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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 ZibbyDr. Amy Shah, I'M SO EFFING TIRED
"Fixing fatigue is not about doing less. Look, we did less during this past year, and we were more tired than ever. It's not about doing less. It's actually…
Totally Booked with ZibbyMegan Wagner Lloyd & Michelle Mee Nutter, ALLERGIC
Zibby talks with the author and illustrator duo behind Allergic, Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter, about their process of working together and how…
Totally Booked with ZibbyAnne Lamott, DUSK, NIGHT, DAWN
"This whole book is about finding your center. The center does hold with a couple of good friends." Anne Lamott recently joined Zibby's Book Club to discuss…
Totally Booked with ZibbyJ. Nicole Jones, LOW COUNTRY
"I started writing just to remember her stories and her voice in this world that doesn't exist anymore." Zibby is joined by fellow memoir enthusiast J. Nicole…
Totally Booked with ZibbyPaula McLain, WHEN THE STARS GO DARK
"We're all shades of gray. There's always complexity in the human story. That's what I'm interested in.” Paula McLain shares how the inspiration for her latest…
Totally Booked with ZibbyJenny Lawson, BROKEN (IN THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY)
"These anonymous people who are struggling have no idea that they saved people's lives. I just think it really speaks to how wonderful it is when we can share…
Totally Booked with ZibbyJulie Metz, EVA AND EVE
"As soon as we can all go out again, I really think it's so important to recapture that feeling of connection to our friends and our family." Julie Metz tells…
Totally Booked with ZibbyDonna Freitas, THE NINE LIVES OF ROSE NAPOLITANO
"Novels. What's wonderful about them is that you can do the stuff you can't in real life. You can make all the mistakes. You can commit all the crimes." Donna…
Totally Booked with ZibbyCynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, GOOD COMPANY
"The exciting thing about deciding to do something later in your life is that you have all these skills that you just didn't have in your twenties." Cynthia…
Totally Booked with ZibbyDawnie Walton, THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV
Dawnie Walton talks with Zibby about how she made the pivot from her twenty-year career in journalism to writing her debut novel, The Final Revival of Opal &…
Totally Booked with ZibbySanjena Sathian, GOLD DIGGERS
"It's just really hard to locate yourself as an Asian American in American history. Even though you might have been here, you were just always floating in the…
Totally Booked with ZibbyJudy Batalion, THE LIGHT OF DAYS
"I feel a great duty to these women, even those that told their stories but hadn’t been widely heard and especially those that never got to tell their…
Totally Booked with ZibbyJessica Winter, THE FOURTH CHILD
Novelist Jessica Winter talks with Zibby about her incredible career trajectory (she’s currently an executive editor at The New Yorker!) and imparts her…
Totally Booked with ZibbyTamara Winfrey Harris, DEAR BLACK GIRL
Tamara Winfrey Harris joins Zibby to discuss her new book of heartwarming letters from Black women to help guide, protect, and inspire the next generation of…
Totally Booked with ZibbySherry Turkle, THE EMPATHY DIARIES
MIT Professor Sherry Turkle has long been revered for her research on society's relationship with technology. In her newest book, The Empathy Diaries, she…
Totally Booked with ZibbyIlona Bannister, WHEN I RAN AWAY
"I discovered that the writing was helping me process everything that had happened. I didn't know that that's what I needed to do." Debut novelist Ilona…
Totally Booked with ZibbyPatric Richardson, LAUNDRY LOVE: FINDING JOY IN A COMMON CHORE
The Laundry Evangelist, Patric Richardson, teaches Zibby all of his tips and tricks on how to save your clothes and make doing the laundry more fun. From…
Totally Booked with ZibbyJames Brown, APOLOGY TO THE YOUNG ADDICT
"In the end when all is said and done and it comes time for me to depart, I want my children to remember me and say, 'Hey, Dad had some problems, but he…
Totally Booked with ZibbyDave Eggers, WE BECAME JAGUARS
"Generally speaking, kids are just so full of wonder and awe and enthusiasm for everything that they are, in a way, the best audience." NYT Bestselling Author…
Totally Booked with ZibbyVijay Vad, BACK RX
"I wanted to be in a medical specialty where I restore people's quality of life. I don't save lives going to work every day, but hopefully, I save their…
Totally Booked with ZibbyArianna Huffington & Marina Khidekel, YOUR TIME TO THRIVE
Founder of the Huffington Post and Thrive Global, Arianna Huffington, and Thrive Global's Head of Content Development, Marina Khidekel, talk with Zibby about…
Totally Booked with ZibbyChris Whitaker, WE BEGIN AT THE END
"Basically, Zibby, I don't know what I'm doing. I'm just winging it and hoping for the best." Author Chris Whitaker talks to Zibby about how writing saved his…
Totally Booked with ZibbyAlan Silberberg, MEET THE MATZAH
"It was a healing, life-changing process of creating art." Alan Silberberg and Zibby talk about his new picture book Meet the Matzah, approaching grief with…
Totally Booked with ZibbyTracey Cox, GREAT SEX STARTS AT 50
"The problem is that we think of love and sex as being very happy bedfellows, and they're not. They actually hate each other." Sexpert Tracey Cox talks with…
Totally Booked with ZibbyAlexander Nemerov, FIERCE POISE
"There is no other reason to write about art unless you have strong feelings about it. That's a given." Stanford University Art History Professor Alexander…
Totally Booked with ZibbyClaire Lombardo, THE MOST FUN WE EVER HAD
Claire Lombardo walks Zibby through the roundabout way she became an author, her experience at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and what she learned when her debut…
Totally Booked with ZibbyKatie Sise, OPEN HOUSE
Katie Sise walks Zibby through her winding career, from actress to jewelry maker, to becoming a TV host, a ghostwriter, and, finally, the writer we know her as…
Totally Booked with ZibbyRE-RELEASE! Lena Dunham, NOT THAT KIND OF GIRL
Taking it back a year now to celebrate that Spring 2021 is FINALLY here. During the pandemic, Zibby did an Instagram Live with Lena Dunham, author of the #1…
Totally Booked with ZibbyJoyce Carol Oates, THE (OTHER) YOU
Zibby interviewed literary legend Joyce Carol Oates as part of Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center's 'Women on the Move' series. Their recorded conversation…
Totally Booked with ZibbyMelissa Bernstein, LIFELINES
"The cry of my own soul to be seen became so great that the risk of not saying who I was, was much greater than the risk of saying who I was." Co-founder of…
Totally Booked with ZibbyAnna Quindlen, NANAVILLE
"It's life-affirming in that you know that someday you will no longer be here, yet all of these people that are carrying some of your DNA will just be boogying…
Totally Booked with ZibbyAnita Moorjani, SENSITIVE IS THE NEW STRONG
"The universe is gifting us all the time if only we opened our eyes to receive it." Anita Moorjani talks to Zibby about the differences between being a highly…
Totally Booked with ZibbyLake Bell, Lennon Parham, and Amy Solomon, NOTES FROM THE BATHROOM LINE
"It was always bizarre to me that there wasn't another big collection of humor writing by women, especially because the community's only exploded even more…
Totally Booked with ZibbySarah Langan, GOOD NEIGHBORS
Sarah Langan reignites Zibby's inner psychology major as the two discuss the social experiments that inspired Sarah's new book Good Neighbors, why she wanted…
Totally Booked with ZibbyJennifer Rudolph Walsh, HUNGRY HEARTS: Essays on Courage, Desire, and Belonging
"The truth is that the details of your story are your superpower." Zibby meets fellow anthology editor Jennifer Rudolph Walsh to talk about the connections we…
Totally Booked with ZibbyMaisy Card, THESE GHOSTS ARE FAMILY
Author and librarian Maisy Card talks with Zibby about how family secrets inspired her novel, These Ghosts Are Family. She shares the book’s 12-year path to…
Totally Booked with ZibbyJeanine Cummins, AMERICAN DIRT: A NOVEL
Zibby interviewed Jeanine Cummins, author of American Dirt, as part of Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center's 'Women on the Move' series. Their recorded…
Totally Booked with ZibbyLeslie Lehr, A BOOB'S LIFE
“I understand how the culture created this situation where we all had these expectations for our lives that has to do with having boobs and how we judge…
Totally Booked with ZibbyLuvvie Ajayi Jones, PROFESSIONAL TROUBLEMAKER
“My journey is a series of moments where I chose to not be moved by the fear that I felt.” The ever-inspirational Luvvie Ajayi Jones redefines what it means to…
Totally Booked with ZibbyJamie Figueroa, BROTHER, SISTER, MOTHER, EXPLORER
"It's another great function of stories and of literature to remind us of our humanness, of our sense of compassion, and that deep essential quality that we…
Totally Booked with ZibbyCourtney Zoffness, SPILT MILK
“I found after becoming a mom that I was responding to various experiences or happenings in really particular ways.” Professor, author, and mother Courtney…
Totally Booked with ZibbyAnnabelle Gurwitch, YOU'RE LEAVING WHEN?
"I try to write these stories that actually redeem experiences because complaining would just be too easy.” Annabelle Gurwitch talks with Zibby about making…
Totally Booked with ZibbyJason Gay, LITTLE VICTORIES
“An important part of being a columnist is failing every once in a while or somewhat on the regular. You write the bad ones so you can write the good ones.”…
Totally Booked with ZibbyKitty O'Meara, AND THE PEOPLE STAYED HOME
Kitty O’Meara’s poem, And the People Stayed Home, went absolutely viral during the pandemic (the irony of which is not lost on her). She sits down with Zibby…
Totally Booked with ZibbyJulia Turshen, SIMPLY JULIA
“It’s like you unveiled yourself over every dish.” Zibby talks with cookbook author Julia Turshen about the deeply personal nature of Julia's 15th cookbook…
Totally Booked with ZibbyKayleen Schaefer, BUT YOU'RE STILL SO YOUNG
"You thought that when you arrived at X age you would be finished, but we're not ever finished.” Kayleen Schaefer talks with Zibby about her experience…
Totally Booked with ZibbyPatricia Engel, INFINITE COUNTRY
“Diaspora is the world’s condition.” Patricia Engel talks with Zibby about growing up the daughter of immigrants, the ingrained pull of an ancestral homeland…
Totally Booked with ZibbyTanya Selvaratnam, ASSUME NOTHING
“I wrote my way out of the darkness.” Tanya Selvaratnam talks with Zibby about the intimate partner violence she suffered in a past abusive relationship. She…
Totally Booked with ZibbyJoann Lublin, POWER MOMS: HOW EXECUTIVE MOTHERS NAVIGATE WORK AND LIFE
Joann Lublin dismisses the myth of work-life balance and makes a case instead for “work-life sway.” She shares with Zibby the biggest challenges she overcame…
Totally Booked with ZibbyKatrina Adams, OWN THE ARENA
Tennis guru and head of the USTA Katrina Adams talks about her success on and off the court -- including her role in a dramatic moment with Serena Williams --…
Totally Booked with ZibbyJulia Fine, THE UPSTAIRS HOUSE
This frank conversation made Zibby rethink her relationship to “Good Night, Moon” forever as she chatted with novelist Julia Fine about the ways motherhood can…
Totally Booked with ZibbyJennifer Ryan, THE KITCHEN FRONT: A NOVEL
Book editor turned novelist Jennifer Ryan talks with Zibby about the inspiration behind her latest WWII-era novel, The Kitchen Front. She shares memories of…
Totally Booked with ZibbyMeaghan Murphy, YOUR FULLY CHARGED LIFE: A RADICALLY SIMPLE APPROACH TO HAVING ENDLESS ENERGY AND FILLING EVERY DAY WITH YAY!
We 100% guarantee that Meaghan B. Murphy’s interview with Zibby will put a smile on your face! In this inspirational chat, the editor-in-chief of Woman’s Day…
Totally Booked with ZibbyElizabeth Miki Brina, SPEAK, OKINAWA: A MEMOIR
"This is a book that I needed to write my whole life. It's been building up inside of me for a long time.” Elizabeth Miki Brina talks with Zibby about how…
Totally Booked with ZibbyGeorgina Lawton, RACELESS
In this moving interview, Georgina Lawton talks with Zibby about the emotional toll of uncovering the long-held secret that explained her black racial…
Totally Booked with ZibbyVendela Vida, WE RUN THE TIDES: A NOVEL
“Teenagers, just by their very nature, are shapeshifters.” Acclaimed novelist Vendela Vida explains how a non-fiction book on lies became We Run the Tides. She…
Totally Booked with ZibbyEmily Layden, ALL GIRLS: A NOVEL
Emily Layden’s All Girls: A Novel, honors “the experience of teenage girlhood in all its depth and capacity.” The former high school teacher talks with Zibby…
Totally Booked with ZibbyMaria Adelmann, GIRLS OF A CERTAIN AGE
"I find it hard to be in one voice while I'm writing.” Maria Adelmann shares with Zibby why she loves writing (and reading!) short stories, and how her latest…
Totally Booked with ZibbyMadeleine Dean and Harry Cunnane, UNDER OUR ROOF: A SON'S BATTLE FOR RECOVERY, A MOTHER'S BATTLE FOR HER SON
"Don't give up hope.” Congresswoman Madeleine Dean and her son, Harry Cunnane, have a candid conversation with Zibby about Harry’s past struggles with…
Totally Booked with ZibbyKristin Hannah, THE FOUR WINDS
“Books are always the place that my characters go when the world bruises them, or when they need to recharge or regroup and just to enjoy themselves.” Prolific…