Totally Booked with Zibby

Kiley Reid is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she was awarded the Truman Capote Fellowship. Her debut novel, Such a Fun Age, is a Reese Witherspoon and Well-Read Black Girl book club pick. It's a powerful comedy of errors plot line that centers on millennial post-graduate babysitter Emira Tucker and explores race, privilege, and complex relationships through intricately crafted characters.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rachel Barenbaum is the debut author of A Bend in the Stars, a riveting historical novel, set in World War I-era Russia, about love and the history and science and survival. It was a New York Times Summer Reading Selection and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. It was also a Boston Globe best seller. A graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Business School, and the GrubStreet Novel Incubator program, Rachel was a hedge fund manager and spinning instructor before committing to full-time work as a writer and reviewer.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Melissa T. Schultz is a writer and the acquisitions editor for Jim Donovan Literary, an agency that represents book authors. She's written about health and parenting for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Reader’s Digest, AARP’s The Girlfriend, Today.com, and many other publications. Her latest, From Mom to Me Again: How I Survived My First Empty-Nest Year and Reinvented the Rest of My Life, is part memoir and part self-help, filled with storytelling and interviews geared toward parents with kids in junior high and up about letting go and entering a new phase with (and without) your children under your roof.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bettina Elias Siegel is the author of Kid Food: The Challenge of Feeding Children in a Highly Processed World and nationally recognized writer and advocate on issues related to children and food policy. Her work has appeared in The New York Times and the Houston Chronicle among other publications, and on her widely read blog The Lunch Tray. She's a frequent guest on national media and was named one of the country’s twenty most influential moms in 2015 by Family Circle. The topic of "kid food" and raising healthy eaters is on my mind a lot, and Bettina's book is a guidebook for parents navigating this very difficult food environment with their family!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

To celebrate 2019, I'm re-releasing my episode with Delia Owens, author of WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, the #1 bestselling book in 2019. I loved our conversation (which I originally released as an episode on January 8th, 2019). Delia talked about her life in the wild, the importance of female friendships, mastering Instagram and how it took 10 years to publish this amazing novel! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Teru Clavel is the author of World Class: One Mother's Journey Halfway Around the Globe in Search of the Best Education for Her Children. She is an education expert, columnist, and sought-after public speaker. She has run her own educational consulting practice since 2010. She's contributed to the Financial Times and The Japan Times among other publications, and has appeared on CBS This Morning, CNBC’s Squawk Box, and other media outlets. Teru, a native New Yorker, chronicles how her family left New York in 2006 and enrolled her three children in local public schools in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo, and then Palo Alto. The book is both anecdotal and research based - and a fascinating exploration of education across the globe.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today I'm with Elyssa Friedland in person and Kermit Roosevelt III via Skype for a new project called First Street, which has been released on Serial Box, a super cool app that allows you to both read and toggle between reading and audio. Elyssa and Kermit collaborated with four other authors on the First Street novel. You may have already heard me interview Elyssa one of her three other novels, The Intermission. Kermit is a writer, author, lawyer, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He's a novelist, and a frequent op-ed contributor, to publications like The New York Times, Time, The Washington Times, and others. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alicia Menendez is an MSNBC anchor and leads the “Latina to Latina” podcast. Previously a cohost of PBS TV’s Amanpour & Co, her reporting has appeared on Bustle, ABC News, Fusion TV, PBS, and Vice News. Her book, The Likeability Trap: How to Break Free and Succeed as You Are, is the perfect pick to put at the top of your new year's reading list. Her examination of the cultural pressure often placed on women to walk a professional and personal tightrope of likeability and leadership.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Richie Jackson is the author of Gay Like Me: A Father Writes to His Son, a poignant reflection on what it was like growing up and what it is like now to be gay in America and how to "celebrate our similarities, but.... revel in our differences." He is an award-winning Broadway, film, and TV producer whose most recent productions include Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song on Broadway and Showtime’s Nurse Jackie. He and his husband Jordan Roth were honored with The Trevor Project’s 2016 Trevor Hero Award. Listen to us discuss parenting, writing, the changing times and what it means to love.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Julie Valerie is the debut novelist of Holly Banks Full of Angst, a laugh-out-loud book featuring a less-than-perfect protagonist and a message that reminds all of us that there's really no such thing as perfect. Plus, our conversation was filmed by Sandy Kenyon of ABC News! Watch this clip of us in the feature about “Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books” that also appeared in NYC taxis for a week in December!!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.