David Sedaris, THE BEST OF ME
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In this special weekend re-release, Zibby speaks to award-winning author David Sedaris about The Best of Me, a wickedly funny and memorable collection of stories about life's surprises. In the interview, David Sedaris talks about owning who you are as a writer and explains why "publishing isn’t writing.” He also tells Zibby why he doesn’t read internet comments and discloses how he expresses love (hint: it involves Christmas!)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:06.7 | This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes. |
| 0:14.9 | I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir. |
| 0:21.9 | Our books are already out now. |
| 0:23.5 | You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com. |
| 0:25.7 | And we have a magazine called Zibi Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle |
| 0:31.2 | features. |
| 0:31.8 | That's at Zibbymag.com. |
| 0:33.1 | We have classes at Zippy Classes.com. |
| 0:35.4 | And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. |
| 0:39.1 | called Zibby's Bookshop at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. |
| 0:45.3 | I hope that you are able to enjoy some of our other offerings. |
| 0:48.8 | But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018. |
| 0:56.5 | And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy. We are nearing the end of our weekend re-releases for summer, |
| 1:06.5 | but this one from David Sedaris is just a classic, after which he wrote me a postcard, |
| 1:11.9 | which I have framed in my office. |
| 1:14.1 | It was such a joy to talk to him. |
| 1:15.9 | And wow, what a gentleman. |
| 1:17.6 | David Sedaris is the author of the books. |
| 1:21.9 | Let's explore diabetes with owls. |
| 1:24.5 | Squirrel seeks chipmunk, when you are engulfed in flames, dress your family in |
| 1:28.7 | corduroy and denim, me talk pretty one day, I think that was my favorite of all of his books, |
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