Jeanne McCulloch, Author of ALL HAPPY FAMILIES

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🗓️ 2 October 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Jeanne McCulloch opens up about the experiences behind her compelling, beautiful memoir, ALL HAPPY FAMILIES. She talks about the backdrop of the book - the house by the sea in the Hamptons - and how something beautiful can be both a prison or a dreamscape. She discusses her father's alcoholism and its effect on her long-term, her mother's insistence on propriety at all costs, and how to write about family in a memoir in the best way possible. A gifted story-teller, Jeanne weaves stories together with art and grace.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books, the podcast that features conversations with writers of all types.
0:17.5	Today's episode of Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books has been sponsored by the Crafts Studio.
0:21.6	With locations in New York City on the Upper East Side and in Tribeca, the craft studio is a perfect
0:25.8	place to bring your kids for some crafting fun.
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0:30.1	I'm thrilled to be talking to Jean McCulloch today.
0:33.1	Gene is a former managing editor of the Paris Review and a senior editor of Tin House.
0:38.5	She was the founding editorial director of Tin House Books and is the co-founder of Totos Santos Writers' Workshop. Her work
0:45.3	has appeared in the Paris Review, the New York Times Book Review, Bogue, O Magazine, Allure,
0:50.2	the Northwestern Review, and other publications. I'm talking to her today about her amazing memoir
0:56.0	called All Happy Families, which really everybody should read. She lives in Brooklyn, New York,
1:01.0	and I'm thrilled to welcome her today. So welcome, Jean. Jean? Yes, very good. Very good.
1:08.0	I'm so excited to be doing the podcast with you today.
1:11.6	Thanks for coming.
1:12.5	Me too.
1:13.4	So for readers who don't, who have not read All Happy Families yet, can you tell them what the book is about?
1:19.8	Yes.
1:21.0	The memoir begins in 1983.
1:24.3	It's an August weekend near the tip of Long Island in East Hampton, New York, and it is the
1:30.9	weekend of my wedding. What very quickly readers will note, because it's in about the third page,
1:40.0	is that simultaneous to the wedding preparations taking place, my father has just had a stroke
1:48.3	and he is lying in Southampton Hospital on life support. So essentially what you have is two
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