Katherine Heiny, GAMES AND RITUALS: Stories

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Zibby speaks to beloved author and repeat MDHTTRB guest Katherine Heiny about Games and Rituals, a beautiful collection of stories brimming with humor, tenderness, and empathy. Katherine talks about her favorite stories (they involve the DMV, teenagers smoking weed, hearing aids being mistaken for cashews, infidelity, and dying parents). She reveals that all her stories are inspired by real events and shares how each one came to be (one of them took her 35 years!!). Finally, the two share their top book recommendations.

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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.
1:03.3	Catherine Hiney is the author of Games and Rituals Stories. She is the author of Early Morning
1:09.2	Riser and was on this podcast to discuss that,
1:11.9	if you want to go back, standard deviation and single carefree mellow. And her short fiction
1:16.5	has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and many other magazines. She has lived in London,
1:20.9	The Hague, and Boyne City, Michigan, and now lives in Maryland with her husband and children.
1:25.3	I caught her on vacation in Florida. Welcome, Catherine. Thank you so much for coming back on moms, don't have time to read books
1:31.0	to discuss games and rituals, stories. Thank you.
1:35.4	Thank you for having me. You are so funny. Your sense of humor is so amazing in these stories.
1:42.3	You're just like so clever and so, like,
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