Jeanne Darst, author of Fiction Ruined My Family

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2011

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Jeanne Darst is a writer and performer whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine and This American Life. She recently published her first book, Fiction Ruined My Family, about her literary family who spent more time drinking than writing.

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0:15.5	I'm Jesse Thorne, live on tape from my house in Los Angeles.
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0:23.0	public radio, international.
0:30.5	It's the sound of young America.
0:32.0	I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:33.0	My guest on the program is Jeannie Dars.
0:35.0	Her new book is called Fiction Ruined My Family.
0:39.0	It's a memoir of growing up in, well, in a funny way,
0:44.0	the kind of family that you picture from a novel or television program
0:51.0	about East Coast literary sions with a lot of Persian rugs.
0:55.5	Only that but unsuccessful.
1:01.0	Jeannie, welcome to the Sound of Young America.
1:03.0	It's great to have you on the show.
1:04.0	Thank you, Jesse.
1:05.0	It's good to be here.
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