Michelle Wildgen, WINE PEOPLE: A Novel
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Zibby Books author alert!!! Zibby interviews author Michelle Wildgen about Wine People, an intoxicating escape into the cutthroat world of wine and the complicated terrain of women’s friendship. Michelle describes her journey to food writing (she started as a back waiter!) and shares the secrets to doing it well! She also discusses her two fascinating female protagonists (and the real-life women who inspired them), her food writing role models, her previous novels, her love of The Bear on Hulu, and the bottle of wine she is saving for the right moment. Finally, she shares her best advice for aspiring authors.
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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. |
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| 0:25.6 | And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle |
| 0:31.2 | features. |
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| 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. Michelle Wilgen is the author of Wine People, a novel. This is a Zivvy |
| 1:07.5 | books title, and I am so excited about it. Lee Newman, who co-founded Zibby Books with me |
| 1:13.4 | originally acquired this book and has known Michelle for a long time, as we discussed in the episode, |
| 1:19.4 | and we just cannot be more thrilled to have it be released into the world. It was already picked |
| 1:24.9 | by Oprah as one of the best books of summer, which is amazing. |
| 1:29.3 | Michelle Wilgen is the author of the novels You're Not You, adapted into a feature film starring |
| 1:33.9 | Hillary Swank and Emmy Rossum, but not for long, and bread and butter. |
| 1:38.0 | She is the editor of the anthology Food and Booze. |
| 1:40.7 | Wiljian's award-winning reviews, essays, and stories have appeared in publications, |
| 1:44.4 | including the New York Times Book Review, Modern Love Column, O the Oprah Magazine, RealSimple.com, |
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