Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. DU BOIS: A Novel

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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"Grief is what we pay for love. If you don't really love somebody, you just get past it." Zibby is joined by poet, professor, and author Honorée Fanonne Jeffers to talk about her debut novel, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois. Honorée shares how she wanted to infuse the book with memories from her childhood without stealing stories directly from her family, as well as how a prolonged period of loss and grief in her life has led her to form a deep connection with her characters. Check out Zibby and Kyle’s appearance on Good Day LA where they recommended this book here.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.0	I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology,
0:12.2	which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology.
0:16.8	All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research.
0:20.4	And I'm the editor-in-chief of M don't have time to write a new publication on Medium.
0:25.0	And we're accepting submissions, so please send your personal essays there.
0:29.1	And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens.
0:32.9	And my website is Zibby Owens.com.
0:34.8	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:39.6	I had such a nice time recording my podcast with Honoré Fanon Jeffers. We, I don't know, we just had the best time.
0:44.4	Anyway, she's the author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois. She is a fiction writer,
0:50.3	poet and essayist, and is the author of five poetry volumes, and has published writing in The Fire
0:55.7	this time, Kenyon Review, where she's a critic at large, Iowa review, and more. For her latest
1:00.6	volume of poetry, The Age of Phyllis, she was long listed for a national book award and was
1:06.0	a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Penn Volker Award for Poetry Collection.
1:11.4	Honoré was recently named the winner of the 2021 United States Artists Fellowship and the NAACP Image
1:18.1	Award. She was one of a handful of authors highlighted in the recent ABA Buzz Panel.
1:23.1	Jeffers teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Oklahoma.
1:26.7	Welcome, Honor.
1:27.9	Thanks so much for coming on moms.
1:29.4	Don't have time to read books to discuss the love songs of W.E.B.
1:33.9	De Bois.
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