Kat Chow, SEEING GHOSTS: A Memoir

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Former NPR reporter and journalist Kat Chow had a fear of death growing up which only made the death of her mother hit harder. In her debut memoir, Seeing Ghosts, Kat attempts to preserve her mother and her idiosyncrasies while also recounting her family's grieving process. Kat and Zibby discuss the process of mourning and memorializing those who have passed on and how the collective grief from Covid has impacted them.

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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 M don't have time to write a new publication on Medium.
0:25.0	And we're accepting submissions, so please send your personal essays there.
0:29.1	And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibi Owens,
0:32.8	and my website is Zibi Owens.com.
0:34.8	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:39.4	Kat Chow is the author of Seeing Ghost. She is a writer and journalist and was a reporter at NPR, where she was a founding
0:44.6	member of the Code Switch team. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine,
0:48.8	The Atlantic, and on Radio Lab, among others. She's one of pop culture's happy hours fourth
0:53.3	chairs. She has received a residency
0:55.3	fellowship from the Malay colony and was an inaugural recipient of the Ghee Day Up Fellowship at the
1:01.6	Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat. Welcome, Kat. Thank you so much for coming on Mom's Don't have time to
1:06.5	read books to discuss your beautiful memoir, Seeing Ghosts.
1:11.0	Thank you so much for having me on.
1:12.7	It's great to talk with you.
1:14.0	Oh, you too.
1:14.9	Would you mind letting listeners know a little bit about your book?
1:17.9	And then I'll dive in and ask you my zillions of questions.
1:21.1	Yeah.
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