Mindy Kaling Pick!! Sheila Yasmin Marikar, FRIENDS IN NAPA

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Zibby speaks to Sheila Yasmin Marikar about FRIENDS IN NAPA, an unputdownable dark comedy about six old friends who descend on Napa Valley for a luxurious weekend of fine wine and good times… until old tensions simmer to the surface, and one friend ends up dead. Sheila discusses her transition from journalism to fiction writing, her collaboration with Mindy Kaling’s Book Studio, the inspiration behind this White Lotus-esque satirical novel, and how she developed her fun cast of characters and setting. And, in the end, she shares her best advice for aspiring authors!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and I am the host of this podcast. Moms don't have time to read books.
0:08.1	I am also a newly minted USA Today bestselling author of the novel, Blank.
0:14.2	I've created a whole community of book lovers around this podcast, a publishing company, reading retreats, a bookstore, and more.
0:21.9	Learn more at Zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zibby Owens or join the community at
0:28.4	Zibi Readers.
0:31.3	Sheila Yasmin Marikar is the author of Friends in Napa, a novel.
0:36.2	Sheila is the author also of The Goddess Effect.
0:39.2	She is a frequent contributor to the New Yorker, the New York Times, The Economist,
0:43.5	Fortune, Bloomberg Businessweek, Fogue, and many other publications.
0:47.4	Her New York Times Magazine profile of the chef, Gagan Anand, was selected for the
0:52.0	2021 edition of Best American Food Writing.
0:55.2	Sheila began her career at ABC News, a native of New Jersey.
0:58.7	She is a graduate of Cornell University, where she studied history.
1:02.0	She lives in Los Angeles with her husband.
1:04.2	Welcome, Sheila.
1:05.1	Thank you so much for coming on Mom's Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss your latest novel, Friends in Napa, which is a Mindy's book studio pick or publication.
1:15.4	Thank you so much for having me, Zibi. It's a pleasure to be here.
1:19.2	And we both work with Carmen Johnson, who's like my favorite person.
1:23.8	She is wonderful. And I just got to meet her in person for the first time a couple of weeks ago in New York at my launch event there. And what a delightful. It was just delightful. And I feel like she knows me front to back, despite us never having been in the same room. Yes. It's very nice having an editor who kind of gets the writing and all the stuff. And as I was reading yours, I was like, oh, I love this writing style. Like this, I get this is like, I'm, of course, like, Carmen is drawn to this as well. Because I am too. Anyway, it's great. Well, it's very similar to what, to your style in blank. You know, you just, you drop in and there you are,
2:02.9	and these are characters that could be your best friends or your sister or they're just people.
2:09.0	I like to write people that I feel like I meet in life. You know, they're not in an ivory tower
2:14.4	somewhere like looking down on the rest of civilization.
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