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Hi everyone,
Welcome to the biggest book party on Substack! (Well, maybe.) You’ll now be getting your bookish content from all parts of “the Zibby-verse” in one short weekly email. Bookstore bestsellers. Events. Beh...
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Check out John Kenney’s novel — now in paperback! — I See You’ve Called in Dead and Shalom Auslander’s Feh.
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Loss With Better Lighting
This essay is part of the Between Chapters project, inspired by the book. What chapters are you between? How did you get from one chapter to another? Share your story here.
Every night, I send my son in college a goodnight text. Not...
An Adopted Woman’s Reckoning with Her Holocaust History
This essay is part of the Between Chapters project, inspired by the book. What chapters are you between? How did you get from one chapter to another? Share your story here.
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In 2019 I finally...
From the Billable Hour to the Fulfillable Hour
This essay is part of the Between Chapters project, inspired by the book. What chapters are you between? How did you get from one chapter to another? Share your story here.
What Chapter Are You…
Leaving:
If the three stages o...
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Zibby is all about books and connecting.
Bestselling author of the book of the summer EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU and host of the UNDER THE INFLUENCE podcast. Also, mom, travel writer, award-winning journalist and sometimes a decent wife.
Bestselling author of Don't Forget to Write, Good Grief, Behind Every Good Man, She's Up to No Good, For the Love of Friends, and the upcoming Off the Record. Mom of two boys and two schnauzers. Peloton, Springsteen, and coffee addict.
Pushcart nominee & Temple University Professor Lisa Grunberger's work has appeared in The New York Times, Newsday, The Southern Review. Me and My Makers: A Memoir of Genes, Jews and Love is almost complete. She moonlights as a Yoga teacher.
Writer, editur, mama of 3, wife of 1. Hopeful. Caffeinated. Fierce advocate for people with disabilities. Humongous Boston sports fan, especially my Red Sox. (2004, -07, ‘13 and ‘18 did indeed make Up for 1986 and 2003.)
Pacific Northwest writer and artist. Essays on memory, motherhood, travel, and the creative life. Author of the forthcoming memoir 48 Days to Barbados, out October 20, 2026. More at karsonbrownarts.com.
2 Yale degrees. Nurse-midwife, women's health expert. My book IT'S YOUR BODY is a guide to body autonomy and repro health for youth. The Midwife is IN
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NYT bestselling author, playwright, and essayist writing about midlife, motherhood, marriage, family, grief, and the moments that shape us. Creator of And Everything Else, for women in Life 2.0.
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I’m a mom, wife, businesswoman, board member, advocate for women and families, mentor, friend and baseball fan (order depends on the day!).
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