Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and this is Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

As a mom of four kids in New York City and a writer myself, I know all too well how short everyone is on time, so I'm here to help.

I'm going to interview authors and writers of all types about their work, especially as it

relates to parenting and family issues. Hopefully you can listen while doing 8 million other

things and fall in love with these talented scribes in their fantastic books, essays, and songs

like I have, plus get some tips on surviving parenthood.

For more about me, you can check out my essays at zibby Owens.com.

I'm here today with Native New Yorker Piper Weiss, who's the author of the newly

released and super popular book called You All Grow Up and Leave Me, a Memoir of Teenage

Obsession, a former editor at Yahoo, Hello

Giggles of the New York Daily News. Piper is now writing full time. She also wrote a book about

how women basically discover their moms or not just moms called My Mom's Style Icon. She

currently lives in Brooklyn. So welcome Piper. Thank you so much for having me, Zibby. I'm excited to be here.

That's awesome. Just to get started, can you give listeners a little synopsis of what this book is about?

Sure. The book is about kind of a coming-of-age memoir about growing up in 90s Manhattan on the Upper East Side and also

a research and reported narrative about a tennis coach that I had at the time who turned out

to be a child stalker.

And the child stalker's name was Gary Wulenski.

That's right.

At the beginning of the book, you have a scene with your poet ex-boyfriend, who you described in such a great way, when you're attempting to write about a statute together, and then you

decide that's a total waste of time time and instead you want to write a book

about your experience with Gary Wenski. Can you tell me more about how you came up with the idea in

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