Mena Suvari, THE GREAT PEACE: A Memoir
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Zibby led a discussion with actress Mena Suvari for a virtual event with Book Soup in Los Angeles where they discussed Mena's debut memoir, The Great Peace. Their conversation touched on how Mena knew it was the perfect time to share her story, the ways in which she processed her relationship with fame, and why the miracles in her life have helped her to find her place in this world. Watch the full conversation here!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology, |
| 0:12.2 | which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology. |
| 0:16.8 | All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research. |
| 0:20.4 | And I'm the editor-in-chief of Moms Don't Have Time to Write a new publication on Medium. |
| 0:25.0 | And we're accepting submissions, so please send your personal essays there. |
| 0:29.1 | And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibi Owens. |
| 0:32.9 | And my website is Zibi Owens.com. |
| 0:34.8 | Okay, now back to this amazing podcast. |
| 0:40.4 | Mina Suvari is the author of The Great Peace, a memoir. Mina is an award-winning actor whose credits include American Beauty, |
| 0:46.5 | American Pie, Six Feet Under, Chicago Fire, and American Horror Story, among many others. She |
| 0:52.2 | currently lives in Los Angeles. |
| 0:57.7 | Mina and I did this interview together in person in L.A. |
| 0:58.8 | And it was so fun. |
| 1:01.8 | And we had this huge camera crew around us, which you can see pictures of on my Instagram account at Zibi Owens. |
| 1:03.7 | And we are releasing it also as a really highly produced, beautiful, little talk showy |
| 1:09.3 | thing. |
| 1:10.3 | So stay tuned on Instagram to see that. And so you can |
| 1:13.5 | watch her talk in person. But listen to this because it was a really amazing event. We did it with |
| 1:18.5 | Book Soup, which is one of my favorite bookstores. And I used to go and like wander in BookS |
| 1:23.1 | all the time in my 20s when I lived in L.A. and didn't really know anybody. And now it's so great because here I am in my 40s and I get to go back and do a virtual event for BookSoup with an amazing actress who I remember watching in American Pie around the time. I was aimlessly wandering in the bookstore. So there you go. Enjoy our conversation. Mina is absolutely amazing. Good evening, everyone. My name is Sam in the corner over here. And on behalf of Boots Soup, |
| 1:47.1 | I'd like to thank you all for joining us for tonight's event with Mina Suvari in conversation |
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