{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/dd9bf09f-c85c-5b84-8fc6-ac7c8574cacc/640247ad6764fe001117c8ca?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Will Schwalbe, WE SHOULD NOT BE FRIENDS: The Story of a Friendship","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61b786f01695623d36e9514d/1677870890780-c8fb6c076a8066d0ae5d7b3603633e59.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Zibby interviews bestselling author, editor, journalist, and repeat MDHTTRB guest Will Schwalbe about his moving, funny, and wise new memoir <em>We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship</em>, 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.</p><p><br></p><p>Purchase on Zibby's Bookshop: <a href=\"http://bit.ly/3J1rYbo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http://bit.ly/3J1rYbo</a></p><p>Purchase on Bookshop: <a href=\"https://bit.ly/3Zu4TU4\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://bit.ly/3Zu4TU4</a></p><p><br></p><p>Subscribe to Zibby's weekly newsletter <a href=\"https://zibbyowens.us17.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=8aaa1ce151a09216fdc1d6414&amp;id=4cf0ef4d3c\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.</p><p>Purchase Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books merch <a href=\"https://www.bonfire.com/store/zibby-owens/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.</p>","author_name":"Zibby Owens"}