Katie Hafner, THE BOYS: A Novel
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Former staff writer at The New York Times Katie Hafner joins Zibby to discuss her debut novel, The Boys, which grew out of a conversation she and her daughter overheard on a vacation years ago. The two talk about Katie's thoughts on her own twist ending, why she wanted to work with a smaller publisher, and her love story with her late husband. Katie also shares why she warns writers to be careful when writing memoirs and why it was so freeing, as a journalist and non-fiction author, to make up her own set of facts.
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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, |
| 0:42.3 | and that is what we're going to do. |
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| 0:51.9 | and definitely check out those shows as well. |
| 0:58.1 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Katie Hafner is the author of The Boys, a novel. |
| 1:01.6 | Katie is a journalist and author who writes frequently for the New York Times and the |
| 1:04.9 | Washington Post. |
| 1:06.1 | She is also the host and co-executive producer of the popular podcast Lost Women of Science. |
| 1:11.7 | She is the author of six nonfiction books, including mother-daughter me, a memoir, |
| 1:17.1 | a romance on three legs, Glenn Gould's obsessive quest for the perfect piano, and where |
| 1:22.7 | wizards stay up late, the origins of the internet with Matthew Lyon. |
| 1:27.1 | And that's it. |
| 1:28.0 | I mean, not that's it, but those are the books. |
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