Jill Santopolo, STARS IN AN ITALIAN SKY

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In this special episode (a live event at City Winery!), Zibby interviews New York Times bestselling author Jill Santopolo about Stars in an Italian Sky, a shimmering, heartfelt story of two star-crossed lovers in post-World War II Italy and, generations later, a New York City love story that will uncover a long-buried family secret. Jill reveals the inspiration behind this story, her strategy for writing a dual timeline, and the topics she loved exploring: fashion and love through the ages (and across socioeconomic classes). She also talks about her incredibly successful 2017 debut novel The Light We Lost (which was a Reese’s Book Club Pick!), and the book she is working on now.

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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.
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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.
1:03.2	Jill Santopolo is the author of Stars in an Italian sky. Jill is the internationally
1:08.7	best-selling author also of Everything After, More Than Words,
1:12.8	and The Light We Lost, which was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick and has been optioned for film.
1:18.8	Her books have been translated into more than 35 languages and have been named to the New York
1:22.9	Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Apple, and Indybound bestseller lists.
1:33.3	She is also the author of the Alec Flint Mysteries, the Sparkle Spa series, and the Follow Your Heart Books. Jill holds a BA in English literature from Columbia University and MFA in Writing
1:38.5	for Children from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and a certificate and intellectual property
1:43.0	law from NYU. I guess I'll call her
1:45.8	next time. I need an intellectual property layer. She is the publisher of Philomel, an imprint of
1:51.4	Penguin Young Readers Group, where she edits many critically acclaimed award-winning and best-selling
1:56.0	books, including she persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexander Borgher,
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