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🗓️ 9 March 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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"It's another great function of stories and of literature to remind us of our humanness, of our sense of compassion, and that deep essential quality that we must find our way back to, and that is to being relational beings.” Author Jamie Figueroa talks with Zibby about how her latest novel’s opening scene came to her "like a remembered dream." She discusses loss, magical realism, and the importance of cultivating a relationship with your writing.
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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, |
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0:34.8 | Okay, now back to this amazing podcast. |
0:37.3 | Today's episode has been |
0:38.4 | sponsored by Wine, Women and Words, the podcast. Wine, Women and Words is a casual show |
0:44.5 | where book lovers can pour themselves a glass of wine, kick back, and talk books, pour a glass, |
0:49.8 | and join them. It was launched in June 2016, and it's hosted by Diana, who lives in L.A. and Michelle, |
0:56.0 | who lives in Chicago, and they welcome special guests from the literary world, from authors and |
1:00.8 | editors to public speakers and everybody in between. They also select a book, which they read and |
1:06.5 | discuss throughout the month. At the end of the month, their spotlight author joins the show |
1:10.6 | for a special |
1:11.2 | hour-long interview to talk about the author's characters, plot twists, writing process, and more. |
1:16.6 | Oh my gosh, I have to like go listen to this podcast all the time. Anyway, thank you to Wine, |
1:20.5 | Women and Words for sponsoring this podcast. Jamie Figueroa is the author of Brother, Sister, |
1:26.7 | Mother Explorer, a novel. Jamie received her MFA in |
1:30.7 | creative writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her writing has appeared in Epic, |
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