Zibby Books author alert!! Mary Jones, THE GOODBYE PROCESS: Stories
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Zibby Owens
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🗓️ 31 July 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Zibby Books author alert! Zibby speaks to debut author Mary Jones about THE GOODBYE PROCESS, an arresting, original, and beautifully rendered short story collection that examines loss and the painful ways we say goodbye—not just after the death of a loved one, but also after divorces, friendship breakups, and when aging, as we lose our younger selves. Mary shares her path to writing—which started after her father's death when she was just 15—and then touches on her love for the short story and her experiences teaching creative writing.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and I am the host of this podcast. Moms don't have time to read books. |
| 0:08.1 | I am also a newly minted USA Today bestselling author of the novel, Blank. |
| 0:14.2 | I've created a whole community of book lovers around this podcast, a publishing company, reading retreats, a bookstore, and more. |
| 0:21.8 | Learn more at zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zibby Owens or join the community at |
| 0:28.4 | Zibby Readers. |
| 0:31.4 | Mary Jones is the author of the goodbye process, stories. |
| 0:35.2 | And actually, this is published by Zibi Books. I am thrilled. This is our |
| 0:39.8 | first and so far only short story collection, which was originally acquired by Lee Newman, |
| 0:45.6 | who was my co-founder at Zibby Books. And I think you will really enjoy the episode, |
| 0:51.2 | getting to know Mary and how she became a short storywriter, and I hope you |
| 0:55.1 | will go pick it up. We have a really exciting collaboration with L.A.-based coffee shop brand |
| 1:02.1 | Cafe Lux, and they made us our own distinctive brand of coffee for this book. So thank you to |
| 1:07.3 | Cafe Lux. Go check it out. It's amazing. Mary Jones's stories and essays have |
| 1:12.0 | appeared in many journals, including Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, Subtropics, Epic, |
| 1:17.3 | Alaska Quarterly Review, Columbia Journal, The Hopkins Review, Gay Mag, the Normal School, |
| 1:22.0 | Epiphany, Zanamonica Review, Brevity, and Elsewhere. The recipient of a summer prose |
| 1:26.6 | fellowship from the University of |
| 1:27.9 | Arizona Poetry Center, her work has been cited as notable in the best American essays and |
| 1:32.8 | appeared in the best microfiction 2022. She holds an MFA from Bennington College and teaches |
| 1:37.8 | fiction writing at UCLA Extension. Originally from upstate New York, she lives in Los Angeles. |
| 1:42.8 | Welcome, Mary. Thank you so much for coming on M. Don't have time to read books to discuss the goodbye process stories. So exciting. Thank you for having me, Sibby. I'm so excited to be here. I listen all the time, so it's just such an honor to be a guest. Oh, well, it's an honor to have you as a guest, especially from publishing this book |
| 2:02.0 | and from our very first time reading it years ago. When was that? Like two years ago or something? |
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