Jeff Hoffmann, OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN: A Novel

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 19 June 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Zibby is joined by author Jeff Hoffmann to talk about his debut novel, Other People's Children, which is now out in paperback. The two discuss Jeff's essay about who can tell which kinds of stories which he wrote in response to people's surprise that he was not a woman, as well as how his own experiences with adoption inspired the core of the novel. Jeff shares why he made the decision to quit his job and get an MFA at 47, how his relationship with his daughter has found its way into a number of his projects, and what he is working on next.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now.
0:07.8	Thank you so much called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:10.7	It is a daily podcast 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or
0:21.1	less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this
0:25.9	podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature,
0:31.8	wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can
0:37.4	learn more about me at Zibby Owens.com,
0:39.5	but really, you're here to learn more about the authors,
0:42.2	and that is what we're going to do.
0:44.4	Also, be sure to check out all the other podcasts in the ZCast Podcast Network.
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0:57.8	Hi. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Hi, everybody. Happy Father's Day to everyone out there who celebrates. I hope you all have a
1:03.2	wonderful day. We do have a new show coming soon called Dads Don't Have Time Too, but I'm not
1:08.4	going to spoil any surprises about that now. I hope you all have a really great day.
1:13.6	The episode for today is about Jeff Hoffman's book called Other People's Children, a novel.
1:19.1	Jeff quit a perfectly good job in IT consulting at the age of 47 to return to school to get his MFA in fiction.
1:25.8	He enrolled at Columbia College, Chicago,
1:28.1	with a cohort comprised of students closer to his children's age than his own. Jeff had started
1:32.6	turning one of his short stories into a novel when it won the Madison Reviews 2018 Chris
1:37.2	O'Malley Prize in fiction. A few weeks after he graduated, Simon and Schuster bought other people's
1:42.4	children. Jeff lives in Elmhurst, Illinois, with his wife and two
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