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Toure Show

ZZ Packer–I Have a 1,000 Page Novel

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Performing Arts, Arts, Society & Culture

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

ZZ Packer is an extraordinary fiction writer who’s been working on a massive new novel for years. I talk to her about writing, process, and how to be a great fiction writer. Host & Writer: Touré Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall and Ashley J. Hobbs Associate Producer: Adell Coleman Booker: Rae Holliday Engineer: Desta Wondirad Photographers: Podstream Studios The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Is crypto perfect?

0:01.9

Nope.

0:02.7

But neither was email when it was invented in 1972.

0:06.0

And yet today, we send 347 billion emails every single day.

0:12.1

Crypto is no different.

0:13.5

It's new.

0:14.2

But like email, it's also revolutionary.

0:17.6

With Crackin, it's easy to start your crypto journey with 24-7 support when you need it.

0:22.6

Go to crackin.com and see what crypto can be. Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:27.3

This is a high-risk investment, and different things you want to be looking at.

0:52.1

And, you know, she was trying to gently say to me, but like, time to dream, time to bring

0:57.2

the experiment to, I close, you know.

0:59.4

So sometimes, like, it'll, it'll come to me only when someone says something, like,

1:03.6

they'll be like, wait for your book for a long time.

1:05.9

Then I'll maybe be thinking about that.

1:08.2

But normally, I'm just kind of in my zone with the kids trying to do this,

1:13.1

trying to do that, you know, fellowships, this, that way, getting upset with like the current

1:17.5

state of politics, Trump. I mean, I feel as though I may have like lost a good two years just because

1:22.7

of Trump being in power. Zizi Packer is a great fiction writer and an old friend who's been famous since the

1:30.0

publication of her first book, drinking coffee elsewhere. She's been working on her second book,

1:35.6

her Civil War novel, for many, many years. It's over 1,000 pages long right now. I wanted to give

1:44.0

you a look inside a great writer's process,

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