Maria Hummel, GOLDENSEAL

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Maria Hummel joins Zibby to discuss GOLDENSEAL, an utterly inventive novel that burns with atmosphere, mystery, and resentment, as two estranged friends reunite to confront each other. Maria provides insights into her inspiration for the novel (it involves LA's art and hotel culture) and then discusses the themes she enjoyed exploring: aging, loneliness, friendship, and the impact of historical events. She also talks about her creative process, the emotional toll of writing about characters dealing with tragedy, the excitement of her last novel being a Reese’s Book Club pick, and what she is working on next!

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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.
0:21.9	Our books are already out now.
0:23.5	You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.
0:25.6	And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle
0:31.2	features.
0:31.8	That's at Zibbymag.com.
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 one one one three montana avenue at 11th street in san monica i hope that you are able to
0:47.0	enjoy some of our other offerings but this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in
0:53.3	2018 and no matter what i do this is basically my of all of it and started in 2018. And no matter what I do, this is basically
0:56.5	my favorite thing. Enjoy.
1:03.2	Maria Hummel is the author of five novels, including Still Lives, a Reese's book club pick,
1:08.9	and now Golden Seal. Her poetry collection, House and Fire,
1:12.1	won the APR Hanukman Prize. She lives in Vermont. Welcome, Maria. Thank you so much for coming
1:17.4	on moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss your latest novel, Golden Seal. Welcome.
1:21.7	Thank you. I don't know if you can see my, can you see my background? I can see your background.
1:27.3	So that is the Millennium
1:28.9	Biltmore's Crystal Ballroom, which was in the scene, towards the end of the book where Lacey
1:35.0	kind of spins alone under the chandeliers. And I found, this is a 1951 photo, but it hasn't changed much.
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