Totally Booked with Zibby

This is a very special episode with the New York Times "Modern Love" column editor Daniel Jones, the "Modern Love" contributor and author, Deborah Copaken, and the two subjects of Deb's essay, Justin and Kate McLeod. The essay is featured in the new book, MODERN LOVE: TRUE STORIES OF LOVE, LOSS AND REDEMPTION, and will be episode 2 of the Amazon TV series debuting on October 18th!&n...

Eve Rodsky is going to help your marriage!!! The author of Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live), Eve has taken her Harvard law degree, her consulting work with hundreds of families over a decade, and her interviews with 500+ couples to devise an ingenious system for couples seeking balance, efficiency, and peace in their home. This book...

Amanda Salzhauer, MSW, is the coauthor, along with Dale Atkins, PhD, of The Kindness Advantage: Cultivating Compassionate and Connected Children, Everyday Ideas for Raising Kids Who Care . Amanda is a social worker who has worked in both clinics and private practice. Her book is amazing because it highlights the theory and philosophy behind everything they've researched and observed, and then goes...

Katharine McGee is the author of the New York Times best-selling series The Thousandth Floor and her latest best-selling book, American Royals ! Self-proclaimed historical fiction addict and British royalty fan, American Royals is a evocative of Crazy Rich Asians and The Crown. It’s a what-if scenario you won’t put down: imagine if George Washington had been our first king and present-day America...

Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington are the coauthors of Grown & Flown: How to Support Your Teen, Stay Close as a Family, and Raise Independent Adults . They are also the co-creators of Grown & Flown, the number one community site for parents with teens and college students, reaching millions of parents every month. They started their community when they saw how few resources there wer...

Today I'm talking with Deborah Burns who’s the author of memoir Saturday’s Child: A Daughter’s Memoir . A former media chief innovation officer and brand leader for top publications, Deborah has helped many brands and execs reinvent themselves. She also founded Skirting the Rules, a firm that helps other women find meaningful futures. Her memoir is a very moving mother-daughter story thr...

Leslie Anne Bruce, a five-time New York Times best-selling coauthor and an award-winning entertainment journalist formally of US Weekly and The Hollywood Reporter,  is AMAZING. She's the founder of Unpacified, an online community for modern women to discuss motherhood through an unfiltered, judgment-free lens of honesty and humor. Her latest book, You Are A F*cking Awesome Mom, puts a differe...

I am very, very excited to be interviewing Steve Schwarzman today who is..... my dad!!! He's also the chairman, CEO, and cofounder of Blackstone, one of the world’s leading investment firms, and the founder of the Schwarzman Scholars program in China. He's an active philanthropist with a focus on education, culture, and the arts. My dad wrote  What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit o...

I'm here today with Danielle Ganek, who is a self-proclaimed book-a-holic, former magazine editor, and the author of two novels, Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him and The Summer We Read Gatsby . She talks about her ideas for her novels, how her personal experiences inform her writing, and artistic expression. Listen in!  ** Want more? Become a part of my community! Sign up for Zibby's Highlights...

I lost my college roommate and best friend, Stacey Sanders, on 9/11.  I  didn’t just lose her. We all did. We all lost someone or something. I’ve written often about Stace and how her loss affected my life and continues to do so now, 18 years later. I'm releasing a dedicated podcast episode today of me reading three essays I’ve written about Stacey, starting with one I wrote just two weeks after s...

I am so excited about my conversation with Rex Ogle, a former children's book editor in New York City and author of Free Lunch .  Free Lunch is essentially a typical middle-grade story - it has to do with wanting to be on the football team, and trying to figure out where to sit, and the transferring-to-a-new-school jitters, but it also has to do with his experience of poverty and domestic vio...

Claire Dederer is the author of two critically acclaimed memoirs, Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning and Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses , which was a New York Times best seller and has been optioned for TV and adapted for the stage. We talked about her books and inspiration, the relationship between reader and writer, the importance of memoir from and for women and how to be a good i...

Jennifer Blecher is the author of OUT OF PLACE ,  the story of a twelve-year-old girl named Cove who lives on Martha’s Vineyard with her mom. She has never left the island once in her entire life...which was fine with her until the day that her best friend Nina comes and tells Cove that she's moving to New York City with her two fathers. In that moment, Cove’s entire life feels like it is fal...

Today I'm interviewing Michele Filgate, the editor of the anthology  What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence.  The collection is based on her essay published by Longreads in October 2017, right after the Harvey Weinstein story broke and the #MeToo movement took off. She started writing this essay when she was an undergraduate. What started as he...

Lisa Perry is an internationally renowned fashion designer. Assouline recently released her new book Lisa Perry: Fashion - Homes - Design . The forward was written by Hillary Clinton and the text and photography are by Robyn Lea. Lisa always wanted to have a book. She says that to have twenty years of design projects under one cover was a dream. Her story, success, and advice is so colorful, just...

Jack Fairweather is a former award-winning war reporter who has covered Iraq, Afghanistan, and more. He is the author of A War of Choice and The Good War . His most recent book is The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz .  The Volunteer is an extraordinary story about a Polish underground operative who took on a mission to infiltrate Ausch...

Lauren Gershell is the coauthor, along with Sophie Littlefield, of That's What Frenemies Are For: A Novel . It centers around a New York City woman who 'has it all' but feels her star fading and goes about trying to regain her social capital. This is Lauren's first book - she had an idea and reached out to a childhood friend who was a literary agent. Her friend liked the idea! Lauren said as...

Best-selling author and award-winning journalist Holly Peterson released a new book this summer. In her amazing beach read,  It’s Hot in the Hamptons,  Holly doesn't skim the surface of the Hamptons summer community. She delves into more than the juicy details and takes a look at inequality, class, and differences in today's world. She also shines a light on the #metoo movement, as...

Jane Green is the author of many best-selling novels. Her latest book, The Friends We Keep , debuted early this summer, and is set at university in the UK in the 1980s. Three students become best friends and promise to stay close forever - but of course, life has other plans. The story follows them throughout the course of their lives until their thirtieth reunion - they're all swept rig...

Ben Michaelis, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, elite performance coach, and the author of Your Next Big Thing: Ten Small Steps to Get Moving and Get Happy . The inspiration for his recent book was really one client - a  difficult  client originally - and the mutual impact they had on each other's lives. It's a powerful and inspiring exploration - listen for more!  ** Want more...

Ricardo Cortés is an artist, writer, publisher, and the #1  New York Times best-selling illustrator of GO THE F*CK TO SLEEP. His most recent project has been taking a small New Yorker magazine "Talk of the Town" piece by legendary author Jamaica Kincaid and turning it into a children's book called PARTY: A MYSTERY. Ricardo illustrated this book but also visualized the entire thing and worked with...

I'm beyond honored to release my podcast conversation with the legendary writer, novelist, and professor, Jamaica Kincaid. Jamaica is most recently the author of her first children’s book Party : A Mystery, with captivating illustrations by Ricardo Cortés .  The acclaimed author doesn't see  Party  (or any book!) as a "children's book," but rather an imaginative story born from...

Heather Hanson is the author of The Elegant Warrior: How To Win Life’s Trials Without Losing Yourself . A trial lawyer for over twenty years defending medical malpractice suits, Heather is an advocacy and credibility consultant, keynote speaker, and host of “The Elegant Warrior Podcast.” In her book, Heather explores how she was able to maintain and be true to her identity through emotional and ch...

Karen Dukess is the author of  The Last Book Party,  a fantastic coming-of-age novel set in the literary world and in Cape Cod. Karen's debut novel is absolutely lovely and takes the reader from the shores of the Cape to the literary event of the season. It's evocative, transformative, and very well-written. Listen to Karen and me discuss the background of her book, how it took her until...

Madeleine Henry is the author of  Breathe In, Cash Out.  Her debut novel  Breathe In, Cash Out , is about an investment banker, Allegra, who wants to be a yogi. The book explores reality, escapism, and dreams in the age of social media - and how to reconcile career and passion. ** Want more? Become a part of my community! Sign up for Zibby's Highlights , which includes a f...