Zibby is joined by award-winning author Lily King to discuss her first collection of short stories, Five Tuesdays in Winter. Although this is Lily's first collection, she has been infatuated with the form since her teenage years and even studied short story fiction writing in college. Lily talks with Zibby about what inspired each of her stories, how writing on a typewriter impacted her creativity, and her essay in Zibby's new anthology, Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids.
Lily: The book is about thirty-one-year-old Casey. It is 1997. She's arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She's gotten a job at a restaurant. She's gotten a terrible place to live, a little room at the side of a garage. She's seventy thousand dollars in debt. She's trying to write her first novel. She's just had her heart badly broken. A few months earlier, her mother died. She's a bit of a mess. She's, at age thirty one, trying to figure out how to find the rest of her life, how to put a life together that looks like a grown-up life, but that doesn't mean that she has to lose her dream of becoming a writer.
