Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby did a Facebook Live with bestselling author Jennifer Weiner to celebrate the launch of her latest summer read, That Summer. Jen recently lost both her mother and her father-in-law. She and Zibby discussed the illness, how blindsided she was by its speed and ferocity, how she’s managing a book launch through it all, and the parts of their mental make-ups they’d prefer their daughters didn’t inherit.Purchase your copy on Amazon or Bookshop:Amazon: https://amzn.to/2RCPwLTBookshop: https://bit.ly/3fB3Qwt Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Zibby moderated a conversation between Emmy-nominated comedy writer, Bess Kalb, and author of I Am My Mother’s Daughter, Dana Kurtz, as part of the Florida JCC's Author Series. The recorded panel, released here as a podcast, focuses on how Bess and Dana both processed the grief of losing the most influential female figures in their lives through writing as well as the lessons that have been collectively passed down through generations of Jewish women.Purchase your copies on Amazon or Bookshop:Amazon Dara: https://amzn.to/2Sm4Yw4Bookshop Dara: https://bit.ly/3wonq5OAmazon Bess: https://amzn.to/2SlnqocBookshop Bess: https://bit.ly/3vbetwB Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rebecca Starford tells Zibby all about her new book, The Unlikely Spy, from the obituary that inspired her protagonist to the four years it took to research and write the historical novel, and what it has been like to work on a book like this during the last four years of global affairs.Amazon: https://amzn.to/2RCfXS1Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3yCkbcQ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a Star, Nicola Yoon, is back with another amazing novel, Instructions for Dancing. Nicola and Zibby discussed her family’s illness, how she wrote part of this book literally in the hospital caring for sick loved ones, and how she coped through writing. They also discussed the theme of the book: ’tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.Amazon: https://amzn.to/3fkel8oBookshop: https://bit.ly/2SmorfX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Zakiya Dalila Harris tells Zibby about how she knew it was the right time to leave her job in the publishing industry to focus on her own writing, the unsettling workplace encounter that inspired her debut novel, The Other Black Girl, and what her experience has been co-writing Hulu's adaptation of her book with Rashida Jones.Amazon: https://amzn.to/2TkTsBtBookshop: https://bit.ly/3yDHOln Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Christine Mangan walks Zibby through her worldly life story and how her experiences have directly led to a number of plot points in her writing. The two discuss the inspiration for Christine's latest novel, Palace of the Drowned, and why she wanted to write empowered female characters in a story set during the 1960s.Amazon: https://amzn.to/3utB5avBookshop: https://bit.ly/2Tk5CdL Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"I have a voice at this moment in time. I have a voice that I can use for good. I intend to keep using it as long as I can." Cindy McCain joins Zibby to discuss some of the things she reveals in her new memoir, such as why she tried to keep her opioid addiction hidden from everyone, what it was like to adopt her daughter Bridget and watch their relationship become politicized, and how her home life with her late husband, Senator John McCain, and their children was no different from that of anyone else.Purchase your copy on Amazon or Bookshop: Amazon: https://amzn.to/3ffOIWtBookshop: https://bit.ly/2SlpkFm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Zibby is joined by narrative nonfiction author Daniel James Brown to talk about his latest book which has already hit the New York Times bestseller list, Facing the Mountain, which looks at the story of a Japanese-American combat unit fighting at the height of World War II. Daniel shares how his wife helped him conduct over five years of research for the book, what he uncovered when studying first-hand accounts of life in Japanese incarceration camps, and why it was just as important to feature the soldiers' stories as well as those of their families back home.Purchase a copy on Amazon or Bookshop:Amazon: https://amzn.to/2SlpU60Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3vfNoZ1 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Zibby did an Instagram Live for @gmabookclub with bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell about his new book, The Bomber Mafia, already a New York Times bestseller! His five previous books have also “hit the list:" The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, and David and Goliath. Malcolm is also the co-founder of Pushkin Industries, an audio content company that the amazing audiobook version of The Bomber Mafia, which Malcolm intended to be an audiobook first, physical book second. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Asking for help does not make us weak. It's honestly probably the strongest thing that we can do." Paralympian swimmer Mallory Weggemann takes Zibby through the first few months of her paralysis and how the lessons she learned then have shaped the forward-thinking mentality she carries with her to this day. She shares her incredible story in her new book, Limitless, with the hope that it will empower readers to find the limitless potential we all have inside of us.Purchase a copy on Amazon or Bookshop:Amazon: https://amzn.to/3dTCiTaBookshop: https://bit.ly/3dXOEdf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.