Rachel Beanland, THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 10 April 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Zibby speaks to award-winning author and repeat MDHTTRB guest Rachel Beanland about The House is on Fire, a propulsive work of historical fiction about a fire that ravaged a theater mid-performance and forever entwined the lives of four very different Americans: a young stagehand, a society widow, an enslaved woman, and a blacksmith. Rachel talks about her meticulous research of the real 1811 Richmond fire and her use of fiction to fill in the gaps in the historical records and create a gripping narrative. She also talks about what it was like to write this book mid-pandemic, her ultimate goal of giving a voice to those who were rarely written about, and the books she has read recently and loved.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:06.7	This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.
0:14.9	I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.
0:21.9	Our books are already out now, and you can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.
0:25.6	And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle
0:31.2	features. That's at Zibbymag.com.
0:33.1	We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.
0:35.4	And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop
0:40.3	at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of
0:47.9	our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018.
0:56.5	And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy. Rachel B. Land is the author of The House is on Fire.
1:06.3	Rachel is also the author of Florence Adler Swims Forever. She is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and earned her MFA in creative writing from Virginia Commonwealth University.
1:17.2	She lives with her husband and three children in Richmond, Virginia.
1:20.4	And Florence Adler Swims Forever is a winner of one of the Jewish Book Award prizes.
1:24.8	Welcome, Rachel.
1:25.7	Thank you so much for coming back on moms. Don't have
1:28.1	time to read books to discuss The House is on Fire, the novel. Thank you so much for having me.
1:34.8	Okay. Thanks for being here. As you know, I love Florence Adler Slims forever. We had such good
1:40.2	talks about it. It was so successful and won all these awards and you must have been so
1:44.7	excited. And now this is a totally different direction, much further back in the past.
1:49.2	Yep. Strict historical fiction with so much research. I can't believe how deep you dove into
1:54.8	all of it, like all of the resources that you used and recreating people's lives. And I have to
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