Virginia Evans, THE CORRESPONDENT: A Novel
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Bestselling debut author Virginia Evans joins Zibby to discuss THE CORRESPONDENT, a charming, intriguing, and witty novel in the form of letters and emails exchanged by a divorced and retired woman with her friends, family, and foes. Virginia shares the long journey to publication—nearly 20 years and nine novels in the making! She also discusses the power of the epistolary form, the influence of 84, Charing Cross Road, the real-life loss that informed the story’s emotional depth, and the power of finding solace in literature and connection with people we might never meet in person.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
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| 0:40.9 | Zibby Owens. Virginia Evans is the author of The Correspondent, a novel. Virginia is from the |
| 0:49.6 | Northeastern United States. She attended James Madison University for her bachelor's in English literature, |
| 0:55.3 | as well as Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland for her master's of philosophy and creative writing. |
| 1:00.1 | She lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with her husband, two children, and her red Labrador. |
| 1:06.0 | Welcome, Virginia. Thank you so much for coming on Totally Bucked to talk about the correspondent. |
| 1:11.1 | Thank you so much. Thanks for having me. And I know this episode will come out later, |
| 1:15.1 | but we are talking just after your pub day, which is so exciting. So how did that feel |
| 1:20.0 | getting the book into the world? It was honestly just defied a defied description for me. |
| 1:26.0 | I waited so many years to have this happen and I don't think I ever, |
| 1:31.1 | maybe never really thought it would. And so all during Pub Day, I felt a little bit like I was |
| 1:36.9 | floating above my life and observing it or something. Magical sort of doesn't even touch it. |
| 1:43.4 | But that's the closest. that's so amazing okay tell |
| 1:47.2 | everybody about the book and then I want to hear more about this journey to becoming a published author |
| 1:51.7 | as well thanks the book the correspondent it's it's about a woman named sybil van antwerp she's |
| 1:58.4 | in her 70s when we start. The book is written entirely in her |
| 2:02.7 | letters and emails, primarily handwritten letters, but some emails thrown in. And it starts off at the |
| 2:09.2 | beginning. She's just turned 73, I believe. I was just thinking, was it 73 or 74, but I think she just |
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