Sanjena Sathian, GOLD DIGGERS
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
"It's just really hard to locate yourself as an Asian American in American history. Even though you might have been here, you were just always floating in the periphery of historical vision." Sanjena Sathian talks with Zibby about all of the elements that make up her debut novel, Gold Diggers: their conversation ranges from discussing the research on the alchemical traditions that support the book's magic to how the 29-year old built her novel out of a failed short story at the Iowa Writer's Workshop at the recommendation of her roommate.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology, |
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| 0:35.0 | Okay, now back to this amazing podcast. |
| 0:40.1 | Sanjana Sathian is the author of Gold Diggers, a novel, a Paul and Daisy Soros fellow. Sanjana is a 2019 graduate of the Iowa |
| 0:46.3 | Riders Workshop. She has worked as a reporter in Mumbai and San Francisco, with nonfiction |
| 0:50.9 | bylines for the New Yorker, the New York Times, Food and Wine, the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, and more. And her award-winning short fiction has been published in Boulevard, Joyland, Salt Hare, and the Masters Review. Welcome, Sanjana. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss gold diggers. Thank you for having me. This is kind of a legendary podcast, so I'm really |
| 1:11.8 | glad to be included. Legendary. I don't know about that. We've had better blurbs than most |
| 1:17.5 | authors do. But yeah, I really enjoyed your interview too with Chang Re. I'm like running behind |
| 1:23.2 | him on all the interviews. So I keep talking to people who have just talked to him, which is incredibly |
| 1:28.2 | intimidating. I had so much fun talking to him. I kept like joking around. Sometimes with like people |
| 1:34.3 | are really, you know, important or literary or whatever. I just have to like lighten the mood. I |
| 1:39.5 | don't know. Maybe. I don't know. Yes. So happy to have you tread behind him that's awesome okay so senjana you are |
| 1:49.4 | only 29 years old and that is insanely amazing that you have written this novel gold diggers |
| 1:55.1 | which is great and like the cover which is very festive and warm and inviting and someplace you just like want to |
| 2:04.1 | hang out. That's sort of how I felt about your whole book. The characters are very relatable and you just |
| 2:10.0 | want to sort of insert yourself into into the fray and not miss out. So tell me a little bit about |
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