Stephanie Clifford, THE FAREWELL TOUR
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Zibby speaks to award-winning investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Clifford about The Farewell Tour, a shimmering and heartbreakingly authentic country-music saga about one woman achieving stardom in a world dominated by men. Stephanie describes her unforgettable protagonist (who was inspired by her grandmother!) and the fascinating research she conducted to get it all right – from studying a farmer’s journal from 1910 to speaking to several doctors about vocal cord polyps. She also talks about her career in journalism, gaining the courage to transition to fiction, her go-to authors, and how her next book is coming along.
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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. |
| 0:06.7 | This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes. |
| 0:14.9 | I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir. |
| 0:21.9 | Our books are already out now. |
| 0:23.5 | You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com. |
| 0:25.6 | And we have a magazine called ZibbyMag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle |
| 0:31.2 | features. |
| 0:31.8 | That's at Zibbymag.com. |
| 0:33.1 | We have classes at Zippy Classes.com. |
| 0:35.4 | And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop |
| 0:40.3 | at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of |
| 0:47.9 | our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018. |
| 0:56.1 | And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy it. Stephanie Clifford is the author of The Farewell |
| 1:05.5 | Tour, a novel. Stephanie is an investigative journalist and a best-selling novelist. As a New York |
| 1:10.7 | Times reporter for almost a decade, she covered courts, business, and media. She now writes long-form investigations about criminal justice and business for the Times, the New Yorker, The Economist, The Atlantic, Wired, L. Esquire, Bloomberg Business Week, and other publications. Her accolades include the Loeb Award in Investigative Reporting, |
| 1:28.0 | the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in Explanatory Reporting, and a New York |
| 1:32.4 | Press Club award. Everybody Rise, her first book was a New York Times bestseller, and New York Times |
| 1:37.8 | Book Review Editor's Choice. She grew up in Washington State, graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, |
| 1:42.8 | and lives in Brooklyn with her family. |
| 1:48.0 | Welcome, Stephanie. Thanks so much for coming on Mom's Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss the Farewell Tour, a novel. I'm so glad to be here. Oh, thanks for coming. Can you please |
| 1:54.2 | tell listeners what your book is about? Yeah, it opens in 1980 when Lillian Waters, a sort of washed up hard-talking country music stars on her |
| 2:04.5 | final tour. And you see her, she's been diagnosed with career-ending vocal problems. She knows this |
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