Kelly McMasters, THE LEAVING SEASON
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Zibby speaks to author Kelly McMasters about The Leaving Season, a nuanced, heart-wrenching, and astoundingly gorgeous memoir in essays about "leaving"–a place, a job, a home, a version of oneself, and, particularly, a marriage. Kelly describes her life before, during, and after her divorce, revealing that it ultimately helped her as a mother. She also talks about the bookstore she opened in rural Pennsylvania (and the heartbreak of having to close it), the financial struggles she has faced in the past, and the book she is working on next.
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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. Kelly McMasters is the author of the leaving season, a memoir |
| 1:06.8 | and essays. And by the way, I loved this book so much that I have chosen it for Zivis |
| 1:11.6 | Book Club. So you can join Zivis Book Club by going to Zivisbookclub.com and signing up, |
| 1:16.8 | and you can join our 30-minute conversation followed by 30-minute Q&A with Kelly McMasters herself. |
| 1:24.0 | Kelly is an essayist, professor, mother, and former bookshop owner. |
| 1:28.0 | She is the author of The Leaving Season, A Memoir and Essays, and co-editor of the ABA national bestseller, Wanting, Women Writing About Desire. |
| 1:35.7 | Her first book, Welcome to Shirley, a memoir from an Atomic Town, was listed as one of Oprah's top five summer memoirs, and is the basis the documentary film, The Atomic States of America, a 2012 Sundance selection. The anthology she co-edited with Margot con, This Is the Place, Women Writing About Home, was a New York Times editor's choice. Her essays, reviews, and articles have appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post magazine, The Paris Review, The American Scholar, Riverteeth, |
| 2:01.2 | a journal of narrative nonfiction, Tin House, Newsday, Time Out, Columbia Magazine, and Mr. Bellar's |
| 2:06.0 | neighborhood, among others. She holds a BA from Vassar College and an MFA in nonfiction |
| 2:10.8 | writing from Columbia's School of the Arts and is the recipient of a push cart nomination |
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