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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Life as an artist can be full of wonder and joy, but it can also have its fair share of trials and hardships. Dani Shapiro has experienced both, and she's shared many of those moments in her best-selling memoirs. She discusses her life and trying to find the balance between portraying the truth and putting up a mask.

Dani Shapiro is the author of five novels and best-selling memoirs, her most recent of which is titled Hourglass. Her new book, Inheritance will be published this winter. She's also written for magazines such as The New Yorker, The Oprah Magazine, Vogue, and ELLE.

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0:00.0	I mean there's a lot of difficult stuff in hourglass about insecurity and
0:04.9	disappointment and nervousness and you know financial insecurity in particular
0:09.1	and ups and downs and so when I gave the book to my son and he texted me when he was reading
0:15.5	hourglass I'm reading your book I love it it's helping me fall asleep at night.
0:25.8	I texted him back and I was like, are you being a wise I was like, and he wrote back, no, it's making me feel like you and dad are close
0:30.6	by. It was the single best response that I received of all of the
0:35.7	responses I got to Ourglass because it made me realize that I had accomplished
0:39.6	what I hoped to in a human way, which is that my own son who has a front row seat to, you know, this life of ours was able to recognize it in the pages of that book and say, yes, that's my mom and dad.
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