Jeannette Walls, HANG THE MOON

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Zibby is joined by #1 New York Times bestselling author Jeannette Walls to discuss Hang the Moon, an energetic and propulsive Prohibition-era story about an indomitable young woman in a world of lawlessness, secrets, scandals, and death. Jeannette describes her love of history and her fascination with prohibition, which stems from a childhood with an alcoholic father. She also talks about her feisty protagonist, her extensive historical research and obsessive re-writing, and her relationship with fiction. She also reveals what it was like to see her memoir The Glass Castle come to life in its film adaptation and what she is up to now–a beautiful, small-town life.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:06.7	This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.
0:14.9	I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.
0:21.9	Our books are already out now.
0:23.5	You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.
0:25.6	And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle
0:31.2	features.
0:31.8	That's at Zibbymag.com.
0:33.1	We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.
0:35.4	And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop
0:40.3	at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of
0:47.9	our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018.
0:56.1	And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy it. Jeanette Walls is the author of Hang the Moon,
1:06.4	a novel. Jeanette graduated from Barnard College and was a journalist in New York. Her memoir, The Glass Castle, has been a New York Times bestseller for more than eight years. She is also the author of the instant New York Time bestsellers, The Silver Star, and Halfbroke Horses, which was named one of the ten best books of 2009 by the editors of the New York Times Book Review.
1:32.2	She lives in rural Virginia with her husband, the writer John Taylor, and you will see just how much of a fan I am by our conversation.
1:35.8	This was such a joy, and I am so grateful to Jeanette for coming on my show.
1:41.4	Welcome, Jeanette.
1:42.2	Thank you so much for coming on moms.
1:44.1	Don't have time to read
1:44.9	books to discuss Hang in the Moon. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Okay, a new novel out. First of all,
1:52.2	how do you feel about it? How do you feel with it entering the world and all of that?
1:56.4	You know, it's so funny because I spent so long with Sally Kincaid, and she's a kind of complicated
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