Will Schwalbe, WE SHOULD NOT BE FRIENDS: The Story of a Friendship

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 4 March 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Zibby interviews bestselling author, editor, journalist, and repeat MDHTTRB guest Will Schwalbe about his moving, funny, and wise new memoir We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship, which tells the story of his unexpected and life-changing friendship with Chris Maxey, a jock he met at Yale. Will describes Maxey (a nationally-ranked wrestler/frat boy turned Navy Seal turned eco-warrior and school founder) and shares the stories of their extraordinary forty-year friendship. He also describes what life was like as a gay man in the early eighties when AIDS struck, and lastly, he shares what it’s like to switch between his writer and editor hats.

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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. Will Schwabby is the author of We Should Not Be Friends,
1:06.2	The Story of a Friendship. This is Will's second time on the podcast, and I was delighted to have
1:10.4	him back. He has worked in book publishing, currently as's second time on the podcast, and I was delighted to have him back.
1:11.4	He has worked in book publishing, currently as an editor at McMillan, in digital media,
1:16.0	and as a journalist writing for various publications, including the New York Times and South
1:20.3	China Morning Post. He's the author of Books for Living, The End of Your Life, Book Club,
1:25.1	and co-author with David Shipley of Send. He lives in New York.
1:29.1	Welcome, Will. Thank you so much for coming back on Momsdon't Have Time to Read Books to discuss
1:33.2	your amazing new memoir. Tell us all about it. Thank you so much. So I'm really excited,
1:39.1	Zivian. First of all, I'm just so excited to be back on your podcast because of all the book conversations I've had with all the people about some very different book.
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