Karin Tanabe, A WOMAN OF INTELLIGENCE: A Novel

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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"People will ask: 'But you love your kids, right?' Of course, I love my kids — that's not the issue. We don't have to always say that when we are talking about how hard it is to be a mother." Karin Tanabe joins Zibby to talk about her sixth novel, A Woman of Intelligence, and how it portrays motherhood in the 1950s. The two discuss some of the shocking historical events that were featured in the story, the influence Karin had on the cover art, and how writing, like all art, requires time and practice.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Libby 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.
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0:29.1	And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibi Owens.
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0:35.0	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:40.0	Karen Deneb is the author of A Woman of Intelligence, a novel. Karen is also the author of 100 Sons and the Gilded Years,
0:47.1	which is soon to be a major motion picture starring Zendaya, who will produce alongside
0:52.1	Reese Witherspoon and Hello Sunshine. A former Politico reporter,
0:56.5	her writing has been featured in the Washington Post, Miami Herald, Chicago Tribune, and Newsday.
1:01.5	She has appeared as a celebrity and politics expert on Entertainment Tonight, CNN, and CBS Early Show,
1:07.4	a graduate of Vassar College, Karen lives in Washington, D.C. Welcome, Karen. Thanks so much for coming on Moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss a woman of intelligence. Thank you for having me. I'm excited. I really loved this book, but also love this outfit, by the way, on the cover. Thank you. You know, I'm going to admit I was the art department at St.
1:27.5	Martin's almost killed me because I made them change the bag, I think, four times.
1:33.6	I was like, not the right bag.
1:35.6	Still not the right bag.
1:37.0	I mean, it was perfect.
1:38.0	Honestly, the cover looked just like this.
1:39.7	We changed nothing except the bag.
1:42.0	Oh, my gosh.
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