Emma Gannon, TABLE FOR ONE: A Modern Love Story
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Recorded live at the CORE Club, Zibby interviews Sunday Times bestselling author Emma Gannon about her novel TABLE FOR ONE, a warm and witty story about what it means to be happily alone, not lonely. The two discuss Emma’s winding career path, from early blogging days to a hit Substack and bestselling books. Emma opens up about the joy and necessity of creative solitude, the real-life sparks behind her characters, and how burnout led her to rethink her life, work, and writing. She also shares an inside look at her upcoming memoir, A YEAR OF NOTHING, and her decision to publish it independently.
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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. |
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| 0:40.2 | at Zibby Owens. |
| 0:44.5 | Emma Gannon is the author of Table for One, a modern love story. This episode with Emma was |
| 0:50.3 | filmed as part of our event series at the core club, a private club in New York, where we do |
| 0:55.6 | events with authors every month. And if you are part of our community and on the mailing list |
| 1:00.6 | and everything, you can always come. Anyway, Emma Gannon is the Sunday Times best-selling |
| 1:05.8 | author of eight books, including Olive, her debut novel, which was nominated for the Dublin Literary Award. |
| 1:12.2 | Her second novel, Table for One, is out now with Harper Collins. Her popular newsletter, |
| 1:17.1 | The Hyphen, was one of the first in the UK to reach thousands of subscriptions on Substack. |
| 1:22.4 | Enjoy. Welcome, Emma. Thank you so much for coming. I'm totally booked. |
| 1:26.6 | Thank you so much. This is so exciting. I was saying that |
| 1:29.1 | my debut novel, Olive, came out in the pandemic. So I did like loads of virtual events of people in the States. So this feels genuinely really meaningful. So thank you for being here. |
| 1:38.5 | So Emma, we're going to talk about your new amazing book, which you've all gotten a copy of. It's called Table for One. I'm |
| 1:44.4 | obsessed. Of course, now we have tables for lots of you in here. Before we get into this book, |
| 1:49.3 | give everybody a little background of how you got into writing your career to date and how we got |
| 1:54.3 | right here. Okay, so a whistle stop talk because it's as we, you know, all of us have had many |
| 2:00.1 | zigzags, I'm'm sure in our careers but |
| 2:01.8 | for me I started off in the early days in like advertising agencies when you just fall into a job |
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