Susanna Hoffs, THIS BIRD HAS FLOWN

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Zibby interviews beloved songwriter, Bangles frontwoman, and debut author Susanna Hoffs about her clever, sexy, and riotously funny rockstar redemption romance This Bird Has Flown. Susanna compares book-writing to songwriting, reveals she used music to sharpen her mind and stimulate her imagination while writing, and shares how she got here in the first place (it all started with a childhood surrounded by books in a bohemian, art-loving household). She also talks about her beautiful cover art, the changes her manuscript went through, the books she read and re-read for inspiration, and her best advice for aspiring authors.

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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.
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1:03.4	Susanna Hoffs is the author of the novel This Bird Has Flown. She is one of Pop's most beloved
1:10.3	voices. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree
1:13.4	in art. In 1981, she co-founded The Bengals, with whom she recorded and released a string of chart
1:20.8	topping singles, including Manic Monday, Walk Like an Egyptian, Hazy Shade of Winter, and eternal flame, which she co-wrote, before
1:29.5	embarking on a critically acclaimed solo career. She also wrote, recorded music for, and appeared
1:34.4	in the Austin Powers movies, and played herself on season one of the Gilmore Girls.
1:39.2	This bird has flown as her first novel. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, filmmaker
1:43.9	Jay Roach. Welcome, Susanna.
1:46.2	Thank you so much for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to read books to discuss this bird has flown.
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