Anne Berest, GABRIËLE
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Bestselling French author Anne Berest returns to the podcast to discuss GABRIËLE, an atmospheric and exuberant novel about love, sex, art, revolution, and the life of her great-grandmother Gabriële Buffet-Picabia—muse and revolutionary partner to artist Francis Picabia. Anne discusses the legacy of creativity and pain in her lineage, the invisible labor of women who shape art behind the scenes, the fun she had co-writing with her sister, and the impact of being embraced by American readers. She also touches on her other book, THE POSTCARD, which began with an anonymous postcard listing the names of her Jewish relatives murdered during WWII, sparking an investigation into her family’s history and inherited trauma. You can listen to that episode, too!
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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. |
| 0:44.6 | Anne Barest is the author of Gabriel. |
| 0:47.5 | Anne's first novel to appear in English, The Postcard, was a national bestseller, |
| 0:51.7 | a library journal, NPR and Time Best Book of the Year, |
| 0:54.7 | a Vogue Most Anticipated Book of the Year, winner of the Schwa-Gongort Prize, |
| 0:59.6 | and runner-up for the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. |
| 1:03.3 | It was described as stunning by Leslie Cam He and the New Yorker, |
| 1:07.7 | as a powerful literary work by Julie Oranger in the New York Times Book Review |
| 1:12.3 | and as intimate, profound, central, in the pages of Elle magazine. |
| 1:16.7 | Her new novel, Gabrielle, is based on the life of Gabriel Buffet, whose extraordinary |
| 1:20.8 | impact on 20th century avant-garde art and whose remarkable life have largely been obscured. |
| 1:26.6 | Anne lives in Paris. |
| 1:28.1 | Welcome, Anne. |
| 1:29.1 | Thank you so much for coming on my podcast to discuss Gabrielle. |
| 1:34.0 | How was that? |
| 1:35.1 | It was perfect. |
| 1:38.2 | So Anne and I are together here today in person, which is so wonderful. |
| 1:42.8 | It's a great honor for me being here. |
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