Sarah Langan, GOOD NEIGHBORS

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Sarah Langan reignites Zibby's inner psychology major as the two discuss the social experiments that inspired Sarah's new book Good Neighbors, why she wanted to create a sympathetic narcissist as her main character, and how we can all better understand troublesome people.

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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,
0:12.2	which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to a quarantine anthology.
0:16.8	All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research.
0:20.4	And I'm the editor-in-chief of Moms Don't Have Time to Write a new publication on Medium.
0:25.0	And we're accepting submissions, so please send your personal essays there.
0:29.1	And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens.
0:32.9	And my website is Zibby Owens.com.
0:34.8	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:40.3	Sarah Langen is the author of Good Neighbors, a novel. Sarah grew up on Long Island in a town called Garden City, but not on a
0:45.6	crescent bordering a park, which you will understand if you read the book. She got her MFA in
0:50.5	creative writing from Columbia University and also received her master's in environmental
0:54.6	health science slash toxicology from New York University. She currently lives in Los Angeles
0:59.5	with her husband and daughters and has received three Bram Stoker Awards. Her work has also
1:04.8	been included in Best of the Year lists and anthologies. She's a founding member of the Shirley
1:09.1	Jackson Awards and works in both film and prose.
1:12.6	This is her fourth novel, and it was a Barnes and Noble book club pick.
1:16.8	Welcome, Sarah. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss
1:21.4	good neighbors. Thank you. You're welcome. And congratulations on this being a Barnes and Noble
1:27.4	book club pick. I know you're
1:29.1	excited for your event with Jillian Flynn. That's so exciting. I'm really excited. It feels unreal.
1:35.3	Like, I think I'll believe it happened like a year from now. It's all on Zoom.
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