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Totally Booked with Zibby

Jessica Knoll, BRIGHT YOUNG WOMEN

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

Connection, Inspiration, Moms, Entertainment, Arts, Reading, Books, Parenting, Literary

4.4602 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Zibby interviews Jessica Knoll about BRIGHT YOUNG WOMEN, the utterly absorbing, blisteringly paced, instant New York Times bestseller about two women who are brought together by violent acts of the same man and become allies as they pursue justice. Jessica shares her research process, which involved delving into the 1970s era through magazines, touches on the importance of victim's rights, and describes the evolution and the challenges of her writing process. The conversation reveals the meticulous process behind novel writing and offers a glimpse into how real-world issues can be woven into fictional narratives.


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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

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features.

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That's at Zibbingag.com.

0:33.1

We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.

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And I recently opened a bookstore in L.a called zibby's bookshop

0:40.3

at one one one three montana avenue at 11th street in san monica i hope that you are able to

0:47.0

enjoy some of our other offerings but this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in

0:53.3

2018 and no matter what i do this is basically my of all of it and started in 2018. And no matter what I do, this is basically

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my favorite thing. Enjoy.

1:03.5

Jessica Knoll is the author of Bright Young Women, a novel. This is her second time on the

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podcast. Last time, she came on to talk about luckiest girl alive, which is now a

1:12.3

major motion picture from Netflix, starring Amelia Kunis, which is really good, by the way.

1:16.8

She also wrote The Favorite Sister, and now, of course, bright young women, which was chosen for

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eight million things, including a book of the month club pick and Sarah Selects from Sarah Gilman's Amazon Book Review,

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book club, and so many others. She has been a senior editor at Cosmopolitan and the

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article's editor itself. She grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and graduated from the

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Shipley School in Bryn Mare, Pennsylvania, and from Hobart and William Smith colleges in Geneva,

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