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Totally Booked with Zibby

Adam Mansbach and Camila Alves McConaughey, JUST TRY ONE BITE

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

Connection, Inspiration, Moms, Entertainment, Arts, Reading, Books, Parenting, Literary

4.4602 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

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 also discusses how and why she started Women of Today, an online community that connects women with the intention of helping everyone find exactly the support they need. The three also talk about their respective relationships with sugar and food overall, and how that inspired the messaging of this picture book. 


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0:23.8

Hi, this is Vivi Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast. Moms don't have time to read books. And speaking of books, I have two of my own books coming out this spring and summer. Princess Charming is a picture book, which debuts on April 19th. And Bookends, a memoir of love, loss, and literature comes out on July 1st, and it is truly a labor of love. I hope you'll pre-order, order, and join me on tour as I go across the country.

0:28.5

You can find out more at Zibiowens.com or bookendsmemoir.com.

0:34.3

And you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens because I always post about everything. Enjoy the show.

0:41.7

Adam Mansbach and Camilla Alvese McConaughey are the authors of Just Try One Bite, a children's book.

0:50.1

Adam Mansback is the author of the number one New York Times bestseller, Go the Fuck to Sleep,

0:55.7

excuse my language, the novels Rages Back, Angry Black White Boy, and the End of the Jews,

1:01.1

which was winner of the California Book Award, and a dozen other books, most recently the bestselling,

1:05.9

a field guide to the Jewish people, co-written with Dave Barry and Alan Zwebel, and his memoir

1:10.8

and verse, which we talked about a lot in this episode, by the way, I had a brother once. You should definitely read that. It's so good. Mansbach wrote the award-winning screenplay for the Netflix original Barry, and his next feature film, Super High, starring Andy Sandberg, Craig Robinson, and Common, is forthcoming from New Line. His work has appeared in the New Yorker,

1:26.8

New York Times, Book Review, Esquire, The Believer, The Guardian, and on national public radios this American life, The Moth, and all things considered. Camilla Alves McConaghanhey, who is Matthew McConaughey's wife, by the way. In addition to being a wife, she is a mother of three and self-recllaimed woman on a mission, which I love.

1:46.5

She is the mother of three and self-proclaimed woman on a mission, which I love.

1:52.2

She is the founder of Women of Today, which you can find on Instagram at women of today or at womenof today.com, which is an amazing online community.

1:56.2

And she is the co-founder of J.K. Liven Foundation with her husband, Matthew McConaughey.

2:02.9

Welcome. We have two amazing guests here today on Momsden. Don't have time to read books. We have Adam Mansbach. Am I

2:09.0

pronouncing that right? Mansbach. Man's back. Man's back. Okay. Adam, you have no idea how many

2:16.0

times they try to get me to pronounce your last name properly.

2:19.3

And I'm just like, you don't want to hear. I was like, you don't want to hear.

2:23.3

Thanks for making me feel better. And also Camilla McConaughey. I pronounce that one, right?

2:29.3

Yes.

2:30.3

You got the one.

2:31.3

Marys, I can't spell your last name no matter how many times I try. So we're even, really.

2:37.1

And they are the co-authors of Just Try One by the new children's book, but they are so much more than that.

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