Lauren McBrayer, LIKE A HOUSE ON FIRE
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
"I gave myself permission through the book to explore the questions I would've been terrified to ask in real life. I think that's the gift of writing." Zibby is joined by Lauren McBrayer to discuss her first adult novel, Like a House on Fire, which was already a Belletrist Book Club pick. The two also talk about how Lauren's initial desire to write a memoir metamorphosed into her writing the story of her future which inspired her to leave her marriage and come out as a lesbian. Lauren also shares how the two main characters came to her fully formed exactly three years before the book's pub date, the moment she knew she needed to make changes in her life in order to find happiness, and why she decided to make the shift from YA to adult fiction.
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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. |
| 0:07.8 | Thank you so much called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:10.7 | It is a daily podcast 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or |
| 0:21.1 | less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this |
| 0:25.9 | podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, |
| 0:31.8 | wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can |
| 0:37.4 | learn more about me at Zibby Owens.com, |
| 0:39.5 | but really you're here to learn more about the authors, |
| 0:42.3 | and that is what we're going to do. |
| 0:44.4 | Also, be sure to check out all the other podcasts |
| 0:46.9 | in the ZCast Podcast Network. |
| 0:49.4 | You can learn more at ZCastnetwork.com |
| 0:51.9 | and definitely check out those shows as well. |
| 0:58.6 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Laura McBrayer is the author of Like a House on Fire. |
| 1:02.0 | She is a graduate of Yale with a law degree from UC Berkeley. |
| 1:05.1 | A working mom of three, she is the head of business affairs for an entertainment company in |
| 1:09.2 | Los Angeles. |
| 1:10.2 | Like a House on Fire is her adult debut. |
| 1:12.5 | Welcome, Lauren. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss |
| 1:16.6 | Like a House on Fire, a novel. Thank you so much for having me. I don't think I've read another book |
| 1:23.5 | lately where within just a few pages, I'm like, oh, I would be friends with that person |
| 1:28.6 | writing this book. There's a scene in the beginning where you have one of the, you have like |
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