{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/b644b510-9fe8-45c8-8fff-a33612adac66/623ae3dc7483db0013d2202b?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Ruth Ozeki and Cathy Rentzenbrink (Would you stare at your own face for three hours?)","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/60ed902d3fca056b5b214363/show-cover.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>Authors Ruth Ozeki and Cathy Rentzenbrink join Joe Haddow for a war of the words and to discuss their new novels. </p><p><br></p><p>Ruth explains how she came to stare at her face in a mirror for 3 hours and then write a book about it, whilst Cathy talks about the joys of sea swimming and how anyone can write a book if they want to. </p><p><br></p><p>They also talk about the joy of libraries, their writing processes and recommend some books they have been reading and enjoying recently. </p><p><br></p><p>In the Book Off, they pit Lemn Sissay's \"My Name Is Why?\" against \"Booth\" by Karen Joy Fowler...but which will win? </p>","author_name":"Book Off!"}