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 1-1-1-3 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 favorite thing. Enjoy.

Julia Langbine is the author of American Mermaid, a novel. And by the way, I picked this for

Zibby's Book Club, which if you are not a member of, you should join right this second, zivisbookclub.com. And Julia will be joining us after we spend half an hour talking about her book, then she will join for Q&A, which is how I do all the book club meetings. Again, that's Zivisbookclub.com. You can join the virtual club. We meet twice a month, but you can come and go as you

please. And then there are many in-person chapters sprouting up. Anyway, Julia Langbine, a sketch

and stand-up comedian for many years, holds a doctorate in art history and is the author of a

non-fiction book about comic art criticism. She wrote the viral comedy blog, The Bruni Digest,

which reviewed New York Times

critic Frank Bruny's restaurant reviews every week, and she has since written about food,

art, and travel for gourmet, eater, salon, freeze, and other publications. A native of Chicago,

she lives outside of Paris with her family. Welcome, Julia. Thanks so much for coming on Mom's

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