Kirthana Ramisetti, DAVA SHASTRI'S LAST DAY
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Zibby Books author and Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books guest host Alisha Fernandez Miranda is joined by former entertainment journalist Kirthana Ramisetti to talk about her debut novel, Dava Shastri's Last Day, a GMA Book Club pick which is now out in paperback. The two discuss how Kirthana's job covering celebrity deaths inspired this book, why it was important to her to fill the novel with her personal passions, and what her upcoming novel, Advika and the Hollywood Wives, is about.
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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. |
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| 1:13.7 | Kirtana Ramassetti is the author of Davish Shastri's Last Day. This is one of the special |
| 1:19.3 | guest-hosted episodes, this one by Alicia Fernandez Miranda, who is the author of our first |
| 1:24.2 | Zimbi book coming out next year called My What If Year? |
| 1:32.4 | Kirtana is a former entertainment reporter for Newsday and the New York Daily News. |
| 1:36.5 | Kirtana has written her fair share of stories about the lives and deaths of the rich and famous. |
| 1:41.7 | She has a master's degree in creative writing from Emerson College, and her work has been published in the New York Times, |
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