Rerun: #378 Ashley C. Ford (Feb 2020)

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Education, Arts, Books, News

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Ashley C. Ford is the author of Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir.“For the first time I felt like I had so many more choices in my life than I originally thought I had. That was my first realization that I did not just have to react to the world, that I could be intentional in the world, and just curious about what came back to me.” Thanks to Mailchimp for sponsoring this week's episode. Show notes: @iSmashFizzle ashleycford.net Fortune Favors the Bold podcast 5:00 "Roger Loves Chaz" (Roger Ebert • Sep 2012) 11:34 The Giver (Lois Lowry • Houghton Mifflin • 1993) 17:47 Ford's commencement speech at Ball State 26:09 Ford's archive at Buzzfeed 41:00 "Ashley C. Ford’s Debut Memoir ‘Somebody’s Daughter’ Finds Home at Flatiron" (Paperback Paris • 2018) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Max, Aaron and Evan and I are off this week, so we're putting one of my favorite
0:10.8	episodes back down through the feed.
0:13.2	It's a conversation I had with the writer and podcaster Ashley C Ford back in February
0:18.8	of 2020.
0:19.8	It was one of the last interviews I did before things shut down, and at the time, Ashley
0:24.8	was finishing up her first book, a memoir about her childhood, which was defined by
0:29.8	the sort of looming presence of her dad, who was incarcerated.
0:34.7	The book is called Somebody's Daughter, and it's out now.
0:37.3	It came out last month, and it immediately hit the New York Times bestsellers list.
0:41.4	It got all kinds of incredible reviews.
0:44.2	The book is great.
0:45.2	You should go get a copy.
0:46.4	I also recommend the audio book, Ashley reads it herself, and as you'll hear, she just
0:51.2	got a fantastic voice.
0:53.6	So here's my conversation from February 2020 with Ashley C Ford.
0:57.7	It starts with maybe my favorite first five minutes in the history of the show.
1:02.5	Enjoy it, and we'll be back with a new episode next week.
1:08.3	All right, I can hear me.
1:15.5	I can hear you.
1:16.5	Yeah, I can hear you tell them.
1:17.5	I'm making a podcast.
1:18.5	We're making a podcast.
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