Kimberly Harrington, BUT YOU SEEMED SO HAPPY: A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
"I think women don't prioritize the time they need just to be — just to have space, have no one in their space, time to think. It solves a lot." Zibby is joined by memoirist, columnist, and creative director Kimberly Harrington to discuss her latest collection of essays, But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits. Kimberly shares how writing these essays helped her refine her opinions on marriage as an institution, why she loved rewriting the ending of When Harry Met Sally so much, and what it was like to look back on her old journals (as well as why she included some of her entries in this book).
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.1 | If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids. |
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| 0:26.2 | moms don't have time to write on Medium. And of course, my new publishing company called |
| 0:30.8 | Zivie Books. And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids. |
| 0:36.9 | Hi. Hi. Hello. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:40.9 | Kimberly Harrington is the author of But You Seemed So Happy, a Marriage in Pieces and Bits. |
| 0:47.3 | Kimberly is also the author of Amateur Hour. Her work is included in the collections Keep Scrolling |
| 0:53.4 | Until You Feel Something, 21 years of |
| 0:55.4 | humor from McSweeney's Internet Tendency and Merciless and Unpredictable, a McSweeney's Guide to Parenting. |
| 1:01.6 | She's a columnist and regular contributor to McSweeney's Internet tendency, and her work has also |
| 1:06.0 | appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Cut, a longtime copywriter and creative |
| 1:10.6 | director, her clients have included Apple, Nike, The New York Times, and The Cut. A longtime copywriter and creative director, |
| 1:11.4 | her clients have included Apple, Nike, and Netflix. Welcome, Kimberly. Thank you so much for coming |
| 1:16.5 | on moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss, but you seemed so happy, |
| 1:20.6 | marriage and pieces and bits, essays. Thanks for having me. And I wanted to say before we start |
| 1:25.8 | that you know, like I had a suspicion that my book was under the radar. I was telling a friend that my book felt a little bit under the radar. It's like, you know you're under the radar when the only list that your book is on is actually under the radar books coming out, which was your list. Oh, sorry. No, it was great. I was like, I'm not imagining it. |
| 1:46.8 | I just, I still feel this way. I mean, this is a fabulous book and it's really funny and clever and, |
| 1:54.6 | like, all of the things, but I just haven't seen it. I don't know. I don't think it's been |
| 1:59.0 | appropriately covered. That's my two cents. |
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