Zibby’s Bookshop Is Officially Open for Business!
Cofounders Sherri Puzey, Zibby Owens, and Diana Tramontano (from L-R)
Over the last couple of days (after the official launch of Zibby’s Bookshop last weekend) I’ve been standing in my kitchen at midnight rereading this insane and wonderful piece in the Los Angeles Times by Mary McNamara (thanks to Boris Kachka and Paul Bogaards).
I don’t know how celebrities and other high-profile people feel when things like this happen, but for me, this level of recognition is new and mind-boggling.
The Los Angeles Times! And such a long, beautiful piece that encapsulates and recognizes the past five years of my incessant, passionate work that has largely happened sitting alone in my office on Zoom and, more recently, in my dining room with members of my team, like Diana Tramontano and Sherri Puzey, but also our beloved Publisher Anne Messitte, Executive Editor Kathleen Harris, and the 16 other full-time people.
I am floored. My favorite line (well, one of them) is when Mary explains that I’m not a book critic but a booster. Also, the verb formation: “to Zibbify a book.”
I guess I should play it cool…but that’s so not me. Which, perhaps, is why all of this good stuff is happening. For five years (but really since I published my first article when I was 14), I’ve been sharing my soul with the world in an attempt to make others feel seen and understood — and to cope with my own feelings.
I am the ultimate open book(fluencer!). And I am honored that my innermost thoughts, my desire to help others by connecting, my intense love of books, my reverence for authors, and my creative business ideas have united to form this emotion-based enterprise. I don’t believe in corporate. I believe in real.
Thank you, Los Angeles Times, Mary, Boris, Paul, everyone. This is life-changing.
Upcoming Events:
February 26 at 3 pm PT: Alyssa Shelasky
March 1 at 4 pm PT: Book Club with Monica Heisey
March 1 at 6 pm PT: Amy Poeppel in conversation with Nicola Harrison
March 7 at 6 pm PT: Julie Clark in conversation with Jordan Moblo
March 8 at 7 pm PT: Hope Edelman in conversation Nancy Balbirer
March 9 at 6 pm PT: Deborah Goodrich Royce in conversation with Dora Levy Mossanen
March 11 at 6 pm PT: Madelaine Lucas in conversation with Sarah Levy
March 14 at 6 pm PT: Jennifer Herrera in conversation with Ana Reyes
March 18 at 11 am PT: Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt
March 18 at 6 pm PT: Andrea Dunlop in conversation with Amy Williams, CEO of Citizens of Humanity
March 19 at 6 pm PT: Laura Cathcart Robbins in conversation with Stefanie Wilder Taylor
March 29 at 6 pm PT: Leigh McMullan Abramson in conversation with Kim Fay
March 30 at 6 pm PT: Stacy Igel
April 4 at 6 pm PT: Ella Berman in conversation with Rachel Koller Croft
April 5 at 4 pm PT: Book Club with Rebecca Makkai
April 4 at 6 pm PT: Tara Schuster
April 15 at 6 pm PT: Sally Hepworth in conversation with Steven Rowley
April 19 at 6 pm PT: Elizabeth Lyons in conversation with Suzi Lula
April 25 at 6 pm PT: Amanda Eyre Ward in conversation with Sarah Harden
April 29 at 3 pm PT: Wendi Aarons in conversation with Sarah Maizes
May 3 at 4 pm PT: Book Club with Maggie Smith
May 4 at 6 pm PT: Tania Malik in conversation with Gabrielle Korn
May 9 at 6 pm PT: Neely Tubati Alexander in conversation with Allison Winn Scotch
May 11 at 6 pm PT: Mary Otis in conversation with her literary agent, Sarah Bowlin
May 13 at 11 am PT: Leslie Lehr in conversation with Cassandra Lane
May 18 at 6 pm PT: Bruce Wagner
May 20 at 11 am PT: Sarah Maslin Nir
May 22 at 6 pm PT: Kate White
May 24 at 6 pm PT: Fran Hauser
June 7 at 4 pm PT: Book Club with Anissa Gray
June 7 at 6 pm PT: Corie Adjmi
June 8 at 6 pm PT: Annabel Monaghan in conversation with Megan Tady
June 15 at 6 pm PT: Wendy Walker in conversation with Julie Clark
June 16 at 6 pm PT: Jane Delury
July 5 at 4 pm PT: Book Club with Julia Langbein
August 9 at 6 pm PT: Alli Frank & Asha Youmans
