Jessica Winter, THE FOURTH CHILD

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Novelist Jessica Winter talks with Zibby about her incredible career trajectory (she’s currently an executive editor at The New Yorker!) and imparts her quarantine parenting wisdom. She also shares how writing her latest novel, The Fourth Child, helped her reckon with her Catholic upbringing and sort through her experience as a Buffalo, NY teen during the Spring of Life anti-abortion demonstrations.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.0	I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology,
0:12.2	which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to a quarantine anthology.
0:16.8	All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research.
0:20.4	And I'm the editor-in-chief of Moms Don't Have Time to Write a new publication on Medium. And we're accepting submissions, so please send your personal essays there. And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens, and my website is Zibby Owens.com. Okay, now back to this amazing podcast. Today's episode has been
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1:30.4	Jessica Winter is the author of The Fourth Child, a novel. She is also an editor at The New Yorker.
1:36.4	Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, Book Forum, The Believer,
1:40.5	and many other publications. She lives in Flatbush, Brooklyn with her family. Welcome Welcome, Jessica. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss The Fourth Child, a novel, your latest book. Thank you for having me, Zadby. It's nice to be here. Yeah, it's my pleasure. So for listeners who aren't familiar yet with The Fourth Child, could you give a little synopsis and
2:01.6	also talk about what inspired you to write it? Sure. I would say that the book is a love story
2:06.7	about a mother and her two very different daughters, one of whom is her biological daughter and the other
2:12.1	is adopted. The mother's name is Jane. She's devoutly Catholic. She falls pregnant in high
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