Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

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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May 29, 2018 · 33 min
Allison Pataki, Author of "Beauty in the Broken Places"
Allison Pataki, author of memoir, "Beauty in the Broken Places," and best-selling historical fiction books, "Sisi," "The Traitor's Wife" and "The Accidental Empress," shares her story of coping with her husb...
May 24, 2018 · 38 min
Aimee Molloy, Author of "The Perfect Mother"
Aimee Molloy, author of instant best-seller and amazing novel/thriller, "The Perfect Mother," as well as several other non-fiction books, talks about managing the anxiety of new motherhood, mom "tribes," inverted nipples (?!), writi...
May 21, 2018 · 27 min
Dylan Lauren, Founder/CEO Dylan's Candy Bar, Author of "Unwrap Your Sweet Life"
Dylan Lauren talks about her love of color and candy, how she's raising her "twin"kies, fitting in her workouts, managing her retailtainment empire, writing her first book, how 9/11 affected the launch of Dylan's Candy Bar, her bunn...
May 17, 2018 · 31 min
Caitlin Macy, Author of "Mrs."
Novelist Caitlin Macy (pronounced "CaiSH-lin"), author of Mrs., Spoiled (Stories) and The Fundamentals of Play, talks about unspoken class distinctions, her own family's fall from wealth, what it takes to make Upper East Side moms stop g...
May 14, 2018 · 46 min
Dani Shapiro, Best-Selling Author of "Hourglass" and "Slow Motion"
Best-selling author, Dani Shapiro, author of nine amazing books (both memoirs and novels), talks about her secret to great writing, the app everyone needs to be productive, which sentence about her husband she rewrote over and over again and the family...
May 10, 2018 · 37 min
Jennifer Wallace, Award Winning Journalist and TV Commentator
Jennifer Wallace, TV commentator and award-winning journalist for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and many women's magazines, discusses her recent WSJ article, "The Teenage Social Media Trap." Armed with ...
May 7, 2018 · 43 min
Charles Duhigg, Pulitzer Prize Winner and Best-Selling Author of "The Power of Habit" and "Smarter Faster Better"
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and best-selling author, Charles Duhigg, shares his insightful research to help this mom change her habits and parent more effectively. Charles explains the brain's way of forming habits, unlocks the secret to sto...
May 3, 2018 · 26 min
Sarah Mlynowski, Best-Selling Author of Young Adult Series "Upside Magic" and "Whatever After"
Sarah Mlynowski, best-selling author of 35 books including the Upside Magic and Whatever After Young Adult series (ask any kids ages 8-14 and they'll know about them!), talks about magic, getting into the teenage brain, how her parent's divor...
Apr 29, 2018 · 43 min
Piper Weiss, author of "You All Grow Up and Leave Me"
Piper Weiss, author of You All Grow Up and Leave Me, recounts the chilling story of her experience with her former NYC tennis pro (and child stalker) Gary Wilensky. One of “Gary’s girls,” Piper starkly and beautifully weaves together her coming-of-age...
Apr 26, 2018 · 27 min
EXPLICIT LANGUAGE: Jill Kargman, Creator/Writer/Producer/Star of "Odd Mom Out"
WARNING: BAD LANGUAGE!!!! DON'T LISTEN IN THE CAR WITH YOUR KIDS.Jill Kargman, author of multiple books plus creator/writer/star of "Odd Mom Out," speaks in her unique, hilarious, irreverent way about the ins and outs of parenthood. She...
Apr 23, 2018 · 33 min
Lauren Smith Brody, Author of The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom's Guide to Style, Sanity and Success After Baby
Lauren Smith Brody, author of The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom's Guide to Style, Sanity and Success After Baby, shares her own experiences (and relevant studies) about going back to work, trying not to fight with her husband, childcare options...
Apr 19, 2018 · 23 min
Sarika Chawla, Journalist, Eating Disorders and Parenting
Sarika Chawla's article, "How I'm Raising My Kids to Have a Healthy Relationship with Food, Despite My Eating Disorder," from the Washington Post's On Parenting section, outlines her experiences and gives suggestions for managi...
Apr 16, 2018 · 26 min
Cristina Alger, Author of "The Darlings" and "This Was Not the Plan"
Cristina Alger discusses what it's like to be a native New Yorker (including what types of girl "friends" to watch out for), parenting and writing through loss and hardship, and how she achieved such a compelling single dad point of view...
Apr 13, 2018 · 25 min
Dan Lotti, Singer/Songwriter of Dangermuffin
Dan Lotti, singer/songwriter of amazing band, Dangermuffin, talks about his writing journey, his inspiration and his family.
Apr 10, 2018 · 34 min
Andre Agassi, Tennis Legend, Author of Open
Andre Agassi speaks candidly about his tennis career, fatherhood, pushing through pain, writing to make sense of his life, changing education, addressing dyslexia, and finding true meaning through his philanthropic work.
Apr 6, 2018 · 21 min
Lea Carpenter, Author of Eleven Days
Lea Carpenter speaks candidly about the behind-the-scenes of her book, Eleven Days, published by Knopf, her path as a writer and editor, the military, and how she became a warrior mom herself.
Mar 31, 2018 · 8 min
A Mother's Right to Sanity
Starting the Movement to Just Be a Mom And Not a Family Management Exec

Totally Booked with Zibby

Allison Pataki, Author of "Beauty in the Broken Places"

Aimee Molloy, Author of "The Perfect Mother"

Dylan Lauren, Founder/CEO Dylan's Candy Bar, Author of "Unwrap Your Sweet Life"

Caitlin Macy, Author of "Mrs."

Dani Shapiro, Best-Selling Author of "Hourglass" and "Slow Motion"

Jennifer Wallace, Award Winning Journalist and TV Commentator

Charles Duhigg, Pulitzer Prize Winner and Best-Selling Author of "The Power of Habit" and "Smarter Faster Better"

Sarah Mlynowski, Best-Selling Author of Young Adult Series "Upside Magic" and "Whatever After"

Piper Weiss, author of "You All Grow Up and Leave Me"

EXPLICIT LANGUAGE: Jill Kargman, Creator/Writer/Producer/Star of "Odd Mom Out"

Lauren Smith Brody, Author of The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom's Guide to Style, Sanity and Success After Baby

Sarika Chawla, Journalist, Eating Disorders and Parenting

Cristina Alger, Author of "The Darlings" and "This Was Not the Plan"

Dan Lotti, Singer/Songwriter of Dangermuffin

Andre Agassi, Tennis Legend, Author of Open

Lea Carpenter, Author of Eleven Days

A Mother's Right to Sanity