Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize! Betsy Lerner, SHRED SISTERS
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Zibby interviews celebrated author (and veteran literary agent and editor) Betsy Lerner about SHRED SISTERS, her wry, intimate, riveting, and bittersweet debut novel about family, mental illness, and sisterhood. Betsy calls the novel a “love letter to loneliness” while reflecting on her own experiences in New York during her twenties. She shares other personal connections to this story, from the loss of her mother to her own bipolar diagnosis to her complex relationships with her sisters. At the end of the episode, she reveals what she is working on next and shares her best advice for aspiring writers.
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| 0:38.2 | Thanks for listening. |
| 0:43.3 | Betsy Lerner is the author of Shred Sisters. |
| 0:46.8 | Betsy is the author also of The Forest for the Trees, Food and Loathing, and the Bridge Ladies. |
| 0:52.5 | She is also the co-author with Temple Grandin of three New York Times bestsellers, including visual thinking. |
| 0:58.3 | Betsy received an MFA from Columbia University in poetry. |
| 1:01.6 | She is a literary agent and partner at Dunnow, Carson, and Ler Literary Agency. |
| 1:06.4 | Shred Sisters is her first novel. |
| 1:08.5 | And by the way, I read Food and Loathing and The Bridge Ladies |
| 1:11.1 | when they both came out and obsessed. Welcome, Betsy. Thank you so much for coming on |
| 1:16.5 | Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss Shred Sisters, your debut novel. Congratulations. |
| 1:22.5 | Thank you. Thank you. Can you please tell listeners what your book is about? |
| 1:27.3 | Absolutely. It is about a toxic sister relationship. Thank you. Can you please tell listeners what your book is about? Absolutely. |
| 1:28.1 | It is about a toxic sister relationship. |
| 1:31.4 | That's the overriding story over 20 years. |
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