Sarah McColl, Author of JOY ENOUGH

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Sarah McColl is an absolutely beautiful writer whose word choices and sentences I call attention to in our conversation. Her memoir, JOY ENOUGH, was published two days ago (Jan 15, 2018) and is one of the most elegant memoirs I've read, similar to A YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING by Joan Didion. This ode to her mother and examination of their relationship also incorporates Sarah's troubled marriage, her food career and so much else. Listen to us chat, two similar women, recognizing parts of ourselves in each other.

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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.
0:12.2	This episode has been sponsored by Book Hampton.
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0:28.2	I'm really excited to be here today with Sarah McCall, the author of Joy Enough.
0:33.7	Sarah was the founding editor of Yahoo Food.
0:36.2	She has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence and was a McDowell fellow. She was also nominated for a pushcard prize. Sarah's work has been published in House Beautiful, Bon Appetit, the Paris Review, McSweeney's, ModernLoss.com, and other publications. She currently lives in Los Angeles. So welcome, Sarah. Thanks so much for coming on moms.
0:54.3	Don't have time to read books.
0:55.6	Thank you for having me.
0:57.0	It's such a pleasure.
0:57.9	I just finished your book as I was telling you,
0:59.9	and I have a million things to ask you,
1:01.8	and I'm so excited that you're here.
1:03.2	So thanks so much for coming.
1:04.2	You're my first interview.
1:06.0	Really?
1:06.3	Yes, so I'm very excited too.
1:07.9	I'm very excited too. I'm very gentle. I'll be very kind. I knew you were a good way to start.
1:12.6	So can you start by just telling listeners what Joy Enough is about?
1:16.5	Yeah, I felt growing up like I was compared to my mom a lot.
1:20.6	Probably this is a common experience for girls, but people, whether they were family members or my mom's friends, would say, you're just like your mother,
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