Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.

I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.

Our books are already out now.

You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.

And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle

features.

That's at Zibbymag.com.

We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.

And I recently opened a bookstore in L.a called zibby's bookshop

at one one one three montana avenue at 11th street in san monica i hope that you are able to

enjoy some of our other offerings but this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in

2018 and no matter what i do this is basically my of all of it and started in 2018. And no matter what I do, this is basically

my favorite thing. Enjoy it. I am re-releasing my episode with Britt Bennett, who wrote The Vanishing

Half, because if there's anyone out there who has not read The Vanishing Half, just because it

didn't come out this summer, doesn't mean you shouldn't read it. It's a really great book, and I enjoyed my

conversation with Britt about it immensely. This interview that I did with Britt Bennett is from

an event with Penn America. They host virtual authors' nights, authors' dinners, it used to be,

and I attended a bunch of them myself before saying,

you know what, I would love to just get in there and interview one of these people. So I offered

and said, is there any chance I could interview Britt Bennett? And they said yes. And I was so thrilled.

And then I read the entire book basically in two sittings over the course of a weekend, could not

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