Amy Bloom, I'LL BE RIGHT HERE: A Novel
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Totally Booked: LIVE! In this special episode of the podcast (in-person at the Whitby Hotel with a live audience!), Zibby interviews New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom about I’LL BE RIGHT HERE, a sweeping multigenerational story that begins in occupied Paris and spans 50 years. She reflects on her signature themes (family, love, sex, and death), the moral complexity of her writing, and her fascination with found families, marginalized characters, and hidden histories. She also touches on the impact of her memoir, IN LOVE, which tells the story of her late husband’s Alzheimer’s and death.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
| 0:24.0 | look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't |
| 0:29.3 | have to. |
| 0:30.3 | Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day. |
| 0:36.2 | For more information, go to zibbimedia.com and follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens. |
| 0:44.5 | Welcome back to Totally Booked Live. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm here today with Amy Bloom. |
| 0:49.2 | I'm so excited. |
| 0:50.3 | Welcome. |
| 0:50.9 | Yay, clap. |
| 0:51.6 | Thank you. |
| 0:55.6 | Amy is, her latest book is All Be Right Here, and I interviewed Amy before for her last book |
| 1:02.0 | In Love, which is like one of my favorite books. Does anyone read that book here in the audience? |
| 1:06.1 | It's so good. Oh my gosh. Okay, I'll read you her bio and then we'll get into this new book. |
| 1:10.5 | Amy Bloom is the author of four previous novels, White Houses, Lucky Us, Away, and Love Invents Us, |
| 1:16.8 | and three collections of short stories, where the God of Love hangs out, come to me, |
| 1:21.8 | finalist for the National Book Award, and a blind man can see how much I love you, |
| 1:26.1 | finalist for the National Book Critic Circle Award, her first book of nonfiction, normal, transsexual CEOs, cross-dressing cops, and hermaphrodites with attitude, is a staple of university, sociology, and biology courses. Her most recent book is the widely acclaimed New York Times best-selling memoir in love. She has written for magazines |
| 1:44.7 | such as The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Fogue L. The Atlantic, Slate, and Salon, |
| 1:49.4 | and her work has been translated into 17 languages. All true. All true. Few. They got it right. |
| 1:56.5 | All right. I'll be right here. Can you tell everybody what this book is about? |
| 2:00.4 | Sure. I can. Would you also please do that now? |
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