Mary Laura Philpott: ...pondering life, death, and everything in between

Nobody Told Me!

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🗓️ 30 April 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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One of the things most of us come to terms with in life is that there is so little we can control. As a result, we may worry, hold our breath and wonder when the next crisis may occur. Our guest on this episode, author Mary Laura Philpott has spent a lot of time pondering life and death, and everything in between.

You may know Mary Laura from her bestselling book, "I Miss You When I Blink", or from her writing in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other respected outlets. Her latest book is called, "Bomb Shelter: Love, Time and other Explosives".

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:11.3	I'm Laura Owens.
0:12.5	And I'm Jan Black.
0:13.9	One of the things most of us come to terms within life is that there's so little that we can control.
0:19.9	As a result, we may worry or hold our breath
0:22.7	and wonder when the next crisis may occur. Our guest on this episode, author Mary Laura Philpott,
0:29.2	has spent a lot of time pondering life and death and everything in between. Now, you may know Mary
0:34.3	Laura from her bestselling book, I miss you when I blink, or from her writing in the New York Times, The Washington Post, and other respected outlets.
0:42.7	Her latest book is called Bomb Shelter, Love, Time, and Other Explosives.
0:48.7	Mary Laura, thank you so much for joining us.
0:51.3	Of course. Thank you for having me.
0:53.1	What's behind the title of the book? And why did
0:56.2	you decide to write it? Thank you. I sort of love the title. This was not the original title of
1:02.9	the book. That's why I say I love it because it came to me a little later in the process.
1:06.6	I was writing, well, let me back up. Let me tell you a little bit about what the book is about
1:11.1	so that this will make sense in context. So bomb shelter is a memoir, a slice of life memoir about a
1:17.5	two-year period in my life where a lot of the things that had been stable in my life were
1:23.5	beginning to destabilize. My parents were getting older. My children had turned into
1:28.7	teenagers and would soon be leaving the nest. And that felt like a huge change for me to get used
1:34.0	to. I had become this middle-aged person with all of these various middle-aged maladies.
1:41.2	So I was kind of writing through this time of change in life.
1:45.4	And then something happened that kind of kicked it all into a different gear,
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