An “It Girl” Worth Knowing with Allison Pataki
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Bestselling author Allison Pataki introduces us to yet another powerful woman forgotten in history in her latest historical novel, It Girl. Evelyn Talbot shot onto the scene in the early 20th century and rose to prominence (think: Kardashian). But her relationships with men destroyed her career and her life. Read Allison’s reimagined ending for this star.
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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 zibibimedia.com and follow me on |
| 0:39.7 | Instagram at Zibby Owens. Allison Pataki is back on Totally Booked. She has been on here |
| 0:49.1 | probably more than anybody because she is so prolific. Her latest novel is called It |
| 0:53.4 | Girl and this was recorded live at the Whitby, a totally bookedific. Her latest novel is called It Girl, and this was recorded |
| 0:55.0 | live at the Whitby, a totally book live. Allison Pataki is the New York Times best-selling author |
| 1:00.0 | of The Trader's Wife, The Accidental Empress, Cece, the Queen's Fortune, The Magnificent |
| 1:05.4 | Lives of Marjorie Post, Finding Margaret Fuller, Beauty in the Broken Places, and two children's |
| 1:10.6 | books with Maria Myers. |
| 1:12.2 | Her novels have been translated into more than 20 languages, a former newswriter and producer. |
| 1:17.4 | Allison has written for the New York Times, USA Today, and other outlets. She has appeared on |
| 1:21.3 | Today, Good Morning America, and Morning Joe. She graduated cum laude from Yale University and |
| 1:26.2 | lives in New York with her husband and family. |
| 1:28.6 | Welcome to Totally Booked Live at the Whitby. |
| 1:31.5 | I'm so excited to be here today with Alison Pataki to talk about her newest book, It Girl. |
| 1:36.8 | Welcome. |
| 1:37.7 | Thank you. |
| 1:38.6 | I'm so excited to be here with you. |
| 1:40.4 | Zibi, this is a first for us doing this together in person for the podcast. I know. And we've done how, you keep coming out with books. We've done this like 10 times. You keep very graciously inviting me back. Thank you. I remember when it was like trailblazing to be a Zibi Owens three peep. That's right. That's right. It's a few more than that. I think it was 2018 the first time we synced up? What were all the books that you were on the show for? The first one was the memoir. Yes. Beauty in the broken places. If you have not read that people in the audience and listening, it is a beautiful book. We connected in that and you were relatively new to the podcast at that point. But we had a backstory together. |
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