Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.

I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.

Our books are already out now.

You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.

And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle

features.

That's at Zibbymag.com.

We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.

And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop

at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of

our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018.

And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy. Mona Simpson is the author of Commitment, a novel.

Mona was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, then moved to Los Angeles as a young teenager. Her father

was a recent immigrant from Syria, and her mother was the daughter of a mink farmer and the first

person in her family to attend college. Simpson went to Berkeley where she studied poetry.

She worked as a journalist before moving to New York to attend Columbia's MFA program.

During graduate school, she published her first short stories in plowshares,

the Iowa Review, and Mademoiselle. She stayed in New York and worked as an editor at the Paris

Review for five years while finishing her first novel, anywhere but here. After that, she wrote

The Lost Father, A Regular Guy, Off Keck Road, My Hollywood, and Casebook. Her work has been awarded

several prizes, a Whiting Prize, a Guggenheim, a grant from the N.A., a hotter fellowship from Princeton University, a Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Prize, a Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, Penn Faulkner finalist, and most recently a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Santa Monica with her two

...