Dina Alvarez & Dina Aronson, MIDLIFE PRIVATE PARTS: Revealing Essays that Will Change the Way You Think About Age

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 29 June 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Totally Booked: LIVE! In this special episode of the podcast (in-person at the Whitby Hotel with a live audience!), Zibby interviews Dina Alvarez and Dina Aronson (as well as 10 other contributors!) about MIDLIFE PRIVATE PARTS, a soulful and revealing collection of essays on what it really feels like to move through the world as a midlife woman and beyond. Zibby, a contributor herself, moderates the conversation on the complexities, challenges, and liberation that come with aging. Touching on shifting identities, raging hormones, sexual awakenings, skin-tightening treatments, menopause, medical gaslighting, empty-nesting, and societal invisibility, each contributor shares a candid, often humorous, and deeply moving reflection on midlife.

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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	Welcome back to totally booked live.
0:47.9	So excited to be here.
0:49.3	We have such an amazing show today.
0:51.8	We have not only Dina Alvarez and Dina Aronson, the co-editors of
0:57.5	midlife private parts revealing essays that will change the way you think about age, which I
1:02.7	definitely need myself and have rethought my own thoughts a million times, but we have a number
1:07.8	of the contributors to this fabulous anthology.
1:11.2	By the way, I am one of the contributors, not toot my own horn.
1:14.9	But anyway, so we'll start with reading a little bit about the two of you,
1:19.0	and then we'll hear from some of the contributors.
1:21.8	I'm so excited.
1:22.9	Welcome, by the way.
1:24.1	Thank you.
1:24.5	Thank you for having us.
1:26.4	Thank you.
1:27.0	Oh, it is my pleasure. Okay, raise your hand if your name is Dina Alvarez. Okay, great.
1:32.9	Dina Alvarez started her writing career as a freelancer for Big Apple Parent in New York City, covering education, local politics, and lifestyle.
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