J. Nicole Jones, LOW COUNTRY

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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"I started writing just to remember her stories and her voice in this world that doesn't exist anymore." Zibby is joined by fellow memoir enthusiast J. Nicole Jones to discuss her upcoming memoir, Low Country, and the family secrets that it reveals. Nicole tells Zibby about the process of rewriting her grandmother's stories after her first draft was stolen, how her South Carolina hometown became its own character, and what it's like to hear your life told through your father's songs. Purchase the book on Amazon or Bookshop.Amazon: https://amzn.to/3fQcngJBookshop: https://bit.ly/39RyaAY

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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 Moms 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,
0:32.8	and my website is Zibby Owens.com.
0:35.0	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:39.6	Jay Nicole Jones is the author of Lowcountry, a memoir. She received an MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia University in
0:45.2	2012 and has held editorial positions at Vice Magazine and Vanityfair.com. Her essays and writing
0:51.6	have appeared in Vice, Vanity Fair.com, the Harper's magazine website,
0:56.2	the Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, the Paris Review Daily, and elsewhere.
1:00.4	She lives in Brooklyn and Tennessee with her dog, Juno.
1:03.9	This is her first book.
1:05.6	Welcome, Nicole.
1:06.4	Thank you so much for coming on Moms Don't time to read books to discuss low country by technically
1:12.1	by j nicole jones but we're calling you nicole though oh thank you so much for having me and i'm so
1:18.6	excited to be here i love your podcast oh i'm so glad thanks for listening low country a southern
1:24.7	memoir can you please tell listeners what your book is about and what
1:30.0	inspired you to write a memoir to begin with? Yeah. Well, my book is about growing up,
1:35.9	about my life growing up in South Carolina, but I feel like my family is more the main character
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