James Brown, APOLOGY TO THE YOUNG ADDICT

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🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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"In the end when all is said and done and it comes time for me to depart, I want my children to remember me and say, 'Hey, Dad had some problems, but he changed. He became a good father.'" James Brown talks with Zibby about how his latest book, Apology to the Young Addict, completes his trilogy of memoirs about his addiction, his family, and now his sobriety. The two talk about how addiction can impact kids growing up as well as the possibilities that opened up for James when he began to make a change.

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0:33.7	Hi, this is Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology, which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology. All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research. And I'm the editor-in-chief of moms don't have time to write
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1:07.3	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast. James Brown is the author of Apology to a Young Addict, a memoir.
1:14.4	James is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir's Apology to the Young Addict, as I said,
1:18.8	the Los Angeles Diaries, and This River.
1:21.1	He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and the
1:24.7	Nelson-Algren Literary Award in short fiction.
1:27.7	Brown's work has appeared in GQ, The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Plowshares, New England Review, and many other publications.
1:35.4	He and author Patrick O'Neill are currently collaborating on writing your way to recovery, how stories can save our lives, a book using creative writing techniques to help other alcoholics and
1:45.1	addicts achieve and maintain sobriety. Welcome, Jim. Thank you so much for coming on moms
1:50.8	don't have time to read books to discuss apology to the young addict, your memoir, which was so,
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