Steven Rowley, THE CELEBRANTS

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Guest host Julie Chavez interviews New York Times bestselling author Steven Rowley about The Celebrants, a funny, tender, and incredibly moving tale about a group of college friends who lose one of their own to suicide and make a pact to throw each other living “funerals” – celebrations to remind themselves that life is worth living. Steven shares how he weaves grief and humor into his writing; what life is like with an author for a husband; his experience narrating his audiobook; and just how brilliant his editor is.

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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 Zibby Mag 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 one one one three montana avenue at 11th street in san monica i hope that you are able to
0:47.0	enjoy some of our other offerings but this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in
0:53.3	2018 and no matter what i do this is basically my of all of it and started in 2018. And no matter what I do, this is basically
0:56.5	my favorite thing. Enjoy it. Stephen Raleigh is the author of The Celebrants. Since I interviewed
1:07.3	him, it hit the New York Times bestseller list and was a read with
1:10.9	Jenna Pick. So excited for him. Oh my gosh. Stephen was on my podcast for the editor, which I also
1:17.3	loved, and then he had the gunkle. Julie Chavez is the guest host for this episode, and she is the
1:23.8	author of Everyone But Myself, which comes out next year from Zivie Books, and she hosts
1:28.8	a Aska librarian. Stephen Raleigh is the New York Times bestselling author also of Lily and the
1:33.5	Octopus, which was a Washington post-notable book of 2016, the editor named by NPR is one of the best
1:40.3	books of 2019, The Gunkel, which was a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist for 2021,
1:46.1	Novelist of the Year, and winner of the 22nd Thurber Prize for American Humor. His fiction
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