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Elizabeth Castellano, SAVE WHAT'S LEFT

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

Connection, Inspiration, Moms, Entertainment, Arts, Reading, Books, Parenting, Literary

4.4602 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

GMA Book Club Pick alert! Zibby speaks to debut author Elizabeth Castellano about Save What’s Left, an irreverent, hilarious, and unexpectedly tender novel about a sixty-year-old woman who moves to a small beach town looking for peace, only to find herself in an all-out war with her neighbors. Elizabeth describes her upbringing in a tiny Long Island beach town (her elementary school had nine students!) and her path to writing, starting with the humor column in the high school newspaper. She also shares her favorite books and authors and her best advice for aspiring writers.


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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.

0:25.6

And we have a magazine called Zibby 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 called zibby's bookshop

0:40.3

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

0:47.0

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

0:53.3

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

0:56.5

my favorite thing. Enjoy it. Elizabeth Castellano was the author of Save What's Left, a novel.

1:07.3

Elizabeth grew up in a beach town. She lives in New York. Save What's Left is her debut novel,

1:11.6

and it was a Good Morning America Book Club pick. Welcome, Elizabeth. Thank you so much for coming on

1:16.0

Mom's Don't have time to read books to discuss Save What's Left your debut novel. Thank you so much

1:21.9

for having me. I'm so happy to be here. Oh my gosh. I was just saying before this started how much I

1:26.9

love and I'm completely obsessed

1:29.1

with your book. It's the funniest book I've ever read. It's so smart. It's so great. I read last night

1:36.7

all these portions of it out loud to my husband who was like dying, laughing with me. And the two of us,

1:41.4

we just haven't laughed at her. It was so great. Congratulations. Amazing. So much. So nice. Thanks. No, I'm serious. First, just tell everybody what the book is about.

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