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Join award-winning podcaster Zibby Owens of Moms Don't Have Time to Read on a quarantine journey filled with food, exercise, sex, books, and more.
It’s impossible to ignore how life has changed since COVID-19 spread across the world. People from all over quarantined and did their best to keep on living during the pandemic.
Zibby Owens, host of the award-winning podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books and a mother of four herself, wanted to do something to help people carry on and to give them something to focus on other than the horrors of their news feeds. So she launched an online magazine called We Found Time. Authors who had been on her podcast wrote original, brilliant essays for busy readers. Zibby organized these profound pieces into buckets of things moms don’t have time to do: eat, read, work out, breathe, and have sex. Now compiled as an anthology named Moms Don't Have Time To, these inspiring, beautiful, original essays by dozens of bestselling and acclaimed authors speak to the ever-increasing demands on a mother’s time, especially during the quarantine, in a unique, literary way.
Actress Evangeline Lilly writes about the importance and impact of film. Rene Denfeld, bestselling author of The Child Finder and The Butterfly Girl, focuses on her relationship with food after growing up homeless. Lea Carpenter, screenwriter and author of Eleven Days and Red, White, Blue, andSuzanne Falter, author, speaker, and host of the podcast "Self-Care for Extremely Busy Women," focus on loss. Chris Bohjalian, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant, and Gretchen Rubin, New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project, Happier at Home, The Four Tendencies, Better than Before and Outer Order Inner Calm and the host of award-winning podcast "Happier with Gretchen Rubin,” write about the importance of reading. Others write about working out, love and sex, eating, and more.
Join Zibby on her journey through the winding road of quarantine and perhaps you, too, will find time.
About the author and contributors:
Zibby Owens is the host of award-winning literary podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books and a new podcast, Moms Don’t Have Time to Lose Weight. Zibby ran an author salon and hosted book fairs pre-pandemic. During lockdown, she hosted two Instagram Live talk shows, Z-IGTV and KZ Time, and started Zibby’s Virtual Book Club. She has appeared on the BBC, CBS This Morning, and many local news outlets. She is a regular contributor to Good Morning America online and to the Washington Post. Zibby was dubbed “NYC’s most important book-fluencer” by Vulture. She currently lives in New York with her husband and four kids.
Rene Denfeld
Rene Denfeld is the internationally bestselling author of literary thrillers The Child Finder, The Butterfly Girl and The Enchanted. Her award-winning novels are inspired by her real life job as a death row investigator. In addition to exonerating innocents, Rene is a longtime therapeutic foster mother and reform activist. She has worked hundreds of cases helping rape trafficking victims and other victims. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her kids from foster care. The child of a traumatic background, Rene often speaks on issues relating to trauma, survival and thriving against the odds.
Elissa Altman
Elissa Altman is the author of Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing, Poor Man's Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking and the James Beard Award-winning blog of the same name, and Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw. Her work has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The New York Times, Tin House, The Rumpus, Dame Magazine, LitHub, Saveur, and The Washington Post, where her column, Feeding My Mother, ran for a year. Her work has been anthologized in Best Food Writing six times. She was a 2020 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in memoir, and for the Frank McCourt Memoir Prize. Altman teaches the craft of memoir at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Maine Publishers and Writers, The Loft Literary Center, 1440 Multiversity, Ireland's Literature and Larder Program, and she has appeared live on stage at TEDx and The Public, on Heritage Radio, and on NPR.
Sonali Dev
USA Today
Bestselling author Sonali Dev writes Bollywood-style love stories that explore
issues faced by women around the world. Sonali’s novels have been on Library Journal, NPR, Washington Post, and Kirkus’s Best Books of the year lists. She has
won the American Library
Association’s award for best
romance, the RT Reviewer
Choice Award for best
contemporary romance, multiple RT
Seals of Excellence, is a RITA® finalist, and has been listed for the Dublin Literary Award. Shelf
Awareness calls her “Not only one of the best but one of the bravest romance
novelists working today.” She lives in Chicagoland with her husband, two visiting
adult children, and the world’s most perfect dog.
Phyllis Grant
Phyllis Grant is an IACP finalist for Personal
Essays/Memoir Writing and a three-time Saveur Food Blog Award finalist for her blog, Dash and Bella. She has cooked in world-renowned restaurants,
including Nobu, Michael’s, and Bouley. Her essays and recipes have been
published in a dozen anthologies and cookbooks, including Best Food Writing in
both 2015 and 2016. Her work has been featured in Esquire, O, The Oprah Magazine, The New York Times, Real Simple, Saveur, HuffPost, Time, San Francisco Chronicle, Food52, and Salon. She lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband
and two children.
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