Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters, WANTING: Women Writing About Desire

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🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Zibby speaks to author-editors Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters about Wanting: Women Writing About Desire, an intimate, daring, and impassioned collection of essays by award-winning and emerging female writers, such as Joanna Rakoff, Lisa Taddeo, Tara Conklin, and Michelle Wildgen (a Zibby Books author!!). The three discuss the origins of this project, the unique experience of editing and compiling an anthology, and the particular essays that Zibby cannot stop thinking about, from Joanna Rakoff’s breathtaking encounter with an old love to Michelle Wildgen’s mouthwatering descriptions of bread and cheese!

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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
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.
0:58.4	Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Today's episode is with Margo Khan and Kelly McMasters, who are the editors of wanting
1:04.5	women writing about desire. And by the way, can I just say, happy Valentine's Day to everybody
1:10.1	out there. I hope you're having a great day. I have lots of lists for great books to read for Valentine's Day. And I just, I don't know, I've always loved this holiday. And I hope that you can give some chocolate hearts to somebody who's meant something to you in your life. And I don't know. I think a day celebrating the people we love
1:28.0	is really awesome. So happy Valentine's Day to all of you. Anyway, okay, Margo Khan is the author of
1:33.7	the biography Horses That Buck, winner of the 2008 High Plains Book Award. Her poetry chat book,
1:40.1	A Quiet Day with the West on Fire, was the finalist for Floating Bridge Press's 2021 prize.
1:46.0	Together with Kelly McMasters, she's co-editor of two anthologies, The New York Times
1:50.2	Editor's Choice Collection, This is the Place, Women Writing About Home, and now wanting
1:55.0	women writing about desire. I have to go back now and read, This Is the Place.
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