Kashana Cauley, THE SURVIVALISTS: A Novel
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Zibby interviews former antitrust lawyer, New York Times opinion writer, and debut author Kashana Cauley about The Survivalists, a darkly funny and thrilling new doomsday novel about a successful Black lawyer who moves in with her coffee entrepreneur boyfriend and his Hurricane Sandy-traumatized, illegal-gun-stockpiling, bunker-building roommates. Kashana talks about the real-life survivalists who inspired this story (like her parents!), her obsession with coffee, and her publishing journey (it involves bad high school poetry, several rejected books, brilliant joke-writing for The Daily Show, and never giving up). Finally, she speaks on the power of writing communities and reveals the books she’s reading and loving.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now. |
| 0:07.8 | Thank you so much called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:10.7 | It is a daily podcast 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or |
| 0:21.1 | less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this |
| 0:25.9 | podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, |
| 0:31.8 | wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can |
| 0:37.4 | learn more about me at Zibby Owens.com, |
| 0:39.5 | but really you're here to learn more about the authors, |
| 0:42.2 | and that is what we're going to do. |
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| 0:51.9 | and definitely check out those shows as well. |
| 0:58.4 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Kashana Kali is the author of The Survivalists. |
| 1:01.5 | Kashana is a former Midtown Antitrust Lawyer and Brooklyn resident. |
| 1:05.3 | She is a writer for the Fox Comedy, The Great North, a contributing opinion writer for |
| 1:09.3 | the New York Times, and a GQ contributor. |
| 1:11.6 | She's written for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and Pod Saves America on HBO, |
| 1:15.9 | as well as the Atlantic, The New Yorker pitchfork and Rolling Stone and has published |
| 1:20.3 | fiction in Esquire, Slate, Tin House, and The Chronicles of Now, because Shana now lives in Los Angeles. |
| 1:26.2 | So I'm sorry to do this podcast from the car, but it's my, I had to drop my son off at school, and it's my husband's birthday. My husband Kyle, say hi. Hi. Decided at the last second to go and drop off my son at school. Anyway, here I am. It still works perfectly. Good. Sometimes I completely understand. Okay, so welcome, Kashana. |
| 1:45.6 | Thank you so much for coming on Mom's Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss the |
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