Lydia Millet, DINOSAURS: A Novel
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Zibby interviews Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Lydia Millet about Dinosaurs, a witty new novel about a heartbroken man who walks from New York to Arizona and finds himself living next to a glass-walled house through which he can closely observe his neighbors. Lydia talks about her protagonist Gil’s voyeurism, loneliness, wry sense of humor, and unique friendships. She also discusses the inspiration behind this story, her journey to becoming a writer (from short-lived dreams of opera singing to numerous writing accolades), and the challenges of writing a memoir (which she wrote but hasn't published just yet!).
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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, |
| 0:42.2 | and that is what we're going to do. |
| 0:44.4 | Also, be sure to check out all the other podcasts |
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| 1:00.9 | Lydia Millay is the author of Dinosaurs. |
| 1:04.1 | Lydia has written more than a dozen novels and story collections. |
| 1:09.2 | Her novel, A Children's Bible, was a New York Times best 10 books of 2020 selection and shortlisted for the National Book Award. |
| 1:12.2 | In 2019, her story collection, Fight No More, received an award of merit from the American |
| 1:17.4 | Academy of Arts and Letters. And her collection, Love and Infant Monkeys, was a finalist |
| 1:22.3 | for the Pulitzer Prize in 2010. She writes essays, opinion pieces, book reviews, and other ephemera, and has worked as an |
| 1:29.1 | editor and staff writer at the Center for Biological Diversity since 1999. She lives in the desert |
| 1:34.5 | outside Tucson with her family. Welcome, Lydia. Thank you so much for coming on moms don't have |
| 1:39.1 | time to read books to discuss dinosaurs, a novel. Well, I'm happy to be here. And of course, dinosaurs is referring to the fact that we all, when we were growing up, |
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