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🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Late Night supervising producer Sarah Jenks-Daly speaks with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Mama's Sleeping Scarf.
Then, hear her chat with Seth's mom Hilary Meyers!
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0:00.0 | Hi, it's me the OG Green Grump, the Grinch. |
0:04.2 | Listen as I launch a campaign against Christmas cheer, |
0:07.4 | grilling celebrity guests, like chestnuts on an open fire. |
0:11.2 | They'll try to get my heart to grow a few sizes, |
0:13.3 | but it's not going to work, honey. |
0:14.9 | Follow Tis the Grinch Holiday Talk Show on the Wundry app, |
0:18.2 | or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi everyone I'm Sarah Janks Daly, supervising producer at Late Night and this is Late Night Litt. |
0:31.0 | On this episode we speak to author Chimamanda Ingozzi Adichie, whose |
0:36.2 | new children's book, Mama's Sleeping Scarf, was published this fall. And as a special year-end |
0:42.3 | treat, we'll talk to Seth's mom, Hillary Meyers, who gives us some insight into |
0:47.1 | her own reading habits and how she developed her great love of literature. Mama's sleeping scarf is Chimamanda Ingozi Adichie's beautiful new children's |
1:02.2 | picture book and her first foray into writing for a younger |
1:05.5 | audience. |
1:06.8 | She speaks to us about the impetus for the book and reflects on her relationships with her parents |
1:11.7 | and her own daughter. She also talks to us about her daughter's daughter's daughter. on her |
1:13.0 | relationship with her parents and her own daughter. She also talks to us about her daughter's review of her book, |
1:16.0 | what it was like to see the story come to life with the illustrations, |
1:20.0 | and her concerns over whether or not |
1:22.0 | her daughter would share her passion for reading. Now here's my conversation. her Gosei Adichie is the acclaimed author of novels such as Americana and purple |
1:34.2 | habiscus and her first children's book Mama Sleeping Scarf was published |
1:38.0 | earlier this year. To Mamondo, welcome to Late Night Litt. Thank you for being here. |
1:41.6 | Thank you for having me |
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