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hi this is zibi owens and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby.

Formerly, moms don't have time to read books.

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Zibby Owens. Welcome back to Totally Book. I am so excited to be talking to so many contributors

and the editor, Michelle Philgate, of What My Father and I don't talk About, 16 Writers, Break the Silence, and I'm here with Kelly McMasters and Joanna Rakoff as well. Such a treat. Oh, my gosh. Thank you so much for having this. Oh, that's so much fun. Okay, I'm going to read quickly all of their bios, like really, really fast, so that you know who they are. Michelle Philgate is the editor of

what my mother and I don't talk about. Her writing has appeared in Long Reads, Poets and Writers,

the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Paris Review. I'm going to

just stop. And many other publications, she received her MFA and fiction from NYU, where she was

the recipient of the Stein Fellowship. Michelle teaches writing at the new school. We also have Joanna Rakoff. I hope these are alphabetical. And if not, you need... Okay, okay, okay. Okay, Joanna Rakoff. And by the way, all of these authors have been on my podcast before, and I love them all. Joanna Rakoff is the author of the international bestselling memoir, My Salinger Year,

and the bestselling novel, A Fortune Age, winner of the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction

and the L. Reader's Prize.

Rekhov's books have been translated into 20 languages, and the film adaptation of My Salinger

Year opened in theaters worldwide in 2021 and is now streaming, which I saw.

She has been the recipient of fellowships and residences from McDowell, Yado, Malay Arts,

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