Jessica Knoll, LUCKIEST GIRL ALIVE: A Novel
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Producer, screenwriter, and New York Times bestselling author Jessica Knoll joins Zibby to discuss her 2015 mystery novel Luckiest Girl Alive and its recent record-breaking Netflix film adaptation. Jessica describes her daring career jumps from Cosmopolitan writer to novelist to screenwriter, and shares what it was really like to adapt her book into a movie (guess how many people auditioned for young TifAni FaNelli!). She also describes how empowering, validating, and healing it was to reveal, in a deeply-moving essay, that her book was inspired by her own experience with sexual assault.
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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 |
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| 0:51.9 | and definitely check out those shows as well. |
| 0:58.4 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Jessica Null is the author of Luckyest Girl Alive, a novel. |
| 1:02.4 | She is the New York Times best-selling author also of Luckyest Girl Alive, as I said, and |
| 1:07.4 | The Favorite Sister, with her books having been published in over 40 languages. |
| 1:11.9 | Luckyest Girl Alive was a huge runway hit and the best-selling debut novel of 2015, with Jessica |
| 1:18.1 | going on to adapt and executive produce the film for Netflix, starring Mila Kunis, which is now |
| 1:23.8 | a number one Netflix film. As the sole writer on the film adaptation, a feat that is |
| 1:28.9 | almost unheard of, even for the most seasoned of screenwriters, Jessica was able to maintain |
| 1:34.0 | creative ownership of the story with deep personal ties, which we discuss. Jessica is currently |
| 1:39.1 | in the process of adapting the favorite sister with Bruna Papa Andrea's made-up stories |
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