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Totally Booked with Zibby

Natalie MacLean, WINE WITCH ON FIRE: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

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

4.4602 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Guest host Julie Chavez speaks to accomplished Canadian wine expert and New York Times bestselling author Natalie MacLean about Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much, her powerful coming-of-middle-age memoir about how she resurrected her life and career in the cutthroat wine industry. Natalie reveals why she decided to share her story and then describes her experiences with overdrinking, depression, shyness, perfectionism, and therapy. (Go to winewitchonfire.com/guide for wine-pairing tips and discussion questions!!)


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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.

0:56.1

And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy. Natalie McLean is the author of Wine Witch on Fire,

1:06.6

rising from the ashes of divorce, depression, defamation, and drinking too much. This episode was

1:12.3

guest hosted by Julie Chavez, who is the host of Ask a Librarian Podcast, and also the author of the

1:18.3

upcoming Zibby books title Everyone, but Myself. Natalie McLean's previous books, read white and

1:25.0

drunk all over, a wine-soaked journey from grape to glass,

1:28.2

and Unquenchable, a tipsy quest for the world's best bargain wines for each selected as one of

1:33.2

Amazon's best books of the year. She was named the world's best drinks journalist at the

1:37.9

World Food Media Awards and has won four James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards. She's the

1:43.0

only person to have won both the MFK Fisher

1:45.6

Distinguished Writing Award from the James Beard Foundation and the MFK Fisher Award for Excellence in Culinary Writing from Le Dame Descofier International.

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