Katie Russell Newland, A SEASON WITH MOM: Love, Loss, and the Ultimate Baseball Adventure

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Before Katie Russell Newland's mom died, the two planned to visit every Major League Baseball stadium in the country. After overcoming health issues of her own, Katie decided to finally complete her mother's wish. Her debut memoir, A Season with Mom, tells the story of Katie's journey in the form of letters to her mother documenting what she learned about herself and their relationship, and has already been optioned by Kaley Cuoco's production company!

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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 Moms 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 Zibby Owens.
0:32.9	And my website is Zibby Owens.com.
0:35.0	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:39.8	Katie Russell Newland is the author of A Season with Mom, Love, Loss, and the Ultimate Baseball Adventure. She is a writer and sports
0:45.7	enthusiast with a PhD in language and literacy from the University of Texas at Austin. A survivor of
0:51.6	both Hodgkins lymphoma and melanoma, she is now in remission and lives with her family in Austin, Texas.
0:57.6	Katie's story has been featured by ESPN, People, Good Morning America, The Today Show, Condé Nast Traveler, and the Huffington Post.
1:04.7	All right, welcome, Katie.
1:06.0	Thanks so much for coming on Mom's Don't Have Time to read books to discuss a season with Mom, love, loss,
1:10.9	and the ultimate baseball adventure with Forward by Peyton Manning, which is quite impressive.
1:17.5	Oh, thanks, Zivie.
1:18.6	Thank you for having me today.
1:20.1	Of course.
1:21.2	I love the epistolary form of this memoir.
1:24.8	It's like a memoir in letters versus a memoir and essays. And it's so great. Like,
1:28.9	there aren't that many books like that these days. Tell me about how you decided to do it like
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