What We Love About Hopeful Endings with Emma Straub
Hot and Bothered
Not Sorry Productions
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🗓️ 28 May 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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We're between seasons of Hot and Bothered, so to keep you company we're bringing you interviews with our favorite writers and thinkers. This week, we're bringing you the wonderful writer and bookstore owner Emma Straub. Together we talk about how women's books are marketed, her love of writing hopeful endings, and why it's important to surround yourself with young people.
Her book, All Adults Here, is recently out in paperback. Go check it out!
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| 0:00.0 | Today we are lucky enough to be joined by Emma Straub, the New York Times bestselling novelist |
| 0:06.6 | of the vacationers, modern lovers, and her most recent book, All Adults Here. She's also an owner |
| 0:12.4 | of the amazing local bookstore in Brooklyn Books Our Magic. I'm Vanessa Zoltan and this is Hot and |
| 0:20.0 | Bothered. So Emma first of all thank you so much for taking the time to come and speak with us |
| 0:34.4 | today. We're really excited to have you. Thanks for having me. So we are here to talk about |
| 0:39.3 | nobody can see me but I'm holding up with the beautiful cover to your book All Adults Here |
| 0:43.6 | and we are here to talk about it because the paperback recently came out and I was wondering if |
| 0:48.0 | you could just tell us about the book. I read it and I mean I hate to admit that I gasped |
| 0:54.6 | at like there's a there's a twist on page like 15. Like you think you know what kind of book |
| 1:00.3 | you're reading and then there's a twist at the beginning and you're like oh I'm reading a |
| 1:04.4 | totally different kind of book. This is awesome. So I was wondering if you could just tell us about |
| 1:08.9 | it and what made you want to write this book? Sure. Well first of all thank you. You know I have |
| 1:15.2 | a feeling that this is sort of the the conversation that we're going to have over the next hour about |
| 1:21.9 | like what what people expect by books that look a certain way and that kind of thing. |
| 1:33.5 | So All Adults Here is a novel about a family in the Hudson Valley. It's about this sort of |
| 1:41.7 | slightly stuffy matriarch astrid and her three adult children and her grandchildren as well |
| 1:49.8 | and really it's about how hard it is to be in a family and how none of us are ever really |
| 1:57.6 | done evolving and changing and becoming who we are and that's hard. That's hard to do. That's |
| 2:05.6 | what it's about. Yeah. So I do want to talk about this idea of women's fiction. I watched a clip |
| 2:12.0 | of you on the today show where you were given the opportunity to recommend books and you decided to |
| 2:16.9 | recommend books by women and I I have my first book coming out. Yay! But they sent me the cover |
| 2:23.7 | and it's beautiful but I was like oh we've given up on men reading this book I see and so I'm |
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