Tessa Hadley, AFTER THE FUNERAL AND OTHER STORIES
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Zibby and Tessa explore the intricate art of writing and the transformative power of literature. Using Tessa's new collection, After the Funeral, as a backdrop, the discussion dives deep into character creation and how to turn ordinary moments into extraordinary narratives. Tessa also highlights the challenges writers face, emphasizing the balance between self-criticism and self-belief. For those enthralled by the realm of literature and the magic of storytelling, this episode promises profound insights.
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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. |
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| 0:35.4 | And I recently opened a bookstore in L.a called zibby's bookshop |
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| 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. Tessa Hadley is the author of After the Funeral and Other Stories. |
| 1:07.3 | Tessa is a repeat guest here on the show and is just amazing. |
| 1:11.6 | I'm like obsessed with Tessa. |
| 1:12.6 | Anyway, Tessa is the author of three previous collections of stories and eight novels. |
| 1:17.6 | She was awarded the Wyndham Campbell Prize for Fiction, the Hawthornden Prize, and the Edgehill Short Story Prize, and has been a finalist for the Story Prize. |
| 1:25.6 | She contributes regularly to The New Yorker and reviews |
| 1:27.8 | for The Guardian and the London Review of Books. She lives in Cardiff, Wales. Welcome, Tessa. Thank you so much for coming back on Momsdon have time to read books the second time, this time to discuss after the funeral your collection of short stories. It's lovely to be here, Zubi. Thank you. Well, as you know, I was such a huge fan of free love and so excited when this book came out. |
| 1:28.7 | The way you write is just, it's like I actually was reading passages out loud to my kids at the breakfast table this morning because I was like, listen to how beautiful she writes, how beautifully she writes. So anyway, but I was like, maybe I shouldn't be reading about it. Anyway, so why don't you tell listeners about the collection, what inspired it, what some of the stories |
| 2:07.4 | mean to you, and all that? It doesn't really have a theme. Quite often I'm asked, did you have a |
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