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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…
Episodes
Totally Booked with ZibbyMarisa Renee Lee, Long Covid, and Hope
Marisa Renee Lee shares her battle with long Covid on top of her other excruciating losses in Waiting for Dawn: Living with Uncertainty. We spoke at Totally…
Totally Booked with ZibbyBONUS: Rachel Goldberg-Polin, When We See You Again
I had the immense honor of interviewing Rachel Goldberg-Polin about her book When We See You Again. Rachel, USA Today's Woman of the Year and one of the TIME…
Totally Booked with ZibbyBook of the Month Club pick Sally Hepworth’s Mad Mabel
Yes, Sally Hepworth and I spoke about her new novel, Mad Mabel, which features an older, quirky protagonist whose neighbor dies in the opening, and the young…
Totally Booked with ZibbyBestselling Author Annabelle Gurwitch on Lung Cancer, Humor, and Adventure
I’ve been a fan of actress and bestselling author Annabelle Gurwitch since I first read You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up. I’ve interviewed her on my podcast about…
Totally Booked with ZibbyGetting Through Grief — with Humor and Heart
Hear from two amazing women authors who have survived loss and learned to live with it by finding humor in the darkest times. Screenwriter Angela Nissel writes…
Totally Booked with ZibbyCelebrity Spotlight: Gina Gershon
Actress Gina Gershon takes us through the unexpected, entertaining steps to becoming a star and the attitude it takes to do so in her memoir Alphapussy: How I…
Totally Booked with ZibbyLittle Free Library
I touched base with Little Free Library CEO Daniel Gumnit about how to promote literacy, why stories are best when shared, and exactly how to bring a Little…
Totally Booked with ZibbyThat’s What Friends Are For with Wade Rouse
Bestselling memoirist Wade Rouse shares about his first novel, That’s What Friends Are For, inspired by “The Golden Girls.” In crafting humorous story lines…
Totally Booked with ZibbyBookstore Owner + NYT Bestselling Author Jenny Lawson on How to Be Okay When Nothing is Okay
Founder of Nowhere Bookshop is anywhere but nowhere. She’s a guru. Jenny Lawson has written book after book about her mental health, obstacles, tips and…
Totally Booked with ZibbyThe Perfect Graduation Gift — with Great Life Advice
Christina Geist, bestselling children’s book author and brand guru, wrote Before You Fly Away: Life Lessons from Home, a beautifully illustrated gift book…
Totally Booked with ZibbyZibby Publishing’s Start at the End by International Bestseller Emma Grey
Australian author Emma Grey’s The Last Love Note kicked off Emma’s journey with our publishing house. I read the PDF on a flight when her agent pitched it for…
Totally Booked with ZibbyAre Personal Essays Performative? with Kat Rosenfield
How to Survive in the Woods by Kat Rosenfield is truly hard to put down. Three friends go in the woods where two of them plot against the third in a love…
Totally Booked with ZibbyThank You and Announcement from Zibby
********* A story for the messy middle. Zibby's essay collection Between Chapters is out now! Love to listen? She narrated the audiobook. Listen on Spotify…
Totally Booked with ZibbyFinding Yourself with Blair Glaser
Join Blair Glaser as she journeys into herself and goes from NYC and LA to a special yoga retreat in This Incredible Longing: How I Found My Self in a…
Totally Booked with ZibbyThe Harvard You Didn’t Know with J. R. Thornton
Literary ingenue J.R. Thornton takes us into the posh world of Harvard College from dorm rooms and classrooms to parties and more when an outsider gets pulled…
Totally Booked with ZibbyIsrael and Iran: History and Today, featuring Yardena Schwartz and Jonathan Harounoff
First, get the context for today’s political climate with Yardena Schwartz, Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli…
Totally Booked with ZibbyZibby’s Book Club Pick Allegra Goodman’s This is Not About Us
I loved interviewing Allegra Goodman several times on my show for her novels Sam and Isola. Her latest book This is Not About Us was a Zibby’s Book Club pick…
Totally Booked with ZibbyTOVAH!!!!!
Who doesn’t know legendary actress Tovah Feldshuh?! (If you don’t, now you will!) Tovah, the subject of an upcoming documentary which just premiered at the…
Totally Booked with ZibbyMatti Friedman Introduces Us to Heroes
I spoke to Matti Friedman right before the war with Iran began. He remarked that he and his family couldn’t make any plans as they waited to see what would…
Totally Booked with ZibbyDo Your Kids Like Slime?
We’ve gone through a multi-year slime phase in our house, much to the dismay of our kitchen table. When we discovered there was basically an amusement park for…
Totally Booked with ZibbyBestselling Author Marie Benedict Knows History
I like to think of Marie Benedict as my midlife history professor; every novel she writes teaches me more about periods of time I thought I understood. In…
Totally Booked with ZibbyBest Writing Advice I’ve Ever Received from The Book Thief’s Markus Zusak
Do you remember The Book Thief? It came out twenty years ago and was a massive bestseller. It was just re-released as a 20th anniversary edition and oh my…
Totally Booked with ZibbyAn “It Girl” Worth Knowing with Allison Pataki
Bestselling author Allison Pataki introduces us to yet another powerful woman forgotten in history in her latest historical novel, It Girl. Evelyn Talbot shot…
Totally Booked with ZibbyA Love Letter to a Former Teacher with Brian Platzer
Brian Platzer’s novel The Optimists was just reviewed in the New York Times Book Review. I interviewed him live at the Whitby about his beloved teacher, who…
Totally Booked with ZibbyDebut Fiction Based in New Mexico with Nancy Foley
Want to travel to the Southwest? I Am Agatha by debut author Nancy Foley takes us there. Inspired by her grandmother’s past, Nancy wrote a story about two…
Totally Booked with ZibbyRuthie Rogers Sits Down with Celebs
In Table 4 at The River Cafe, restaurant owner Ruthie Rogers shares conversations with her high-profile podcast guests including Paul McCartney, David Beckham…
Totally Booked with ZibbyAnna Quindlen’s Book Club
Ever wondered what a fictitious book club would look like in Anna Quindlen’s mind? Enter More Than Enough, her latest powerhouse of a novel which centers on…
Totally Booked with ZibbyAlexandra Potter, a European Road Trip, and Two Bad Ass Women
We published this “Thelma and Louise” meets “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” tale about a midlife recently catfished and humiliated woman and the young journalist…
Totally Booked with ZibbyMidlife Reinvention Mixed with ‘90s Princeton University—and Running
If you’re in the mood to commiserate with a couple of close friends about the indignities of aging, love in midlife, life at Princeton in the 90s, how to get…
Totally Booked with ZibbyShocking News about Judy Blume with Mark Oppenheimer
In Mark Oppenheimer’s new biography about Judy Blume, he reveals a number of surprising things, so much that I kept leaning over to my kids as I read going…
Totally Booked with ZibbyMy Kids’ Teacher, Ani Katz, Writes Another Novel
Aren’t teachers the best? When I found out that Ani Katz (“Miss Katz”), my kids’ former teacher, wrote another novel, Haven, I had to invite her on the podcast…
Totally Booked with ZibbyFormer Actress now Author Deborah Goodrich Royce on That Best Boy
You might know Deborah Goodrich Royce for the amazing summer author series she hosts at the hotel she co-owns with her husband the Ocean House in Watch Hill…
Totally Booked with ZibbyJoan Lunden Shares What’s Beyond the Script
I interviewed the one and only Joan Lunden live in front of an audience for this very special discussion about her career as a longtime GMA anchor, her women’s…
Totally Booked with ZibbyFrom Infertility to Empty Nesting in Fiction
Trying something new here! I interviewed three women authors on the same day whose novels took me through the full spectrum of motherhood — so I wanted you all…
Totally Booked with Zibby“Midwinter Break” Director Polly Findlay Discusses Adaptation
Focus Features was kind enough to offer me the chance to host a screening of the new film “Midwinter Break,” which many of you in my community attended! Based…
Totally Booked with ZibbyPoetry That Makes Motherhood Beautiful with Jessica Urlichs
I loved these poems by Jessica Urlichs so much that I ended up reading some to my son. Somehow, they take the unwieldy, much-discussed experience of motherhood…
Totally Booked with ZibbyAn Earlier Hostage Speaks Out
Mimi Nichter was an American teenager returning from a summer in Israel on September 6th, 1970 when the plane she was on was hijacked. She was then taken…
Totally Booked with ZibbyZeeva Bukai Wins a National Jewish Book Award
Congratulations to author Zeeva Bukai for winning a National Jewish Book Award from the Jewish Book Council for her novel The Anatomy of Exile. On our episode…
Totally Booked with ZibbyElizabeth Day is Super Smart
I’m hooked. Somehow, I’d never read Elizabeth Day’s books until her latest, One of Us, a smart look at relationships, cancel culture, and more. I enjoyed her…
Totally Booked with ZibbyNorah O’Donnell Writes The Ultimate Guide to American Women in U.S. History
Who knew?!! Well, apparently, senior correspondent for CBS News Norah O’Donnell did. In her book, We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America, the…
Totally Booked with ZibbyArt, Family, Escape and Reinvention in Saoirse with Charleen Hurtubise
Author Charleen Hurtubise paints a picture of a woman reinvented. We meet Saoirse on an airplane, faking her identity with a friend’s passport, on her way to…
Totally Booked with ZibbyConfronting High-Functioning Depression with Rachel Tzvia Back
Sometimes you just click with someone. By the end of my in-person interview with Israeli poet Rachel Tzvia Back, we were hugging — having laughed, cried, and…
Totally Booked with ZibbyEileen Heisler and DeAnn Heline, Creators of “The Middle”
I am obsessed with the TV show “The Middle” starring Patricia Heaton, Eden Sher, and an all-star cast. It ran for nine years starting in 2009, but I only…
Totally Booked with ZibbyLibby Page and Overcoming Grief with Books
This Book Made Me Think of You, an instant USA Today Bestseller by top UK author Libby Page, is an ode to bookstores, an ode to love, and an ode to the power…
Totally Booked with ZibbyLosing the Guilt with Dr. Jennifer Reid
Jennifer Reid, MD, author of Guilt Free, has the answers. For those of us who feel guilty about almost everything having to do with parenting, psychiatrist Dr…
Totally Booked with ZibbyFamily Secrets Unearthed in The Family Snitch
Wall Street Journal journalist Francesca Fontana shares her surprising journey of researching her own father’s jail time, crimes, and friendships in this…
Totally Booked with ZibbyNavigating Uncertainty and Medical Mystery with Gillian Deacon
I interviewed Gillian Deacon in person at Totally Booked: Live about her book A Love Affair with the Unknown. Both the guests and I were riveted by her story…
Totally Booked with ZibbyHow Systems and Customs in Israel Create Unity with Dan Senor
Have you listened to Dan Senor’s podcast Call Me Back? If you have, you’ll know how incredibly bright he is and how informed he is on all things Israel. In his…
Totally Booked with ZibbyHow Do You Jew? Suzy Ultman Paints a Picture
Suzy Ultman is a gifted artist who has turned her gifts into a series of children’s board books designed to elevate the Jewish experience in a fun, whimsical…
Totally Booked with ZibbyThe Truth About Fatherhood: Becoming One and Coping with the Loss of Another with Matt Fogelson
Matt Fogelson shares his thoughts and feelings about becoming a new dad having lost his own father in Restrung: Fatherhood in a Different Key. He retraces the…
Totally Booked with ZibbySadeqa Johnson on the Writing Process
Bestselling author and Reese’s Book Club pick for The House of Eve, Sadeqa Johnson has been on this podcast several times and is now back to discuss her latest…
Totally Booked with ZibbyFinding Yourself in Motherhood with Emma Tourtelot
I loved this book so much that it’s my April Zibby’s Book Club pick. (You can get a signed copy delivered right to your door through my Allstora Zibby’s Book…
Totally Booked with ZibbySusan Lucci — From Soap Opera Star to Widow and Everything in Between
Never mind the fact that I accidentally deleted my first podcast interview recording with Susan Lucci. She’s just that gracious that we re-recorded in person…
Totally Booked with ZibbyNicholas Thompson Runs Publications, Runs Competitively, and Never Runs Out of Insights
This book isn’t just about running. It’s about perseverance, focus, choices, mastery, drive, and fatherhood. Nicholas Thompson has had many swoon-worthy…
Totally Booked with ZibbyWhy We’re Just Watching Lior Torenberg
Just Watch Me has such a creative concept behind it. Each chapter starts with how many fictitious streaming followers the main character has on her feed. She…
Totally Booked with ZibbyJennifer Niven on her amazing new novel Meet the Newmans
I’m obsessed with this book. Meet the Newmans by Jennifer Niven is one of those can’t-put-down stories about a family, a woman coming into her own, coping with…
Totally Booked with ZibbyJewell Parker Rhodes on Finding Yourself Through Storytelling
Award-winning, bestselling author Jewell Parker Rhodes and I have become good friends. She has been on my podcast several times, we’ve done events together…
Totally Booked with ZibbyTransitioning to the Next Stage with Krista Williams
Podcast guru and bestselling author Krista Williams joined me to discuss her book ALMOST 30 (which would be ALMOST 50 in my book). We really discussed life…
Totally Booked with ZibbyRunning a Jewish Media Company with Rabbi Dovid M. Cohen
Have you heard of the Algemeiner? I must admit, I hadn’t until they made me one of their Jewish 100 in 2024. (I was blown away to be selected as one of the top…
Totally Booked with ZibbyLove, Loss, and the News with Carol Lin
No, her name isn’t Carolyn. Hear what other comments and indignities Carol had to put up with on her rise to become one of the most accomplished Asian American…