Laura Hankin, HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Laura Hankin is the debut author Happy & You Know It, a darkly humorous novel set on New York's Upper East Side about a struggling musician who takes a gig as a playgroup entertainer and the clique of moms she comes to know. No one is as perfect as they seem. Laura is also an artist and performer herself. The viral videos that she creates and stars in with her comedy duo, Feminarchy, have been featured in NowThis, The New York Times, and Funny or Die. I don’t know why, but we recorded this episode so long ago (I think in December!!) and joked about what could possibly happen between then and now. Who ever would have imagined?!!? We had a fun conversation about the Upper East Side setting, female friendships, how we judge and label people before we know them, and the in-depth backstories that made her characters so detailed.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms
0:12.3	don't have time to read books. Thanks so much for listening to my podcast. If you like what you
0:16.6	hear, please follow me on Instagram at Zibi Owens and also at Moms Don't Have Time to
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0:26.8	on what I'm up to. Thanks so much for listening. Enjoy it. I'm happy to be partnering today
0:31.1	with this really cool company called Modern Majong because I don't know if any of you know
0:36.2	people who like to play mahjong, but I feel like
0:38.6	groups of mahjong playing women are sprouting up everywhere I look. Maybe your mom plays or your
0:44.0	grandma or your aunt or your daughter or your college roommates' mom. Somebody plays mahjong,
0:50.5	and if they do, you should go to modern mahjong and get them a vintage
0:54.3	mahjong dice set, which the co-founders, Dara and Donna, decided they would put together
1:02.6	and start selling when they found a lot of vintage mahjong sets.
1:05.8	And they also are doing lots of fundraisers for Alzheimer's and donate a dollar per pair of purple jokerless
1:13.0	lotus dot dice sold check out modern mahjong and get this set why not i'm here today with
1:19.2	laura hankin who's the author of novel happy and you know it she's written for mcsweenies and huff
1:24.4	post among other publications the viral videos that she creates and stars in with her comedy duo Feminarchy have been featured in Now This, The New York Times, and Funny or Die. She grew up in Washington, D.C., attended Princeton University, and now lives in New York City, where she has performed off-Broadway, acted on screen, and sung to far too many babies. Welcome, Laura. Thanks for coming on moms. Don't
1:45.0	have time to read books. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here. So this is so funny
1:49.8	because, and I hope it's okay to say this, so Laura was formerly a children's playgroup musician
1:55.7	in addition to being a Princeton grad and all the rest, wrote this book, Happy and you know it,
2:00.2	which is about a children's
2:02.3	group playgroup musician. And as she got here, it turned out my previous podcast guest was a mom who she
2:09.8	used to sing to, which is so crazy. Yep. And I remember always being like, oh, that woman's really
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