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Totally Booked with Zibby

Zakiya Dalila Harris, THE OTHER BLACK GIRL

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

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

4.5643 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Zakiya Dalila Harris tells Zibby about how she knew it was the right time to leave her job in the publishing industry to focus on her own writing, the unsettling workplace encounter that inspired her debut novel, The Other Black Girl, and what her experience has been co-writing Hulu's adaptation of her book with Rashida Jones.


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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.

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And I'm the editor-in-chief of M don't have time to write a new publication on Medium.

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And we're accepting submissions.

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So please send your personal essays there.

0:29.1

And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens.

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And my website is Zibby Owens.com.

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