J. Vanessa Lyon, LUSH LIVES
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Zibby interviews art historian and author J. Vanessa Lyon about Lush Lives, a deliciously queer novel about bold women unafraid to fight for what they love, set in the high-stakes world of art and auction in New York City. J. Vanessa describes her lifelong love of art as the daughter of an artist and antiques dealer. She also shares what it was like to work at an auction house right after college and how she brought that subculture to life in this story. Finally, she describes her publishing journey (with Roxane Gay as her editor and publisher!) and the book she is working on next.
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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 Zibby Mag 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 one one one three montana avenue at 11th street in san monica i hope that you are able to |
| 0:47.0 | enjoy some of our other offerings but this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in |
| 0:53.3 | 2018 and no matter what i do this is basically my of all of it and started in 2018. And no matter what I do, this is |
| 0:56.1 | basically my favorite thing. Enjoy. Jay Vanessa Lyon is the author of Lush Lives. |
| 1:06.6 | She teaches art history with a PhD from UC Berkeley at a New England liberal arts college. |
| 1:12.1 | She discovered when starting to write fiction that whether she's teaching, reading, or telling a story, |
| 1:17.8 | she thinks about the present and the future through the lens of the past. |
| 1:21.1 | As a lesbian of color who turned into an academic, writing fiction and especially contemporary fiction, |
| 1:26.9 | where queer and bipipok live happily |
| 1:28.6 | ever after. She found a way to create a world that doesn't always exist. It also helps her think |
| 1:34.0 | about what is possible in the here and now. Generosity, openness, flirtation, warmth, intimacy, |
| 1:40.2 | relation, making things, new genres of being. When she's not writing, she's writing, for that |
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