Lauren Edmondson, WEDDING OF THE SEASON

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Zibby speaks to author and repeat MDHTTRB guest Lauren Edmondson about Wedding of the Season, an atmospheric, joyous, and witty new novel about a Newport family, their fading riches, and the summer wedding that has the whole town talking, including the local gossip blog. Lauren talks about her fascination with old-money American families and the places they seclude themselves in, and describes her protagonist, Cass, who cannot escape her Vanderbilt-esque name, doesn’t actually have that much money, and is begrudgingly involved in her sister’s high society wedding. She also reveals how challenging it was to write this book with a newborn baby and postpartum anxiety, explaining that it took falling in love with her characters (and taking Lexapro!) to get to the finish line.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:06.7	This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.
0:14.9	I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.
0:21.9	Our books are already out now.
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0:25.6	And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle
0:31.2	features.
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0:33.1	We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.
0:35.4	And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop
0:40.3	at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of
0:47.9	our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018.
0:56.5	And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy.
1:03.2	Lauren Edmondson is the author of a wedding of the season, a novel. Lauren has a BA from
1:08.0	Williams College and an MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College.
1:11.7	She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and two children. Ladies of the House was her
1:16.3	first novel and is now followed by Wedding of the Season. And actually, Lauren is going to be doing
1:20.9	an event with several of our Zivie books authors at the Ocean House in Wachill, Rhode Island, this August 23rd. So save the date.
1:32.3	Welcome, Lauren. Thank you so much for coming back on Mom's start up time to read books this time for
1:36.8	wedding of the season. Thank you so much for having me. It's so good to be back and it's so good to see you.
1:47.0	You too. This is like another ad for the Ocean House, though, I have to say. Right. Which I love and is one of like my favorite places.
1:53.7	So beautiful. And I love the way you write about it in in the book. I hope you're having an event
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