Jami Attenberg, I CAME ALL THIS WAY TO MEET YOU: Writing Myself Home

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Novelist Jami Attenberg joins Zibby to discuss her first memoir, I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home, which contains a number of stories about how she developed her creative identity. Jami and Zibby talk about the feeling of needing to share everything when writing a memoir, how they both meditate on where their things are going to end up when they're gone, and how Jami envisions the spectrum of her writing from her novels to her tweets. Jami also shares why she misses going on book tours and how her literary career was far from a linear trajectory.

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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. Check out Moms Don't Have Time to Write on Medium. And of course, my new publishing company called Zivvy Books. And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids. Hi. Hi.
0:37.8	Hello.
0:38.4	Enjoy the show.
0:40.7	Happy New Year, everyone.
0:42.2	I hope you all had a great break.
0:44.2	I wanted to let you know about something that I've been talking a lot about on social
0:47.3	media at Zibby Owens, which is the hashtag 22 and 22 challenge.
0:53.0	We are at Zippy Books. We are encouraging everybody like all of you to visit
0:58.4	22 bookstores in 2022. And we're going to provide a whole series of incentives for every five
1:04.8	visits and you'll be entered to win a $500 shopping spree and you'll get fun things like bookmarks
1:09.9	and all the rest. Plus, you'll be
1:11.2	part of a great community of people all helping support bookstores, authors, and more. We're really,
1:17.6	really excited about it. If you want to join, sign up, you just go to 22in22.net. That's 22in22.net.
1:26.1	And click I'm in and put your information. And then every time you go to
1:29.9	a bookstore, you just quickly go back on the site and click log a bookstore visit. And then
1:34.2	we'll be keeping track and we'll be following up with all of your different achievements and
1:38.7	awards and everything. So please sign up, spread the word 22 and 22, get your friends to join and start visiting bookstores, and it'll be really fun and exciting.
1:49.3	So here's to a wonderful 2022. I'm so excited that you're listening to my podcast and doing all the fun things that I have been trying to bring into the world.
1:58.8	So here we go, 22. Hashtag 22 and 22.
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