PEN USA award-winning author! Victor Lodato, HONEY
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
PEN USA Award-winning author Victor Lodato chats with Zibby about HONEY, a masterful and utterly enchanting novel about Honey Fasinga, an unforgettable heroine who escapes her mob family at 17 and reinvents herself as a stylish personality in the LA art world… but returns home decades later to settle old scores and confront family ghosts. Victor reveals who inspired this character and how he was able to capture the voice of an 82-year-old woman so perfectly. He also touches on his transition from theater to novel writing and describes his fascinating creative process, which always starts with a character’s voice.
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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. |
| 0:21.8 | Learn more at zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zivie Owens or join the community at |
| 0:28.4 | Zibby Readers. |
| 0:31.5 | Victor Lodado is the author of Honey, a novel. |
| 0:34.9 | Victor is a playwright and the author also of the novels Edgar and Lucy |
| 0:38.6 | and Matilda Savage, winner of the Penn USA Award for Fiction. He is the recipient of |
| 0:44.6 | fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His |
| 0:48.7 | stories and essays regularly appear in the New Yorker, New York Times, Granta, and elsewhere. |
| 0:53.8 | His novels and plays have been |
| 0:54.9 | translated into 18 languages. Born and raised in New Jersey, he now lives in Oregon and Arizona. |
| 1:00.8 | His third novel, Honey, just came out and was one of Mary Calvey's CBS Book Club Picks. |
| 1:08.8 | Welcome, Victor. Thanks so much for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to read books to |
| 1:12.4 | discuss. Honey. Congratulations. Thank you, Zibi. This cover. Oh my gosh. I mean the book, but the cover, |
| 1:18.9 | the whole, you're like right in the tradwife moment, you know, the resurgence of the furs. |
| 1:24.6 | I mean, this could not come out at a better time. Are you sort of pleased with the way |
| 1:27.9 | life is gone? Yeah, it's lovely. In fact, I just wish the cover had actual fur on it, so it would be kind of da-da. Oh, yeah. That would be very cool. Maybe you could make just one like that, you know, a special giveaway. Yeah, exactly. That would be very cool. Why don't you tell listeners what Honey is about? Oh, boy. Well, |
| 1:46.1 | Honey grew up in a mob family and she escaped at 17 and became this sort of stylish figure in the |
| 1:54.0 | LAR world. And then in 82, she decides for various reasons to go back to New Jersey to settle some |
| 2:00.7 | scores and put some old |
| 2:02.0 | ghost to bed. And then the interaction with her family who's still in the mob sort of fuels the |
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