time to read books.

0:07.5

And speaking of books, I have two of my own books coming out this spring and summer.

0:12.7

Princess Charming is a picture book, which debuts on April 19th. And bookends, a memoir of love, loss, and literature.

0:20.5

Comes out on July 1st, and it is truly a labor of love.

0:23.8

I hope you'll pre-order, order, and join me on tour as I go across the country.

0:28.5

You can find out more at zibbyowens.com or bookendsmemoir.com.

0:34.3

And you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens because I always post about everything. Enjoy the show.

0:41.3

Hilary Jordan and Cheryl Lulian Tan are co-editors of Anonymous Sex. Hillary Jordan is the author

0:48.9

of the novel's Mudbound, which by the way was Netflix show, which my brother ended up producing, and

0:55.2

when she woke. Mudbound was an international bestseller that won multiple awards and was adapted

1:00.0

into a critically acclaimed Netflix film that earned four Academy Award nominations. Hillary is

1:05.6

also a screenwriter, essayist, and poet, whose work has been published in the New York Times,

1:10.2

McSweeney's and Outside

1:11.0

Magazine, among others. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Cheryl Lulian Tan is author of the

1:16.6

international bestsellers, sarong party girls, and a tiger in the kitchen, a memoir of food

1:21.6

and family. She is also the editor of the fiction anthology, Singapore noir. Cheryl was a staff

1:27.0

writer at the Wall Street Journal,

1:28.6

InStyle and the Baltimore Sun. And her stories and reviews have also appeared in the New York Times,

1:33.7

The Times Literary Supplement, the Paris Review, the Washington Post, and Bon Appetit, among others.

1:38.3

Born and raised in Singapore, she lives in New York City. And actually, her partner owns and runs

1:44.1

a restaurant on the Upper West Side.

1:45.8

So after you listen to this podcast when I say, I'm going to stop by the restaurant, I actually

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