Sarah Ruhl, SMILE: The Story of a Face
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Playwright, author, and essayist Sarah Ruhl joined Zibby for a Women on the Move event with the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center to discuss her latest book, Smile. Sarah shared glimpses into what her ten-year journey living with Bell's palsy has been like, how her condition has impacted her relationships with her kids and her mother, and what she is working on now that theaters are opening back up. Zibby and Sarah also connected over having twins and their shared love of essays.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.1 | If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids. |
| 0:12.9 | Check it out, and you'll hear from 49 authors about all sorts of things moms don't have time to do. |
| 0:17.9 | All the authors have been on this podcast. |
| 0:19.7 | Also, check out my TikTok at with Zibby and Tracy, my other podcast Sex Talk with Zivie and Tracy. |
| 0:25.8 | Check out Moms Don't Have Time to Write on Medium. |
| 0:28.5 | And of course, my new publishing company called Zivvy Books. |
| 0:32.3 | And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids. |
| 0:36.9 | Hi. |
| 0:37.4 | Hi. Hi. |
| 0:37.8 | Hello. |
| 0:38.4 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:41.0 | Sarah Ruhl is the author of Smile, the Story of a Face. |
| 0:44.4 | And this is my interview with Sarah as part of the Temple Emmanuel Striker Center, |
| 0:48.9 | Women on the Move event series, which if you aren't familiar with, you should be because I help |
| 0:53.9 | run that series |
| 0:54.9 | with Marjorie Schuster and moderate some of the events. Sarah is a playwright and writer of other |
| 1:01.0 | things. Her 10 plays include in the next room or The Vibrator Play, The Clean House, and |
| 1:06.3 | Uri Dice. She has been a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Tony Award nominee, and the recipient of |
| 1:11.8 | the MacArthur Genius Award. Her plays have been produced on and off Broadway, around the country, |
| 1:16.3 | internationally, and have been translated into over 15 languages. Her book, 100 essays I Don't |
| 1:21.8 | Have Time to Write, was a Times notable book of the year. By the way, I wish I had written that |
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