Maggie Smith, YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL: A Memoir
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Bestselling poet and repeat MDHTTRB guest Maggie Smith joins Zibby to discuss You Could Make This Place Beautiful, a beautiful and heartrending memoir-in-vignettes about how she reckoned with her past and found herself again after the disintegration of her marriage. Maggie discusses her book’s unique structure and style. She also talks about her divorce, parenting, the power of home and community, her hobbies, her next few projects (one is an anti-anxiety bedtime story!), and the writers who inspired her to take risks in her own work.
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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. |
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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. Maggie Smith is the author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful, |
| 1:06.6 | a memoir. This is actually one of the book club picks that I have selected for Zivis Book Club. |
| 1:13.1 | You can go to Zivisbookclub.com and join the virtual club or we're starting chapters all |
| 1:18.2 | over the place. So if you are interested in starting a chapter, just go to the website, |
| 1:22.6 | check it out and fill out the quick form. And I will get back to you with the whole PDF of what |
| 1:26.8 | you need to do next. We're really excited to be partnering with so many people. But anyway, our club is going to be reading Maggie Smith so you could make this place beautiful. A memoir. She is also the author of Good Bones, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, Lamp of the Body, and the National Best Sellers, Golden Rod, and Keep Moving, notes on lost creativity and change. |
| 1:45.6 | A 2011 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, |
| 1:50.8 | Maggie has also received several individual excellence awards from the Ohio Arts Council, |
| 1:56.4 | two Academy of American Poet Prizes, a Pushcard Prize, and the fellowships from the Sustainable Arts |
| 2:02.5 | Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been widely published, appearing in |
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