The Friend Zone

Past Due with Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

Ana Marie Cox, Open Mike Eagle, and Andrew Steven

Business, Performing Arts, Arts, Society & Culture

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Eva Hagberg thought she knew who she was: a smart, overachieving loner on her way to literary fame. Then her brain went boom (technical term), and she had to reevaluate her relationship to achievement, to herself, and to the people that loved her. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Anna Marie Cox.
0:05.9	Welcome to With Friends Like These.
0:08.8	This week, we're going to talk about friendship in a very literal way.
0:13.1	Eva Hagberg was an overachieving cynic, a recovering addict and alcoholic whose relationships
0:19.4	were defined by extremes.
0:21.8	She was either deeply in love or wanted to be alone.
0:25.8	She didn't want friends and she didn't know how to be a friend.
0:30.6	And then she got very sick.
0:34.8	More than once.
0:37.0	And had to learn as the title of her book puts it, how to be loved.
0:42.3	It is, again, according to the title, a memoir of life-saving friendship.
0:48.9	It is now in paperback and I have bought six copies of it for various friends who are
0:52.9	struggling with illness in one form or another.
0:56.4	Who among us, right?
0:57.6	It is really not too far away from an instruction manual.
1:01.7	My conversation with her was recorded in August.
1:04.7	It is coming right up.
1:06.7	Eva, welcome to the show.
1:11.3	Hi, thank you.
1:14.4	So I'm excited to have you on and I want to give listeners a little taste of your book
1:19.6	and you have an excerpt you can read for us.
1:22.9	I do.
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