New York Times bestselling author!! Jean Hanff Korelitz, THE SEQUEL
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
New York Times bestselling author Jean Hanff Korelitz joins Zibby to discuss THE SEQUEL, a deliciously fun, witty, and suspenseful read that gives readers an antihero to root for while illuminating and satirizing the world of publishing. Jean delves into her book’s meta elements, its dark humor, and how it plays off the success of her previous novel, THE PLOT. She also reflects on the quirks of the literary world, from book signings to writers’ residencies, and analyzes the motivations behind her morally complex characters. Finally, she touches on the pressures of being an author and the catharsis of writing about dark, transgressive behavior.
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| 0:43.1 | Jean Hamph Correlitz is the author of the sequel, a novel. I'm delighted to have her back on the |
| 0:47.9 | podcast today. Gene is the New York Times best-selling author of the novels The Plot and the |
| 0:53.5 | latecomer, |
| 0:56.5 | both of which are being adapted as limited series. |
| 1:00.7 | You Should Have Known, which aired on HBO in October of 2020, as The Undoing, |
| 1:03.8 | starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, and Donald Sutherland. |
| 1:09.6 | Admission was adapted as a film in 2013 starring Tina Faye, The Devil and Webster, |
| 1:16.1 | The White Rose, the Sabbath Day River, and a jury of her peers, as well as Interference Powder, a novel for children. |
| 1:22.2 | Her company, Book the Writer, hosts pop-up book groups in which small groups of readers discuss new books with their authors. |
| 1:26.1 | She lives in New York City with her husband, Irish poet Paul Muldoon. |
| 1:47.7 | Welcome back, Jean. Thanks so much for coming on Mom's No Time to read books to discuss the sequel. Oh, my gosh. I love this book. I was so excited to see the cover when you showed it to me in secret and then to be able to dig in and read it and devour. Oh, my gosh. It was so good. I know. It's the most meta cover I've ever seen, which is, of course, totally appropriate for the book. |
| 1:40.0 | it's the most meta book i mean it is it's the most meta book i was like even the scenes when you |
| 1:46.3 | you talked about how people wait till the end of the signing line to like really get in there and |
| 1:50.9 | talk to you i've mentioned that now to a couple of booksellers and everything and they're like |
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