Totally Booked with Zibby

Editor-at-Large at  People Magazine  and host of the  PEOPLE Every Day  podcast Janine Rubenstein joins Zibby to talk about her career and her current book recommendations. Janine shares how she started her career as an editorial assistant helping to select  People's  book picks and has since made her way around the entire  People  ecosystem. She also t...

"I feel like I'm still adding selves and identity. It's not a process that stops. You don't stop growing and sit in a rocking chair." Zibby is joined by Stephanie Gangi to talk about her latest novel,  Carry the Dog . The two discuss why it is so important to center stories around older women that feel honest, the influence Stephanie's relationships and personal life have had on her fiction,...

Zibby is joined by author, essayist, and columnist Jennifer Haupt to discuss her latest novel,  Come As You Are.  Jennifer shares what happened when she decided she wanted to write a book in her mid-forties, which questions she can answer for younger moms now that her kids are grown up, and how she launched her successful  Psychology Today  column. Jennifer and Zibby also discu...

"I think that that's what moms are superheroes at, is getting through the day. Even in your not-best-self moment, you can still be a light to someone else even when you don't think you are." Zibby is joined by best friends Catherine Belknap and Natalie Telfer, better known to many as Cat and Nat, to discuss their new book,  Cat and Nat's Mom Secrets . The three chat about the importance...

Kevin and Danielle Jonas join Zibby to talk about their first picture book,  There's a Rock Concert in My Bedroom , which was inspired by their two daughters. The three discuss their similar dinnertime rituals, why Kevin and Danielle love working together so much, and how they approach their daughters' growing interest in music. Kevin also shares the small token he takes on stage every n...

Educator, journalist, and author of  The Gift of Failure  and  The Addiction Inoculation  Jessica Lahey joins Zibby to discuss her books and the parenting advice they provide. As someone who has recovered from a substance abuse disorder, Jessica shares how parents can change their attitude around drinking to help minimize the risk of addiction in their kid's future. She also te...

Debut novelist Sara Freeman joins Zibby to talk about her book,  Tides , and why she was interested in writing psychological literature about sibling dynamics. Sara shares what it was like to spend so much time with the novel's protagonist, how her childhood as the child of a news correspondent left her feeling a little detached from the idea of what makes a home, and which books she's curren...

New York Times  bestselling author Kate Baer joins Zibby to talk about her accidental collection of erasure poetry,  I Hope This Finds You Well , which takes messages she's received online and turns them into powerful verses. The two discuss their shared experiences as mothers of four, as well as some of the specific emotions and traumas that that entails. Kate also tells Zibby abou...

Zibby is joined by the founder of She ROARs Chidiogo Akunyili-Parr to talk about her first book,  I Am Because We Are , which combines a memoir of her life with an autobiography of her late mother, Dora Akunyili. Chidiogo shares moments from her family history and from her mother's tenure as a revered director-general of Nigeria's National Agency for Food and Drug Administratio...

"The greatest thing about having written a book is knowing that you have written one. It has emboldened me in many parts of my life in thinking, 'Well, if I can do this, maybe I can do something else.'" Actor John Cho joins Zibby to discuss his debut middle-grade novel,  Troublemaker , which was inspired by his own life. John shares how his memories of the Rodney King Riots feel resonant toda...

Zibby is joined by the duo behind the new picture book  Just Try One Bite , Adam Mansbach and Camila Alves McConaughey, to talk about their collaboration as well as their personal projects. Adam shares what it was like to write his prose poem,  I Had a Brother Once , about his late brother, why it took him so long to write, and what it has been like since he completed it. Camila als...

"We spend so much time ignoring our calling, searching for our calling not realizing it's already calling us." #1  New York Times  bestselling author, Fox Sports analyst, and former NFL player Emmanuel Acho returns to talk with Zibby about his new book,  Illogical.  Emmanuel shares how being illogical simply means going against conventional wisdom to find the passions that spea...

"I think a lot of us have that thing where it's like, 'Who am I to think I could write a book?' I'm now always telling people, 'Who are you not to?'" Zibby is joined by  New York Times  bestselling author and founder of Legacy Launch Pad Anna David to talk about the re-release of her novel,  Party Girl , as well as the many other things she is working on. Anna shares how her disappo...

New York Times  bestselling author Sabaa Tahir returns to talk about her latest novel,  All My Rage , which she worked on for the last fifteen years whenever she got angry. She shares which real facets of her own life she wove into the story, from enduring xenophobia to the ebbs and flows of lifelong friendships, and which scene was written when she was the angriest she had ever bee...

Journalist, social activist, and professor Saumya Roy joins Zibby to talk about her first book,  Castaway Mountain , which is the culmination of eight years of interviews with and research on the wastepickers in the garbage landfill of Mumbai. Saumya shares how she first became involved with wastepickers after she and her father began a non-profit that offers loans to&nbsp...

Zibby is joined by Julie Vick to talk about her latest book, a parenting guide for introverts titled  Babies Don't Make Small Talk (So Why Should I?) . The two discuss what makes someone an introvert, an extrovert, or an ambivert (and why they're both introverts), as well as how the pressures of parenthood could feel even heavier with the added weight of social anxiety or shyness. Julie...

Rosie Walsh returns for an Instagram Live with Zibby to discuss her latest novel,  The Love of My Life , which is this month's GMA Book Club pick. The two talk about how this book took Rosie over four years to write and how she managed to work around her writer's block by typing her draft in white. They also talk about where to steal time for writing when raising young kids, what makes obitua...

Zibby is joined by Kendall Rhodes, Meredith Littas, and Meghan Rienks — three women involved with the new Fictionz app and the recent narrative audio series,  The Break Up Diet , which Meredith wrote during the early days of the Covid lockdown. The four chat about their astrological signs and which character from  Sex and the City  they are most like, as well as why F...

Comedian and host of  Late Night  Seth Meyers joins Zibby to talk about his new picture book,  I'm Not Scared, You're Scared.  The two talk about their shared editor at Flamingo, the ways in which being a big reader and writer has helped Seth at every stage of his career — notably at  Saturday Night Live — and how the pandemic has only strengthened his relationship wi...

Zibby is joined by journalist and  New York Times  bestselling author Laura Lippman to talk about her story collection,  Seasonal Work . The two discuss the combination of people and things that inspired the book's novella, which centers around dating apps, as well as their respective relationships with social media. Laura also shares whether or not she gets scared in her daily life...

Literary historian David Damrosch joins Zibby to discuss his latest book,  Around the World in 80 Books , which grew out of a blog he started during the pandemic. The two talk about the thought that went into selecting the eighty books from around the world, David's thoughts on reading translated works, and how he grew more comfortable sharing parts of his personal story, which made the...

Zibby is joined by psychologist and professor at the University of Toronto Paul Bloom to talk about his latest book,  The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning . Paul explains the science behind why we often put ourselves in situations that are difficult and what happens when that decision backfires as well as how we feel when we achieve the result we were striving...

"To me, this book, in a lot of ways, the core intellectual arc of the book is this journey of me figuring out what it means to be American." Zibby is joined by investigative journalist and editor at BuzzFeed News Albert Samaha   to talk about his new memoir, Concepcion, which is a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Albert and Zibby talk about the ways in which the shape of...

#1  New York Times  bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard joins Zibby to discuss her latest novel,  The Good Son , and the brief interaction at a writer's conference that inspired it. The two talk about the unreasoning love parents have for their children, what Jacquelyn's experience was like raising nine kids, and the project she is working on next. Jacquelyn also shares...

Zibby is joined by Clothilde Ewig to talk about her very first picture book,  Stella Keeps the Sun Up , which is out this week from Denene Millner Books. Clothilde shares how an op-ed from Denene was what originally inspired her to begin writing and how her own childrens' sleep habits helped her shape the story. Clothilde also tells Zibby about her time working as a producer for&nbs...