Kate Doyle, I MEANT IT ONCE: Stories
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Zibby speaks with author Kate Doyle about I Meant It Once, a witty and sharp collection of stories about the inner lives of young women during their transformative twenties, navigating relationships, nostalgia for the past, and the uncertainty of the future. Kate talks about her writing process, her exciting book tour events (many are with past podcast guests like Jennifer Savran Kelly and Lynn Steger Strong!), and her life in Amsterdam. She also describes some of her favorite stories from the collection (they involve dogs and heart-shaped break-up scones).
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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. |
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| 0:25.6 | And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle |
| 0:31.2 | features. |
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| 0:35.4 | And I recently opened a bookstore in L.a called zibby's bookshop |
| 0:40.3 | at one one one three montana avenue at 11th street in san monica i hope that you are able to |
| 0:47.0 | enjoy some of our other offerings but this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in |
| 0:53.3 | 2018 and no matter what i do this is basically my of all of it and started in 2018. And no matter what I do, this is |
| 0:56.1 | basically my favorite thing. Enjoy. Kate Doyle is the author of I meant it once. Kate's |
| 1:07.0 | short stories have been published in No Tokens, Electric Literature, a public space, splitip, Wigleaf, and other publications. Originally from New England, she is a former bookseller and a 2021, a public space writing fellow. She has lived in New York City, Amsterdam, and Ithaca, New York. Welcome, Kate. Thank you so much for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss your short story collection. I meant it once. |
| 1:28.4 | Thank you so much for having me. I'm very excited to be here. And I'm also really excited you'll be doing an event at Zivis Bookshop on August 22nd. Really excited. Without Shane, I love, love, love her work. So that'll be, yeah, I'm really excited. She's awesome. I'm sorry I won't be out there then, but I'll watch on live stream and everything. |
| 1:27.2 | So fun. |
| 1:28.1 | So tell... that'll be yeah she's awesome i'm sorry i won't be out there then but i'll watch on live stream |
| 1:45.3 | and everything so fun so tell listeners about the collection so exciting yeah tell us every |
| 1:52.2 | everything there is to know why did you write a short story collection when did you start writing |
| 1:55.7 | what is this about why should people read it just go ahead yeah i Yeah, I Met It Once is a collection of stories |
| 2:02.3 | about being a mess in your 20s and also more universally about time and memory and the ways |
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