Judy Bolton-Fasman, ASYLUM: A Memoir of Family Secrets

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🗓️ 30 January 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Zibby is joined by Judy Bolton-Fasman to talk about her debut memoir, Asylum, and the different threads throughout her life that led to that title. The two discuss the unique dynamic that existed between Judy's parents and how it fostered a number of secrets she sought to uncover throughout her childhood, as well as the different iterations this project has taken over the sixteen years it took her to write. Judy also openly shares her experience living with panic attacks in the book and in conversation with Zibby because she wants to destigmatize mental illnesses and the different ways we can manage them.

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0:36.9	Hi.
0:37.4	Hi. Hello. Enjoy the show.
0:41.1	Judy Bolton-Fassman is the author of Asylum, a memoir of family secrets. Judy's essays and
0:46.9	reviews have appeared in major newspapers, including the New York Times and literary magazines,
0:51.3	such as McSweeney's, Brevity, Cognizenti, The Rumpus Catapult to Atticist Review,
0:56.2	and the anthology The Shell Game, writers play with borrowed forms.
1:00.1	Two of her essays have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
1:03.4	Judy also has an essay in the anthology Heroics, Women's Lived Experiences, during the coronavirus
1:08.4	pandemic.
1:09.6	She is the recipient of the Alonzo G. Davis
1:12.1	Fellowship for Latin X writers from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and has been the
1:16.8	Aaron Donovan Fellow in nonfiction at the Mineral School. She lives outside of Boston with her
1:22.0	family. Welcome, Judy. Thank you so much for coming on moms don't have time to read books
1:26.3	to discuss asylum, a memoir of family secrets. Thank you so much for coming on moms don't have time to read books to discuss Asylum,
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