Karin Lin-Greenberg, YOU ARE HERE

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Zibby speaks to author Karin Lin-Greenberg about You Are Here, a charming and poignant novel about five characters whose stories entwine when a shopping mall shuts down. Karin details her inspiration for the book, which came during a haircut, and then explains how a standalone short story quickly grew into an entire world. Karin also discusses her path to teaching, the impact of the pandemic on young people, and the distinctions between writing fiction and nonfiction. Finally, Zibby and Karin chat about the roles of malls in their own lives.

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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
0:31.2	features.
0:31.8	That's at Zibbymag.com.
0:33.1	We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.
0:35.4	And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop
0:40.3	at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of
0:47.9	our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018.
0:56.5	And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy. Karen Lynn Greenberg is the author of You Are Here, a novel.
1:07.4	Karen is the author of the short story collection's faulty predictions, which won the Flannery
1:11.2	O'Connor Award for short fiction, and vanished, which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize.
1:16.5	Her novel, You Are Here, came out from Counterpoint Press. She lives in upstate New York and is an
1:21.7	associate professor in the English department at Sienna College, where she teaches creative writing.
1:26.0	Welcome, Karen. Thanks so much for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss.
1:29.9	You are here.
1:31.3	Thanks so much for having me on, Timi.
1:32.9	I am sort of like notorious with my team for not noticing things on covers.
1:37.4	And I just, having looked at this cover 8,000 times over what months, have just noticed that there is a woman on an escalator behind this
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