[Unedited] Kate DiCamillo with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Each and every adult is a former eight-year-old, wide open with yearning and possibility; understanding exactly how troubled the adults around you are, even if they think they are hiding it from you; almost unbearably alert to the world’s wonders and its dangers all at once. And that’s the reason you should listen to this conversation with Kate DiCamillo, even if you’ve never heard of her bounty of books beloved by teachers, parents and former children who’ve grown up reading her. They include Because of Winn-Dixie, The Tale of Despereaux, The Magician’s Elephant, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, and Flora & Ulysses. Krista read Kate’s books with her children. Then, in the early pandemic months, feeling unmoored, she cracked them open to read by herself, inspired by a piece in the New York Times by the wonderful writer of adult novels, Ann Patchett. She wrote of making her way through the Kate DiCamillo opus as one of the most satisfying literary adventures of her life — and also incredibly calming. With honesty and wisdom, laughter and tears, Kate DiCamillo makes bearable the mysterious fact that hope and heartbreak live so close, side by side, in real life. This is her gift to her readers, and to us this hour.

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0:00.0	On being with Christa Tippett is supported in part by the Fetzer Institute, helping build the
0:04.8	Spiritual Foundation for a loving world. Fetzer's sharing Spiritual Heritage Report asks,
0:10.8	how will we reimagine our spiritual infrastructure for today's time? Learn more at Fetzer.org.
0:17.6	I'm Christa Tippett. Up next, my unedited conversation with the beloved writer Kate DiCamillo.
0:24.4	There is, as always, a shorter produced version of this wherever you found this podcast.
0:32.0	Hello. Do you want this to be a record of all hours? This is for levels.
0:39.6	That was the most uncertain hello I've ever heard in my life. Hello Kate. Hello,
0:45.2	hello, Christa. Thank you for the great gift of talking with me. I'm so looking forward to it.
0:54.3	So, you know, I think one thing that feels like a challenge, but a challenge I'm very happy to
1:04.9	walk into is I haven't interviewed many writers of fiction across the years. It's tricky because,
1:16.7	I mean, I know you often get interviewed when books come out about particular books, right?
1:23.1	Full of audiences who may have purchased the book or already read it to be there.
1:28.8	I kind of made this decision as I went through this. I mean, you've written a lot of books.
1:37.2	I made this decision to, I want everybody to feel invited. I really want to talk to you as this
1:47.3	person who has brought all these characters and stories and worlds to many others, but that
1:56.4	somebody could enter this conversation that we're going to have without having read any of it and
2:01.3	not feel like they're missing something because they haven't read anything. Yeah, I can see what a
2:10.9	challenge is. I think I figured it out, but that was kind of the thing at the beginning. I was like,
2:16.2	okay, how am I going to do this? So, Zach, are we no good? Are we formally going?
2:22.3	Okay. What are you working from, Chris, to do like make notes? I'm just again, this is just curiosity.
2:28.9	Oh, yeah. You have it all laid out like a shape of the conversation that you think it might go in.
2:35.6	Yeah, I mean, maybe one day I'll show you these notes. I have, I always have what I kind of feel
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