Hilma Wolitzer, TODAY A WOMAN WENT MAD IN THE SUPERMARKET: Stories
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
"To me, there's always humor at the edge of the darkness." Zibby is joined by Hilma Wolitzer to talk about her new collection of short stories, Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket, which follows one woman throughout her life. The two discuss how Hilma wrote these stories in the large window between 1966 all the way through the pandemic, as well as how they both reflect and stray from her real life experiences. Hilma also shares what it was like to lose her husband to Covid-19 while recovering from it herself in a different hospital, the best lesson about editing (which she learned through a humiliating but impactful experience), and how her relationship with her daughter Meg has been strengthened through their writing.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.1 | If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids. |
| 0:12.9 | Check it out, and you'll hear from 49 authors about all sorts of things moms don't have time to do. |
| 0:17.9 | All the authors have been on this podcast. Also, check out my TikTok at With Zibby and Tracy, my other podcast, Sex Talk with Zivie and Tracy. |
| 0:25.7 | Check out Moms Don't Have Time to Write on Medium. |
| 0:28.5 | And of course, my new publishing company called Zivie Books. |
| 0:32.3 | And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids. |
| 0:36.9 | Hi. |
| 0:37.4 | Hi. Hello. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:40.9 | Hilma Woolitzer is the author of Today A Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket. Hilma is the author |
| 0:46.3 | of nine novels, four books for children, and a writing guide. She has received many awards, |
| 0:50.9 | including Guggenheim and N.E.A. fellowships and has led fiction workshops at several |
| 0:55.0 | universities and at the Breadloaf Writers' Conference. Her first novel was published when she was in her |
| 0:59.9 | mid-40s. She's 91 years old and lives in New York City. Welcome, Hylma. Thank you so much for |
| 1:05.4 | coming on Mom's Don't have time to read books to discuss today a woman went mad in the supermarket |
| 1:10.0 | stories. |
| 1:13.4 | Thank you so much, Sabu, for having me here. |
| 1:15.3 | You're so welcome. |
| 1:23.3 | This is an amazing collection of stories spanning all of a woman's life, her relationship. |
| 1:26.6 | Some stories all interweave, others don't. |
| 1:31.0 | It's so amazing to watch through the years your first story came out in this book in what 1966 yes six all the way through the coronavirus pandemic i mean |
| 1:37.8 | what a ride and just that there were so many like some of the ones you wrote so early on could have |
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