Mary Laura Philpott, BOMB SHELTER: Love, Time, and Other Explosives
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Mary Laura Philpott returns to discuss her latest memoir, Bomb Shelter, which was selected as an Editor’s Choice by the New York Times Book Review. Mary Laura tells Zibby about her mental spatial awareness and how it informs her sentence structure, the main themes that thread the chapters of this book together, and why she loves discovering art she didn't initially think she would enjoy. Mary Laura also shares what it's like to write a memoir and have strangers connect with it while not necessarily realizing that they don't fully know you.
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| 0:23.8 | Hi, this is Vivi Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast. Moms don't have time to read books. And speaking of books, I have two of my own books coming out this spring and summer. Princess Charming is a picture book, which debuts on April 19th. And Bookends, a memoir of love, loss, and literature comes out on July 1st, and it is truly a labor of love. |
| 0:28.2 | I hope you'll pre-order, order, and join me on tour as I go across the country. |
| 0:34.1 | You can find out more at zibbyowens.com or bookendsmemoir.com. And you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens because I always post about everything. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:41.2 | Mary Laura Philpott is the author of Bomb Shelter, Love, Time, and Other Exclusives. |
| 0:46.5 | Mary Laura was the author of the national bestseller, I Miss You When I Blink. She writes essays that |
| 0:51.4 | examine the overlap of the absurd and the profound in everyday life. |
| 0:55.2 | Her writing has been featured frequently by The New York Times and appears in such outlets as The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Real Simple, and more. |
| 1:02.0 | A former bookseller, she also hosted an interview program on Nashville Public Television for several years. |
| 1:07.6 | Mary Laura lives in Nashville, Tennessee with her family. |
| 1:10.4 | Welcome, Mary Laura. Thank you so |
| 1:12.6 | much for coming back on moms don't have time to read books to discuss bomb shelter, love time, |
| 1:17.3 | and other explosives. Thank you, Zibby. And explosive is a perfect word for the success of this book. |
| 1:24.9 | You were here in New York at the beginning of your tour, which started off |
| 1:28.9 | with a lot of airplane issues and all of that. And I feel like, you know, the universe is like shaking |
| 1:35.6 | you around good, bad, up, down sideways as you go through this tour. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, |
| 1:42.9 | people keep asking like, how is book tour going post |
| 1:45.7 | COVID? And I'm like, you know, what I have learned is we are not really quite post COVID. The world is |
| 1:50.8 | pretty functional, but you know, we got to be flexible and things, travel changes. Sometimes |
| 1:57.1 | you've got to switch out a moderator because somebody gets sick at home or whatever. |
| 2:01.6 | But it's, I mean, you know, that is kind of what I write about rolling with uncertainty and keeping spirits up. |
| 2:08.6 | So that's true. |
| 2:09.4 | I guess I'm on theme. |
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