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🗓️ 16 March 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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"It was always bizarre to me that there wasn't another big collection of humor writing by women, especially because the community's only exploded even more. All I do all day is meet brilliant women." Amy Solomon, Lennon Parham, and actress Lake Bell all join Zibby to talk about compiling work from 150 of the funniest women in comedy, leveling with their kids like adults would, and the different ways we can find and make communities during the on-going pandemic (hint: this book is a start).
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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. |
0:34.8 | Okay, now back to this amazing podcast. |
0:40.6 | Amy Solomon is the editor of notes from the bathroom line, humor, art, and low-grade panic from 150 of the funniest women in |
0:46.9 | comedy. Amy Solomon is a film and TV producer, most recently on HBO's Barry and Silicon Valley. |
0:52.8 | She runs Alec Berg's production company, where she develops movies and TV that you'll |
0:56.9 | hopefully see someday. |
0:58.1 | She's originally from Chicago, but now lives in Los Angeles with her dogs, Nan and Goose, |
1:02.3 | who are perfect. |
1:03.3 | She's a graduate of Princeton University and loves baseball and her friends' kids. |
1:07.8 | Welcome, ladies, to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. I am so excited to be joined here today |
1:13.5 | by Amy Solomon, the editor of Notes from the Bathroom Line, as well as two of the contributors, |
1:18.7 | Lennon Parham, and also Lake Bell. So welcome to all of you. Thanks for coming on the show. |
1:24.2 | Thank you for having us. So if you wouldn't mind, maybe you could go |
1:30.4 | around and, Amy, why don't you start since this was your Gilda Radner inspired, you know, |
1:35.1 | enterprise and talk about how it started and how you roped in these ladies here. Yeah. So basically, |
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