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Totally Booked with Zibby

For nearly a decade, Totally Booked with Zibby has been one of publishing’s premier podcasts and a regular stop on book tours for today’s biggest authors. Hosted by bestselling author, bookstore owner, and publisher Zibby Owens, the show has featured more than 2,000 conversations with bestselling authors, actors, athletes, chefs, musicians, and entrepreneurs.

Known for her warmth, empathy, and genuine curiosity, Zibby has a gift for asking the questions that lead to unforgettable conversations. What begins with the book leads to talks about creativity, ambition, love, loss, family, resilience, and reinvention. With thousands of episodes and dozens of industry honors, Totally Booked with Zibby reminds us all that talking about books is really talking about life.

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Latest Episodes:

Rachel Ricketts, DO BETTER Feb 02, 2021

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Rachel Ricketts talks to Zibby about spiritual activism, dismantling systems of discrimination and oppression, creating equity, and more in this deeply important conversation.

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Anna Malaika Tubbs, THE THREE MOTHERS Feb 02, 2021

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Zibby was honored to speak with Anna Malaika Tubbs about The Three Mothers - a brilliant, conversational, and historically-rich biography. Anna shines a light on the mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin and the crucial role they play in American history, what they symbolize in terms of Black womanhood, and how we can use feminist theory, gender theory, critical race theory to help us better understand and change the world.

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Adam Grant, THINK AGAIN Feb 02, 2021

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The topic of Adam Grant's book is "The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know," which Zibby thinks will help people view changing their mind, adapting their ideas, or rethinking their decisions as a strength instead of a weakness. Listen on for an enlightening take about flip-flopping, pre-crastinating, false deadlines, and transforming your beliefs.

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Laura Tremaine, SHARE YOUR STUFF. I'LL GO FIRST. Feb 01, 2021

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Laura Tremaine says that when she changed her mindset around what kind of writer she thought she was supposed to be, this terrific book about connecting took form. Laura shares her experiences with fear, vulnerability, and relationships in a way that sparks deep thought and conversation in her audience.

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Melissa Gould, WIDOWISH Feb 01, 2021

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Melissa Gould calls her emotional memoir a modern love story. Her writing deeply resonated with Zibby, and they talked about grieving, expectations, parenting through loss, and falling in love.

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Jordan Thierry and Ben Sand, A KIDS BOOK ABOUT Jan 31, 2021

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Jordan Thierry is the author of A Kids Book About Systemic Racism and Ben Sand is the author of A Kids Book About White Privilege—both part of a fantastic, educational, and inspiring new series of kids' books. They talked to Zibby about the challenges of writing about deep topics for a young set of readers, creating digestible conversations about race in the home and on the page, and how we can all take part in disseminating a positive message about "love and hope and resistance and change and acceptance."

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Caroline Gertler, MANY POINTS OF ME Jan 30, 2021

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Caroline Gertler taught herself to read around age three and knew from then on that she wanted to be a writer. She chatted with Zibby about the books that inspired her, her love of art history, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, and more.

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Sara Faith Alterman, LET'S NEVER TALK ABOUT THIS AGAIN Jan 29, 2021

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Sara Faith Alterman's funny and moving memoir takes off from the day her G-rated upbringing came to a screeching halt when she discovered her father's pornographic writing career. With brilliant humor, Sara recounts how she stumbled upon the books as a child, the difficulty in talking about sex in a matter-of-fact way, and reconciling the different sides to her father.

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Rio Cortez, THE ABCS OF BLACK HISTORY Jan 28, 2021

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Rio Cortez is a Pushcart-nominated poet whose beautifully written, illustrated book presents Black history to younger children. She talked with Zibby about creating a story that depicts diverse figures from Black culture around the globe, tracing her own roots, diaspora communities, her pregnancy journey, and more.

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Gabrielle Korn, EVERYBODY (ELSE) IS PERFECT Jan 27, 2021

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Gabrielle Korn's former life as the editor-in-chief of NYLON at age twenty-eight looked shiny and glamorous by day; however, as soon as she left the office, her reality was different. She talked to Zibby about identity and personally struggling with an eating disorder while fighting for body positivity at work. They also discussed how the media creates impossible beauty standards and what it's like to be in the middle of it.

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