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Totally Booked with Zibby

Lara Love Hardin, THE MANY LIVES OF MAMA LOVE: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

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

4.4602 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Zibby interviews literary agent and New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin about her heartbreaking, tender, and hilarious memoir, The Many Lives of Mama Love. Lara shares her jaw-dropping story–from suburban soccer mom to heroin addict to prisoner to successful literary agent and ghostwriter. She explains how her Vicodin addiction started, what it was like to lose everything (including her children) and go to jail, and how she rebuilt her life after hitting rock bottom.


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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 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of

0:47.9

our other offerings. 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.

1:03.4

Lara Love Hardin is the author of The Many Lives of Mama Love, a memoir of lying,

1:08.1

stealing, writing, and healing. You have probably seen this in newspapers

1:12.1

and magazines because it has gotten so much press. Most recently, it was selected by Jeanette McCurdy

1:19.4

for her book club. She's been the number one bestseller of I'm glad my mom died for like the

1:24.7

whole year. I don't even know. Anyway, Lara Love Hardin has an MFA

1:28.6

in creative writing and is a four-time New York Times bestselling writer, including the number one New York

1:33.0

Times bestseller, Designing Your Life by Dave Evans and Bill Burnett, and 2018 Oprah Book Club

1:38.9

Pick, The Sun Does Shine, which she co-authored with Anthony Ray Hinton about his 30 years as an

1:43.9

innocent man on

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