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In this episode, meet writer Emilee Hackney, investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen, and American civil rights leader Rashad Robinson. Tune in to hear Emilee Hackney on combating stereotypes about Appalachia, and learn what the recording process was like for Annie Jacobsen and Rashad Robinson.All That's Unseen by Emilee Hackneyhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/748921/all-thats-unseen-by-emilee-hackney/audio/Biological War by Annie Jacobsenhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/783250/biological-war-by-annie-jacobsen/audio/From Presence to Power by Rashad Robinsonhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676299/from-presence-to-power-by-rashad-robinson/audio/
In this episode, meet therapist Nathan Peterson, entomologist and evolutionary biologist Dino Martins, and senior editor at The New York Times Book Review Emily Eakin. Hear Nathan Peterson on what physical aspect of recording surprised him the most, Dino Martins on understanding the world of parasites, and Emily Eakin on the surprising personalities behind French theory.Your OCD Will Hate This Book by Nathan Peterson: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804116/your-ocd-will-hate-this-book-by-nathan-peterson-lcsw/audioHidden Creatures by Dino Martins: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796240/hidden-creatures-by-dino-martins/audioThe Frenchmen by Emily Eakin: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/317335/the-frenchmen-by-emily-eakin/audio
In this episode, meet comedian Alison Leiby, writer, photographer, and former social worker Angelica Glass, and chef Nephi Craig. Tune in to hear how Alison Leiby’s audiobook differs from her stand-up comedy, Angelica Glass’s favorite moments to share with listeners, and how Nephi Craig’s audiobook transformed over time.I'm a Lot by Alison Leibyhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746320/im-a-lot-by-alison-leiby/9798217343089/Scavenging Beauty by Angelica Glasshttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/774522/scavenging-beauty-by-angelica-glass/9798217336791/Our Knives Will Save Us by Nephi Craighttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/752317/our-knives-will-save-us-by-nephi-craig/9798217336708/
In this episode, meet former New York State Senator and co-founder of The States Project Daniel Squadron, founder of Finance Is Cool “Mrs. Dow Jones” Haley Sacks, and mental health advocate and creator of The EQ School Genny Rumancik. Hear Daniel Squadron on how ordinary people can have a large impact in government, Haley Sacks on building financial confidence with a money book that people want to read (and listen to!), and Genny Rumancik on emotional intelligence and building bridges between the way we think and the way we feel.The Fourth Branch by Daniel Squadron: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/824067/the-fourth-branch-by-daniel-squadron/audioFuture Rich Person by Haley Sacks: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/787317/future-rich-person-by-haley-sacks/audioThe Wisdom of Feeling by Genny Rumancik: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/767885/the-wisdom-of-feeling-by-genny-rumancik/audio
In this episode, meet writer Isaac Fitzgerald and spoken-word poet and performing artist Amena Brown. Hear Isaac Fitzgerald on his personal connection to both walking and storytelling, and how those elements come together in his book and audiobook. And go behind the mic with Amena Brown as she describes the elements of her audiobook that reflect her stage performances and how she brought those moments to the recording process.American Rambler by Isaac Fitzgerald: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/736787/american-rambler-by-isaac-fitzgerald/audioNever Tell a Black Girl How to Black Girl by Amena Brown: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777159/never-tell-a-black-girl-how-to-black-girl-by-amena-brown/audio
In this episode, meet science journalist Elizabeth Preston, data journalist Simon Rogers, and Associate Professor of Sociology at Brown University Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve. Tune in to hear Elizabeth Preston on looking at parenthood through a scientific lens, Simon Rogers on the things that our Google searches reveal about us, and Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve on finding moments of hope within a heavy topic.The Creatures’ Guide to Caring by Elizabeth Prestonhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741329/the-creatures-guide-to-caring-by-elizabeth-preston/9798217281817/What We Ask Google by Simon Rogershttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/798252/what-we-ask-google-by-simon-rogers/9798217285563/Crime Fictions by Nicole Gonzalez Van Clevehttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/711146/crime-fictions-by-nicole-gonzalez-van-cleve/9798217176465/
In this episode, meet journalist David Epstein, career coach and host of the Clock In podcast Emily Durham, and professor of behavioral science Nicholas Epley. Hear David Epstein on how he would describe recording his audiobook, Emily Durham on bringing her experience as a recruiter to a wide audience, and Nicholas Epley on the life-changing research of becoming just a little more social…and what he’s most excited for listeners to hear.Inside the Box by David Epstein: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737494/inside-the-box-by-david-epstein/audioClock In by Emily Durham: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/797902/clock-in-by-emily-durham/audioA Little More Social by Nicholas Epley: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671591/a-little-more-social-by-nicholas-epley/audio
In this episode, meet journalist Stephanie Fairyington, actor and co-creator of Pen15 Anna Konkle, and author and wellness educator Alexandra Elle. Tune in to learn why Stephanie Fairyington’s favorite chapter to record was “Weird Girls Rule,” hear how Anna Konkle used to pretend to be an audiobook narrator as a kid, and learn what inspired Alexandra Elle to write The Company We Keep.Ugly by Stephanie Fairyingtonhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/763595/ugly-by-stephanie-fairyington/9798217174126/The Sane One by Anna Konklehttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/677456/the-sane-one-by-anna-konkle/9798217176380/The Company We Keep by Alexandra Ellehttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/779601/the-company-we-keep-by-alexandra-elle/9798217285723/
In this episode, meet nurse practitioner and Everyday Wellness podcast host Cynthia Thurlow, cofounder of lifestyle clothing brand Faherty, Kerry Docherty, and professor and double board-certified Gynecologic Oncologist and OB/GYN, Dr. Kemi Doll. Hear Cynthia Thurlow on what she’s learned about the transition from perimenopause to menopause, Kerry Docherty on the experience of narrating her memoir, and Dr. Kemi Doll on her powerful research, and what she’s most excited for listeners to hear.The Menopause Gut by Cynthia Thurlow, NP: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777129/the-menopause-gut-by-cynthia-thurlow-np/audioSelfish by Kerry Docherty: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/775631/selfish-by-kerry-docherty/audioA Terrible Strength by Dr. Kemi Doll, MD, MSCR: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/775526/a-terrible-strength-by-kemi-doll-md-mscr/audio
In this episode, meet actor and bestselling author Hill Harper, therapist Eli Harwood, and content creator and interior designer Clare Sullivan. Hear how Hill Harper felt revisiting his book in the recording booth, how being a therapist (and in therapy) helped prepare Eli Harwood for recording her audiobook, and why Clare Sullivan describes her audiobook experience as “natural.”Letters to a Young Brother by Hill Harperhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/298061/letters-to-a-young-brother-by-hill-harper/9798217286782/How to Deal with Your ____ So Your Kids Don't Have To by Eli Harwoodhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/808435/how-to-deal-with-your--so-your-kids-dont-have-to-by-eli-harwood-ma-lpc/9798217278862/Budget Luxury by Clare Sullivanhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/753294/budget-luxury-by-clare-sullivan/9798217279111/
Consulting Aiko Bethea. Hear Ericka Hart on the central place of race, class, and other elements of intersectionality in the field of sexual education. Tune in to hear Leah Ruppanner on why we need better language to understand the concept of “mental load.” And hear Aiko Bethea on the importance of providing a framework for ending rumination and finding the confidence to make life-changing decisions.Nasty Work by Ericka Harthttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/705447/nasty-work-by-ericka-hart/9798217286546/Drained by Leah Ruppannerhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/762972/drained-by-leah-ruppanner-phd/9798217285662/Anchored, Aligned, Accountable by Aiko Betheahttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/747123/anchored-aligned-accountable-by-aiko-bethea/9780593950135/
In this episode, meet the host of the Everything Happens podcast Kate Bowler, co-authors Annie Leonard and Andre Carothers, and speaker and advocate Libby Ward. Tune in to hear Kate Bowler on accessing joy without having to be “fixed,” hear Annie Leonard and Andre Carothers on the civic concerns that prompted them to write their book on the power of protest, and hear Libby Ward on helping moms feel less alone and more whole in motherhood.Joyful, Anyway by Kate Bowler: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/764086/joyful-anyway-by-kate-bowler/audioProtest by Annie Leonard and Andre Carothers: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/835338/protest-by-annie-leonard-and-andre-carothers/audioHonest Motherhood by Libby Ward: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/749972/honest-motherhood-by-libby-ward/audio
In this episode, meet journalist and space industry analyst David Ariosto, science journalist Roxanne Khamsi, and physician and medical journalist Dr. Trisha Pasricha. Tune in to hear about the documentary filmmaking trip that inspired David Ariosto’s book, hear Roxanne Khamsi on how she prepared for her time in the recording studio, and learn the surprising statistics that inspired Dr. Trisha Pasricha’s research into better bowel movements for all.Open Space by David Ariostohttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/708833/open-space-by-david-ariosto/9798217165711/Beyond Inheritance by Roxanne Khamsihttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/711682/beyond-inheritance-by-roxanne-khamsi/9798217281626/You've Been Pooping All Wrong by Dr. Trisha Pasricha'shttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/776380/youve-been-pooping-all-wrong-by-trisha-pasricha-md-mph/9798217285686/
National Library Week 2026 is April 19-25, and it's the perfect time to share our love of libraries and our deep appreciation for the librarians who work to make them the vibrant and welcoming places that they are. In this special compilation episode of This Is the Author, hear Mychal Threets, Arthur C. Brooks, Tom Junod, Elizabeth Berg, Erin McGoff, Angela Buchdahl, Zachary Rubin, Dominic Hoffman, Chuck Klosterman, C .Thi Nguyen, and Susan Orlean share what they love most about their local libraries.
In this episode, meet therapist Nidhi Tewari, professor Arthur C. Brooks, and professor and behavioral scientist Julia Minson. Tune in to hear the science behind Nidhi Tewari’s deep dive into workplace burnout, discover what Arthur C. Brooks is most excited for listeners to hear in his audiobook, and hear Julia Minson on the art of disagreement – and why she loves listening to audiobooks on a long drive.Working Well by Nidhi Tewari, MSW, LCSW: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788782/working-well-by-nidhi-tewari-msw-lcsw-foreword-by-amy-cuddy/audioThe Meaning of Your Life by Arthur C. Brooks: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724315/the-meaning-of-your-life-by-arthur-c-brooks/audioHow to Disagree Better by Julia Minson:https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/774525/how-to-disagree-better-by-julia-minson/audio
In this episode, meet artist and hip-hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy, journalist Tom Junod, and food writer Luke Barr. Tune in to hear how writing his memoir gave Fab 5 Freddy a way to share the context behind 40 years of living at the nexus of art and culture. Hear Tom Junod on the need to find a definition of masculinity other than what he had been taught as a child. And go behind the mic with Luke Barr as he explains what inspired his latest book on French cooking.Everybody's Fly by Fab 5 Freddyhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/775871/everybodys-fly-by-fab-5-freddy-with-mark-rozzo/9798217281770/In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man by Tom Junodhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/89092/in-the-days-of-my-youth-i-was-told-what-it-means-to-be-a-man-by-tom-junod/9798217174065/The Secret History of French Cooking by Luke Barrhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/602455/the-secret-history-of-french-cooking-by-luke-barr/9798217285600/
In this episode, meet hip-hop artist and Cookies CEO Berner, founder of AdviceWithErin Erin McGoff, and poet and essayist Camonghne Felix. Tune in to hear what inspired Berner to write his book, Erin McGoff on her mission to help people advocate for themselves in the workplace, and Camonghne Felix on the activism and organizing experiences that inspire her work.Becoming Legend by Berner: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/778154/becoming-legend-by-berner/audio/The Secret Language of Work by Erin McGoff: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/784182/the-secret-language-of-work-by-erin-mcgoff/audioLet the Poets Govern by Camonghne Felix: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671601/let-the-poets-govern-by-camonghne-felix/audio
In this episode, meet writer and musician Alicia Jo Rabins, writer and lecturer Nir Eyal, and mental health counselor Jay Stringer. Tune in to hear how spiritual memoirs inspired Alicia Jo Rabins’s writing, how Nir Eyal applied the practices outlined in his book to narrating his audiobook, and how Jay Stringer drew inspiration from his ancestors to write his book on human desire.When We're Born We Forget Everything by Alicia Jo Rabinshttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/774429/when-were-born-we-forget-everything-by-alicia-jo-rabins/9798217174249/Beyond Belief by Nir Eyalhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/761993/beyond-belief-by-nir-eyal-with-julie-li/9780593852033/Desire by Jay Stringerhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/742247/desire-by-jay-stringer/9798217064991/
In this episode, meet actor Andrew Keenan-Bolger, writer and professor Jordy Rosenberg, and novelist Elizabeth Berg. Hear about the queer history that inspired Andrew Keenan Bolger’s book, the real-life people that informed Jordy Rosenberg’s fictional characters, and the estate sale that began Elizabeth’s Berg’s inquiry into the meaning of life.Limelight by Andrew Keenan-Bolger: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768589/limelight-by-andrew-keenan-bolger/audioNight Night Fawn by Jordy Rosenberg: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/689017/night-night-fawn-by-jordy-rosenberg/audioLife: A Love Story by Elizabeth Berg: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710166/life-a-love-story-by-elizabeth-berg/
In this episode, meet psychiatrist Dr. Suzan Song, pediatrician and allergist Dr. Zachary Rubin, and founder of fashion company Tibi, Amy Smilovic. Tune in to hear Suzan Song’s experience of writing her book during the pandemic, what Star Wars has to do with Zachary Rubin’s research into allergies, and what item of clothing Amy Smilovic would bring into the studio if she had to record her audiobook again.Why We Suffer and How We Heal by Dr. Suzan Songhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/726239/why-we-suffer-and-how-we-heal-by-suzan-song-md-phd/9798217279098/All About Allergies by Dr. Zachary Rubinhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/790561/all-about-allergies-by-zachary-rubin-md/9798217285624/Almost Reckless by Amy Smilovichttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/773715/almost-reckless-by-amy-smilovic/9798217282081/
In this episode, meet couples therapist Colette Jane Fehr, Harvard Business School professor Leslie John, and creator of the Big Talk communication method, Kalina Silverman. Tune in to hear each of these communication experts on how you can foster more meaningful connections in your own life, and learn what it was like for them to record their audiobooks.The Cost of Quiet by Colette Jane Fehr LMFT, LMHC: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/763866/the-cost-of-quiet-by-colette-jane-fehr-lmft-lmhc/audioRevealing by Leslie John: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724990/revealing-by-leslie-john/audio/Big Talk by Kalina Silverman: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/779591/big-talk-by-kalina-silverman/audio
In this episode, meet professor of medicine Dr. Robert Wachter, journalist Norah O’Donnell, and venture capitalist Bill Gurley. Hear why Robert Wachter chose to narrate his audiobook, learn about the startling realization that inspired Norah O’Donnell to write We the Women, and hear why Bill Gurley wants you to chase your dreams.A Giant Leap by Dr. Robert Wachterhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/776443/a-giant-leap-by-robert-wachter-md/9798217282074/We the Women by Norah O'Donnell with Kate Andersen Browerhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746548/we-the-women-by-norah-odonnell-with-kate-andersen-brower/9798217176236/Runnin' Down a Dream by Bill Gurleyhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/769256/runnin-down-a-dream-by-bill-gurley/9798217175208/
In this episode, meet legal analyst Elliot Williams, writer and professor Daisy Hernández, and public defender and nonprofit director Emily Galvin Almanza. Tune in to hear about the “rabbit hole” that inspired Elliot Williams’s book, Daisy Hernández on her personal and public investigation of what citizenship means, and Emily Galvin Almanza on a blueprint for reforming America’s criminal courts.Five Bullets by Elliot Williams: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768052/five-bullets-by-elliot-williams/audioCitizenship by Daisy Hernández: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738467/citizenship-by-daisy-hernandez/audioThe Price of Mercy by Emily Galvin Almanza: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/763496/the-price-of-mercy-by-emily-galvin-almanza/audio
In this episode, meet founder of Becoming Minimalist Joshua Becker, social media influencer and co-host of the How Married Are You? podcast Yvette Henry, and writer Christopher Beha. Tune in to hear Joshua Becker on how the process of recording reconnected him with his book, Yvette Henry on where she most loves listening to audiobooks, and Christopher Beha on the intricacies of writing about personal beliefs.Uncluttered Faith by Joshua Beckerhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788229/uncluttered-faith-by-joshua-becker/9798217278923/Release, Rest, Remain by Yvette Henryhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/781835/release-rest-remain-by-yvette-henry/9798217159383/Why I Am Not an Atheist by Christopher Behahttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/703237/why-i-am-not-an-atheist-by-christopher-beha/9798217282180/
In this episode, meet Grammy-nominated recording artist Lachi, journalist Jennifer Breheny Wallace, and librarian and host of Reading Rainbow Mychal Threets. Hear how weaving in her original music made Lachi’s audiobook come to life, how Jennifer Breheny Wallace prepared for her time in the studio, and learn Mychal Threet’s favorite thing about his local library.I Identify as Blind by Lachi: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/761599/i-identify-as-blind-by-lachi-with-tim-vandehey/audioMattering by Jennifer Breheny Wallace: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/756179/mattering-by-jennifer-breheny-wallace/audioI'm So Happy You're Here: A Celebration of Library Joy by Mychal Threets: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/776025/im-so-happy-youre-here-a-celebration-of-library-joy-by-mychal-threets-illustrated-by-lorraine-nam/audio
In this episode meet writer Chuck Klosterman, philosophy professor C. Thi Nguyen, and founder of The Workspace for Children Lizzie Assa. Press play to hear how Chuck Klosterman began working on the book he’d been thinking about for decades, why C. Thi Nguyen describes his recording experience as “intense,” and what Lizzie Assa hopes parents will get from her audiobook.Football by Chuck Klostermanhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/704152/football-by-chuck-klosterman/9798217282166/The Score by C. Thi Nguyenhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735252/the-score-by-c-thi-nguyen/9798217163588/But I'm Bored! by Lizzie Assahttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/775810/but-im-bored-by-lizzie-assa-msed/9798217160709/
In this episode, meet writer Daniyal Mueenuddin, cultural historian Hiroko Yoda, and naturalist and wildlife filmmaker Paul Rosolie. Hear Daniyal Mueenuddin on the rhythm of writing and the nuances of translating dialogue, Hiroko Yoda on what inspired her book and what she is most excited for audiobook listeners to hear, and Paul Rosolie on how his relationship to the Amazon rainforest has informed his life’s calling.This Is Where the Serpent Lives by Daniyal Mueenuddin: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/591625/this-is-where-the-serpent-lives-by-daniyal-mueenuddin/audioEight Million Ways to Happiness by Hiroko Yoda: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735293/eight-million-ways-to-happiness-by-hiroko-yoda/audioJunglekeeper by Paul Rosolie: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/783873/junglekeeper-by-paul-rosolie/audio
In this episode, meet gastroenterologist Dr. Will Bulsiewicz, dietitian and women’s health expert Cory Ruth, and cognitive scientist and host of the podcast A Slight Change of Plans, Maya Shankar. Tune in to hear Dr. Will Bulsiewicz on what he’s most excited for listeners to hear (and learn the scientific name for a growling stomach), Cory Ruth on what she would bring into the studio with her next time, and Maya Shankar on what inspired her to write her audiobook.Plant Powered Plus by Dr. Will Bulsiewiczhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676469/plant-powered-plus-by-will-bulsiewicz-md/9798217345724/PCOS Is My Power by Cory Ruthhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796666/pcos-is-my-power-by-cory-ruth-rdn/9798217279180/The Other Side of Change by Maya Shankar https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/729180/the-other-side-of-change-by-maya-shankar/9798217163502/
In this episode, meet comedian Chris Duffy, educator Laura Danger, and psychotherapist Lauren LaRusso. Hear Chris Duffy on how comedy can make life better and why he would describe recording his audiobook as “bliss,” Laura Danger on how the labor of household carework impacts our wellbeing and our relationships, and Lauren LaRusso on creating a toolkit for surviving infidelity.Humor Me by Chris Duffy https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/744561/humor-me-by-chris-duffy/9798217174027/No More Mediocre by Laura Dangerhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737921/no-more-mediocre-by-laura-danger/9798217160877/Beyond Infidelity by Lauren LaRussohttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/775988/beyond-infidelity-by-lauren-larusso-lpc-lmhc/9798217160693/
In this episode, meet journalist Marion Winik, botanist and biochemist Diana Beresford-Kroeger, and endocrinologist Dr. Rocio Salas-Whalen. Tune in to hear Marion Winik talk about why recording her audiobook was both thrilling and a dream come true, Diana Beresford-Kroeger on the poetry of the Irish Gaelic language, and Dr. Rocio Salas-Whalen on how her patients' stories inspired her book.First Comes Love by Marion Winikhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/192274/first-comes-love-by-marion-winik/9798217290604/The Global Forest by Diana Beresford-Kroegerhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/305528/the-global-forest-by-diana-beresford-kroeger/9798217296057/Weightless by Rocio Salas-Whalen, MDhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/806992/weightless-by-rocio-salas-whalen-md/9798217280285/
In this episode, meet journalist Susan Orlean, inclusion strategist and speaker Ruchika T. Malhotra, and researcher and crossword constructor Natan Last. Listen in as Susan Orlean shares how orchid enthusiasts in Florida inspired her to write her book, Ruchika T. Malhotra reflect on why the last chapter was her favorite to record, and Natan Last on the more intimate side of crossword puzzles and how they’ve served as a source of comfort and connection for so many people.The Orchid Thief by Susan Orleanhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/124844/the-orchid-thief-by-susan-orlean/9798217294756/Uncompete by Ruchika T. Malhotrahttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/753092/uncompete-by-ruchika-t-malhotra/9798217163847/Across the Universe by Natan Lasthttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/723796/across-the-universe-by-natan-last/9798217165407/
In this episode, meet psychic medium Laura Lynne Jackson, manifestation coach and speaker Matt Cooke, and clinical psychologist Dr. Tracy Dalgleish. Hear Laura Lynne Jackson discuss how she prepared to record her audiobook, Matt Cooke share his excitement for listeners to hear his personal stories with manifesting, and Dr. Tracy Dalgleish talk about the lack of resources available to help daughters-in-law build healthy relationships with their mothers-in-law and spouses.Guided by Laura Lynne Jacksonhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735734/guided-by-laura-lynne-jackson/audio/Beyond Wanting by Matt Cookehttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/773553/beyond-wanting-by-matt-cooke/audio/You, Your Husband, and His Mother by Tracy Dalgleishhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/780894/you-your-husband-and-his-mother-by-dr-tracy-dalgleish/audio/
founder of beauty brand Anastasia Beverly Hills, Anastasia Soare, co-hosts of The War on Cars podcast Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon, and host of the Sanctuary Stirrings podcast, Lori G. Melton. Tune in to hear Anastasia Soare talk about what inspired her to write her book and how she hopes to empower others, Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon on the negative impact of cars on our society, and Lori G. Melton on why she chose to narrate her audiobook.Raising Brows by Anastasia Soare: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/776754/raising-brows-by-anastasia-soare/audioLife After Cars by Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon, and Aaron Naparstek: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757609/life-after-cars-by-sarah-goodyear-doug-gordon-and-aaron-naparstek/audioJourney with a Giant by Lori G. Melton: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/764110/journey-with-a-giant-by-lori-g-melton/audio
In this episode, meet host of The Witch Wave podcast Pam Grossman, writer Jenna Moreci, and designer Cas Holman. Tune in to hear Pam Grossman speak about how magical techniques can support creativity, Jenna Moreci share which audiobook helped her turn off her inner editor, and Cas Holman reflect on the importance of reconnecting with our playful selves. Magic Maker by Pam Grossman: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/753978/magic-maker-by-pam-grossman/audioHow to Write Romantasy by Jenna Moreci: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777856/how-to-write-romantasy-by-jenna-moreci/audioPlayful by Cas Holman: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/736596/playful-by-cas-holman-with-lydia-denworth/audio
In this episode, meet American Episcopal prelate Mariann Edgar Budde, rabbi Angela Buchdahl, and former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama Joyce Vance. Hear Mariann Edgar Budde reflect on how our most courageous experiences are shaped in youth, Angela Buchdahl share her excitement for readers to learn about Korean and Jewish history, and Joyce Vance explain why the civil rights movement in Alabama is deeply personal to her.We Can Be Brave (YA Edition) by Mariann Edgar Buddehttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804322/we-can-be-brave-by-mariann-edgar-budde-with-bryan-bliss/9798217171859/Heart of a Stranger by Angela Buchdalhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697350/heart-of-a-stranger-by-angela-buchdahl/9798217163793/Giving Up is Unforgivable by Joyce Vancehttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/801635/giving-up-is-unforgivable-by-joyce-vance/9798217169337/
In this episode, meet writer and filmmaker Julian Brave NoiseCat, actor, playwright, and audiobook narrator Dominic Hoffman, and Indigenous activist Na’Kuset. Listen to Julian Brave NoiseCat highlight the use of endangered native languages throughout his novel, hear Dominic Hoffman share his experience reading and narrating his own work, and hear Na’Kuset delve into the documentary that inspired the creation of I Am My Name. We Survived the Night by Julian Brave NoiseCathttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/688144/we-survived-the-night-by-julian-brave-noisecat/9798217165506/Late Rehearsals by Dominic Hoffman https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804965/late-rehearsals-by-dominic-hoffman/I Am My Name by Na'kuset and Judith Hendersonhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721401/i-am-my-name-by-nakuset-and-judith-henderson-illustrated-by-onedove/9798217156931/
In this episode, meet researcher Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, journalist Beth Macy, and neuroscientist Dr. Ben Rein. Hear Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman discuss why “Tokens” was her favorite chapter to record, Beth Macy on reporting the cultural and political shifts in her small town, and Dr. Ben Rein on the impacts isolation has on brain function and overall health.The Double Tax by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyemanhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734115/the-double-tax-by-anna-gifty-opoku-agyeman-foreword-by-chelsea-clinton/9798217163656/Paper Girl by Beth Macyhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739927/paper-girl-by-beth-macy/9798217163564/Why Brains Need Friends by Dr. Ben Reinhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/761227/why-brains-need-friends-by-ben-rein-phd/9798217161058/
In this episode, meet world-travelling octogenarians Eleanor Hamby and Sandra Hazelip, comedian and KevOnStage Studios founder Kevin Fredericks, and writer and musician Josh Malerman. Hear Eleanor Hamby and Sandra Hazelip on the power of travel and aging with “grace and adventure” all over the world, Kevin Fredericks on what he’s most excited for listeners to hear, and Josh Malerman on finding the rhythm in audiobook recording.Here We Go by Eleanor Hamby and Dr. Sandra Hazelip: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/753976/here-we-go-by-eleanor-hamby-and-dr-sandra-hazelip-with-elisa-petrini/audio/Successful Failure by Kevin Fredericks: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/752158/successful-failure-by-kevin-fredericks/audioWatching Evil Dead by Josh Malerman: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/783050/watching-evil-dead-by-josh-malerman/audio/
In this episode, meet co-founder of The Home Edit Clea Shearer, writer Mary Roach, and historian Mark Mazower. Discover what inspired each of these authors to write their books, and find out who they would cast to narrate if they hadn’t read their audiobooks themselves.Cancer is Complicated by Clea Shearerhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746020/cancer-is-complicated-by-clea-shearer/9798217163946/Replaceable You by Mary Roachhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/807111/replaceable-you-by-mary-roach/9798217281527/On Antisemitism by Mark Mazowerhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768066/on-antisemitism-by-mark-mazower/9798217163618/
In this episode, meet writer Sasha Bonét, poet Rickey Laurentiis, and chef Samin Nosrat. Learn why recording her audiobook made Sasha Bonét feel like a musician, how the title of Rickey Laurentiis’s poetry collection acted as a premonition, and how Samin Nosrat turned her journey to reconnecting with food and cooking into her new book.The Waterbearers by Sasha Bonét: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717223/the-waterbearers-by-sasha-bonet/audioDeath of the First Idea by Rickey Laurentiis: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/753987/death-of-the-first-idea-by-rickey-laurentiis/audioGood Things by Samin Nosrat: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622646/good-things-by-samin-nosrat/audio
If you find yourself in need of a few moments of beauty, a breeze of empathy, and the warmth of a shared quiet space, this special episode of This Is the Author is for you. We’re celebrating Library Card Sign-up Month (all September long) by hearing from authors on their favorite library memories. Listen to clips from interviews with Naomi Watts, Glory Edim, Griffin Dunne, and so many more of your favorite authors to learn how libraries have impacted their lives and their communities. And don't be shy about letting a happy tear fall; this is truly lovely stuff.Episode features interview clips from the following authors: Naomi Watts, Glory Edim, Daniel Stone, Whitney Hanson, Tao Leigh Goffe, Joy McCullough, Susan Minot, Lydia Yuknavitch, Griffin Dunne, Haley Mlotek, Jefferson Fisher, Mikaela Loach, Antwan Eady, Manny Arango, Tourmaline, Mark Kriegel, Jennifer Pastiloff, David Gate, Jessa Crispin, Kaila Yu, Alishia McCullough, Vaunda Nelson, Suzanne Scanlon, Kevin Barry
In this episode, meet clinical psychologist Dr. Ingrid Clayton, writer Carla Ciccone, and writer Sam Sussman. Tune in to hear about the personal experiences that inspired each of these authors to write their books, and what it was like to record their audiobooks. Plus, learn how sneakily difficult it is to pronounce the word “onions.”Fawning by Dr. Ingrid Claytonhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/779579/fawning-by-dr-ingrid-clayton/9798217160617/Nowhere Girl by Carla Cicconehttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735723/nowhere-girl-by-carla-ciccone/9780593950074/Boy From the North Country by Sam Sussmanhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/776752/boy-from-the-north-country-by-sam-sussman/9798217163625/
In this episode, meet primatologist Christine Webb, writer and poet Jim Reese, and writer and Emmy-nominated producer, Reza Aslan. Hear Christine Webb on the dangers of human exceptionalism and what we can do about them, Jim Reese on the intensity of the audiobook studio, and Reza Aslan on what he’s most excited for listeners to hear in this 20th anniversary edition of his book.The Arrogant Ape by Christine Webb: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717436/the-arrogant-ape-by-christine-webb/audio/Coming to a Neighborhood Near You by Jim Reese: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796877/coming-to-a-neighborhood-near-you-by-jim-reese/audioNo god but God by Reza Aslan: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/5837/no-god-but-god-by-reza-aslan/audio/
In this episode, meet author and speaker Austin Channing Brown, author of Full of Myself, and historian James Delbourgo, author of A Noble Madness. Learn what inspired each of these authors to write their books, and what it was like for them to record their audiobooks. Full of Myself by Austin Channing Brownhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/742511/full-of-myself-by-austin-channing-brown/audio/A Noble Madness by James Delbourgohttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/798395/a-noble-madness-by-james-delbourgo/
In this episode, meet authors Johnathan Walton, Angus Fletcher, and Dr. Vonda Wright. Discover how Johnathan Walton went from being the victim of a con artist to teaching others how to defend against scammers, hear Angus Fletcher on surprise pronunciation lessons in the studio, and listen to Dr. Vonda Wright on confronting the realities of aging for women, and the audiobook that changed her life.Anatomy of a Con Artist by Jonathan Waltonhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/745592/anatomy-of-a-con-artist-by-johnathan-walton/9798217075898/Primal Intelligence by Angus Fletcherhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/740110/primal-intelligence-by-angus-fletcher/9798217076987/Unbreakable by Dr. Vonda Wrighthttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777365/unbreakable-by-vonda-wright-md/9780593736586/
In this episode, meet Thomas Chatterton Williams, author of Summer of Our Discontent, Robert B. Reich, author of Coming Up Short, and Kaila Yu, author of Fetishized. Hear Thomas Chatterton Williams on the pivotal and complex meaning of the summer of 2020, Robert Reich on what he would most like listeners to understand, and Kaila Yu both on what inspired her to write her memoir, and how she would describe her recording experience.Summer of Our Discontent by Thomas Chatterton Williams: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/704632/summer-of-our-discontent-by-thomas-chatterton-williams/audioComing Up Short by Robert B. Reich: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/763803/coming-up-short-by-robert-b-reich/audioFetishized by Kaila Yu: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738645/fetishized-by-kaila-yu/audio
In this episode, meet authors Zadie Smith and Nick Laird, Anne Waldman, and Fannie Flagg. Hear Zadie Smith and Nick Laird on writing a book for their children and working together in the studio, discover why poet Anne Waldman describes recording her audiobook as a “sonic investigation,” and learn what Fannie Flagg is most excited for listeners to hear.In the Wild by Zadie Smith and Nick Lairdhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777195/in-the-wild-by-zadie-smith-and-nick-laird-illustrated-by-magenta-fox/audio/Mesopotopia by Anne Waldmanhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690646/mesopotopia-by-anne-waldman/audio/Something to Look Forward To by Fannie Flagghttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/767921/something-to-look-forward-to-by-fannie-flagg/9798217159581/
In this episode, meet comedian and content creator Sarah Hartshorne, Slate staff writer and president of AMEJA Aymann Ismail, and writer Tre Johnson. Hear Sarah Hartshorne on being her own dream narrator, Aymann Ismail on the cinematic scene he’s most excited for listeners to hear, and Tre Johnson on the difference between recording an audiobook and reading one’s work in person.You Wanna Be on Top? by Sarah Hartshorne: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/750064/you-wanna-be-on-top-by-sarah-hartshorne/audioBecoming Baba by Aymann Ismail: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/719995/becoming-baba-by-aymann-ismail/audioBlack Genius by Tre Johnson: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690733/black-genius-by-tre-johnson/audio
In this episode, meet poet David Gate, author and public speaker Jennifer Pastiloff, and poet Whitney Hanson. Hear David Gate on why he’s excited for listeners to hear poems on audio, Jennifer Pastiloff on why now was the time to write Proof of Life, and Whitney Hanson on what made recording her audiobook a reflective experience. Plus, find out which author prepared for their day in the studio by binge watching Severance.A Rebellion of Care by David Gatehttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768719/a-rebellion-of-care-by-david-gate/9798217075997/Proof of Life by Jennifer Pastiloffhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734285/proof-of-life-by-jennifer-pastiloff/9798217012015/Climate by Whitney Hansonhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/776365/climate-by-whitney-hanson/9798217071678/
In this episode, meet actress and comedian Jo Firestone, writer and speaker Talia Pollock, and historian Scott Ellsworth. Hear how Jo Firestone’s book was born from the “unstoppable urge to combine” two of her most-loved interests, Talia Pollock on appreciating the power of word choice and language in the recording booth, and Scott Ellsworth on the personal and cultural importance of libraries.Murder on Sex Island by Jo Firestone: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/789705/murder-on-sex-island-by-jo-firestone/audioThe Problem with Being a Person by Talia Pollock: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690816/the-problem-with-being-a-person-by-talia-pollock/audio/Midnight on the Potomac by Scott Ellsworth: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743267/midnight-on-the-potomac-by-scott-ellsworth/audio
In this episode, meet Wall Street Journal reporter-turned-professional bodybuilder Anne Marie Chaker, linguist and “Etymology Nerd” creator Adam Aleksic, and host of the Money with Katie podcast Katie Gatti Tassin. Hear Anne Marie Chaker on the power of weightlifting and exploding the myth of the “skinny ideal,” Adam Aleksic on how recording his audiobook was a “vocal marathon,” and Katie Gatti Tassin on how she prepared for recording her audiobook, and what she’s most excited for listeners to hear.Lift by Anne Marie Chakerhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/709922/lift-by-anne-marie-chaker/9798217077014/Algospeak by Adam Aleksichttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/776856/algospeak-by-adam-aleksic/9798217078066/Rich Girl Nation by Katie Gatti Tassinhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/749103/rich-girl-nation-by-katie-gatti-tassin/9798217016174/
In this episode, meet author of the bestselling Magic Tree House children’s book series Mary Pope Osborne, and clinical social worker and founder of Fathers’ UpLift, Charles C. Daniels Jr. Hear Mary Pope Osborne on adding an element of surprise to the process of narration, and Charles C. Daniels Jr. on how he prepared for recording and what he’s most excited for listeners to hear.Sea Otter Sunrise by Mary Pope Osborne: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/729719/sea-otter-sunrise-by-mary-pope-osborne-illustrated-by-ag-ford/audioPresent by Charles C. Daniels Jr., Ph.D.: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/767629/present-by-charles-c-daniels-jr-phd/audio/
In this episode, meet critic and editor-in-chief of Bookslut Jessa Crispin, ESPN boxing analyst Mark Kriegel, and culture writer and Every Single Album podcast host Nora Princiotti. Hear Jessa on what it was like to record the Basic Instinct chapter of her book, Mark Kriegel on covering the life and career of Mike Tyson for over 30 years, and Nora Princiotti on what she’s most excited for listeners of her audiobook to hear.What Is Wrong with Men by Jessa Crispinhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717467/what-is-wrong-with-men-by-jessa-crispin/9798217076383/Baddest Man by Mark Kriegelhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/552034/baddest-man-by-mark-kriegel/9798217072392/Hit Girls by Nora Princiotti https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738884/hit-girls-by-nora-princiotti/9798217020379/
In this episode, meet journalist and Fast Politics podcast host Molly Jong-Fast, writer Anelise Chen, and writer and editor Jonathan Gluck. Hear Molly Jong-Fast on surviving a year in which everything went wrong, Anelise Chen on finding profound meaning in an auspicious typo, and Jonathan Gluck on the “unique universe” of those living with cancer.How to Lose Your Mother by Molly Jong-Fast: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738849/how-to-lose-your-mother-by-molly-jong-fast/audioClam Down by Anelise Chen: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/599888/clam-down-by-anelise-chen/audioAn Exercise in Uncertainty by Jonathan Gluck: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/760582/an-exercise-in-uncertainty-by-jonathan-gluck/audio
In this episode, meet clinician, speaker, and trauma specialist Britt Frank, leadership coach and host of the Big Asian Energy podcast John Wang, and Professor of Psychology and Language Sciences Maryellen MacDonald. Hear what made the audiobook recording experience fun for John Wang, and what inspired Britt Frank and Maryellen MacDonald to write their books.Align Your Mind by Britt Frankhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/761142/align-your-mind-by-britt-frank-lscsw/9798217073054/Big Asian Energy by John Wanghttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/742831/big-asian-energy-by-john-wang/9798217076819/More Than Words by Maryellen MacDonaldhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724046/more-than-words-by-maryellen-macdonald-phd/9798217077007/
In this episode, meet award-winning author Richard Russo, artist and activist Tourmaline, and anthropologist and former wildland firefighter Jordan Thomas. Hear Richard Russo on the performance aspect of narration, discover Tourmaline’s favorite recording moment, and hear what Jordan Thomas is most excited for listeners to learn about the people who fight wildfires.Life and Art by Richard Russo: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/748741/life-and-art-by-richard-russo/audioMarsha by Tourmaline: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/677583/marsha-by-tourmaline/audioOne Day in June by Tourmaline: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/703746/one-day-in-june-by-tourmaline-illustrated-by-charlot-kristensen/audioWhen It All Burns by Jordan Thomas: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722364/when-it-all-burns-by-jordan-thomas/audio
In this episode, meet award-winning journalists Amy Larocca, Karen Hao, and Amanda Hess. Each of these seasoned reporters have taken deep dives into major new developments in the worlds of culture and technology, and their audiobooks are nothing short of illuminating. Hear Amy Larocca on how the wellness trend has eclipsed fashion as the “it” commodity, Karen Hao on what’s missing from the public discussion of AI, and Amanda Hess on having a child in the digital age, and what was most “confrontational” about recording her audiobook.How to Be Well by Amy Laroccahttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/599403/how-to-be-well-by-amy-larocca/9798217013388/Empire of AI by Karen Haohttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743569/empire-of-ai-by-karen-hao/9798217072453/Second Life by Amanda Hesshttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721361/second-life-by-amanda-hess/9798217066155/
In this episode, meet self-described “bible nerd” Manny Arango, clinical psychologist Dr. Emily Anhalt, and retired four-star United States Army general General Stanley McChrystal. Hear Manny Arango on addressing modern anxieties through bible study, Dr. Emily Anhalt on what it means to do “emotional push-ups,” and General Stanley McChrystal on how recording his audiobook spurred new reflections on the writing process.Crushing Chaos by Manny Arangohttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/760932/crushing-chaos-by-manny-arango/9780593950357/Flex Your Feelings by Dr. Emily Anhalthttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743602/flex-your-feelings-by-dr-emily-anhalt/9798217019496/On Character by General Stanley McChrystalhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/767689/on-character-by-general-stanley-mcchrystal/9798217080403/
In this episode, meet journalist Carla Sosenko, fashion designer Prabal Gurung, and professional climber Sonnie Trotter. Press play to hear Carla Sosenko on her “out of body” experience in the recording studio, Prabal Gurung on the freedom he hopes listeners find in his audiobook, and Sonnie Trotter on the chapter of his book he enjoyed narrating the most.I'll Look So Hot in a Coffin by Carla Sosenkohttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/720681/ill-look-so-hot-in-a-coffin-by-carla-sosenko/9798217065912/Walk Like a Girl by Prabal Gurunghttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712968/walk-like-a-girl-by-prabal-gurung/9780593912362/Uplifted by Sonnie Trotterhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/774478/uplifted-by-sonnie-trotter/
In this episode, meet children’s author Antwan Eady, teacher and advocate Chasten Buttigieg, and New York Times Magazine staff writer Susan Dominus. Tune in to hear what Antwan Eady wishes he had in the recording studio with him, what Chasten Buttigieg’s favorite section of his book to read (and write) was, and who Susan Dominus would cast to narrate her audiobook if she didn’t read it herself.The Gathering Table by Antwan Eady: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/692628/the-gathering-table-by-antwan-eady-illustrated-by-london-ladd/audioPapa's Coming Home by Chasten Buttigieg: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/763440/papas-coming-home-by-chasten-buttigieg-illustrated-by-dan-taylor/audioThe Family Dynamic by Susan Dominus: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/624531/the-family-dynamic-by-susan-dominus/audio/
In this episode, meet comedian and podcast host Zarna Garg, journalist and public speaker Susannah Cahalan, and poet, performer, and educator Sarah Kay. Hear the hilarious Zarna Garg describe her experiences in the recording booth, Susannah Cahalan on what inspired her to write about the life of unsung counterculture icon Rosemary Woodruff Leary, and Sarah Kay on what she’s most excited for listeners to hear.This American Woman by Zarna Garghttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/773166/this-american-woman-by-zarna-garg/9798217082490/The Acid Queen by Susannah Cahalanhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697209/the-acid-queen-by-susannah-cahalan/9798217013104/A Little Daylight Left by Sarah Kayhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/762977/a-little-daylight-left-by-sarah-kay/9798217065417/
In this episode, meet professional photographer and book editor Eamon Dolan, creator of the Brave Writer Program Julie Bogart, and cognitive psychologist and podcast host Scott Barry Kaufman, PhD. Hear Eamon Dolan on writing the book about estrangement he had always hoped to read, Julie Bogart on the importance of overcoming our own hangups when teaching writing to our kids, and Scott Barry Kaufman on the one word he would use to describe the process of recording his audiobook.The Power of Parting by Eamon Dolan: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733809/the-power-of-parting-by-eamon-dolan/audio/Help! My Kid Hates Writing by Julie Bogart: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/729795/help-my-kid-hates-writing-by-julie-bogart/audio/Rise Above by Scott Barry Kaufman, PhD: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737413/rise-above-by-scott-barry-kaufman-phd/audio/
In this episode, meet climate justice organizer Mikaela Loach, personal injury attorney and public speaker Jefferson Fisher, and multidisciplinary creative and activist Sandy Hudson. Hear Mikaela Loach on the mingling of heartbreak and hope when it comes to addressing the Climate Crisis, Jefferson Fisher on how his courtroom experiences have informed his communication philosophy, and Sandy Hudson on finding inspiration through the work of police reform activists.Climate Is Just the Start by Mikaela Loachhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/752314/climate-is-just-the-start-by-mikaela-loach/9798217015740/The Next Conversation by Jefferson Fisherhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/750014/the-next-conversation-by-jefferson-fisher/9780593718728/Defund by Sandy Hudsonhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/727367/defund-by-sandy-hudson/9798217013180/
In this episode, meet G9 Ventures founder Amy Griffin, disability advocate and eating disorder recovery coach Jayne Mattingly, and advocate on sexual violence prevention and trauma recovery Brittany Piper. Hear Amy Griffin on the word she found particularly hard to pronounce, Jayne Mattingly on her personal journey with body grief and how she used that term to help others, and why Brittany Piper calls her time in the recording booth “therapeutic.”The Tell by Amy Griffin: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743950/the-tell-oprahs-book-club-by-amy-griffin/audio/This Is Body Grief by Jayne Mattingly: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/740125/this-is-body-grief-by-jayne-mattingly/audioBody-First Healing by Brittany Piper: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/748686/body-first-healing-by-brittany-piper/audio
In this episode, meet neuroscientist and founder of Ness Labs Anne-Laure Le Cunff, TechEquity CEO and community organizer Catherine Bracy, and author and creative guide Amie McNee. Hear Anne-Laure Le Cunff share the section of her audiobook she most enjoyed recording, Catherine Bracy reflect on what surprised her most about being in the studio, and Amie McNee on what inspired her to write We Need Your Art.Tiny Experiments by Anne-Laure Le Cunffhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737291/tiny-experiments-by-anne-laure-le-cunff/9798217011834/World Eaters by Catherine Bracyhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/723091/world-eaters-by-catherine-bracy/9798217016600/We Need Your Art by Amie McNeehttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/761126/we-need-your-art-by-amie-mcnee/9798217066490/
In this episode, meet author and poet-storyteller Kaitlin B. Curtice, Emmy Award–winning documentary filmmaker James Robinson, and author and singer-songwriter Hayley Chewins. Hear Kaitlin B. Curtice on writing children’s books that celebrate our sacred relationship to the earth from an Indigenous perspective, James Robinson on the cathartic experience of reading his life story aloud, and Hayley Chewins on the complications of magic in her characters’ lives.Spring's Miracles by Kaitlin B. Curtice: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706794/springs-miracles-by-kaitlin-b-curtice-illustrated-by-gloria-felix/audioWhale Eyes by James Robinson: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/716022/whale-eyes-by-james-robinson-illustrated-by-brian-rea/audio/I Am the Swarm by Hayley Chewins: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/729077/i-am-the-swarm-by-hayley-chewins/audio/
In this episode, meet Brown University professor and chair of African Studies Noliwe Rooks, NYU Grossman School of Medicine professor of pediatrics and microbiology Dr. Adam Ratner, and former White House correspondent and Johns Hopkins University professor of environmental science and policy Daniel Stone. Hear Noliwe Rooks on the school experiences that inspired her book, Adam Ratner on the impact of vaccines on pediatrics and infectious illnesses, and Daniel Stone on the all-consuming process of recording an audiobook.Integrated by Noliwe Rookshttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721962/integrated-by-noliwe-rooks/9798217018710/Booster Shots by Dr. Adam Ratnerhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/670274/booster-shots-by-adam-ratner-md-mph/9798217011797/American Poison by Daniel Stonehttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724815/american-poison-by-daniel-stone/9780593951965/
In this episode, meet C-suite leader Laysha Ward, entrepreneur and podcast host Grant Sabatier, and career coach and Hunter College professor of human behavior Melody Wilding. Hear Laysha Ward on breaking the wall between work and life, Grant Sabatier on the accessibility of entrepreneurship, and Melody Wilding on the invisible dynamics at play in a workplace. Enjoy!Lead Like You Mean It by Laysha Ward: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722216/lead-like-you-mean-it-by-laysha-ward/audioInner Entrepreneur by Grant Sabatier: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/723308/inner-entrepreneur-by-grant-sabatier/audioManaging Up by Melody Wilding: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721785/managing-up-by-melody-wilding/audio/
In this episode, meet writer and minister Lydia Sohn, vicar and co-host of the And Also with You podcast, Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail, and comedian and actress Pretty Vee. Hear Lydia Sohn on the power of taking a “vow of stability,” Lizzie McManus-Dail on the gap between the God she knew, and the God being advertised on billboards and TV, and Pretty Vee on the inspirational process of recording her audiobook.Here by Lydia Sohnhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/736307/here-by-lydia-sohn/9780593912997/God Didn't Make Us to Hate Us by Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dailhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/762683/god-didnt-make-us-to-hate-us-by-rev-lizzie-mcmanus-dail/9798217021451/The Pretty Victory by Pretty Veehttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/753293/the-pretty-victory-by-pretty-vee/9798217073993/
In this episode, meet television writer and co-host of the Keep It podcast Ira Madison III, writer Allison Sweet Grant, and writer and editor Haley Mlotek. Hear Ira Madison on how he used the Wicked soundtrack to prepare for recording his audiobook, Allison Sweet Grant on the joys of reading poetry during the recording process, and Haley Mlotek on how the experience of divorce in her family inspired her new book, and what surprised her most about recording the audiobook.Pure Innocent Fun by Ira Madison, III: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706915/pure-innocent-fun-by-ira-madison-iii/audio/I Am the Cage by Allison Sweet Grant: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717016/i-am-the-cage-by-allison-sweet-grant/audio/No Fault by Haley Mlotek: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612168/no-fault-by-haley-mlotek/audio
In this episode of This Is the Author, meet marriage and family therapist Bryana Kappadakunnel, health and fitness coach Lisa Dee, and entrepreneur and content creator Sahil Bloom. Hear Bryana Kappadakunnel on the power of parenting yourself as an adult, Lisa Dee on physical and mental transformation post-ADHD diagnosis, and Sahil Bloom on the “grind” of recording an audiobook.Parent Yourself First by Bryana Kappadakunnelhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741006/parent-yourself-first-by-bryana-kappadakunnel/9780593912249/Healthy Happy ADHD by Lisa Deehttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/744057/healthy-happy-adhd-by-lisa-dee/9780593950258/The 5 Types of Wealth by Sahil Bloomhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/731381/the-5-types-of-wealth-by-sahil-bloom/9780593949825/
In this episode of This Is the Author, meet poet Mia S. Willis, bestselling author Lidia Yuknavitch, and award-winning journalist Bonny Reichert. Hear Mia S. Willis on the spaces that language can – and cannot - traverse, Lidia Yuknavitch on the wetsuit that inspired a memoir, and Bonny Reichert on the one powerful word she would use to describe what it was like to record her audiobook.the space between men by Mia S. Willis: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738584/the-space-between-men-by-mia-s-willis/audioReading the Waves by Lidia Yuknavitch: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/726930/reading-the-waves-by-lidia-yuknavitch/audioHow to Share an Egg by Bonny Reichert: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717585/how-to-share-an-egg-by-bonny-reichert/audio
In this episode of This Is the Author, meet Academy Award-nominated actor and producer Naomi Watts, former Capitol Hill press secretary and White House speechwriter Tom Rosshirt, and psychotherapist and podcaster Nicole J. Sachs. Hear Naomi Watts on confronting her “worst nightmare” in the recording booth, Tom Rosshirt on the deeply personal experience of narration, and Nicole Sachs on the key difference between recording a podcast and recording an audiobook.DARE I SAY It by Naomi Wattshttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746824/dare-i-say-it-by-naomi-watts/9780593508459/Chasing Peace by Tom Rosshirthttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/720002/chasing-peace-by-tom-rosshirt/9780593789742/Mind Your Body by Nicole J. Sachshttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/744988/mind-your-body-by-nicole-j-sachs-lcsw-foreword-by-john-stracks-md/9798217011872/
In this episode, meet Mother Untitled founder Neha Ruch, Harvard Business School professor Alison Wood Brooks, and therapist and founder of Black and Embodied Counseling and Consulting Alishia McCullough. Listen to Neha Ruch on opening more choices for women in their careers, Alison Wood Brooks on obsessing about the art of conversation, and Alishia McCullough on the power of representation in building a sense of legacy and in embodying the self.The Power Pause by Neha Ruch: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739585/the-power-pause-by-neha-ruch/audio/Talk by Alison Wood Brooks: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/708473/talk-by-alison-wood-brooks/audioReclaiming the Black Body by Alishia McCullough:https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/713617/reclaiming-the-black-body-by-alishia-mccullough-lcmhc/audio
In this episode, meet writer and professor Irvin Weathersby Jr., professor and theorist Tao Leigh Goffe, and journalist Adam Chandler. Hear Irvin Weathersby Jr. discuss emotionally charged moments in the recording studio, Tao Leigh Goffe on the catharsis of recording a book about race and the climate crisis, and Adam Chandler on the role work plays in a sense of American citizenship.In Open Contempt by Irvin Weathersby Jr.https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/673664/in-open-contempt-by-irvin-weathersby-jr/9780593944158/Dark Laboratory by Tao Leigh Goffehttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725301/dark-laboratory-by-tao-leigh-goffe/9780593914625/99% Perspiration by Adam Chandlerhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/723824/99-perspiration-by-adam-chandler/9780593913192/
In this episode, meet children’s and young adult author Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, young adult author and playwright Joy McCullough, and former child actor Adam Ross. Listen in as these authors talk about 1960s Beatlemania, how a theater career can inspire a novel, and the Neverland-like sense of freedom that came with being a kid in New York City in the 1970s and ‘80s. Plus, learn what each of these authors is most excited for listeners to hear.Radiant by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746520/radiant-by-vaunda-micheaux-nelson/audioEverything Is Poison by Joy McCullough: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746825/everything-is-poison-by-joy-mccullough/audioPlayworld by Adam Ross: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/231601/playworld-by-adam-ross/audio
Welcome to season 10 of This Is the Author!In this episode, meet entrepreneur and founder of Contrarian Thinking Codie Sanchez, decluttering expert Shira Gill, and Cornell University professor and expert in organizational psychology, Dr. Sunita Sah. Hear why Codie Sanchez is eager to connect with listeners through the audiobook format, why Shira Gill wants to normalize imposter syndrome, and how Dr. Sunita Sah set about recording one of her favorite scenes in her book.Main Street Millionaire by Codie Sanchezhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/748704/main-street-millionaire-by-codie-sanchez/9780593943793/LifeStyled by Shira Gillhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743186/lifestyled-by-shira-gill/9798217082926/Defy by Dr. Sunita Sahhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/705089/defy-by-dr-sunita-sah/9780593790441/
In this episode of This Is the Author, meet creator of SmittenKitchen.com Deb Perelman and writer and stand-up comic Ilana Long. Discover how Deb Perelman chose her very favorite recipes among her “forever staples,” and go deep into the pandemic-era pickleball craze and the joys of voicing characters with Ilana Long. Enjoy!Smitten Kitchen Keepers: A Kitchen Counter Conversation by Deb Perelman: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/778224/smitten-kitchen-keepers-a-kitchen-counter-conversation-by-deb-perelman/audio/Pickleballers by Ilana Long: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/742302/pickleballers-by-ilana-long/audio/
In this episode of This Is the Author, meet writer and multimedia storyteller LaTonya Yvette and lead pastor of Shoreline City Church Earl McClellan. Hear LaTonya Yvette reflect on the importance of preserving vulnerability, and learn why Earl McClellan is excited to break barriers alongside his listenersStand in My Window by LaTona Yvettehttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671892/stand-in-my-window-by-latonya-yvette/9798217020898/Get Your Spirit Back by Earl McClellanhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/726501/get-your-spirit-back-by-earl-mcclellan/9780593861257/
In this episode, meet the founder of Well-Read Black Girl Glory Edim, media consultant and former DJ and television host Elliot Mintz, and artist and public speaker Dylan Scholinski. Hear how each of these authors prepared physically (and mentally!) to record their audiobooks, and what they are most excited for listeners to hear.Gather Me by Glory Edim: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/576457/gather-me-by-glory-edim/audioWe All Shine On by Elliot Mintz: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743169/we-all-shine-on-by-elliot-mintz/audio/The Last Time I Wore a Dress by Dylan Scholinski: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/348319/the-last-time-i-wore-a-dress-by-dylan-scholinski-with-jane-meredith-adams/audio
In this episode, meet novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Susan Minot, poet, translator, and editor, Emily Jungmin Yoon, and health psychologist and speaker Kari Leibowitz. Hear Susan Minot on how she prepared for recording, Emily Jungmin Yoon on what surprised her about reading her poetry in the studio, and Kari Leibowitz on the stories she most enjoyed sharing aloud.Don't Be a Stranger by Susan Minothttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/752123/dont-be-a-stranger-by-susan-minot/9780593914687/Find Me as the Creature I Am by Emily Jungmin Yoonhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738548/find-me-as-the-creature-i-am-by-emily-jungmin-yoon/9780593913093/How to Winter by Kari Leibowitz, PhDhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721750/how-to-winter-by-kari-leibowitz-phd/9780593915653/
In this episode, meet YouTube video creator and podcast host MrBallen and writer Jon Waterman. Learn what these authors found most surprising about recording their audiobooks, and what they can’t wait for listeners to hear.MrBallen Presents: Strange, Dark & Mysterious by MrBallen: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/742533/mrballen-presents-strange-dark-and-mysterious-by-stories-by-mrballen-illustrations-by-andrea-mutti/audioInto the Thaw by Jon Waterman: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/774477/into-the-thaw-by-jon-waterman/audio/
In this episode, meet sobriety coach Christy Osborne, naturopath clinician Dr. Nicole Cain, and career coach Megan Hellerer. Tune in to hear how each of these authors wrote the books that they themselves needed. Plus, find out who recently loved listening to All the Colors of the Dark. Love Life Sober by Christy Osbornehttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/736905/love-life-sober-by-christy-osborne/9780593913499/Panic Proof by Dr. Nicole Cainhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737883/panic-proof-by-dr-nicole-cain/9780593913475/Directional Living by Megan Hellererhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/674866/directional-living-by-megan-hellerer/9780593942178/
In this episode, meet ecologist Mark Easter and host of the podcast Exvangelical Blake Chastain. Hear Mark Easter reflect on his favorite chapter to narrate, learn what Blake Chastain is most excited for listeners to hear, and learn what surprised them both most about recording their audiobooks.The Blue Plate by Mark Easterhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/774476/the-blue-plate-by-mark-easter/9798217017218/Exvangelical and Beyond by Blake Chastainhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/747796/exvangelical-and-beyond-by-blake-chastain/9780593942390/
In celebration of International Podcast Day (September 30th), we’re revisiting some of our (many!) favorite interviews from Season 9 of This Is the Author. We’ve found the humor in the difficult with Spencer Henry, Madison Reyes, and KB Brookins, we’ve enthused over children’s books with Chanel Miller and George Takei, and we’ve thought a little deeper with Anne Lamott. We love talking with our authors in the recording booth, and we know you'll enjoy hearing them in your headphones. Enjoy!Obitchuary by Spencer Henry and Madison Reyes: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/740922/obitchuary-by-spencer-henry-and-madison-reyes/audioPretty by KB Brookins: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724994/pretty-by-kb-brookins/audio/Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All by Chanel Miller: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735878/magnolia-wu-unfolds-it-all-by-chanel-miller/audio/My Lost Freedom by George Takei: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/708382/my-lost-freedom-by-george-takei-illustrated-by-michelle-lee/audioSomehow by Anne Lamott: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734582/somehow-by-anne-lamott/audio
In this episode, meet speaker and host of the In-Joy Life podcast Mattie Jackson, well-being educator and self-healing guide Nakeia Homer, and comedian, actress, and producer Leanne Morgan. Hear Mattie Jackson on writing a faith-based resource for navigating grief, Nakeia Homer on the healing power of emotions in the recording booth, and Leanne Morgan on what she’s most excited for listeners to hear.Through the Valley of Grief by Mattie Jacksonhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743379/through-the-valley-of-grief-by-mattie-jackson/9780593910405/Habits for Healing by Nakeia Homerhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/736982/habits-for-healing-by-nakeia-homer/9780593912973/What in the World?! by Leanne Morganhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725880/what-in-the-world-by-leanne-morgan/9780593861004/
In this episode, meet author Abi Maxwell, investigative journalist Emily Witt, and “America’s favorite government teacher” Sharon McMahon. Press play to discover which of these authors describes recording her audiobook as a “magic spell,” who wished they brought candy into the studio, and whose Minnesota accent “got in the way” of pronouncing some words. Enjoy!One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman by Abi Maxwell: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/714682/one-day-ill-grow-up-and-be-a-beautiful-woman-by-abi-maxwell/audioHealth and Safety by Emily Witt: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/718547/health-and-safety-by-emily-witt/audioThe Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/709748/the-small-and-the-mighty-by-sharon-mcmahon/audio
In this episode, meet journalist Melissa Petro, activist and founder of the Revolutionary Love Project Valarie Kaur, and founder and creative director of Morbid Anatomy Joanna Ebenstein. Tune in to hear about the specific moments in time that inspired these authors to write their books, what it was like to record their audiobooks, and so much more.Shame on You by Melissa Petro: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/736321/shame-on-you-by-melissa-petro/audioSage Warrior by Valarie Kaur: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690793/sage-warrior-by-valarie-kaur/audioMemento Mori by Joanna Ebenstein: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/736595/memento-mori-by-joanna-ebenstein/audio
In this episode, meet educator Leslie M. Martino, founder of the Jude 3 Project Lisa Victoria Fields, and psychotherapist and bible teacher Dr. Sarita T. Lyons. Hear from Leslie M. Martino on the joyful intersection between parenting and teaching, Lisa Victoria Fields on the struggle to reconcile faith with experience, and Dr. Sarita T. Lyons on writing the book she wanted to read. Plus, hear what these authors found most memorable about recording their audiobooks. Enjoy!The Joy of Slow by Leslie M. Martino: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/731228/the-joy-of-slow-by-leslie-m-martino-foreword-by-ainsley-arment/audioWhen Faith Disappoints by Lisa Victoria Fields: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/742489/when-faith-disappoints-by-lisa-victoria-fields/audioChurch Girl by Dr. Sarita T. Lyons:https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/742488/church-girl-by-sarita-t-lyons/audio/
In this episode, meet filmmaker and actor Desiree Akhavan, astrobiologist and theoretical physicist Sara Imari Walker, and co-hosts of the Obitchuary podcast Spencer Henry and Madison Reyes. Go behind the mic to hear what inspired these authors, what surprised them most about recording their audiobooks, and what they are most excited for listeners to hear.You're Embarrassing Yourself by Desiree Akhavanhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/539659/youre-embarrassing-yourself-by-desiree-akhavan/9780593908341/Life As No One Knows It by Sara Imari Walkerhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646981/life-as-no-one-knows-it-by-sara-imari-walker/9780593867815/Obitchuary by Spencer Henry and Madison Reyeshttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/740922/obitchuary-by-spencer-henry-and-madison-reyes/9780593870198/
In this episode, meet poet and playwright Vincent Toro, New York Times correspondent Thomas Fuller, and journalist Barbara Bradley Hagerty. Hear how reading his audiobook helped Vincent Toro experiment with poetry performance, learn what special food Thomas Fuller ate before his recording sessions, and hear Barbara Bradley Hagerty describe the visceral experience of reliving her book as she read it.Hivestruck by Vincent Toro: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722306/hivestruck-by-vincent-toro/audioThe Boys of Riverside by Thomas Fuller: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724060/the-boys-of-riverside-by-thomas-fuller/audioBringing Ben Home by Barbara Bradley Hagerty: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/677738/bringing-ben-home-by-barbara-bradley-hagerty/audio
In this episode, meet pastor Oneka McClellan, Haiti Country Director for the UN World Food Programme Jean-Martin Bauer, and writer and former professional soccer player Georgia Cloepfil. Hear what inspired each of these authors to write their books, and what surprised them about reading their audiobooks. Plus, navigating tongue-twisters, emotions, and other vulnerable moments in the studio.Born Royal by Oneka McClellanhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/726796/born-royal-by-oneka-mcclellan/9780593791400/The New Breadline by Jean-Martin Bauerhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697093/the-new-breadline-by-jean-martin-bauer/9780593906835/The Striker and The Clock by Georgia Cloepfil
In this episode, meet writer and lecturer Zara Chowdhary, former attorney and bestselling author Tara M. Stringfellow, and marine biologist Jasmin Graham. Listen in as these authors share insights into their works, and what made recording their audiobooks feel enriching, cathartic, and even magical.The Lucky Ones by Zara Chowdhary: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733872/the-lucky-ones-by-zara-chowdhary/audioMagic Enuff by Tara M. Stringfellow: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712933/magic-enuff-by-tara-m-stringfellow/audioSharks Don't Sink by Jasmin Graham: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/726129/sharks-dont-sink-by-jasmin-graham/audio
In this episode, meet novelist Kevin Barry, novelist and poet Olivia Gatwood, and novelist and filmmaker Ruth Ozeki. Listen in as these authors share what felt most revealing, most humbling, and most like time travel in the process of recording their audiobooks. Plus, what they can’t wait for listeners to hear.The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743397/the-heart-in-winter-by-kevin-barry/audioWhoever You Are, Honey by Olivia Gatwood: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/653524/whoever-you-are-honey-by-olivia-gatwood/audioMy Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/330739/my-year-of-meats-by-ruth-ozeki/audioAll Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/288092/all-over-creation-by-ruth-ozeki/audio
In this episode, meet paleontologist John Long, writer and entrepreneur Nathaniel Eliason, and CEO of Soulcast Media Jessica Chen. Tune in to hear what these authors hope to teach listeners about sharks, cryptocurrency, and workplace communication.The Secret History of Sharks by John Longhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/714624/the-secret-history-of-sharks-by-john-long/9780593909454/Crypto Confidential by Nathaniel Eliasonhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730882/crypto-confidential-by-nathaniel-eliason/9780593867877/Smart, Not Loud by Jessica Chenhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743951/smart-not-loud-by-jessica-chen/9780593867532/
In this episode, meet independent editor and writer Alizah Holstein, writer and activist Jessica Goudeau, and journalist Nellie Bowles. Listen in to hear what big life moments inspired these authors to write their audiobooks, and how they would describe their time in the recording studio. My Roman History by Alizah Holstein: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697279/my-roman-history-by-alizah-holstein/audioWe Were Illegal by Jessica Goudeau: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690547/we-were-illegal-by-jessica-goudeau/audioMorning After the Revolution by Nellie Bowles: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/678113/morning-after-the-revolution-by-nellie-bowles/audio
In this episode, meet writer Brea Baker, founder and CEO of Babes Ciera Rogers, and writer and former Executive Editor of Teen Vogue Samhita Mukhopadhyay. Tune in to hear the beautiful story behind Brea Baker’s book Rooted, what Ciera Rogers is most excited for listeners to hear, and why Samhita Mukhopadhyay calls the experience of recording her audiobook “meditative.”Rooted by Brea Bakerhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712584/rooted-by-brea-baker/9780593908228/The Outsider Advantage by Ciera Rogershttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671352/the-outsider-advantage-by-ciera-rogers/9780593867419/The Myth of Making It by Samhita Mukhopadhyayhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690129/the-myth-of-making-it-by-samhita-mukhopadhyay/9780593677742/
In this episode, meet writer, producer, and podcaster Priyanka Mattoo, actor, film producer, and film director Griffin Dunne, and speaker and former journalist Jess H. Gutierrez. Hear these authors share what it was like to fully inhabit their memoirs in the audio booth, and the recording moments that surprised and delighted them most. Plus, more behind-the-scenes details on what only audiobook listeners will hear.Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones by Priyanka Mattoo: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/677112/bird-milk-and-mosquito-bones-by-priyanka-mattoo/audioThe Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717278/the-friday-afternoon-club-by-griffin-dunne/audioA Product of Genetics (and Day Drinking) by Jess H. Gutierrez: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/740096/a-product-of-genetics-and-day-drinking-by-jess-h-gutierrez/audio
In this episode, meet therapist and founder of The Embodiment Institute Prentis Hemphill, writer and podcast producer Glynnis MacNicol, and hospice nurse Julie McFadden. Hear these authors on how they prepared to record their audiobooks, what it was like to get vulnerable behind the mic, and their favorite recording moments.What it Takes to Heal by Prentiss Hemphillhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/726173/what-it-takes-to-heal-by-prentis-hemphill/9780593908402/I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself by Glynnis MacNicolhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/736781/im-mostly-here-to-enjoy-myself-by-glynnis-macnicol/9780593908945/Nothing to Fear by Julie McFaddenhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734126/nothing-to-fear-by-julie-mcfadden-rn/9780593868010/
In this episode, meet Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham, founder and CEO of Khan Academy Salman Khan, and economic commentator Kyla Scanlon. Hear Jon Meacham on writing the life of President George H.W. Bush, Salman Khan on how artificial intelligence can have a positive impact on education, and Kyla Scanlon on helping lay people understand what’s going on in the contemporary economy. Plus, what it was like for these authors to record their audiobooks. Enjoy!The Call to Serve by Jon Meacham: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735686/the-call-to-serve-by-jon-meacham/audioBrave New Words by Salman Khan: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/740806/brave-new-words-by-salman-khan/audioIn This Economy? by Kyla Scanlon: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737854/in-this-economy-by-kyla-scanlon/audio
S9 E16: In this episode, meet former Apple executive and one of Fortune’s “Most Powerful Women” Denise Young, founder of The New Happy company Stephanie Harrison, and writer and cultural worker KB Brookins. Press play to hear about the unique way Denise Young prepared to record, the two big problems that inspired Stephanie Harrison to write her book, and what KB Brookins is most excited for listeners to hear, as a reader and as a writer.When We Are Seen by Denise Younghttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671511/when-we-are-seen-by-denise-young/9780593868904/New Happy by Stephanie Harrisonhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/714480/new-happy-by-stephanie-harrison/9780593828229/Pretty by KB Brookinshttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724994/pretty-by-kb-brookins/9780593906774/
In this episode, meet Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, physician and Levels Health co-founder Casey Means, and culture, science, and nature writer Lucy Jones. Tune in to hear the one word Vanessa Angélica Villarreal would use to describe her recording experience, what Casey Means is most excited for her listeners to hear, and what inspired Lucy Jones to write her book about motherhood.Magical/Realism by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/704670/magicalrealism-by-vanessa-angelica-villarreal/audio/Good Energy by Casey Means, MD: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/727184/good-energy-by-casey-means-md-with-calley-means/audio/Matrescence by Lucy Jones: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/714054/matrescence-by-lucy-jones/audio/
In this episode, meet World Champion lacrosse player and Premier Lacrosse League co-founder Paul Rabil, psychotherapist Dr. Christy Angelle Bauman, and psychotherapist and founder of Brown Girl Therapy, Sahaj Kaur Kohli. Hear Paul Rabil on the ups and downs of pursuing elite performance (and how one of his personal life lessons came into play in the recording booth), Dr. Christy Angelle Bauman on sharing insights from an 18-year therapy career, and Sahaj Kaur Kohli on writing the book she needed as a young person and the importance of delving into our own stories. Plus, what each of these authors is most excited for listeners to hear.The Way of the Champion by Paul Rabilhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725004/the-way-of-the-champion-by-paul-rabil-foreword-by-bill-belichick/9780593829660/Her Rites by Dr. Christy Angelle Baumanhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737880/her-rites-by-christy-angelle-bauman-phd/9780593861127/But What Will People Say? by Sahaj Kaur Kohlihttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/705868/but-what-will-people-say-by-sahaj-kaur-kohli-maed-lgpc/9780593789537/
In this episode, meet journalist Sean Patrick Cooper, writer Dominic Gordon, and writer Suzanne Scanlon. Hear what inspired these authors to write their books, and what most surprised them about recording their audiobooks. Enjoy!The Shooter at Midnight by Sean Patrick Cooper: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/625173/the-shooter-at-midnight-by-sean-patrick-cooper/audioExcitable Boy by Dominic Gordon: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768153/excitable-boy-by-dominic-gordon/audioCommitted by Suzanne Scanlon: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712686/committed-by-suzanne-scanlon/audio
In this episode, meet bestselling author Chanel Miller, bestselling author Amy Tan, and historian Nell Irvin Painter. Tune in to hear how each of these writers turned their everyday experiences into extraordinary audiobooks, and what they’re most excited for listeners to hear.Magnolia Wu Unfolds it All by Chanel Millerhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735878/magnolia-wu-unfolds-it-all-by-chanel-miller/9780593867372/The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tanhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717452/the-backyard-bird-chronicles-by-amy-tan/9780593824726/I Just Keep Talking by Nell Irvin Painterhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/708347/i-just-keep-talking-by-nell-irvin-painter/9780593821343/
In this episode, meet actor George Takei, bestselling writer Leila Mottley, and neuroscientist-turned-environmental journalist Clayton Page Aldern. Listen in as these authors share powerful histories and coming-of-age stories, from George Takei's childhood experience in a US internment camp during World War II, to Leila Mottley's poems of becoming, to Clayton Page Aldern's exploration of the surprising intersection between physical health and climate change.My Lost Freedom by George Takeihttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/708382/my-lost-freedom-by-george-takei-illustrated-by-michelle-lee/9780593865286/woke up no light by Leila Mottleyhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/672149/woke-up-no-light-by-leila-mottley/9780593869444/The Weight of Nature by Clayton Page Aldernhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717097/the-weight-of-nature-by-clayton-page-aldern/9780593827420/
In this episode, meet novelist and non-fiction writer Anne Lamott, podcaster and founder of The Honey Scoop Ashley Hetherington, and chaplain and creator of the popular “Rude Ass Enneagram” Instagram account Elizabeth Orr. You’ll hear thoughts on love, thoughts on faith, and thoughts on adding humor to self-compassion. Plus, what it really takes to get through hard times.Somehow by Anne Lamotthttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734582/somehow-by-anne-lamott/9780593828892/The Joy of the In-Between by Ashely Hetheringtonhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735372/the-joy-of-the-in-between-by-ashley-hetherington/9780593861196/The Unfiltered Enneagram by Elizabeth Orrhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722658/the-unfiltered-enneagram-by-elizabeth-orr/9780593869147/
In this episode, meet CNN anchor and Chief National Security Analyst Jim Sciutto, journalist Megan Kimble, and psychiatrist Dr. Alok Kanojia. Hear what inspired these authors to write their books, how they prepared to record their audiobooks, and what most surprised them about the recording process. Plus, find out who loves to listen to spy novels on audio. Enjoy!The Return of Great Powers by Jim Sciutto: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734287/the-return-of-great-powers-by-jim-sciutto/audioCity Limits by Megan Kimble: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/711708/city-limits-by-megan-kimble/audioHow to Raise a Healthy Gamer by Alok Kanojia, MD, MPH: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734863/how-to-raise-a-healthy-gamer-by-alok-kanojia-md-mph/audio
In this episode, meet actress, playwright, and activist Najla Said, supermodel and co-founder of Model Mafia Cameron Russell, and Executive Director of the Undocumented Migration Project Jason De León. Tune in to hear these authors talk about their new work, and what it was like for them to record their audiobooks.Looking for Palestine by Najla Saidhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/308356/looking-for-palestine-by-najla-said/9780593947791/How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone by Cameron Russellhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/718126/how-to-make-herself-agreeable-to-everyone-by-cameron-russell/9780593822036/Soldiers and Kings by Jason De Leónhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/672038/soldiers-and-kings-by-jason-de-leon/9780593827789/
In this episode, meet Walela Nehanda, Olivia A. Cole, and Stephanie Kuehnert. Press play to hear what it was like for these authors to record the audiobooks of their new works for young adults, and discover who went to a Hozier performance in preparation for recording. Enjoy!Bless the Blood by Walela Nehanda: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/703192/bless-the-blood-by-walela-nehanda/audioAriel Crashes a Train by Olivia A. Cole:https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/715920/ariel-crashes-a-train-by-olivia-a-cole/audioPieces of a Girl by Stephanie Kuehnert: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/318849/pieces-of-a-girl-by-stephanie-kuehnert/audio
In this episode, meet speaker and blogger Geraldine DeRuiter, writer and style influencer Lyn Slater, and communication specialist Elaine Lin Hering. Tune in to hear what inspired these authors to write their new books, and what it was like for them in the audiobook recording studio. Plus, learn why there should be a universal appreciation for tea and honey.If You Can't Take the Heat by Geraldine DeRuiterhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/720922/if-you-cant-take-the-heat-by-geraldine-deruiter/9780593828465/How to Be Old by Lyn Slaterhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710504/how-to-be-old-by-lyn-slater/9780593787021/Unlearning Silence by Elaine Lin Heringhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/720975/unlearning-silence-by-elaine-lin-hering/9780593827123/
In this episode, meet poet Rose McLarney, poet and novelist Morgan Parker, and journalist Shalene Gupta. Hear what it was like for these authors to record their audiobooks, and what surprised them most about the process. Enjoy!Colorfast by Rose McLarney: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/715727/colorfast-by-rose-mclarney/audio/You Get What You Pay For by Morgan Parker: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/576870/you-get-what-you-pay-for-by-morgan-parker/audio/The Cycle by Shalene Gupta: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/750307/the-cycle-by-shalene-gupta/audio/
In this episode, meet writer and editor Manjula Martin, stand-up comedian, writer, and actor Moshe Kasher, and entrepreneur and CEO of AppSumo Noah Kagan. Tune in to hear which passages were their favorites to record, and which author’s book inspired them to take up DJing.The Last Fire Season by Manjula Martinhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/711111/the-last-fire-season-by-manjula-martin/9780593786154/Subculture Vulture by Moshe Kasherhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/668961/subculture-vulture-by-moshe-kasher/9780593790045/Million Dollar Weekend by Noah Kaganhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706238/million-dollar-weekend-by-noah-kagan-with-tahl-raz/9780593789346/
In this episode, meet writer Molly Roden Winter, physician and healthcare thought leader Dr. Uché Blackstock, and storyteller and birth and postpartum doula Brandi Sellerz-Jackson. Listen to hear how Roden and Sellerz-Jackson wrote the books they needed years ago, and which chapter Dr. Blackstock is most excited for listeners to hear.More by Molly Roden Winterhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717078/more-a-memoir-of-open-marriage-by-molly-roden-winter/9780593786116/Legacy by Uché Blackstock, MDhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/705871/legacy-by-uche-blackstock-md/9780593822319/On Thriving by Brandi Sellerz-Jacksonhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/692460/on-thriving-by-brandi-sellerz-jackson/9780593668870/
In this episode, meet writer and poet Cole Arthur Riley, senior rabbi of IKAR Sharon Brous, and psychologist and professor Dr. Mariel Buqué. Press play to hear how these authors describe their recording processes, and how they felt hearing their words aloud. Black Liturgies by Cole Arthur Riley:https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721989/black-liturgies-by-cole-arthur-riley/audioThe Amen Effect by Sharon Brous:https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/720048/the-amen-effect-by-sharon-brous/audioBreak the Cycle by Dr. Mariel Buqué:https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/714176/break-the-cycle-by-dr-mariel-buque/audio
In this episode meet CEO and founder of Tunnel Vision Madeline Pendleton, addiction psychiatrist and neuroscientist Judson Brewer, and creator, writer, and star of the YouTube channel How to ADHD Jessica McCabe. Tune in to hear the wide variety of friends, actors, and authors they would cast if they hadn’t narrated their books themselves, and more.I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt by Madeline Pendletonhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722726/i-survived-capitalism-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-t-shirt-by-madeline-pendleton/The Hunger Habit by Judson Brewerhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/720045/the-hunger-habit-by-judson-brewer/How to ADHD by Jessica McCabehttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710890/how-to-adhd-by-jessica-mccabe/
In this episode, meet life coach Amanda Kuda, entrepreneur and Stanford d. school professor Grace Hawthorne, and founder and CEO of the Valuetainment YouTube Channel, Patrick Bet-David. Listen in to hear what inspired these authors to write their books, what it was like to record their audiobooks, and what they are most excited for listeners to hear.Unbottled Potential by Amanda Kudahttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/704927/unbottled-potential-by-amanda-kuda/9780593786581/Make Possibilities Happen by Grace Hawthornehttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/623526/make-possibilities-happen-by-grace-hawthorne-and-stanford-dschool-designed-by-celia-leung/9780593860465/Choose Your Enemies Wisely by Patrick Bet-Davidhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725680/choose-your-enemies-wisely-by-patrick-bet-david-with-greg-dinkin/9780593791660/
In this episode, meet journalist Joe Nocera, poet and educator Tracy K. Smith, and Assistant Professor of Design Studies Lesley-Ann Noel. Tune in to hear about each of these authors’ experiences in the recording booth, and what they hope listeners will learn from their audiobooks.The Big Fail by Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/670529/the-big-fail-by-joe-nocera-and-bethany-mclean/audioTo Free the Captives by Tracy K. Smith:https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706866/to-free-the-captives-by-tracy-k-smith/audioDesign Social Change by Lesley-Ann Noel and Stanford d.school:https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/623527/design-social-change-by-lesley-ann-noel-and-stanford-dschool/audio
In this episode, meet the current mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, Steven L. Reed and Sonic Youth founder Thurston Moore. Tune in to hear their stories of resilience, hardship, and triumph, and how it inspired their books.First, Best by Steven L. Reedhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/696851/first-best-by-steven-l-reed-with-fagan-harris/9780593674918Sonic Life by Thurston Moorehttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706260/sonic-life-by-thurston-moore/9780593748947
In this episode, meet Pastor Amy Butler, founder of With Understanding Comes Calm Julie F. Skolnick, and Honor Summit CEO and founder Faith Eury Cho. Listen in to hear what inspired these authors to write their books, and what it was like recording their audiobooks in the studio.Beautiful and Terrible Things by Amy Butler:https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/546293/beautiful-and-terrible-things-by-amy-butler/audio/Gifted and Distractible by Julie F. Skolnick:https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/727187/gifted-and-distractible-by-julie-f-skolnick-ma-jd/audioExperiencing Friendship with God by Faith Eury Cho:https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/726243/experiencing-friendship-with-god-by-faith-eury-cho/audio
In this episode, meet researcher Cat Bohannon, children’s writer Jacqueline Woodson, and puberty expert and writer Vanessa Kroll Bennett. Press play to hear how these authors radically celebrate the human experience, from the processes of the human body to the relationships we share with each other.Eve by Cat Bohannonhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/227568/eve-by-cat-bohannon/audioRemember Us by Jacqueline Woodsonhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/535797/remember-us-by-jacqueline-woodson/audioThis is So Awkward by Cara Natterson, MD and Vanessa Kroll Bennetthttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/723035/this-is-so-awkward-by-cara-natterson-md-and-vanessa-kroll-bennett/audio
In this episode, meet New York Times tech reporter Kashmir Hill, podcast hosts jarrett hill and Tre’vell Anderson, and film professor Foster Hirsch. Tune in to hear how these authors weave together history and popular culture, from AI facial recognition to the history of Black vernacular to the most iconic movies from the nineteen-fifties.Your Face Belongs to Us by Kashmir Hill: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691288/your-face-belongs-to-us-by-kashmir-hill/audioHistorically Black Phrases by jarrett hill and Tre’vell Anderson: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/711955/historically-black-phrases-by-jarrett-hill-and-trevell-anderson/audioHollywood and the Movies of the Fifties by Foster Hirsch: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/217245/hollywood-and-the-movies-of-the-fifties-by-foster-hirsch/audio
In this episode, meet speaker Devorah Heitner, comedian Aparna Nancherla, and former politician Rory Stewart. Hear Devorah Heitner’s insights on teens' visibility in a digital world, Aparna Nancherla on impostor syndrome, and Rory Stewart’s remarkable journey through British politics. Plus, learn what it was like for these authors to revisit their work in the recording studio.Growing Up in Public by Devorah Heitner:https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690819/growing-up-in-public-by-devorah-heitner-phd/audioUnreliable Narrator by Aparna Nancherla: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622556/unreliable-narrator-by-aparna-nancherla/audioHow Not to Be a Politician by Rory Stewart:https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690281/how-not-to-be-a-politician-by-rory-stewart/audio
In this episode, meet journalist Alyssa Ages, Your Parenting Mojo podcast host Jen Lumanlan, and video creator Daniel M. Jones. Tune in to hear each of these authors discuss what inspired them to write their audiobooks, and what they learned in the process of writing and recording.Secrets of Giants by Alyssa Ages: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/707130/secrets-of-giants/Parenting Beyond Power by Jen Lumanlan, MS, MEd: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/729724/parenting-beyond-power/Autism for Adults by Daniel M. Jones: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/746559/autism-for-adults/
In this episode, meet beloved Peloton instructor Cody Rigsby, existential psychotherapist Sara Kuburic, and speaker Madison Prewett Troutt. Press play to hear about how these authors dug deep to write their books, and how it feels to share their audiobooks with the world.XOXO, Cody by Cody Rigsbyhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/726560/xoxo-cody/audioIt's On Me by Sara Kuburichttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/700579/its-on-me/audioThe Love Everybody Wants by Madison Prewett Troutthttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/721047/the-love-everybody-wants/audio
In this special edition of our podcast This Is the Author, we’re celebrating Library Card Sign-up Month by asking authors to share their favorite thing about their local library. Listen to Ruta Sepetys, Aurora James, Russel Moore, Hakeen Oluseyi, Esmerelda Santiago, Najwa Zebian, Warren Zane, Susan Casey, Timothy Egan, Christian Cooper, and Torrey Maldonado share why libraries are so special to them.
Ruta Sepetys: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/702455/you-the-story/
Aurora James: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/672115/wildflower/
Russel Moore: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/709965/losing-our-religion/
Hakeem Oluseyi: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/690545/a-quantum-life-adapted-for-young-adults/
Esmerelda Santiago: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/222921/las-madres/
Najwa Zebian: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/721788/the-only-constant/
Warren Zanes: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/647205/deliver-me-from-nowhere/
Susan Casey: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/612438/the-underworld/
Timothy Egan: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/558306/a-fever-in-the-heartland/
Christian Cooper: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/671722/better-living-through-birding/
Torrey Maldonado: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/653875/hands/
In this episode, meet poet Gabriel Dozal, author of The Border Simulator, professor and theologian Esau McCaulley, author of How Far to the Promised Land, and writer J. Michael Martinez, author of Tarta Americana. Listen in to hear how they each channeled their struggles and difficulties into works of full-pictured honesty and hope.
The Border Simulator by Gabriel Dozal: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/711710/the-border-simulator/
How Far to the Promised Land by Esau McCaulley: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/703275/how-far-to-the-promised-land/
Tarta Americana by J. Michael Martinez: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/695913/tarta-americana/
In this special In Conversation episode of This Is the Author, Joe Posnanski, author of Why We Love Baseball, chats with his co-narrator (and friend) Ellen Adair. Listen in as they talk about how baseball brought the two of them together, their experiences recording Joe’s book, and the communal aspect of America’s favorite pastime.WHY WE LOVE BASEBALL by Joe Posnanskihttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/715577/why-we-love-baseball/
In this episode meet journalist, producer, and researcher Nick McDonell, social worker and founder of Minaa B. Consulting, Minaa B., and Deeper Than Money CEO Chloe Elise. Learn how the tense summer of 2020 inspired Nick McDonell and Minaa B. to write their books and how Chloe Elise prepared to record her audiobook by attending the Eras Tour.
QUIET STREET by Nick McDonell https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/704830/quiet-street/
OWNING OUR STRUGGLES by Minaa B. https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/707127/owning-our-struggles/
DEEPER THAN MONEY by Chloe Elise https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/708811/deeper-than-money/
In this episode, meet speaker and teacher Sarah L. Sanderson and editor-in-chief of Christianity Today, Russell Moore. Press play to hear Sarah Sanderson compare recording to being in a confessional booth, and discover why Russell Moore purposely did not prepare to record his audiobook.
The Place We Make by Sarah L. Sanderson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/709751/the-place-we-make/
Losing Our Religion by Russell Moore: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/709965/losing-our-religion/
In this episode meet award-winning writer Esmeralda Santiago Professor of Shakespeare Studies at King’s College London Farah Karim-Cooper, and the first woman to win the Thurber Prize, Julie Schumacher. Tune in to hear how Farah Karim-Cooper became empowered through recording her audiobook, how Julie Schumacher intentionally included the point of views of undergraduates in her novel, and how the fear of losing history inspired Esmeralda Santiago.
Las Madres by Esmeralda Santiago https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/222921/las-madres/
The Great White Bard by Farah Karim-Cooper https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/691287/the-great-white-bard/
The English Experience by Julie Schumacher https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/730658/the-english-experience/
In this episode, meet NASA astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi, journalist Susan Casey, and speaker and educator Michelle Icard. Discover why Susan Casey considers her library her personal nirvana, which events Michelle Icard loves most at her local library, and how Hakeem Oluseyi wrote his book to be a guide for others going through hard times.
A Quantum Life (Adapted for Young Adults) by Hakeem Oluseyi: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/690545/a-quantum-life-adapted-for-young-adults/
The Underworld by Susan Casey: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/612438/the-underworld/
Eight Setbacks That Can Make a Child a Success by Michelle Icard: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/710070/eight-setbacks-that-can-make-a-child-a-success/
In this episode, meet meditation teacher, Reiki Master, and Reset founder Liz Tran; writer, editor, podcast host Andrew Leland; and founder and CEO of the be.come project, Bethany C. Meyers. Hear Liz Tran on the intersection of business and spirituality; Andrew Leland on researching what blindness—and sightedness—means to people around the world; and Bethany Meyers on how helping people was the driving force behind their book. Plus, hear each author’s reflections on unexpected and “exhilarating” moments in the audiobook studio.
THE KARMA OF SUCCESS by Liz Tran https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/713615/the-karma-of-success/
THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND by Andrew Leland https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/635964/the-country-of-the-blind/
I AM MORE THAN MY BODY by Bethany C. Meyers https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/722218/i-am-more-than-my-body/
In this episode, meet bestselling author and host of the Visionary Souls podcast Sydney Campos, astronomer and astrobiologist Aomawa Shields, PhD, and physician Anupam B. Jena, MD. Tune in to hear about the power of writing for your younger self, the magic of vocal cord lubricating tea, and what it feels like to become deeply immersed in the audiobook recording process.
I'm Ascending, Now What? by Sydney Campos: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/734052/im-ascending-now-what/
Life on Other Planets by Aomawa Shields, PhD: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/673665/life-on-other-planets/
Random Acts of Medicine by Anupam B. Jena & Christopher Worsham: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/708150/random-acts-of-medicine/
In this episode, meet science writer and editor Christian Cooper, hospice registered nurse Hadley Vlahos, and psychologist and Therapy for Black Girls founder Dr. Joy Harden Bradford. Hear Christian Cooper talk about “nerdiness to go with birdiness,” Hadley Vlahos on revisiting emotional scenes from her book in the studio, and Dr. Joy Harden Bradford on “holding space” for listeners while recording.
Better Living Through Birding by Christian Cooper https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/671722/better-living-through-birding/
The In-Between by Hadley Vlahos, R.N. https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/709707/the-in-between/
Sisterhood Heals by Joy Harden Bradford, PhD https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/702822/sisterhood-heals/
In this episode, meet podcaster, family therapist, and parenting expert Amber Trueblood, bestselling author Helen Ellis, and Emmy-winning writer and television host Teresa Strasser. Press play to hear how these authors prepared to read their audiobooks, and what (or who) they’d love to have with them in the recording booth.
The Unflustered Mom by Amber Trueblood https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/735356/the-unflustered-mom/
Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge by Helen Ellis https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/695824/kiss-me-in-the-coral-lounge/
Making It Home by Teresa Strasser https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/707100/making-it-home/
In this episode, meet reporter and editor Stephanie McNeal, Slow AF Run Club founder Martinus Evans, and science writer Jennifer Ackerman. Dive into influencer culture, hear about the joy of recording “cautionary tales,” and learn what it’s like to perform owl hoots in the studio. These authors certainly weren’t shy about what it was like to record their audiobooks!
Swipe Up for More! by Stephanie McNeal https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/675748/swipe-up-for-more/
Slow AF Run Club by Martinus Evans https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/696850/slow-af-run-club/
What an Owl Knows by Jennifer Ackerman https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/673192/what-an-owl-knows/
In this episode, meet activist, speaker, and educator Najwa Zebian, spiritual medium George Anderson, and CEO of FieldCraft Survival Mike Glover. Tune in to hear these authors discuss the healing, spiritual, and profound experiences that led to the creation of their audiobooks, and how they hope to personally connect with their listeners.Conversations on Letting Go by Najwa Zebianhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/727163/conversations-on-letting-go/Ask George Anderson by George Andersonhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/309774/ask-george-anderson/Prepared by Mike Gloverhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/697211/prepared/
In this episode, meet writer and comedian Samantha Irby, actor, director, and screenwriter Guinevere Turner, and blogger Marcie Alvis Walker. Tune in to hear what it was like for these authors to narrate books about their own lives, and who would cast Christine Baranski as a narrator.
Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/690138/quietly-hostile/
When the World Didn't End by Guinevere Turner https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/651933/when-the-world-didnt-end/
Everybody Come Alive by Marcie Alvis Walker https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/710751/everybody-come-alive/
In this episode meet owner of the Savannah Bananas baseball team Jesse Cole, correspondent and NPR host at-large Elise Hu, and bestselling author Ruta Sepetys. Press play to learn which two of these authors describe their recording experience as “thrilling”, and whose studio must-haves are out of the ordinary.Banana Ball by Jesse Colehttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/723072/banana-ball/Flawless by Elise Huhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/667034/flawless/You: The Story by Ruta Sepetyshttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/702455/you-the-story/
In this episode, meet journalist and editor Connie Wang, founder and director of Fugees Family Luma Mufleh, and creative director and fashion designer Aurora James. Hear Connie Wang on how a comment from her mom inspired her memoir, Luma Mufleh on coming-of-age, and Aurora James on the assumptions we make about what it takes to affect change (and how to move beyond them!). Plus, learn what it was like for these authors to revisit their work in the recording studio.Oh My Mother! by Connie Wanghttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/705320/oh-my-mother/From Here by Luma Muflehhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/672109/from-here/Wildflower by Aurora Jameshttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/672115/wildflower/
In this episode, meet author, musician, and professor Warren Zanes, evolutionary biologist Jonathan B. Losos, and bestselling author and journalist Jancee Dunn. What do Bruce Springsteen, cats, and peri-menopause have in common? Tune in to find out.Deliver Me from Nowhere by Warren Zaneshttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/647205/deliver-me-from-nowhere/The Cat's Meow by Jonathan B. Lososhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/610619/the-cats-meow/Hot and Bothered by Jancee Dunnhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/714293/hot-and-bothered/
In this episode, meet writer and actress Alexandra Auder, CNN journalist John Blake, and Live Learn Lovewell founder Emma Lovewell. Hear these authors talk about the process of narrating their memoirs: from the fascinating life experiences that inspired their work, to conveying those experiences in the recording studio.Don't Call Me Home by Alexandra Auder: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/679125/dont-call-me-home/More Than I Imagined by John Blake: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/706045/more-than-i-imagined/Live Learn Love Well by Emma Lovewell: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/704082/live-learn-love-well/
In this episode, meet actress Sheetal Sheth, award-winning writer Ava Chin, and book critic, essayist, and reporter Claire Dederer. Tune in to hear the very personal reasons these authors wrote their audiobooks, and the ways they are working towards more well-rounded representation through their work.ALWAYS ANJALI by Sheetal Shethhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/721351/always-anjali/MOTT STREET by Ava Chinhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/563929/mott-street/MONSTERS by Claire Dedererhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/589194/monsters/
In this episode, meet reporter Monica Potts, comedian Kountry Wayne,, and writer Elisabeth Sharp McKetta. Go behind the mic with each of these authors to see what inspired them to write their books, what it was like to narrate their own work, and who described the recording process as “twisted” (in the best of ways).THE FORGOTTEN GIRLS by Monica Pottshttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/558475/the-forgotten-girls/HELP IS ON THE WAY by Kountry Waynehttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/704825/help-is-on-the-way/EDIT YOUR LIFE by Elisabeth Sharp McKettahttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/707128/edit-your-life/
In this episode, meet pastor Joshua Ryan Butler and screenwriter and reporter Brianna Holt. Listen in to hear what inspired these authors to write their audiobooks, and who they hope will most benefit from their work. Enjoy!Beautiful Union by Joshua Ryan Butler:https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/712257/beautiful-union/In Our Shoes by Brianna Holt:https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/690513/in-our-shoes/
In this episode, meet journalist and bestselling author Timothy Egan, author of A Fever in the Heartland, and physician and writer Dr. Anthony Chin-Quee, author of I Can’t Save You. Learn what inspired Timothy Egan to dive into one of the darkest chapters of American history, and how Anthony Chin-Quee rediscovered the life-sustaining power of telling stories. Plus, hear what it was like for them to record their audiobooks, and who described the experience of narrating as “liquid.”A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Eganhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/558306/a-fever-in-the-heartland/I Can't Save You by Anthony Chin-Queehttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/676638/i-cant-save-you/
In this episode meet comic, actor, and restaurateur Dan Ahdoot and award-winning poet and essayist Mary Karr. Tune in to learn about the distinctly individual reasons these authors were inspired to write their audiobooks.Undercooked by Dan Ahdoothttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/692780/undercooked/The Liars' Club by Mary Karrhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/324560/the-liars-club/
In this episode, meet speaker and educator Chrissy King, psychiatrist Pooja Lakshmin, MD, and missionary Katie Davis Majors. Press play to hear about the ways each of these authors have been able to grow and find confidence, and the hopes that they have for their audiobook listeners. Enjoy!The Body Liberation Project by Chrissy King: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/704696/the-body-liberation-project/Real Self-Care by Pooja Lakshmin, MD: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/696654/real-self-care/Safe All Along by Katie Davis Majors: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/714070/safe-all-along/
In this episode, meet the founder and president of the non-profit Don’t Hide It, Flaunt It, Meg Zucker, Semafor’s business and finance editor Liz Hoffman, and writer Ian Buruma. Listen in to hear each author’s unique take on human stories through the lenses of parenting, the economy, and history.Born Extraordinary by Meg Zuckerhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/679123/born-extraordinary/Crash Landing by Liz Hoffmanhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/669739/crash-landing/The Collaborators by Ian Burumahttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/659322/the-collaborators/
In this episode, meet Hatch consultancy founder Monica C. Parker, author of The Power of Wonder, Printz Medal winner Daniel Nayeri, author of The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams, and award-winning poet Brenda Shaughnessy, author of Tanya. Tune in to hear about the curiosities that inspired their work, from unlikely mentors, to imagining what it was like to be a merchant on The Silk Road, to why maintaining a sense of wonder leads to more resiliency. Enjoy!The Power of Wonder by Monica C. Parkerhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/679114/the-power-of-wonder/The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams by Daniel Nayerihttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/729597/the-many-assassinations-of-samir-the-seller-of-dreams/Tanya by Brenda Shaughnessyhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/715680/tanya/
In this episode, meet marriage and family therapist Vienna Pharaon and therapist and bestselling author Nedra Glover Tawwab. Listen in as these authors describe what led them to write their books, and what it was like to record their audiobooks. The Origins of You by Vienna Pharaonhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/709274/the-origins-of-you/Drama Free by Nedra Glover Tawwabhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/706826/drama-free/
In this episode, meet marketing executive and entrepreneur Bozoma Saint John, poet and writer Camonghne Felix, and writer and editor Will Schwalbe. Listen in to hear these authors reflect on their recent memoirs, and on what it was like to recount the intricacies of love, loss, and friendship while recording their audiobooks. Enjoy!The Urgent Life by Bozoma Saint Johnhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/688798/the-urgent-life/Dyscalculia by Camonghne Felixhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/671602/dyscalculia/We Should Not Be Friends by Will Schwalbehttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/586174/we-should-not-be-friends/
In this episode, meet business and public speaking coach Samara Bay, investigative genetic genealogist and biochemist Barbara Rae-Venter, and UCLA law professor Joanna Schwartz. Press play to hear how these authors’ specific areas of expertise informed and inspired their audiobooks.Permission to Speak by Samara Bayhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/667566/permission-to-speak/I Know Who You Are by Barbara Rae-Venterhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/679097/i-know-who-you-are/Shielded by Joanna Schwartzhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/677131/shielded/
In this episode, meet attorney and financial expert Scarlett Cochran, podcast co-hosts Khadeen Ellis and Devale Ellis, and astrologer Carolyne Faulkner. Tune in to hear what each of these authors hope listeners will learn about money, relationships, and astrology from their audiobooks. Enjoy!It's Not About the Money by Scarlett Cochranhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/692667/its-not-about-the-money/We Over Me by Khadeen Ellis & Devale Ellishttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/705377/we-over-me/The Signs in Love by Carolyne Faulknerhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/704924/the-signs-in-love/
In this episode, meet former state and federal prosecutor Trey Gowdy, author of Start, Stay, or Leave, entrepreneur and angel investor Dan Martell, author of Buy Back Your Time, and sibling author team Ross and Kathryn Petras, co-authors of You’re Saying it Wrong. Tune in to hear what each of these authors hopes listeners will learn from their books.Start, Stay, or Leave by Trey Gowdyhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/702465/start-stay-or-leave/Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martellhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/692744/buy-back-your-time/You're Saying it Wrong by Ross Petras and Kathryn Petrashttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/536310/youre-saying-it-wrong/
In this episode, meet psychotherapist Katherine Morgan Schafler, author of The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control, psychologist Rick Hanson, author of Making Great Relationships, and singer, songwriter, and author Mike Donehey, author of Grace in the Gray. Hear what inspired these authors to write their books, and what it was like to record their audiobooks.The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schaflerhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/665336/the-perfectionists-guide-to-losing-control/Making Great Relationships by Rick Hanson, PhDhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/707002/making-great-relationships/Grace in the Gray by Mike Doneheyhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/narrator/2201592/mike-donehey/
In this episode, meet teacher and author Torrey Maldonado, writer Pico Iyer, and activist, social worker, and writer Faitth Brooks. Press play to hear the personal reasons these authors were inspired to write their books.Hands by Torrey Maldonadohttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/653875/hands/The Half Known Life by Pico Iyerhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/678582/the-half-known-life/Remember Me Now by Faitth Brookshttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/688414/remember-me-now/
In this episode, meet health psychologist Dr. Elissa Epel, professor of psychology Dacher Keltner, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder. Listen in to learn about the science behind awe, how we can embrace stress, and the real-life story about a small group of people changing lives.The Stress Prescription by Elissa Epel, PhD https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/671990/the-stress-prescription/Awe by Dacher Keltnerhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/622175/awe/Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidderhttps://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/594500/rough-sleepers/
In this episode, meet writer and teacher at New York University Jenni Quilter, licensed midwife Liam Kali, and naturopathic physician Dr. Kellyann Petrucci. Press play to hear how these authors were inspired to write books that fill gaps in the parenting, fertility, and nutrition spaces.Hatching by Jenni Quilter: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/546432/hatching/Queer Conception by Liam Kali: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/726992/queer-conception/Dr. Kellyann's Bone Broth Breakthrough by Dr. Kellyann Petrucci: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/711979/dr-kellyanns-bone-broth-breakthrough/
In this episode, meet novelist Meg Howrey and Christian living entrepreneur Jordan Raynor. Listen in as they describe their new books, and what it was like for them to record in the audiobook studio. Enjoy!
They're Going to Love You by Meg Howrey: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/708077/theyre-going-to-love-you/
The Word Before Work by Jordan Raynor: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/635857/the-word-before-work/
In this episode, meet musician and technology executive Shavone Charles, author of Black Internet Effect, and Audrey Elledge and Elizabeth Moore, co-authors of Liturgies for Hope, who both serve at Church of the City of New York. Listen in to hear who they hope to reach with their books, and the impact that they’d like their work to have.
Black Internet Effect https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/692745/black-internet-effect/
Liturgies for Hope https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/704879/liturgies-for-hope/
In this episode, meet writer and journalist Ted Conover, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences Aric Prather, and writer and podcaster Kristen Helmstetter. Listen in as these authors describe what inspired them to write their books, and what it was like for them to record in the audiobook studio.
Cheap Land Colorado by Ted Conover https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/573452/cheap-land-colorado/
The Sleep Prescription by Dr. Aric Prather https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/671991/the-sleep-prescription/
Coffee Self-Talk by Kristen Helmstetter https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/722736/coffee-self-talk/
In this episode, meet slow birder and teacher of animal behavior Joan Strassmann, beloved drag superstars Trixie Mattel and Katya, and restaurateur Will Guidara. Press play to learn about the ways each of these author-narrators were uniquely qualified to write their audiobooks.
Slow Birding by Joan Strassmann https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/667563/slow-birding/
Working Girls by Trixie Mattel and Katya https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/688240/working-girls/
Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/674289/unreasonable-hospitality/
In this episode, meet Harlem Run and Run 4 All Women founder Alison Mariella Désir, writer and Family Secrets podcast host Dani Shapiro, and stand-up comedian John Crist. Listen in as each of these authors describe what it was like to record their audiobooks, and what they learned from their time in the studio.
Running While Black by Alison Mariella Désir: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/675749/running-while-black/
Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/706864/signal-fires/
Delete That by John Crist: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/609288/delete-that/
S7 E44: In this episode, meet poet and philosopher yung pueblo, renowned psychological astrologer Dr. Jennifer Freed, and astrologer Nadine Jane. Tune in to hear how these authors hope listeners will connect with their audiobooks, and who they’d love to hear read their work.
Lighter by yung pueblo https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/667686/lighter/
A Map to Your Soul by Dr. Jennifer Freed https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/702484/a-map-to-your-soul/
Magic Days by Nadine Jane https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/675596/magic-days/
S7 E43: In this episode, meet physicist Sean Carroll and journalist Maggie Haberman. Listen in to hear about their impactful new books, and what it was like for them to narrate their work in the audiobook studio.
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe by Sean Carroll: www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/6955…universe/
Confidence Man by Maggie Haberman: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/668293/confidence-man/
S7 E42: In this episode, meet staff writer at The New Yorker and a professor of Literature Hua Hsu, and writer and artist Tea Hacic-Vlahovic. Learn about reasons each author was inspired to write their book, and the people and places their works pay homage to. Enjoy!
Stay True by Hua Hsu: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/688054/stay-true/
A Cigarette Lit Backwards by Tea Hacic-Vlahovic: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/722324/a-cigarette-lit-backwards/
S7 E41: In this episode, meet award-winning author and critic Carole Boston Weatherford and Slate’s senior legal correspondent and host of the Amicus podcast Dahlia Lithwick. Press play to hear what inspired these authors to write and narrate their audiobooks. Enjoy!
Standing in the Need of Prayer by Carole Boston Weatherford: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/653322/standing-in-the-need-of-prayer/
Lady Justice Dahlia Lithwick: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/598207/lady-justice/
In this episode, meet award-winning poet, novelist, and artist Sandra Cisneros, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital physician assistant Hayley Arceneaux, and poet Javier Zamora. Listen to learn what inspired each of these authors to finally share the stories that had been within them. Enjoy!
Woman Without Shame by Sandra Cisneros: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/707448/woman-without-shame/
Mujer sin vergüenza by Sandra Cisneros: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/705722/mujer-sin-vergenza/
Wild Ride by Hayley Arceneaux: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/712670/wild-ride/
Solito by Javier Zamora: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/705626/solito/
In this episode, meet University of Maryland professor Dr. Marisa G. Franco, award-winning children’s author Marilyn Singer, and Vice Chairman and Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley Carla A. Harris. Tune in to hear the vastly different reasons they were inspired to write their books, and the role that human connection plays within each of them. Enjoy!
Platonic by Marisa G. Franco, PhD: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/676695/platonic/
Awe-some Days by Marilyn Singer: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/666355/awe-some-days/
Lead to Win by Carla A. Harris: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/696803/lead-to-win/
In this episode, meet host of Homestead Rescue and Raney Ranch Marty Raney and therapist Hilary Kinavey. Press play to hear why these authors decided to take the leap and write their books, and what they hope people learn about sustainable living and body liberation. Enjoy!
Homestead Survival by Marty Raney: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/689875/homestead-survival/?ref=PRHD9DF6A1939
Reclaiming Body Trust by Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/675785/reclaiming-body-trust/
In this episode, meet social-impact consultant Jesse Leon and writer and artist Mimi Zhu. Listen to hear the deeply personal reasons they wrote their books, how recording their audiobooks allowed them to express themselves fully, and the numerous ways they hope their work will inspire and help others. Enjoy!
I'm Not Broken written and read by Jesse Leon: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/690943/im-not-broken/
Be Not Afraid of Love written and read by Mimi Zhu: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/696912/be-not-afraid-of-love/
In this episode, meet activist and writer Alexis Jones and sports dietitian and athlete Pamela Nisevich Bede. Tune in to hear what inspired these authors to write their books, and what part of their audiobook narration makes them the proudest. Enjoy!
I Am That Girl by Alexis Jones: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/720306/i-am-that-girl/
Fuel the Fire by Pamela Nisevich Bede: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/675784/fuel-the-fire/
In this episode, meet novelist Mohsin Hamid, fiction and non-fiction writer Beverly Lowry, and poet, actor, and student Alora Young. Hear all about the ways the spoken word elevated the language and experience of their works. Enjoy!
The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/703278/the-last-white-man/
Deer Creek Drive by Beverly Lowry: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/611480/deer-creek-drive/
Walking Gentry Home by Alora Young: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/705449/walking-gentry-home/
S7E33: In this episode, meet executive director for the Aspen Institute’s Religion & Society Program Simran Jeet Singh, parent educator and literacy advocate Maya Payne Smart, and writer Elaine Castillo. Press play to hear the authors describe the journeys they each took that led them to writing their audiobooks. Enjoy!
The Light We Give by Simran Jeet Singh: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/623324/the-light-we-give/
Reading for Our Lives by Maya Payne Smart: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/670701/reading-for-our-lives/
How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/696611/how-to-read-now/
S7E32: In this episode meet Los Angeles based writer Nada Alic and poet, novelist, and essayist Erika L. Sanchez. Tune in to hear why Alic began writing her book of short stories, what Sanchez wants to accomplish with her book of essays, and to meet the funny, complex women (both fictional and real) that make up the heart of both works.
Bad Thoughts by Nada Alic: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/691492/bad-thoughts/
Crying in the Bathroom by Erika L. Sánchez: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/665633/crying-in-the-bathroom/
S7E31: In this episode, meet kindergarten teacher Vera Ahiyya, Professor at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Jay Wellons, and journalist David McRaney. Listen in to hear the inspiring stories that led to the creation of their audiobooks. Enjoy!
KINDergarten by Vera Ahiyya: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/700463/kindergarten/
All That Moves Us by Jay Wellons: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/673884/all-that-moves-us/
How Minds Change by David McRaney: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/639563/how-minds-change/
S7E30: In this episode, meet Georgia Senator Reverend Raphael G. Warnock, Pulitzer Prize–winning science writer Ed Yong, and award-winning writer Ellyn Gaydos. Tune in to hear about each author’s work that led to the creation of their audiobooks: from Warnock’s incredible journey to becoming an elected official whose race flipped the senate, to Gaydos’s memoir that began as diary entries while working as a farmhand, to Yong’s exploration of the wide world of animal senses. Enjoy!
A Way Out of No Way by Raphael G. Warnock: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/707227/a-way-out-of-no-way/
An Immense World by Ed Yong: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/616914/an-immense-world/
Pig Years by Ellyn Gaydos: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/669713/pig-years/
S7E29: In this episode meet writer and President of Beggars Group U.S. Nabil Ayers, CEO of The House at 1229 Kathleen Buhle, and former city dweller turned nonprofit farm owner Jake Keiser. Press play to hear what the authors are most proud to share in their audiobooks about their extraordinary lives. Enjoy!
My Life in the Sunshine by Nabil Ayers: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/651853/my-life-in-the-sunshine/
If We Break by Kathleen Buhle: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/703131/if-we-break/
Daffodil Hill by Jake Keiser: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/604755/daffodil-hill/
S7E28: In this episode, meet professor of microbiology Joseph Osmundson, family therapist Terrence Real, and social entrepreneur and inventor of ReThink™ Trisha Prabhu. Listen in to hear what inspired these authors to write their audiobooks, and their takes on the different ways we, as people, connect with each other. Enjoy!
Virology by Joseph Osmundson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/712270/virology/
Us by Terrence Real: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/670272/us/
ReThink the Internet by Trisha Prabhu: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/672294/rethink-the-internet/
S7E27: In this episode, meet Founder and Chief Change Agent of Flying Elephant Deanna Singh, Founder and CEO of Genius Guild Kathryn Finney, and co-creators of Rich & Regular Julien and Kiersten Saunders. Tune in to hear the ways that these authors hope their audiobooks inspire listeners: from the creation of inclusive workplaces to achieving business dreams amidst personal and societal challenges. Enjoy!
Actions Speak Louder by Deanna Singh: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/672975/actions-speak-louder/
Build the Damn Thing by Kathryn Finney: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/659567/build-the-damn-thing/
Cashing Out by Julien Saunders and Kiersten Saunders: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/665525/cashing-out/
S7 E26: In this episode, meet children’s fiction and non-fiction author Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Idiot Elif Batuman, and The New Yorker staff writer Tad Friend. Press play to hear the personal reasons they were inspired to write their audiobooks, and what they hope listeners will take away. Enjoy!
Mae Makes a Way by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/580458/mae-makes-a-way/
Either/Or by Elif Batuman: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/564577/either-or/
In the Early Times by Tad Friend: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/623588/in-the-early-times/
S7E25: In this episode, meet professor of law and philosophy Scott Hershovitz, co-founder and former CEO of Bonobos Andy Dunn, and former Navy SEAL and founder of Escape the Wolf Clint Emerson. Tune in to hear what each of these authors is most excited for listeners to hear in their audiobooks. Enjoy!
Nasty, Brutish, and Short by Scott Hershovitz: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/639701/nasty-brutish-and-short/
Burn Rate by Andy Dunn: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/653309/burn-rate/
The Rugged Life by Clint Emerson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/688382/the-rugged-life/
S7E24: In this episode, meet journalist, lecturer, and puzzle-lover AJ Jacobs, writer Emily Bingham, and actress Jazmyn Simon. Press play to hear more about the specific moments that inspired these authors to write their books. Plus, learn about special features in the audiobook editions (audio-specific puzzles, anyone?). Enjoy!
The Puzzler by A.J. Jacobs: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/622520/the-puzzler/
My Old Kentucky Home by Emily Bingham: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/565771/my-old-kentucky-home/
Most Perfect You by Jazmyn Simon: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/675731/most-perfect-you/
S7E23: In this episode, meet CEO, co-owner, and chief creative officer of Elite World Group Julia Haart, Head of Communications and Content at Humu Liz Fosslien, and author and advisor Daniel Coyle. Tune in to hear how each of these author’s personal experiences shaped and inspired their audiobooks. Enjoy!
Brazen by Julia Haart: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/670348/brazen/
Big Feelings by Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/672976/big-feelings/
The Culture Playbook by Daniel Coyle: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/577065/the-culture-playbook/
S7 E22: In this episode, meet actress and creator Lilly Singh, actor Terry Crews, and former Kentucky State Representative Charles Booker. Listen in to hear about each of these authors incredible life stories, the hard personal work that served as inspiration for their audiobooks, and what they took away from their experiences reading their own words in the recording booth.
Be a Triangle by Lilly Singh: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/675422/be-a-triangle/
Tough by Terry Crews: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/667344/tough/
From the Hood to the Holler by Charles Booker: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/678409/from-the-hood-to-the-holler/
S7 E21: In this episode, meet SMUDGED founder Neelou Malekpour, Patagonia ambassador and conservation advocate Dylan Tomine, and writer and theologian Erin S. Lane. Listen in to hear what inspired these authors to write their audiobooks, and what they’re most excited for audiobook listeners to hear.
The Art of Sacred Smoke by Neelou Malekpour: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/664510/the-art-of-sacred-smoke/
Headwaters by Dylan Tomine: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/705585/headwaters/
Someone Other Than a Mother by Erin S. Lane: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/659757/someone-other-than-a-mother/
S7 E20: In this episode, meet award-winning musician, writer, and activist Andre Henry, Washington Post columnist Christine Emba, and designer and teacher Susie Wise. Listen in to learn about how these authors are working within their specific disciplines—racial justice, sexual ethics, and community-centered design--to create a better, more equitable world.
All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep by Andre Henry: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/673889/all-the-white-friends-i-couldnt-keep/
Rethinking Sex by Christine Emba: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/622579/rethinking-sex/
Design for Belonging by Susie Wise and Stanford d.school: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/623451/design-for-belonging/
S7 E19: In this episode, meet former deputy editor of Vanity Fair Dana Brown, mathematician and data scientist Cathy O’Neil, and emergency medicine physician Dr. Thomas Fisher. Press play to hear about the personal moments that made narrating their own audiobooks so special.
Dilettante by Dana Brown: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/625042/dilettante/
The Shame Machine by Cathy O'Neil: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/606203/the-shame-machine/
The Emergency by Dr. Thomas Fisher: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/659219/the-emergency/
S7 E18: In this episode, meet former clinical psychologist-turned-writer Alice Boyes, nurse practitioner and founder of the Everyday Wellness Project Cynthia Thurlow, and founder of the Own It Academy and SoulScripts and host of the podcast She, Jordan Lee Dooley. Listen in to hear about each author’s desire to help others in a number of ways, and how that inspired their audiobooks.
Stress-Free Productivity by Alice Boyes, Ph.D: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/645534/stress-free-productivity/
Intermittent Fasting Transformation by Cynthia Thurlow: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/678861/intermittent-fasting-transformation/
Embrace Your Almost by Jordan Lee Dooley: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/647588/embrace-your-almost/
S7 E17: In this special episode of This Is the Author, meet actor Matt Damon and water expert and engineer Gary White, who are the founders of nonprofits Water.org and WaterEquity. Listen in as these two unlikely allies discuss writing The Worth of Water, telling the stories of those effected by the global water crisis, and offering solutions to solve the crisis within our lifetime.
The Worth of Water by Matt Damon and Gary White: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/635415/the-worth-of-water/
S7 E16: In this episode, meet journalist Joshua David Stein, Washington Post columnist Tamar Haspel, and data analyst Neil Hoyne. Hear Joshua David Stein celebrate solitude in the animal kingdom, Tamar Haspel on the adventures in growing your own food, and Neil Hoyne on using data to win your costumers’ hearts.
Solitary Animals by Joshua David Stein: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/673054/solitary-animals/
To Boldly Grow by Tamar Haspel: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/688423/to-boldly-grow/
Converted by Neil Hoyne: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/688629/converted/
S7 E15: In this episode, meet writer Amy Bloom, journalist Daniel Genis, and Black Liturgies creator Cole Arthur Riley. Step into the recording booth and hear Amy Bloom discuss what inspired her to share her husband’s story, Daniel Genis on using literature to find meaning in 10 years spent incarcerated, and Cole Arthur Riley on the power of storytelling as a family tradition.
In Love by Amy Bloom: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/677454/in-love/
Sentence by Daniel Genis: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/318647/sentence/
This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/673836/this-here-flesh/
S7 E14: In this episode, meet New York Times journalist Jeremy W. Peters, writer and editor Meghan O'Rourke, and education consultant Kate Robinson. Listen in to hear Jeremy Peters on unearthing the early seeds of Trumpism, Meghan O'Rourke on living with an invisible chronic illness, and Kate Robinson on completing the book started with her late father, Sir Ken Robinson.
Insurgency by Jeremy W. Peters: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/586398/insurgency/
The Invisible Kingdom by Meghan O'Rourke: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/317923/the-invisible-kingdom/
Imagine If...by Sir Ken Robinson, PhD & Kate Robinson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/602762/imagine-if/
S7 E12: In this episode, meet IF: Gathering founder Jennie Allen, President and CEO of NOW Corp Lara Hodgson, and psychologist Todd Kashdan. Hear Jennie Allen on the lost art of making friends, Lara Hodgson on helping small and underrepresented businesses thrive, and Todd Kashdan on how to find your voice and rebel against an unhealthy status quo.
Find Your People by Jennie Allen: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/646314/find-your-people/
Level Up by Stacey Abrams, Lara Hodgson and Heather Cabot: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/706859/level-up/
The Art of Insubordination by Todd B. Kashdan: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/690674/the-art-of-insubordination/
S7 E13: In this episode, meet actor Harvey Fierstein, radio producer and journalist Stephanie Foo, and host of the Everything Iconic podcast Danny Pellegrino. Hear the famously gravel-voiced Harvey Fierstein share what it was truly like to record his memoir, Stephanie Foo on writing the book she wanted to read, and Danny Pellegrino on bringing stories to life in the recording studio.
I Was Better Last Night by Harvey Fierstein: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/678118/i-was-better-last-night/
What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/658389/what-my-bones-know/
How Do I Un-Remember This? by Danny Pellegrino: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/712543/how-do-i-un-remember-this/
S7 E10: In this episode, meet journalist Tiffanie Drayton, poet Paul Tran, and journalist Karen Cheung. These authors have written books in which they explore the intersection of personal experience and the broader culture---whether rethinking the American Dream, answering trauma with resilience, or delving into the meaning of memory in a shifting geopolitical landscape. Listen in to learn more; plus, find out what it was like for these authors to record their audiobooks.
Black American Refugee by Tiffanie Drayton: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/671853/black-american-refugee/
All the Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/676719/all-the-flowers-kneeling/
The Impossible City by Karen Cheung: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/670013/the-impossible-city/
S7 E11: In this episode, meet The Budget Mom founder Kumiko Love, downsizing expert Matt Paxton, and psychiatrist Dr. Mimi Winsberg. From improving personal financial health, to learning how to declutter, to decoding cryptic text messages, these authors are experts in helping others. Listen in to hear what motivated them to write their books, and what it was like for them to record their audiobooks.
My Money My Way by Kumiko Love: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/676459/my-money-my-way/
Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff by Matt Paxton: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/676687/keep-the-memories-lose-the-stuff/
Speaking In Thumbs by Mimi Winsberg, M.D. : https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/667790/speaking-in-thumbs/
S7 E9: In this episode, meet Emmy-winning television writer, television host, and journalist Teresa Strasser, creator of the Brave Writer program Julie Bogart, and breastfeeding specialist Doctor Linda Dahl. Listen in to hear Teresa Strasser on writing a down-to-earth memoir about first-time pregnancy, Julie Bogart on helping children process information in the digital age, and Dr. Linda Dahl on bringing empowering, medically-sound breastfeeding advice to a wider audience. Plus, hear what it was like for these authors to record their audiobooks.
Exploiting My Baby by Teresa Strasser: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/307302/exploiting-my-baby/
Raising Critical Thinkers by Julie Bogart: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/651935/raising-critical-thinkers/
Better Breastfeeding by Linda D. Dahl, MD: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/670271/better-breastfeeding/
S7 E8: In this episode, meet psychotherapist Whitney Goodman, CEO and founder of ReadySet Y-Vonne Hutchinson, and Yale professor Zoe Chance. Listen in to hear Whitney Goodman on how to show up with your authentic self in a world obsessed with being happy, Y-Vonne Hutchinson on writing a compelling and personalized business book for dismantling workplace racism without fear, and Zoe Chance on the tools that change-minded people need in order to successfully become influencers (hint: influence is not a meritocracy, it’s a learned set of skills!). Plus, hear what it was like for these authors to record their audiobooks.
Toxic Positivity by Whitney Goodman: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/673005/toxic-positivity/
How to Talk to Your Boss About Race by Y-Vonne Hutchinson:https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/672435/how-to-talk-to-your-boss-about-race/
Influence is Your Superpower by Zoe Chance: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/603636/influence-is-your-superpower/
S7 E7: In this episode, meet bestselling author and blogger Jen Mann, attorney, podcaster, and former Bachelorette star Rachel Lindsay, and writer, director, and performer Aimée Lutkin. Listen in to hear what motivated Jen Mann to write her darkly funny examination of “the female midlife crisis,” Rachel Lindsay on her off-camera life and the importance of political engagement and protest, and Aimée Lutkin on our culture’s deep bias against the uncoupled, and why people can be single forever---and that’s okay. Plus, hear these authors’ stories from the audiobook recording booth.
Midlife Bites by Jen Mann: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/625083/midlife-bites/
Miss Me With That by Rachel Lindsay: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/672505/miss-me-with-that/
The Lonely Hunter by Aimée Lutkin: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/609155/the-lonely-hunter/
S7 E6: In this episode, meet theologian and educator Candice Marie Benbow, bestselling author and lecturer Shaka Senghor, and blogger and influencer Mallory Ervin. Listen in to hear Candice Marie Benbow on Black womanhood from a millennial perspective of faith, Shaka Senghor on the power of leaving a literary legacy for his sons, and Mallory Ervin on choosing the life you want after hard times. Plus, hear what it was like for these authors to record their audiobooks.
Red Lip Theology by Candice Marie Benbow: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/665375/red-lip-theology/
Letters to the Sons of Society by Shaka Senghor: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/655956/letters-to-the-sons-of-society/
Living Fully by Mallory Ervin: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/653662/living-fully/
S7 E5: In this episode, meet journalist and novelist Radhika Sanghani, psychiatrist Dr. Mark Epstein, and bestselling author and speaker Agapi Stassinopoulos. Whether their audiobooks are fiction or nonfiction, each of these authors was inspired by events in their lives. Step into the studio with them to hear what it was like using their own experiences to create—and narrate—their audiobooks.
30 Things I Love About Myself by Radhika Sanghani: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/670331/30-things-i-love-about-myself/
The Zen of Therapy by Mark Epstein, M.D.: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/656323/the-zen-of-therapy/
Speaking with Spirit by Agapi Stassinopoulos: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/666007/speaking-with-spirit/
S7 E4: In this episode, meet Webby Award-winning on-air host and bestselling author Nancy Redd, co-creator of the Cookie Chronicle series Matthew Swanson, and bestselling picture book author Adam Rubin. Whether it’s giving kids a way to see themselves reflected in the world around them or encouraging kids to be silly and laugh, these authors find joy in creating stories specifically for young readers. Listen in as each author talks about their audiobook recording experience.
Bedtime Bonnet by Nancy Redd: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/606698/bedtime-bonnet/
Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Perfection by Matthew Swanson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/618165/ben-yokoyama-and-the-cookie-of-perfection/
The Ice Cream Machine by Adam Rubin: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/669286/the-ice-cream-machine/
S7 E3: In this episode, meet Yale professor Jing Tsu, bestselling author Daniel Pink, and founder of the financial firm The Hell Yeah Group, Paco de Leon. Whether it’s finding out about lesser-known figures in Chinese history, discovering how regret can make us all better humans, or finally making finance accessible for everyone, sharing knowledge with readers motivated each of these authors to write their books and read their audiobooks. Step behind the mic with them and learn more about their journeys.
Kingdom of Characters by Jing Tsu: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/550748/kingdom-of-characters/
The Power of Regret by Daniel H. Pink: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/539547/the-power-of-regret/
Finance for the People by Paco de Leon: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/665268/finance-for-the-people/
S7 E2: In this episode, meet chef Gaby Melian, young adult author and poet Erica Martin, and anthropologist Ruth Behar. Go behind the mic with these three authors as they each share why writing their books for children and teens was so important to them. Plus, discover why it was equally important for one of these authors to narrate their own audiobook.
Food-Related Stories by Gaby Melian: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/639769/food-related-stories/
And We Rise by Erica Martin: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/672037/and-we-rise/
Tía Fortuna's New Home by Ruth Behar: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/622815/ta-fortunas-new-home/
El nuevo hogar de Tía Fortuna by Ruth Behar: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/672470/el-nuevo-hogar-de-ta-fortuna/
S7 E1: In this episode, meet award-winning journalist Danielle Friedman, Stacking Benjamins podcast host Joe Saul-Sehy, and journalist and one of the founding editors of Bustle, Rachel Krantz. Listen in to hear how each of these authors had a specific, personal experience--from wandering through a bookstore to taking an exercise class--that inspired them to write their audiobook.
Let's Get Physical by Danielle Friedman: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/645493/lets-get-physical/
Stacked by Joe Saul-Sehy and Emily Guy Birken: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/670045/stacked/
Open by Rachel Krantz: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/646533/open/
S6 E87: In this episode, meet science journalist Catherine Price, Healing Trilogy founder Kimberly Meredith, and Sacred Warrior founder Vanessa Chakour. Join these authors in the studio as they reflect on the inspiration behind their books, the importance of finding connection in a variety of forms, and what they hope listeners will glean from their audiobooks.
The Power of Fun by Catherine Price: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/669961/the-power-of-fun/
Awakening to the Fifth Dimension by Kimberly Meredith: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/695946/awakening-to-the-fifth-dimension/
Awakening Artemis by Vanessa Chakour: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/647186/awakening-artemis/
S6 E86: In this episode, meet New York City Ballet principal dancer Megan Fairchild, American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Thomas Forster, and ballet dancer Charlotte Nebres. Listen in to hear each of these authors talk about their love of dance, and the joys and difficulties that come with that love. Plus, learn what it was like for these seasoned performers to “perform” their audiobooks.
The Ballerina Mindset by Megan Fairchild: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/653041/the-ballerina-mindset/
My Daddy Can Fly! (American Ballet Theatre)by Thomas Forster and Shari Siadat: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/639423/my-daddy-can-fly-american-ballet-theatre/
Charlotte and the Nutcracker by Charlotte Nebres: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/669278/charlotte-and-the-nutcracker/
S6 E85: In this episode, meet book critic Charles Finch, Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl, and literary historian David Damrosch. Join these authors in the studio as they talk about the stories behind their books, from intense pandemic journal-keeping, to witnessing the final months of a presidency, to traveling the world through books. Plus, hear them reflect on the intensity of re-living certain book moments in the audiobook studio.
What Just Happened by Charles Finch: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/670018/what-just-happened/
Betrayal by Jonathan Karl: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/690142/betrayal/
Around the World in 80 Books by David Damrosch: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/679068/around-the-world-in-80-books/
S6 E84: In this episode, meet Mark E. Moore, teaching pastor at Christ’s Church of the Valley, and Terry J. Stokes, youth pastor at the Reformed Church of Highland Park. Tune in to hear what inspired these authors to write books deeply rooted in their Christian faith, what it was like for them to record their audiobooks, and what they hope readers will experience through listening.
Quest 52 by Mark E. Moore: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/671466/quest-52/
Quest 52 Student Edition by Mark E. Moore: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/671467/quest-52-student-edition/
Prayers for the People by Terry J. Stokes: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/672010/prayers-for-the-people/
S6 E83: In this episode, meet actress Aubrey Plaza, CNN news anchor Poppy Harlow, and co-authors Carrie McCrossen and Ian McWethy. Go into the recording studio and get a peak behind-the-mic with these dynamic authors who are creating new stories for kids and young adults.
The Legend of the Christmas Witch by Dan Murphy and Aubrey Plaza: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/669788/the-legend-of-the-christmas-witch/
The Biggest Little Boy by Poppy Harlow: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/646860/the-biggest-little-boy/
Margot Mertz Takes It Down by Carrie McCrossen and Ian McWethy: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/647585/margot-mertz-takes-it-down/
S6 E82: In this episode, meet actor Max Greenfield, actress and dancer Rachel Montez Minor, and father-son co-authors Robert Samuel White II and Robert Samuel White III. Listen in as these authors share the inspiration behind their children’s books: Max Greenfield’s personal experience as a reluctant reader and as a parent, Rachel Montez Minor’s dreams coming to fruition, and Robert Samuel White the second and the third’s desire to help open the world up for all kids.
I Don't Want to Read This Book by Max Greenfield: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/669757/i-dont-want-to-read-this-book/
The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars by Rachel Montez Minor: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/665342/the-sun-the-moon-and-the-stars/
You Can Be ABCs by Robert Samuel White II and Robert Samuel White III: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/678234/you-can-be-abcs/
S6 E80: In this episode, meet the CEO of Gumroad Sahil Lavingia, artist Danny Casale (aka Coolman Coffeedan), and co-authors Daniel Whiteson, a particle physicist and a professor of physics, and Jorge Cham, creator of PhD Comics. From making complex topics easier to understand and more accessible to creating entertaining stories, these authors each created audiobooks listeners will love.
The Minimalist Entrepreneur by Sahil Lavingia: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/652764/the-minimalist-entrepreneur/
Ur Special by Danny Casale: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/668166/ur-special/
Frequently Asked Questions about the Universe by Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/625525/frequently-asked-questions-about-the-universe/
S6 E81: In this episode, meet author and critic Douglas Wolk, journalist and music critic Kelefa Sanneh, and sports journalist Dana O’Neil. Meet these expert authors and listen in as they share their passion for their subjects, from Marvel comics to music to college basketball.
All of the Marvels by Douglas Wolk: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/549063/all-of-the-marvels/
Major Labels by Kelefa Sanneh: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/576360/major-labels/
The Big East by Dana O'Neil: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/653406/the-big-east/
S6 E79: In this episode, meet journalist Farah Stockman, journalist Mark Oppenheimer, and co-hosts of the This Is Ear Hustle podcast, Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods. Listen in as these authors share insights into their writing and audiobook recording processes: Farah Stockman on the role work plays in our sense of identity and belonging, Mark Oppenheimer on how one of America's renowned Jewish neighborhoods responded in the wake of unspeakable tragedy, and Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods on creating a book about their Peabody- and Pulitzer-nominated podcast featuring currently and formerly incarcerated people, This Is Ear Hustle.
American Made by Farah Stockman: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/591675/american-made/
Squirrel Hill by Mark Oppenheimer: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/611023/squirrel-hill/
This Is Ear Hustle by Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/669134/this-is-ear-hustle/
S6 E78: In this episode, meet writer and speaker Danté Stewart, educator and influencer Blair Imani, and columnist and journalist Barrett Holmes Pitner. Listen in as these authors share what inspired them to write their books: Danté Stewart on reckoning with the legacy of white supremacy and reclaiming identity on a spiritual level, Blair Imani on how to become a more informed, compassionate, and socially conscious person, and Barrett Holmes Pitner on a new way to talk about racism in America. Plus, hear what it was like for these authors to record their audiobooks.
Shoutin' in the Fire by Danté Stewart: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/672938/shoutin-in-the-fire/
Read This To Get Smarter by Blair Imani: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/678819/read-this-to-get-smarter/
The Crime Without a Name by Barrett Holmes Pitner: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/707123/the-crime-without-a-name/
S6 E76: In this episode, meet professor of psychiatry Daniel J. Siegel, pastor David Marvin, and creator of the PBS show Faith and Justice, Reverend Jacqui Lewis. Managing anxiety in daily life is no easy feat, but it is possible. Tune in to hear Daniel Siegel talk about his workbook for reducing anxiety and cultivating mindfulness, David Marvin on how his experiences as a Christian youth pastor led him to address anxiety through his faith, and Dr. Jacqui Lewis on how “rule-breaking kindness” can heal our divisive culture and soothe the soul. Plus, get the inside scoop on these authors' experiences recording their audiobooks.
Becoming Aware by Dr. Daniel Siegel, M.D.: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/539769/becoming-aware/
We're All Freaking Out (and Why We Don't Need To)by David Marvin: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/669180/were-all-freaking-out-and-why-we-dont-need-to/
Fierce Love by Dr. Jacqui Lewis: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/671314/fierce-love/
S6 E77: In this episode, meet novelist Donald Antrim, actor, producer, and activist Alyssa Milano, and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and co-founder of The Byrds, Chris Hillman. In these behind-the-mic interviews, hear Donald Antrim talk candidly about his deeply personal memoir, Alyssa Milano share how activism has impacted her life and career, and Chris Hillman on the story behind the music---not only his insights into his time with the seminal band The Byrds, but beyond. Plus, hear what it was like for each of these authors to record their audiobooks.
One Friday in April by Donald Antrim: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/696434/one-friday-in-april/
Sorry Not Sorry by Alyssa Milano: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/647098/sorry-not-sorry/
Time Between by Chris Hillman: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/697081/time-between/
S6 E74: In this episode, meet chef and owner of Milk Bar Christina Tosi, meteorologist and TODAY co-anchor Dylan Dreyer, and former competitive ice dancer Karina Manta. Join them in the recording studio and listen in to discover what inspired each of them to write their books and what they each hope young (and old) listeners will take away from their stories.
Every Cake Has a Story by Christina Tosi: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/625376/every-cake-has-a-story/
Misty the Cloud: A Very Stormy Day by Dylan Dreyer: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/639407/misty-the-cloud-a-very-stormy-day/
On Top of Glass by Karina Manta: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/659446/on-top-of-glass/
S6 E75: In this episode, meet bestselling author, actress, comedian and producer Phoebe Robinson, one of Silicon Valley’s youngest entrepreneurs Michael Sayman, and mountaineer and adventurer Rick Ridgeway. Taking inspiration from their life and experiences, each of these authors created their audiobooks. Step behind the mic with them to find out what they were inspired by and why they’re excited to share their stories with listeners.
Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes by Phoebe Robinson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/671268/please-dont-sit-on-my-bed-in-your-outside-clothes/
App Kid by Michael Sayman: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/604673/app-kid/
Life Lived Wild by Rick Ridgeway: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/705569/life-lived-wild/
S6 E73: In this episode, meet pastor and cultural thought leader Erwin Raphael McManus, nun and activist Joan Chittister, and celebrated Christian writer Philip Yancey. Hear how Erwin Raphael McManus’ lifelong study of Jesus as well as the concept of “genius” inspired him to write his book, how Sister Joan Chittister wanted to rouse a dialogue and sense of contemplation in her readers and listeners with her work; and how Philip Yancey hopes his story is for everyone, wherever they may be on the religious spectrum.
The Genius of Jesus by Erwin Raphael McManus: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/623589/the-genius-of-jesus/
The Monastic Heart by Joan Chittister: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/672009/the-monastic-heart/
Where the Light Fell by Philip Yancey: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/665644/where-the-light-fell/
S6 E72: In this episode, meet writer and director Hazel Hayes, writer and historian Rebecca Solnit, and marriage and family therapist Katherine Woodward Thomas. These authors have each written books about love---albeit very different kinds. Hear Hazel Hayes on how she came to write a love story in reverse, Rebecca Solnit on discovering George Orwell's little-known passion for roses, and Katherine Woodward Thomas on overcoming pain (and well-worn patterns) to bring greater love into our lives.
Out of Love by Hazel Hayes: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/669217/out-of-love/
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/607057/orwells-roses/
Calling in "The One" Revised and Expanded by Katherine Woodward Thomas: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/647144/calling-in-the-one-revised-and-expanded/
S6 E71: In this episode, meet journalist Ali Nolan, journalist Josiah Hesse, and comedian Emily Winter. Listen in as Ali Nolan describes what inspired her to write a marathon training guide for women, Josiah Hesse on how cannabis edibles improved his running routine, and Emily Winter on how to bring more joy into your life by embracing the wonderful world of trivia and little-known facts.
Master the Marathon by Ali Nolan: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/625225/master-the-marathon/
Runner's High by Josiah Hesse: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/653009/runners-high/
One Day Smarter by Emily Winter: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/667228/one-day-smarter/
S6 E70: In this episode, meet leadership coach Carey Nieuwhof, executive director of the Stanford d.school Sarah Stein Greenberg, and entrepreneur Mike Michalowicz. Each of these authors bring formidable experience to the subjects of work, leadership, and innovative thinking. Hear Carey Nieuwhof address the prevalence of burnout and what to do about it, Sarah Stein Greenberg on using creativity to solve problems, and Mike Michalowicz on marketing your business in ways that can't be ignored.
At Your Best by Carey Nieuwhof: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/565670/at-your-best/
Creative Acts for Curious People by Sarah Stein Greenberg and Stanford d.school: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/623528/creative-acts-for-curious-people/
Get Different by Mike Michalowicz: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/670011/get-different/
S6 E69: In this episode, meet sex advice columnist Dan Savage, designer and artist Adam Kurtz, and owner of Gallows Hill Witchery Sandra Mariah Wright. From questions of sex and love to personal transformation and the joys of discovering the magical energy around you, these authors share a world of insights with listeners. Plus, hear what it was like for each of them to record their audiobook.
Savage Love from A to Z by Dan Savage: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/704490/savage-love-from-a-to-z/
You Are Here (For Now) by Adam J. Kurtz: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/648095/you-are-here-for-now/
Lighting the Wick by Sandra Mariah Wright and Leanne Marrama: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/673092/lighting-the-wick/
S6 E68: In this episode, meet civil rights and education litigator Qian Julie Wang, criminal defense lawyer Jarrett Adams, and former chair and CEO of PepsiCo Indra Nooyi. Each of these authors decided to share their personal stories and histories in the hopes of helping people learn, grow, and, ultimately, build a better world. Listen in as they talk about recording their audiobooks.
Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/670389/beautiful-country/
Redeeming Justice by Jarrett Adams: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/624157/redeeming-justice/
My Life in Full by Indra Nooyi: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/646640/my-life-in-full/
S6 E67: In this episode, meet poets Robin Coste Lewis, Phillip B. Williams, and Elisabet Velasquez. Step into the recording booth and learn how these authors’ books of poetry and a novel-in-verse came to be. Plus, hear what each writer learned about themselves during the recording process.
Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste Lewis: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/250774/voyage-of-the-sable-venus/
Mutiny by Phillip B. Williams: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/688039/mutiny/
When We Make It by Elisabet Velasquez: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/665231/when-we-make-it/
S6 E66: In this episode, meet actress Elisa Donovan, columnist and writing teacher Rick Bragg, and writer, director, and producer Nick Davis. Step into the studio and hear Elisa Donovan on how dreams can lead us out of despair, Rick Bragg on how his life was transformed by a poorly behaved stray dog, and Nick Davis on writing a dual biography of the most famous brothers from Hollywood's Golden Age—who happen to be his grandfather and great uncle. Plus, insights fresh from the recording booth.
Wake Me When You Leave by Elisa Donovan: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/706465/wake-me-when-you-leave/
The Speckled Beauty by Rick Bragg: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/624886/the-speckled-beauty/
Competing with Idiots by Nick Davis: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/37845/competing-with-idiots/
S6 E65: In this episode, meet journalist Elisa Boxer, life coach Andrea Owen, and “Anxiety Sisters” Abbe Greenberg and Maggie Sarachek. Listen in as Elisa Boxer shares what inspired her to write a children’s picture book biography of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Andrea Owen on busting out of rigid societal expectations, and the Anxiety Sisters on how to press pause on the endless spin cycle in your head. Plus, learn what it was like for these authors to record their audiobooks.
A Seat at the Table by Elisa Boxer: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/667383/a-seat-at-the-table/
Make Some Noise by Andrea Owen: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/653556/make-some-noise/
The Anxiety Sisters' Survival Guide by Abbe Greenberg and Maggie Sarachek: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/665294/the-anxiety-sisters-survival-guide/
S6 E63: In this episode, meet Editor-in-Chief of Highlights Magazine Christine French Cully, founder of PrepMatters Ned Johnson, and disability activist, podcast host, and public speaker Emily Ladau. Hear Christine French Cully reflect on the ways Highlights has brought joy and comfort to children (for 75 years and counting!), Ned Johnson on language parents can use to promote motivation and stress tolerance in teens, and Emily Ladau on making the disability experience accessible to everyone. Plus, learn what it was like for these authors to record their audiobooks.
Dear Highlights by Christine French Cully: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/704307/dear-highlights/
What Do You Say? by William Stixrud, PhD and Ned Johnson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/624704/what-do-you-say/
Demystifying Disability by Emily Ladau: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/646508/demystifying-disability/
S6 E64: In this episode, meet national security reporter Spencer Ackerman, journalist Carla Power, and investment banker and professor Jonathan Knee. Go behind the mic to hear what is was like for these seasoned writers to record their latest books on audio: Spencer Ackerman on what engaging in endless war has done to America, Carla Power on the controversial field of deradicalization, and Jonathan Knee on what really makes the biggest tech companies tick. Plus, find out who described recording their audiobook as “a fun marathon.”
Reign of Terror by Spencer Ackerman: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/622555/reign-of-terror/
Home, Land, Security by Carla Power: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/567533/home-land-security/
The Platform Delusion by Jonathan A. Knee: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/627388/the-platform-delusion/
S6 E62: In this episode, meet columnist Leigh Montville, journalist Dan Koeppel, and psychiatrist Anna Lembke. Hear Leigh Montville on discovering the joys of audiobooks, Dan Koeppel on collaborating with his cousin and emergency room doctor Robert Meyer, and Anna Lembke on the influence of her patients on her writing.
Tall Men, Short Shorts by Leigh Montville: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/608688/tall-men-short-shorts/
Every Minute Is a Day by Robert Meyer, MD and Dan Koeppel: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/667252/every-minute-is-a-day/
Dopamine Nation by Dr. Anna Lembke: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/624957/dopamine-nation/
S6 E61: In this episode, meet Time magazine senior writer Jeffrey Kluger, author and creative writing teacher Carolina de Robertis, and poet Sharon Olds. These writers have looked to both outward events and inward creativity to find ideas and inspiration for their work. Tune in to hear Jeffrey Kluger on bringing his novel to fruition from its premise, Carolina de Robertis on drawing inspiration from the life of Uruguayan president José Mujica, and Sharon Olds on writing poetry from personal experience.
Holdout by Jeffrey Kluger: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/669742/holdout/
The President and the Frog by Carolina De Robertis: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/665291/the-president-and-the-frog/
Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/219372/stags-leap/
S6 E60: In this episode, meet science journalist and author Melinda Wenner Moyer, sleep researcher and neurologist William Chris Winter, and children’s and YA author Cammie McGovern. Listen to Melinda Wenner Moyer talk about drawing inspiration from science to inform parenting, hear William Chris Winter draw out the nuances of children’s sleep issues, and listen to Cammie McGovern reflect on the experience of getting behind the mic and reading her book aloud.
How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes by Melinda Wenner Moyer: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/618206/how-to-raise-kids-who-arent-assholes/
The Rested Child by W. Chris Winter, M.D.: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/667926/the-rested-child/
Hard Landings by Cammie McGovern: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/595001/hard-landings/
S6 E59: In this episode, meet author and photojournalist Deborah Copaken, writer and activist Rebecca Walker, and American Ballet Theatre principal dancer James Whiteside. In their audiobooks, these authors muse powerfully upon struggles with identity and offer perspectives on their unique experiences. Listen to Deborah Copaken on breaking down barriers of women in workplace settings, Rebecca Walker on childhood and belonging, and James Whiteside on inspiration from Roald Dahl.
Ladyparts by Deborah Copaken: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/608181/ladyparts/
Baby Love by Rebecca Walker: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/294422/baby-love/
Center, Center by James Whiteside: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/670038/center-center/
S6 E57: In this special episode of This Is the Author In Conversation, meet bestselling author Robin Cook, author of Viral, in conversation with the audiobook narrator Scott Brick and audiobook director Richard Brewer.
Viral by Robin Cook, read by Scott Brick: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/author/5610/robin-cook/
S6 E58: In this episode, meet entrepreneur and career coach Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin, organizer and writer Daniel Sherrell, and Washington Post reporter Lizzie Johnson. Bringing years of insight from their respective careers, these authors speak candidly about their experiences and learnings. Hear Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin on the intersection of womanhood, power structures, and inner revolutions, Daniel Sherrell on balancing hope and despair in confronting the climate change crisis, and Lizzie Johnson on the intensity of covering California’s wildfires.
Becoming Heroines by Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/622818/becoming-heroines/
Warmth by Daniel Sherrell: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/670357/warmth/
Paradise by Lizzie Johnson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/617250/paradise/
S6 E56: In this episode, meet author and podcast host Doree Shafrir, educational leader Tracy Swinton Bailey, and former Marine fighter pilot and political candidate Amy McGrath. Tune in to hear Doree Shafrir discuss the joys and occasional weirdness of being a late bloomer, Tracy Swinton Bailey reflect upon equity and inclusion in education, and Amy McGrath share thoughts on the complexities of military service and politics.
Thanks for Waiting by Doree Shafrir: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/616953/thanks-for-waiting/
Forever Free by Tracy Swinton Bailey: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/688413/forever-free/
Honor Bound by Amy McGrath and Chris Peterson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/634635/honor-bound/
S6 E55: In this special episode of This Is the Author In Conversation, meet rising country star Jimmie Allen, author of My Voice Is a Trumpet, in conversation with Mary Beth Adair – who is both the narrator of his audiobook, and his former kindergarten teacher! Tune in to this celebration of the many types of voices that can make change. Plus, hear Jimmie and Mary Beth talk about the power of confidence and believing in goodness.
My Voice Is a Trumpet by Jimmie Allen: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/671318/my-voice-is-a-trumpet/
S6 E54: In this episode, meet poet Adrian Matejka, artist Pik-Shuen Fung, and writer David Searcy. If you love poignant stories that are told straight from the heart, tune in to listen to these writers discuss the inspirations behind their work. Hear Adrian Matejka on the power of music in the pandemic, Pik-Shuen Fung on grief and art, and David Searcy on his experiences recording his audiobook.
Somebody Else Sold the World by Adrian Matejka: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/670033/somebody-else-sold-the-world/
Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/665652/ghost-forest/
The Tiny Bee That Hovers at the Center of the World by David Searcy: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/623052/the-tiny-bee-that-hovers-at-the-center-of-the-world/
S6 E53: In this episode, meet former CIA spy Christina Hillsberg, Stanford University Professor of Psychiatry Karl Deisseroth, and Brennan Center Fellows Director Theodore R. Johnson. Weaving personal stories with academic and professional theories, these authors share decades of insights into human minds and relationships. Hear Christina Hillsberg on parenting from a place of strength, Karl Deisseroth on personal rhythms and the power of words, and Theodore R. Johnson on his favorite ways of engaging with books.
License to Parent by Christina Hillsberg and Ryan Hillsberg: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/653007/license-to-parent/
Projections by Karl Deisseroth: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/600209/projections/
When the Stars Begin to Fall by Theodore R. Johnson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/691346/when-the-stars-begin-to-fall/
S6 E52: In this special episode, meet author, journalist, and screenwriter Grady Hendrix. If you’re a horror movie fan and you’ve ever thought about what happens to the last characters standing when the credits roll, tune into this episode to hear Grady share the inspiration for his new thriller, The Final Girl Support Group. Plus, hear the story behind how Adrienne King – star of the classic horror film Friday the 13th – came to narrate The Final Girl Support Group audiobook.
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/658406/the-final-girl-support-group/
S6 E51: In this episode, meet journalist and television presenter Rachel Johnson, former New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, and New York Times bestselling author Kelly Williams Brown. These authors have written powerful stories straight from the heart, bringing years of experience and insight to listeners. Hear Rachel Johnson on turning political failure into learnings, Bill Bratton on the complex history of law enforcement, and Kelly Williams Brown on mental illness and making things.
Rake's Progress by Rachel Johnson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/653896/rakes-progress/
The Profession by Bill Bratton and Peter Knobler: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/566242/the-profession/
Easy Crafts for the Insane by Kelly Williams Brown:https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/624688/easy-crafts-for-the-insane/
S6 E49: In this episode, meet children’s author Melissa Wiley. Hear Melissa talk with her audio director, Christina Rooney, about the inspiration behind her stories and her experiences as a homeschool mom. Plus, discover the joys of reading aloud together with Melissa’s favorite family audiobooks and her recommended summer listens for kids.
The Nerviest Girl in the World by Melissa Wiley: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/214333/the-nerviest-girl-in-the-world/
S6 E50: In this episode, meet author Akwaeke Emezi, entrepreneur Poppy Jamie, and meditation teacher Susan Piver. These authors are thinking about some of the biggest questions in life, from identity to relationships. Tune in to hear Akwaeke Emezi on the experience of recording autobiographical stories, Poppy Jamie on the power of thought flexibility, and Susan Piver on the biggest questions about marriage.
Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/656282/dear-senthuran/
Happy Not Perfect by Poppy Jamie: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/652047/happy-not-perfect/
The Hard Questions by Susan Piver: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/293017/the-hard-questions/
S6 E48: In this episode, meet businessman and diplomat Matthew Barzun, co-host of Pod Save the World Ben Rhodes, and reporter and MLB analyst Andy Martino. Step into the recording booth and find out why it was important to these authors to write their books—as well as narrate them.
The Power of Giving Away Power by Matthew Barzun: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/602163/the-power-of-giving-away-power/
After the Fall by Ben Rhodes: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/609428/after-the-fall/
Cheated by Andy Martino: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/658290/cheated/
S6 E47: In this episode of This Is the Author, we welcome listeners to a special conversation between author Cameron Lund and narrator Rachel L. Jacobs about the Young Adult audiobook, Heartbreakers and Fakers. Listen along as Cameron and Rachel dive into the writing process and explore the inspiration behind the story. Enjoy this intimate behind-the-mic chat!
Heartbreakers and Fakers by Cameron Lund; read by Rachel L. Jacobs and Cameron Lund: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/611603/heartbreakers-and-fakers/
S6 E46: In this episode, meet educator, RN, and poet Joyce Scott, DACA Dreamer and teacher Areli Morales, and author and illustrator Vanessa Brantley-Newton. Listen in as each of these authors describe the inspiration behind their children’s books and why it’s important to share stories to inspire and engage all children.
Unbound: The Life and Art of Judith Scott by Joyce Scott, Brie Spangler and Melissa Sweet: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/588891/unbound-the-life-and-art-of-judith-scott/
Areli Is a Dreamer by Areli Morales: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/605958/areli-is-a-dreamer/
Becoming Vanessa by Vanessa Brantley-Newton: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/574524/becoming-vanessa/
S6 E44: In this episode, meet actor and activist Chella Man, author and musician Joseph Bruchac, and artist and author Tyler Feder. Tune in to hear these authors talk about writing for kids and teens and the importance of visibility, body positivity, and how we can better learn to care for both ourselves and others within a community.
Continuum by Chella Man: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/639768/continuum/
Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/669818/rez-dogs/
Bodies Are Cool by Tyler Feder: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/647974/bodies-are-cool/
S6 E45: In this episode, meet writer, performer, and educator Leona Godin, TV writer and podcast host Danielle Henderson, and Abner Ramirez and Amanda Sudano Ramirez, the husband and wife duo behind the band Johnnyswim. Discover why each author decided to write about personal subjects and what it was like recording them.
There Plant Eyes by M. Leona Godin: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/611683/there-plant-eyes/
The Ugly Cry by Danielle Henderson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/573439/the-ugly-cry/
Home Sweet Road by Johnnyswim: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/654088/home-sweet-road/
S6 E43: In this episode, meet author Steven Rowley, poet Amit Majmudar, and author A.S. King. Listen in to learn what it was like for these authors to bring the characters and rhythms of their books to life, and how "the voices in their heads" translated into their narrative styles. Plus, behind-the-scenes insights, delightful mispronunciations, and from-the-heart audiobook recommendations.
The Guncle by Steven Rowley: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/608011/the-guncle/
What He Did in Solitary by Amit Majmudar: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/607733/what-he-did-in-solitary/
Switch by A.S. King: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/588594/switch/
S6 E42: In this episode, meet biologist Jonathan Balcombe, author and PBS host Steven Johnson, and journalist Michael Easter. This is an episode for curious minds: discover the essential role flies (yes, flies) play in our ecosystem, the reasons behind why we're living longer, and how to leverage the power of discomfort to improve health and happiness. Plus, hear what it was like for these inquisitive authors to record their audiobooks.
Super Fly by Jonathan Balcombe: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/606176/super-fly/
Extra Life by Steven Johnson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/594501/extra-life/
The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/634446/the-comfort-crisis/
S6 E41: In this episode, meet New York Times bestselling author John Green, New York Times best-selling biographer Ronald C. White, and veteran journalist and author Daniel Barbarisi. Listen in to discover what it was like for these authors to voice their work out loud (even when that means capturing President Lincoln's unique vocal cadence). Plus, get the delightfully detailed low-down on one very cozy home recording space.
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/672554/the-anthropocene-reviewed/
Lincoln in Private by Ronald C. White: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/606646/lincoln-in-private/
Chasing the Thrill by Daniel Barbarisi: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/604063/chasing-the-thrill/
S6 E40: In this episode, meet Cindy McCain, wife of the late Senator John McCain, activist and recording artist Sho Baraka, and NBA Champion, All-Star, and Olympian Chris Bosh. Listen in as these authors talk intimately about the intersection between our gifts and life's obstacles, and the transformative experiences that can arise from being in touch with both. Plus, hear what it was like for each of them to record their audiobooks.
Stronger by Cindy McCain: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/639376/stronger/
He Saw That It Was Good by Sho Baraka: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/635730/he-saw-that-it-was-good/
Letters to a Young Athlete by Chris Bosh: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/639508/letters-to-a-young-athlete/
S6 E39: In this episode, meet pastor John Stange, author Sarah J. Robinson, and author Jon M. Sweeney. Each of these authors have written books inspired by the relationship between faith and practice, especially during hard times. Listen in to hear their reflections on writing, and on recording their audiobooks.
Dwell on These Things by John Stange: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/645424/dwell-on-these-things/
I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die by Sarah J. Robinson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/652815/i-love-jesus-but-i-want-to-die/
Thomas Merton by Jon M. Sweeney: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/688165/thomas-merton/
S6 E38: In this episode, meet investigative journalist Carol Leonnig, Know Your Endo founder Jessica Murnane, and op-ed editor Sohrab Ahmari. Listen in as each of these authors examines what it means to get the story behind the story, whether that's investigating the secret service, navigating your health, or exploring how tradition can connect with the modern world. Plus, hear what they learned while recording their audiobooks.
Zero Fail by Carol Leonnig: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/543941/zero-fail/
Know Your Endo by Jessica Murnane: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/634988/know-your-endo/
The Unbroken Thread by Sohrab Ahmari: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/623405/the-unbroken-thread/
S6 E37: In this episode, meet poet Alessandra Narváez Varela, performer Laura Hankin, and poet Ishle Yi Park. Listen in as these three authors describe their new novels and what inspired them - whether that be rethinking how we talk about mental health, classic love stories, or infiltrating secret clubs. Plus, hear them share what it was like to record their audiobooks.
Thirty Talks Weird Love by Alessandra Narváez Varela: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/690144/thirty-talks-weird-love/
A Special Place for Women by Laura Hankin: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/608156/a-special-place-for-women/
Angel & Hannah by Ishle Yi Park:https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/625423/angel-and-hannah/
S6 E36: In this episode, meet actress and producer Julianna Margulies, forest ecologist Suzanne Simard, and speaker Ian Manuel. Listen in as each of these authors describe what inspired them to write their books, and get their behind-the-mic, off-the-cuff impressions of what it was like to record their audiobooks.
Sunshine Girl by Julianna Margulies: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/572574/sunshine-girl/
Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard:https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/602589/finding-the-mother-tree/
My Time Will Come by Ian Manuel: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/610493/my-time-will-come/
S6 E34: In this episode, meet authors Gregory Curtis, Lorenzo Carcaterra, and Sarah Sentilles. Each of these writers have written powerful memoirs that recount their experiences of love and loss. To hear these authors read their audiobooks is to be drawn into the intimacy of their experiences, and also struck by the universality of grief. Listen in to hear what it was like for them to write their stories and read their audiobooks.
Paris Without Her by Gregory Curtis: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/612386/paris-without-her/
Three Dreamers by Lorenzo Carcaterra: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/616934/three-dreamers/
Stranger Care by Sarah Sentilles: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/652778/stranger-care/
S6 E35: In this episode, meet Hedley & Bennett founder Ellen Marie Bennett, bestselling author Greg McKeown, and award-winning Wharton Professor Katy Milkman. If you're an overthinker, in danger of burnout at work, or in need of a change (a real one!), tune in to this episode for an instant refresh. You'll learn what inspired these authors to write their books, and how their work can in turn inspire you. Plus, behind-the-scenes insights from the audio booth.
Dream First, Details Later by Ellen Bennett: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/607064/dream-first-details-later/
Effortless by Greg McKeown: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/612206/effortless/
How to Change by Katy Milkman: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/607813/how-to-change/
S6 E33: In this episode, meet poet and artist Tyler Knott Gregson, Internet superstar Jeffrey Marsh, and James Beard Award-winning chef Rodney Scott. Summer is about to begin, and it's time for fresh and feel-good listens. Hear poet Tyler Knott Gregson on the importance of light after a dark year, Jeffrey Marsh on his audio workbook for self-esteem, and chef and BBQ king Rodney Scott on the best BBQ tips---and most importantly, staying true to your dreams.
Illumination by Tyler Knott Gregson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/580493/illumination/
How to Be You by Jeffrey Marsh: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/536846/how-to-be-you/
Rodney Scott's World of BBQ by Rodney Scott and Lolis Eric Elie: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/659523/rodney-scotts-world-of-bbq/
S6 E32: In this episode, meet Acorns CEO Jennifer Barrett, Bulletin co-founder Ali Kriegsman, and career consultant Steve Dalton. Whether your goal is financial independence, closing on a job interview, or starting your own business (or empire) from scratch, you'll want to hear from these career pros-turned-authors. Plus, find out what it was like for them to get behind the mic in the audiobook studio.
Think Like a Breadwinner by Jennifer Barrett: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/653657/think-like-a-breadwinner/
How to Build a Goddamn Empire by Ali Kriegsman: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/670004/how-to-build-a-goddamn-empire/
The Job Closer by Steve Dalton: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/608727/the-job-closer/
S6 E31: In this episode, meet life coach and speaker Martha Beck and writer and editor Gina Hamadey. These two authors share a desire to help listeners discover happiness. Now, listen in as they talk about their audiobooks and their recording experience.
The Way of Integrity by Martha Beck: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/636189/the-way-of-integrity/
I Want to Thank You by Gina Hamadey: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/634179/i-want-to-thank-you/
S6 E30: In this episode, meet writer and investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, actor and writer Mira Sethi, and musician Michelle Zauner. Whether it’s an explosive investigation, a lyrical collection of short stories, or a deeply personal exploration of grief, each of these authors stepped behind the mic to share their work. Hear what the experience was like for each of them.
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/612861/empire-of-pain/
Are You Enjoying? by Mira Sethi: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/554939/are-you-enjoying/
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/612676/crying-in-h-mart/
S6 E29: In this episode, meet Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegria Hudes, Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile, and the first Asian-American woman to serve in the U.S. Senate, Senator Mazie Hirono. Listen in as these authors describe how—and why—they were each inspired to share their remarkable life stories.
In the Heights by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes and Jeremy McCarter: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/646567/in-the-heights/
Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/646571/broken-horses/
Heart of Fire by Mazie K. Hirono: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/636264/heart-of-fire/
S6 E28: In this episode, meet writer Cookie Hiponia Everman, actress Ali Stroker, and comedy writer and actor Rachel Wenitsky. Discover how each of these childrens' book authors uniquely experienced what it was like to bring their written words to life in the recording booth.
We Belong by Cookie Hiponia Everman: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/645848/we-belong/
The Chance to Fly by Ali Stroker and Stacy Davidowitz: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/679041/the-chance-to-fly/
Good Dogs on a Bad Day by Rachel Wenitsky and David Sidorov: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/622066/good-dogs-on-a-bad-day/
S6 E26: In this episode, meet co-authors Mike O'Toole and Hugh Kennedy, film critic David Thomson, and journalist Brian Castner. Whether you are a business buff looking for a jolt of inspiration, a film buff seeking behind-the-screen secrets, or a history buff questing after untold stories, you'll want to hear more about each of these author's new audiobooks. Plus, get the inside scoop on what it was like for them to record their work.
The Unconventionals by Mike O'Toole and Hugh Kennedy: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/675613/the-unconventionals/
A Light in the Dark by David Thomson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/653769/a-light-in-the-dark/
Stampede by Brian Castner: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/598588/stampede/
S6 E27: In this episode, meet the founder of Vibrant Blue Oils Jodi Cohen, coauthors Marc and Angel Chernoff, and writer and tech researcher Ximena Vengoechea. Healthy bodies, healthy minds, and healthy relationships: what better way to start the spring season? Listen in as each of these authors talk about what inspired them to write their books. Plus, hear their stories from the audio recording booth.
Essential Oils to Boost the Brain and Heal the Body by Jodi Cohen: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/634410/essential-oils-to-boost-the-brain-and-heal-the-body/
1000+ Little Habits of Happy, Successful Relationships by Marc Chernoff and Angel Chernoff: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/653243/1000-little-habits-of-happy-successful-relationships/
Listen Like You Mean It by Ximena Vengoechea: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/618199/listen-like-you-mean-it/
S6 E24: In this episode, meet writer and musician Jonathan Meiburg, professor of Sustainability Science Dr. Kimberly Nicholas, and professor of Journalism Dr. Sonora Jha. Listen in as each of these authors shares the inspiration behind their books, whether that be a connection found with a remarkable bird of prey, bringing "climate change feels" into everyday conversations, or empowering feminist parents to raise feminist sons. Plus, hear what it was like for these authors to record their audiobooks.
A Most Remarkable Creature by Jonathan Meiburg: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/251787/a-most-remarkable-creature/
Under the Sky We Make by Kimberly Nicholas PhD: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/665274/under-the-sky-we-make/
How to Raise a Feminist Son by Sonora Jha: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/667023/how-to-raise-a-feminist-son/
S6 E25: In this episode, meet author, historian, and journalist James Carroll, journalist Grace Olmstead, and neuroscientist and author Lisa Genova. A powerful memoir by a former priest and National Book Award–winning writer. An intimate reflection on America's agricultural heartland and the consequences of "uprooting." A neuroscientist's exploration of how we remember...and why we forget. Step into the studio with each of these authors and hear what inspired them to write their books, and what it was like for them to read their audiobooks.
The Truth at the Heart of the Lie by James Carroll: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/635408/the-truth-at-the-heart-of-the-lie/
Uprooted by Grace Olmstead: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/608726/uprooted/
Remember by Lisa Genova: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/624480/remember/
S6 E23: In this special episode of This Is the Author, we’re celebrating National Library Week by asking authors to share some of their favorite library memories. Listen to Jen Sincero, Ethan Kross, Safia Elhillo, Misty Copeland, Ethan Hawke, Jasmine Mans, Mari Andrew, and Seth Godin express the remarkable opportunities that both libraries and librarians provide to individual development and the community as a whole.
S6 E22: In this episode meet actress and singer Hilary Duff, human rights lawyer Qasim Rashid, and author and comedian Carrie Seim. Discover the special reason each author had for writing their stories—and why sharing them with children and families is so meaningful. Plus, hear what it was like for them to record their audiobooks.
My Little Brave Girl by Hilary Duff: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/646083/my-little-brave-girl/
Hannah and the Ramadan Gift by Qasim Rashid: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/611008/hannah-and-the-ramadan-gift/
Horse Girl by Carrie Seim: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/612443/horse-girl/
S6 E21: In this episode, meet Billboard’s VP of Latin Music Leila Cobo, poet, journalist, and writer Roya Hakakian, and sports journalist Julie DiCaro. You’ll hear how sharing diverse perspectives and experiences can create meaningful—and needed—conversations. Plus, find out what it was like for each author to record their audiobook.
Decoding "Despacito" by Leila Cobo: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/624797/decoding-despacito/
A Beginner's Guide to America by Roya Hakakian: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/602379/a-beginners-guide-to-america/
Sidelined by Julie DiCaro: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/622529/sidelined/
S6 E20: In this episode, meet therapist and relationship expert Nedra Glover Tawwab, bestselling author and podcaster Jen Hatmaker, and educator and entrepreneur Ellen Petry Leanse. These women all share a similar drive—to help listeners create more happiness in their lives. Listen to them talk about writing their books and, then, recording the audiobooks.
Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawwab: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/647316/set-boundaries-find-peace/
Simple and Free by Jen Hatmaker: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/636387/simple-and-free/
The Happiness Hack by Ellen Petry Leanse: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/675591/the-happiness-hack/
S6 E19: In this episode meet founder and CEO of The Life Giving Company Tyler Reagin, professor of management David Weitzner, and business storytelling coach Paul Smith. Learn how these authors realized that they wanted to share stories that could help listeners in their own work, and what the audio recording studio was like.
Leading Things You Didn't Start by Tyler Reagin: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/609884/leading-things-you-didnt-start/
Connected Capitalism by David Weitzner: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/676580/connected-capitalism/
The 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell by Paul Smith: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/689885/the-10-stories-great-leaders-tell/
S6 E18: In this episode, meet magazine editor, on-air lifestyle expert, and certified trainer Meaghan B Murphy, Emmy Award-winning television producer Miguel Sancho, and pastor and blogger Kurt Willems. Discover what drove each of these authors to share their personal experiences with readers and listeners and why it was important for them to record their audiobooks.
Your Fully Charged Life by Meaghan B Murphy: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/624337/your-fully-charged-life/
More Than You Can Handle by Miguel Sancho: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/611475/more-than-you-can-handle/
Echoing Hope by Kurt Willems: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/652046/echoing-hope/
S6 E17: In this episode, meet author, speaker, and digital strategist Luvvie Ajayi Jones, actress, singer, and film producer Priyanka Chopra-Jonas, and writer, performer, and magician Derek DelGaudio. Go behind the mic with each of these dynamic authors and discover what inspired their books, and what it was like for them to record their audiobooks.
Professional Troublemaker by Luvvie Ajayi Jones: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/645702/professional-troublemaker/
Unfinished by Priyanka Chopra Jonas: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/600725/unfinished/
AMORALMAN by Derek DelGaudio: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/624082/amoralman/
S6 E16: In this episode, meet educational psychologist Dr. Michele Borba, political sociology specialist Dr. Janice Johnson Dias, and psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. Judson Brewer. Listen in as these authors talk about childhood development, parenting, and unwinding anxiety for all ages. Plus, hear what it was like for each of them to record their audiobooks.
Thrivers by Michele Borba, Ed. D.: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/616999/thrivers/
Parent Like It Matters by Janice Johnson Dias, PhD: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/604095/parent-like-it-matters/
Unwinding Anxiety by Judson Brewer MD, PhD: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/669748/unwinding-anxiety/
S6 E15: In this episode, meet poet Safia Elhillo, New York Times bestselling author Anne Lamott, and poet and artist Jasmine Mans. Listen in as these remarkable wordsmiths talk about the creative process of both writing their books and reading their audiobooks. Plus, hear their insights into the unique intimacy of voice recording.
Home Is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/625716/home-is-not-a-country/
Dusk, Night, Dawn by Anne Lamott: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/634388/dusk-night-dawn/
Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/624673/black-girl-call-home/
S6 E14: In this episode, meet singer-songwriter Christy Nockels, New York Times bestselling author Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, and economic and social policy expert Heather McGhee. Listen in as these authors share the on-the-ground experiences and insights that led them to write their books, and what it was like for them to record their audiobooks.
The Life You Long For by Christy Nockels: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/623751/the-life-you-long-for/
The Daughters of Kobani by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/591561/the-daughters-of-kobani/
The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/564989/the-sum-of-us/
S6 Ep13: In this episode, meet professor and sleep researcher Dr. Sara Mednick, journalist and writer Tracy Clark-Flory, and functional-medicine practitioner Dr. Will Cole. Learn how taking the right nap at the right time can change your life, journey into the heart of desire, and discover how healthy fasting can become an intuitive pleasure (and not a dietary punishment). Plus, go behind the mic to hear what it was like for each of these authors to record their audiobooks.
Take a Nap! Change Your Life by Sara Mednick: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/672936/take-a-nap-change-your-life/
Want Me by Tracy Clark-Flory: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/611490/want-me/
Intuitive Fasting by Dr. Will Cole: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/654210/intuitive-fasting/
S6 E12: In this episode, meet pastor Daniel Fusco, relationship experts Carole Robin and David Bradford, and speaker and member of the TODAY Show parenting team Michelle Icard. Go behind the mic to discover what makes each of these authors tick, and the life experiences that have led them to write books on faith, parenting, and the art of building connections both personally and professionally.
Crazy Happy by Daniel Fusco: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/624574/crazy-happy/
Connect by David Bradford, PhD and Carole Robin, PhD: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/645809/connect/
Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen by Michelle Icard: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/623740/fourteen-talks-by-age-fourteen/
S6 E11: In this episode, meet science writer Tessa Miller, former NFL center Jason Brown, and Emmy Award-winning writer Suleika Jaouad. Whether it's living with chronic illness, finding a spiritual center, or navigating the rocky terrain between "sickness" and "health," each of these authors has written a memoir about moving through tough places. Go behind the mic to hear what it was like for them to read their audiobooks, and what surprised them most about the recording process.
What Doesn't Kill You by Tessa Miller: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/672335/what-doesnt-kill-you/
Centered by Jason Brown with Paul Asay: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/646244/centered/
Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/540210/between-two-kingdoms/
S6 E10: In this episode, meet Adib Khorram, Tess Sharpe, and Benjamin Dreyer. Go behind the mic to learn what it was like to record a picture book celebrating the Persian New Year, a YA thriller about a con artist's daughter, and a young readers' adaptation of a certain radical grammatical guide. There’s so much to learn and enjoy in this episode. Join us!
Seven Special Somethings: A Nowruz Story by Adib Khorram: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/621983/seven-special-somethings-a-nowruz-story/
The Girls I've Been by Tess Sharpe: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/671421/the-girls-ive-been/
Dreyer's English (Adapted for Young Readers) by Benjamin Dreyer: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/625381/dreyers-english-adapted-for-young-readers/
S6 E9: In this episode, meet writer and translator Randa Jarrar, acclaimed actor, writer, and director Ethan Hawke, and comedian and actress Catherine Cohen. Enter the studio and listen in as each of these authors—a memoirist, a novelist, and a poet—shares what it was like to record their audiobooks.
Love Is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/675641/love-is-an-ex-country/
A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan Hawke: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/235750/a-bright-ray-of-darkness/
God I Feel Modern Tonight by Catherine Cohen: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/659738/god-i-feel-modern-tonight/
S6 E8: In this episode, meet Olympic athlete and filmmaker Alexi Pappas, award-winning psychologist Ethan Kross, and owner of Crystal Peaks Youth Ranch, Kim Meeder. Go behind the mic with these authors to learn what inspired them to write and share their stories and ideas—and what it was like recording their audiobooks.
Bravey by Alexi Pappas: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/591673/bravey/
Chatter by Ethan Kross: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/575664/chatter/
Hope Rising by Kim Meeder: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/112881/hope-rising/
S6 E7: In this episode, meet economist Todd Buchholz, estate planning attorney Laura Meier, and bestselling author James Rickards. In each of these authors’ audiobooks they share their extensive knowledge about the economy and personal finances to guide listeners through sometimes daunting and complex systems. Now, go with these authors into the studio and hear what their experiences behind the mic was like.
New Ideas from Dead Economists by Todd G. Buchholz: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/300163/new-ideas-from-dead-economists/
The Family Nest Egg by Laura Meier: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/676066/the-family-nest-egg/
The New Great Depression by James Rickards: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/669009/the-new-great-depression/
S6 E6: In this episode, meet naturopathic medical doctor Alan Christianson, cognitive psychologist Therese Huston, and retired Navy SEAL commander Rich Diviney. Listen in to hear how each of these authors was inspired to write their books in order to help others—and then discover what it was like for them to be in the recording booth.
The Thyroid Reset Diet by Dr. Alan Christianson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/623125/the-thyroid-reset-diet/
Let's Talk by Therese Huston: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/612816/lets-talk/
The Attributes by Rich Diviney: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/623817/the-attributes/
S6 Ep 5: In this episode, meet world-renowned sommelier Aldo Sohm, co-founders of the beloved restaurant The Grey, Mashama Bailey and John O. Morisano, and blogger and farmer Caitlin Henderson. Go behind the mic as each of these authors shares stories of the role that food, wine, community, and family play in each of their lives - from founding beloved restaurants to chronicling life on a farm.
Wine Simple by Aldo Sohm: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/602485/wine-simple/
Black, White, and The Grey by Mashama Bailey and John O. Morisano: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/602192/black-white-and-the-grey/
Faith, Farming, and Family Caitlin Henderson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/612259/faith-farming-and-family/
S6 Ep 4: In this episode, meet writer and illustrator Mari Andrew, speaker and journalist Antonio Neves, and author and professor Emily Rapp Black. Go behind the mic with these authors and hear what inspired them to write their books, and the ins and outs of what it was like for them to narrate their own work.
Am I There Yet? by Mari Andrew: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/557582/am-i-there-yet/
Stop Living on Autopilot by Antonio Neves: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/622583/stop-living-on-autopilot/
Sanctuary by Emily Rapp Black: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/574505/sanctuary/
S6 Ep 2: In this episode, meet writer, poet, and educator Mahogany L. Browne, musician and author Andrew Peterson, and baseball player and former quarterback, Tim Tebow. Listen in as each of these authors talks about the experience of writing and recording their latest audiobooks for young listeners.
Chlorine Sky by Mahogany L. Browne: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/625333/chlorine-sky/
See the Wingfeather Saga and all books by Andrew Peterson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/search/?q=Andrew+Peterson
Bronco and Friends: A Party to Remember by Tim Tebow: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/653428/bronco-and-friends-a-party-to-remember/
S6 Ep 3: In this episode, meet travel writer and poet Gretel Ehrlich, Rabbi Steve Leder, and author and mediator Toni Nieuwhof. Whether it's finding solace in nature, beauty in grief, or fresh insight into difficult relationships, each of these authors has written and narrated audiobooks about moving from narrow spots into open, expansive spaces. Listen in to hear what it was like for them to record their audiobooks.
The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/303421/the-solace-of-open-spaces/
The Beauty of What Remains by Steve Leder: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/623578/the-beauty-of-what-remains/
Before You Split by Toni Nieuwhof: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/604147/before-you-split/
S6 Ep 1: In this episode, meet journalist Tom Vanderbilt, sex educator Allison Moon, and professor of neuroscience and psychology Dr. Carl L. Hart. What better way to kick off January than to try something new - whether that be in your working life, in your free time, or even (dare we say it?) in the bedroom. Go behind the mic to hear where these authors' boundless curiosity and extensive research took them - and where it might take you.
Beginners by Tom Vanderbilt: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/551938/beginners/
Getting It by Allison Moon: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/610453/getting-it/
Drug Use for Grown-Ups by Dr. Carl L. Hart: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/534657/drug-use-for-grown-ups/
S5 Ep 66: In this episode, meet researcher and bestselling business author Jim Collins, bestselling success coach Jen Sincero, and animator and creator of the webcomic "TheOdd1sOut," James Rallison. These authors have written inspiring books perfect for carrying listeners from 2020 into 2021 with much-needed gusto. Now, step into the studio to hear what it was like for each of them to narrate their audiobooks.
BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0) by Jim Collins and William Lazier: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/538708/be-20-beyond-entrepreneurship-20/
Badass Habits by Jen Sincero: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/603587/badass-habits/
The Odd 1s Out: The First Sequel by James Rallison: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/622650/the-odd-1s-out-the-first-sequel/
In this episode, meet bestselling author Fannie Flagg, and creator of the parenting blog No Idea What I'm Doing, Clint Edwards.
The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop by Fannie Flagg: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/623785/the-wonder-boy-of-whistle-stop/
Father-ish by Clint Edwards: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/669558/father-ish/
S5 Ep 64: November is National Novel Writing Month, otherwise known as NaNoWriMo, a time when new writers and experienced authors alike participate in a single self-directed goal: write 50,000 words of a novel in thirty days. To celebrate the creative pursuit, this special episode of This Is the Author is a compilation of some of our favorite author answers to the question, “what’s your recipe for a good story?” Whether you are looking for the motivation to get words on the page or are curious how other writers approach their work, take a screen break and listen to bestselling authors Chris Bohjalian, Ibram X. Kendi, Dani Shapiro, Matt de la Pena, and others as they share their no-fail story ingredients.
S5 Ep 63: In this episode, meet journalist Paola Ramos, entrepreneur and best-selling author Seth Godin, and Professor of Physics and Astronomy Janna Levin.
Finding Latinx by Paola Ramos: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/616730/finding-latinx/
The Practice by Seth Godin: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/653661/the-practice/
Black Hole Survival Guide by Janna Levin: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/622603/black-hole-survival-guide/
S5 Ep 62: In this episode, meet doctor and clinical professor of Ontolaryngology Jonathan Aviv, University of Pennsylvania Dean of Admissions Eric J. Furda and bestselling author Jacques Steinberg, and financial educator and founder of “The Budgetnista” Tiffany Aliche.
The Acid Watcher Diet by Jonathan Aviv, MD, FACS: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/533577/the-acid-watcher-diet/
The College Conversation by Eric J. Furda and Jacques Steinberg: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/608652/the-college-conversation/
The One Week Budget by Tiffany Aliche: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/656292/the-one-week-budget/
S5 Ep 61: In this episode, go behind the mic with Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey, actor and humorist Nick Offerman, and Tony Award-winning song writer Anaïs Mitchell. Step into the recording booth and hear what it was like for these artists to write and record their audiobooks, how the experience of reading their work affected them, and what they’re most excited to share with listeners. As Matthew says, “here we go, here we go, here we go!”
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/635407/greenlights/?ref=PRHD9DF6A1939
All Rise by Nick Offerman: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/671284/all-rise/
Working on a Song by Anaïs Mitchell: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/635882/working-on-a-song/
S5 Ep 60: In this episode, meet bishop and primate of the Episcopal Church, Bishop Michael Curry, artist and curator Riva Lehrer, and poet, editor, and writer Heid E. Erdrich.
Love is the Way by Bishop Michael Curry and Sara Grace: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/605848/love-is-the-way/
Golem Girl by Riva Lehrer: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/605368/golem-girl/
Little Big Bully by Heid E. Erdrich: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/646273/little-big-bully/
S5 Ep 59: In this episode, meet contemporary art curator Jennifer Dasal, journalist and science writer Emily Willingham, and writer and editor John Jeremiah Sullivan.
ArtCurious by Jennifer Dasal: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/611497/artcurious/
Phallacy by Emily Willingham: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/621131/phallacy/
Blood Horses by John Jeremiah Sullivan: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/636390/blood-horses/
S5 Ep 58: In this episode, meet lead pastor of the New Life Fellowship church Rich Villodas, and global speaker and Protestant evangelist Anne Graham Lotz.
The Deeply Formed Life by Rich Villodas and Pete Scazzero: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/623185/the-deeply-formed-life/
The Light of His Presence by Anne Graham Lotz: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/579956/the-light-of-his-presence/
S5 Ep 57: In this episode, meet ballet dancer Misty Copeland, artist and producer D.J. Steinberg, and playwright, musician, and educator Amyra León.
Bunheads by Misty Copeland: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/545451/bunheads/
Firebird by Misty Copeland: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/314568/firebird/
Kindergarten, Here I Come! by D.J. Steinberg: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/308811/kindergarten-here-i-come/
Concrete Kids by Amyra León: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/612189/concrete-kids/
S5 Ep 56: In this episode, meet Shelby Forsythia, podcast host and author of Your Grief Your Way, Ambi Kavanagh, podcast host and author of Chakras & Self-Care, and Kathryn Nicolai, podcast host and author of Nothing Much Happens: Cozy and Calming Stories to Soothe Your Mind and Help You Sleep.
Your Grief, Your Way by Shelby Forsythia: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/666194/your-grief-your-way/
Chakras & Self-Care by Ambi Kavanagh: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/653593/chakras-and-self-care/
Nothing Much Happens by Kathryn Nicolai: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/645700/nothing-much-happens/
S5 Ep 55: In this episode meet, actor, speaker, and Goodwill Ambassador Ger Duany, advocate and activist Erin Brokovich, and journalist Matthew Yglesias.
Walk Toward the Rising Sun by Ger Duany: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/552032/walk-toward-the-rising-sun/
Superman's Not Coming by Erin Brockovich: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/555747/supermans-not-coming/
One Billion Americans by Matthew Yglesias: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/636499/one-billion-americans/
S5 Ep 54: In this episode, meet novelist and journalist Hari Kunzru, poet and critic Dan Chiasson, and professor and author Deborah Tannen.
Red Pill by Hari Kunzru: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/544565/red-pill/
The Math Campers by Dan Chiasson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/646885/the-math-campers/
Finding My Father by Deborah Tannen: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/251702/finding-my-father/
S5 Ep 53: In this episode, meet farmer and entrepreneur Sarah Frey, writer and clothes historian Kate Sekules, and chef David Chang.
The Growing Season by Sarah Frey: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/610559/the-growing-season/
Mend! by Kate Sekules: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/617245/mend/
Eat a Peach by David Chang: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/552829/eat-a-peach/
S5 Ep 52: In this episode, meet author and speaker Laura Vanderkam and CEO and entrepreneur Robert Glazer.
The New Corner Office by Laura Vanderkam: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/667807/the-new-corner-office/
Friday Forward by Robert Glazer: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/670198/friday-forward/
S5 Ep 51: In this episode, meet creator of the Lazy Genius movement Kendra Adachi, financial author Jason Kelly, and tech and lifestyle entrepreneur John Roa.
The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/608850/the-lazy-genius-way/
The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing by Jason Kelly: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/311806/the-neatest-little-guide-to-stock-market-investing/
A Practical Way to Get Rich . . . and Die Trying by John Roa: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/635132/a-practical-way-to-get-rich-and-die-trying/
S5 Ep 48: In this episode, meet Madeleine Ryan, Christine Gutierrez, and David Eagleman. The human brain is a fascinating world unto itself, and each one of these authors takes a deep dive into that ever-changing neuro-landscape, exploring how our biology and our psyches process the world. Go behind the mic to hear their varied perspectives and listen to clips from their audiobooks; the experience may just get you thinking more about how you think.
A Room Called Earth by Madeleine Ryan: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/625174/a-room-called-earth/
I Am Diosa by Christine Gutierrez: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/612802/i-am-diosa/
Livewired by David Eagleman: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/217866/livewired/
In this episode, meet Chris Pegula, Tina Payne Bryson, and John Beede. Whether you are becoming a parent for the first time, seeking solid baby advice in a sea of information, or raising boys to become kind and compassionate men, each of these authors have parenting insights to share to help you and your family learn and grow together. Join them in the booth as they talk about recording their audiobooks---and their own audio listening habits.
Diaper Dude by Chris Pegula and Frank Meyer: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/537133/diaper-dude/
The Bottom Line for Baby by Tina Payne Bryson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/611679/the-bottom-line-for-baby/
The Warrior Challenge by John Beede: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/624716/the-warrior-challenge/
September is Library Card Sign-Up Month! In another special Library Love edition of This is the Author, we hear from beloved authors who share their fondest library memories, and why libraries mean so very much to them. Listen to authors Eddie Glaude, John O'Leary, Conor Knighton, Matt Alt, and Kent Russell as they share their love for this vital community resource and why a library “feels like you’re home.”
S5 Ep 47: In this episode, meet Daniel Nayeri, Paola Mendoza, and brother and sister co-authors Maia and Alex Shibutani. Storytelling, creativity, activism, and friendship are all themes that ring out in these behind-the-mic interviews. Listen in to hear more, plus discover a side of the "Shib Sibs" that you've never heard before.
Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/623044/everything-sad-is-untrue/
Sanctuary by Paola Mendoza and Abby Sher: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/610887/sanctuary/
Kudo Kids: The Mystery of the Masked Medalist by Maia Shibutani, Alex Shibutani and Michelle Schusterman: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/609779/kudo-kids-the-mystery-of-the-masked-medalist/
S5 Ep 45: In this episode, meet Kelly Treleaven, Justin Taylor, and Meghan Leahy. Join each of these authors in the recording booth as they discuss their news books, the complexities of teaching and learning, and the intimacy that the audio format can bring to the written word.
Love, Teach by Kelly Treleaven: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/561720/love-teach/
Riding with the Ghost by Justin Taylor: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/609916/riding-with-the-ghost/
Parenting Outside the Lines by Meghan Leahy: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/602361/parenting-outside-the-lines/
S5 Ep 46: In this episode, meet husband and wife co-authors Harold Earls and Rachel Earls, Carlos Whittaker, and Becky Thompson. These authors have each written books about how their faith has helped them move forward in difficult times and live life to the fullest. Now, step into the audio booth to hear what it was like for them to record their audiobooks.
A Higher Calling by Harold Earls, IV and Rachel Earls: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/608038/a-higher-calling/
Enter Wild by Carlos Whittaker: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/609862/enter-wild/
Peace by Becky Thompson and Tim Clinton: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/580158/peace/
S5 Ep 43: In this episode, meet art curator Kimberly Drew and teenage entrepreneur Mikaila Ulmer. Go behind the mic with these authors and find out not only what inspired them to write their books, but also what's unique about listening to the audiobook edition. Plus, get their most recent audio recommendations.
This Is What I Know About Art by Kimberly Drew: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/612188/this-is-what-i-know-about-art/
Bee Fearless: Dream Like a Kid by Mikaila Ulmer: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/609675/bee-fearless-dream-like-a-kid/
S5 Ep 42: Welcome to another episode of This is the Author In Conversation, a more personal behind-the-mic chat with our authors in the audiobooks studio. In this episode, we invite you into the sound booth with entrepreneur and business strategist Mike Michalowicz, author and narrator of The Pumpkin Plan and Fix This Next. Starting, maintaining, and reinvigorating a business isn't simple; but in both The Pumpkin Plan and Fix This Next Mike Michalowicz explains systems that every businessperson, entrepreneur, and employee can put in place to draw more satisfaction---and more success---from what they do. Listen in to hear Mike answer questions submitted directly from his readers (and expertly read in the studio by his audiobook director, Scott Cresswell). Learn about Mike's recording process, how The Pumpkin Plan has evolved over its ten year history, and how Fix This Next came to be Mike's "hub book." Plus, discover Mike's most productive writing spot---his answer will definitely surprise you.
The Pumpkin Plan by Mike Michalowicz: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/309993/the-pumpkin-plan/
September is Library Card Sign-Up Month! In this special Library Love edition of This is the Author, we hear from beloved authors who share their fondest library memories, and why their library means so very much to them. Listen to Erik Larson, Gail Caldwell, Anne Applebaum, Maria Konnikova, Rick Hanson, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, and Andy Boyle as they share anecdotes about their experiences as children within the library space, as well as stories about how they work and find inspiration in the library.
S5 Ep 41: In this episode, meet Will Doig, Anne Applebaum, and the storyteller known as "The Captain." These authors have written compelling narratives that combine history and current events, from Will Doig's tracking of China's advances in high speed rail, to Anne Applebaum's examination of how and why democracies around the world are turning towards authoritarianism. And to add a splash of irreverence to the mix, "The Captain" has a few hot takes on "history lessons you should have learned in school." Now, listen in to hear each of these authors talk about recording their audiobooks.
High-Speed Empire by Will Doig: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/636485/high-speed-empire/
Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/621076/twilight-of-democracy/
F*cking History by The Captain: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/629853/fcking-history/
S5 Ep 40: In this episode, meet Meredith Talusan, Susan Burton, and Gail Caldwell. These authors have each written nuanced and highly personal memoirs about the experiences that continue to shape their lives. Listen in to hear what it was like for them to record their audiobooks. Plus, find out how mispronouncing a word during recording led one author to examine her relationship to the very word itself.
Fairest by Meredith Talusan: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/598149/fairest/
Empty by Susan Burton: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/214241/empty/
Bright Precious Thing by Gail Caldwell: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/566058/bright-precious-thing/
S5 Ep 39: In this episode, meet Matt Alt, A. Kendra Greene, and Kent Russell. In their new audiobooks, each of these authors takes a deep dive into the intersection of geography and culture, and the ways in which a product, artifact, or lived experience that is grounded in the local can expand into the global, influencing all of us. Listen in as they describe what it was like to record their audiobooks. Plus, discover the perfect audiobook to listen to while “circling deeper into eternal torment.”
Pure Invention by Matt Alt: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/609076/pure-invention/
The Museum of Whales You Will Never See by A. Kendra Greene: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/617712/the-museum-of-whales-you-will-never-see/
In the Land of Good Living by Kent Russell: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/572875/in-the-land-of-good-living/
S5 Ep 38: In this episode, meet Andrew Coté, Jennifer Ackerman, and Maria Konnikova. It's remarkable what we can learn when we take the time to observe behavior, without obscuring it with what we think we know. Each of these authors writes about what can be learned when we truly open our eyes: to bees, to birds, and yes, to bluffs. Now, go behind the mic to hear them talk about recording their audiobooks.
Honey and Venom by Andrew Coté: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/586299/honey-and-venom/
The Bird Way by Jennifer Ackerman: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/550915/the-bird-way/
The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/562852/the-biggest-bluff/
S5 Ep 37: In this episode, meet Wes Moore, Christine Montross, and Eddie S. Glaude Jr. Whether examining a city’s response to police violence, revealing the connection between psychological vulnerability and incarceration, or using the life and works of a visionary thinker to shine a light on race in America, each of these authors unearths complicated truths about their subjects while revealing even deeper societal implications. Listen in as they describe what it was like to record their audiobooks. Plus, find out who has a “morning voice” and an “after lunch voice.”
Five Days by Wes Moore with Erica L. Green: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/588769/five-days/
Waiting for an Echo by Christine Montross: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/315949/waiting-for-an-echo/
Begin Again by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/575725/begin-again/
S5 Ep 36: In this episode, meet Tenzin Priyadarshi, Tammy Mastroberte, and Galen Guengerich. A spiritual path is rarely straight forward, and each one of these authors has written about how experiences in their own lives, together with help from important guides and mentors, have lead them to where they are today. Listen in to hear them talk about recording their audiobooks. Plus, find out which author speaks five languages, but feels most comfortable in silence.
Running Toward Mystery by Tenzin Priyadarshi and Zara Houshmand: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/605250/running-toward-mystery/
The Universe is Talking to You by Tammy Mastroberte: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/646565/the-universe-is-talking-to-you/
The Way of Gratitude by Galen Guengerich: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/576834/the-way-of-gratitude/
S5 Ep 35: In this episode, meet the three hosts of The LadyGang podcast: Keltie Knight, Becca Tobin, and Jac Vanek. In the Gang’s audiobook Act Like A Lady, they each share blissfully BS-free anecdotes from their lives so that you don’t feel so alone when you think about… whatever-it-was-you-did-that-one-time. Listen in to hear the Gang’s behind-the-mic realizations that only recording their audiobook revealed, plus get their most recent listening recommendations.
Act Like a Lady by Keltie Knight, Becca Tobin and Jac Vanek: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/617780/act-like-a-lady/
S5 Ep 33: In this episode, meet Michael Pollan, Judith Warner, and Conor Knighton. These three authors use their audiobooks to take listeners on journeys of discovery: discovery about the food we eat, about how adolescence shapes adulthood and how we parent, and discovery about National Parks throughout the country. And while all of these authors are avid audiobook listeners themselves, discover which one says that being able to record their own audiobook was just as thrilling as getting their first book published.
Food Rules by Michael Pollan: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/305288/food-rules/
And Then They Stopped Talking to Me by Judith Warner: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/534339/and-then-they-stopped-talking-to-me/
Leave Only Footprints by Conor Knighton: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/600367/leave-only-footprints/
S5 Ep 34: In this episode meet Liam Vaughn, Barton Gellman, and Jung H Pak. From the story of a trading prodigy who triggered the fastest US market crash in history to gripping profiles of whistle-blower Edward Snowden and North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong Un, real people and events inspired these authors’ books. Although they each found the audiobook narration process to be more challenging than expected, find out which author was reminded of their childhood experiences in choir as they recorded their audiobook.
Flash Crash by Liam Vaughan: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/565970/flash-crash/
Dark Mirror by Barton Gellman: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/316047/dark-mirror/
Becoming Kim Jong Un by Jung H. Pak: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/604727/becoming-kim-jong-un/
S5 Ep 31: In this episode, meet entrepreneur Meredith Fineman, technology reporter Alex Kantrowitz, and attorney Adrienne Lawrence. Each of these authors has taken a hard look at how engrained company cultures and established hierarchies can deeply and often negatively affect everything from worker productivity and innovation to employees’ basic ability to grow and thrive. Listen in to learn what it means to “brag better,” how to apply the internal structures of tech giants to your own work place, and how to survive and thrive after serious workplace harassment. Plus, hear what it was like for each of these authors to record their audiobooks, and who may think twice before ever using “so many letter p’s in a sentence again.”
Brag Better by Meredith Fineman: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/617868/brag-better/
Always Day One by Alex Kantrowitz: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/607065/always-day-one/
Staying in the Game by Adrienne Lawrence: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/609265/staying-in-the-game/
S5 Ep 32: In this episode, meet novelist Maya Shanbhag Lang, writer Benjamin Taylor, and co-authors Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez. Each of these authors has combed through history—whether it’s of a personal relationship with a loved one or the cultural history of the Drag community—to create and share true stories of connection, inspiration, and love. Plus, discover which author rehearsed reading chapters of their book out loud for the month before their recording session began.
What We Carry by Maya Shanbhag Lang: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/588770/what-we-carry/
Here We Are by Benjamin Taylor: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/575729/here-we-are/
Legendary Children by Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/611526/legendary-children/
S5 E30: In this episode, meet journalist Andy Boyle, psychologist Rick Hanson, and speaker John O’Leary. Discover how each of these authors started asking big questions---of others and of themselves—in an effort to uncover how we grow into the people we are, and what we can do when we’re ready to change as adults. Plus, find out whose experience narrating took him back to his “high school musical theater nerd” days!
Big Problems by Andy Boyle: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/566539/big-problems/
Resilient by Rick Hanson, Ph.D. and Forrest Hanson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/549678/resilient/
In Awe by John O'Leary: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/611803/in-awe/
S5 E29: In this episode meet children’s book authors and educators Torrey Maldonado and M. Evan Wolkenstein. Using their own personal experiences of growing up, both writers create heartfelt, relatable tales that touch on universal issues of self-image and belonging. Each of the audiobooks will bring joy to young listeners, and provide opportunities for families to talk about empathy, connection, and what it means to be understood. Listen in to hear how each author felt stepping into the studio….one for the second time! And find out who one author turned to for listening inspiration as he prepared.
What Lane? by Torrey Maldonado: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/588591/what-lane/
Turtle Boy by M. Evan Wolkenstein: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/610884/turtle-boy/
S5 Ep 25: In this special episode of This Is the Author, we meet bestselling authors Erik Larson and Lisa Wingate. You can hear them narrate an author’s note on their respective audiobook productions. Both authors used history as the basis for their books although one is fiction and one is non-fiction. In Erik Larson’s riveting narrative nonfiction work, The Splendid and the Vile, he explores Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz of WWII. Lisa Wingate’s historical fiction bestseller The Book of Lost Friends, was inspired by real advertisements for “Lost Friends” from the post-Civil War era. Listen as they each share special memories about reading and libraries as well as why they each love audiobooks.
The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/606795/the-book-of-lost-friends/
Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/98112/isaacs-storm/
S5 E26: In this episode, meet authors Teju Cole, Nina Renata Aron, and Karla Cornejo Villavicencio. Step into the studio to hear each of them reflect on recording their audiobook, and particularly their thoughts on revisiting difficult or intimate scenes on the page and how voicing those scenes affected their narration. Plus, find out who once listened to an audiobook on a road trip while the sun was coming up.
Open City by Teju Cole: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/29908/open-city/
Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls by Nina Renata Aron: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/586540/good-morning-destroyer-of-mens-souls/
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/558229/the-undocumented-americans/
S5 E27: In this episode, meet Bethany Saltman, Sarah Menkedick, and Kelsey Patel. In each of these authors’ audiobooks, they guide listeners through tricky life moments, whether it’s the anxiety of new motherhood or struggling with personal burnout. Discover what each woman learned about herself in their respective recording sessions -- and hear which author listens to audiobooks to help her get through 10 mile runs.
Strange Situation by Bethany Saltman: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/553712/strange-situation/
Ordinary Insanity by Sarah Menkedick: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/589989/ordinary-insanity/
Burning Bright by Kelsey J. Patel: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/622572/burning-bright/
S5 E23: In this episode, meet Tony Wagner, Casey Schwartz, and Rana el Kaliouby. Go behind the mic with these authors and discover what it was like for them to record their audiobooks.
Learning by Heart by Tony Wagner: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/600078/learning-by-heart/
Attention: A Love Story by Casey Schwartz: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/562183/attention-a-love-story/
Girl Decoded by Rana el Kaliouby and Carol Colman: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/603999/girl-decoded/
S5 E22: Welcome to another episode of This is the Author in Conversation, a more intimate behind-the-mic chat with our authors in the audiobook studio. This is Jennifer Rubins from Penguin Random House Audio, and I’m thrilled to invite you into my conversation with Emily Neuberger, the author of A Tender Thing, a beautiful debut novel set under the dazzling lights of late 1950s Broadway. I should mention this was recorded right before Broadway went dark due to the COVID-19 crisis, and before we were quarantined to our respective homes, so Emily and I were able to be together in a studio to talk about what it means to be a theatre person, the unique challenge of writing and then recording lyrics from a fictional musical, and of course learn more about her debut novel and why she wanted to narrate it. Her book has since been named by Playbill.com as one of 11 Books for Theatre Lovers to Read in Spring 2020 and it’s definitely a way for us all to be able to experience a bit of Broadway magic at home right now. I should also add – as you’ll learn - that not only is Emily an MFA graduate and grant recipient at Brooklyn College's fiction program but she’s also a talented performer and trained vocalist. She’s even performed at Carnegie Hall in Stephen Schwartz's birthday celebration and she once sang for Stephen Sondheim at the Music Institute of Chicago. Wow. So listen in as Emily and I discuss A TENDER THING…
A Tender Thing by Emily Neuberger: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/611242/a-tender-thing/
S5 E20: In this episode, meet Jerry Saltz, Sarah Urist Green, and Adrienne Raphel. Each of these authors is passionate about art, artists, and how the creative impulse can permeate the every day. Go behind the mic as they talk about recording their audiobooks, and the unique challenges and joys of translating the visual medium of their books into the spoken word. Plus, find out who became a dedicated student of the arts, even though they “never did a lick of homework in high school.”
How to Be an Artist by Jerry Saltz: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/612484/how-to-be-an-artist/
You Are an Artist by Sarah Urist Green: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/601958/you-are-an-artist/
Thinking Inside the Box by Adrienne Raphel: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/561343/thinking-inside-the-box/
In this second installment of our National Library Week special on This is the Author, we asked even more of our authors to share their fondest library memories. Listen to Glennon Doyle, John Von Sothen, Lee Hartley Carter, Emilie Pine, Ali Wong, Richard Russo, Terry McMillan, and Pablo Cartaya as they share anecdotes about their experiences as children within the library space, as well as stories about how they are creating memories with their own children in the library.
In this special episode of This is the Author, we’re celebrating National Library Week by asking authors to share some of their favorite library memories. Listen to Rebecca Solnit, Sarah Urist Green, Samantha Irby, Erin Lee Carr, Deepak Chopra, Janice Kaplan, Wendelin Van Draanen, Carolina de Robertis, and David Levithan highlight the wonderful opportunities that both libraries and librarians provide to the individual and the community as a whole.
S5 Ep 21: In this episode, meet Samantha Irby, Glennon Doyle, and Mike McHargue. Go behind the mic with these dynamic, charismatic authors and hear what it was like for them to record their audiobooks. You may also learn a thing or two about mispronouncing words in a sweaty recording booth, listening to audiobooks in the shower, and more.
Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/576724/wow-no-thank-you/
Untamed by Glennon Doyle: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/592473/untamed/
You're a Miracle (and a Pain in the Ass) by Mike McHargue: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/599602/youre-a-miracle-and-a-pain-in-the-ass/
S5 E18: In this episode, meet Bess Kalb, Fanny Singer, and Terry McMillan. These authors have written remarkable new books about the complex, restorative, and joyous power of female relationships. Go behind the mic to hear what it was like for them to narrate their own audiobooks. Plus, find out which author recommends an audiobook that she says was like “the greatest lunch I ever had.”
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Kalb: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/580375/nobody-will-tell-you-this-but-me/
Always Home: A Daughter's Recipes & Stories by Fanny Singer and Alice Waters: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/553642/always-home-a-daughters-recipes-and-stories/
It's Not All Downhill From Here by Terry McMillan: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/600731/its-not-all-downhill-from-here/
S5 E19: In this episode, meet Alex Halberstadt, Esther Safran Foer, and Carolyn Forche. Each of these authors has written about their search for hidden family histories in the context of world-altering historical events. Listen in and hear what it was like for them to read their audiobooks. Plus, find out whose recording session required them to pronounce words in (at least!) 8 languages.
Young Heroes of the Soviet Union by Alex Halberstadt: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/73622/young-heroes-of-the-soviet-union/
I Want You to Know We're Still Here by Esther Safran Foer: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/577021/i-want-you-to-know-were-still-here/
In the Lateness of the World by Carolyn Forché: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/586567/in-the-lateness-of-the-world/
S5 E15 - Welcome to another episode of This is the Author in Conversation, a more intimate behind the mic chat with our authors in the audiobooks studio. Today you’ll meet beloved, award-winning author George Saunders, and Sr. Executive Producer at Penguin Random House Audio, Kelly Gildea, who also produced and directed George’s many audiobook productions.
Recording an audiobook can be a singular creative experience for an author---and equally so for their listeners and fans. What’s perhaps even more unique is when writers have the opportunity to narrate multiple titles from their own backlist---books that have been previously published that are coming afresh to audio.
Listen in as George & Kelly discuss their longtime collaborations, the difference between a really good director and the alternative, and the temptations to edit one’s own work from the audio studio. And of course, the epic recording that was Lincoln In the Bardo. Plus, hear how George has integrated his own original music in ways even he didn’t expect.
See more from George Saunders: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/author/26961/george-saunders/
S5 E16: In this episode, meet Mara Hvistendahl, Robert Reich, and Charlotte Alter. These authors are each deeply knowledgeable about the urgent economic and political landscapes that are affecting our everyday lives. Listen to their fascinating behind-the-mic insights and hear what it was like for them to record their audiobooks.
The Scientist and the Spy by Mara Hvistendahl: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/549962/the-scientist-and-the-spy/
The System by Robert B. Reich: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/634493/the-system/
The Ones We've Been Waiting For by Charlotte Alter: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/598359/the-ones-weve-been-waiting-for/
S5 E17: In this episode, meet Jim McKelvey, Hope Jahren, and Courtney Carver. Step into the audio studio with these authors as they talk about both innovation and how we can all do more with less, and what it means to incorporate that new thinking into our daily lives.
The Innovation Stack by Jim McKelvey: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/617493/the-innovation-stack/
The Story of More by Hope Jahren: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/575671/the-story-of-more/
Project 333 by Courtney Carver: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/603768/project-333/
S5 E14: In this episode, meet Rebecca Solnit, Celeste Headlee, and Sarah Ramey. These authors have written and narrated audiobooks about what it takes to come up against entrenched systems and create the space needed to live the fullest life possible. Go behind the mic and hear what it was like for them to record their audiobooks. Plus, find out who was told that she pronounces some words “like an opera singer.”
Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/607056/recollections-of-my-nonexistence/
Do Nothing by Celeste Headlee:https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/603998/do-nothing/
The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness by Sarah Ramey: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/207159/the-ladys-handbook-for-her-mysterious-illness/
S5 E13: In this episode, meet Phil Stamper, Ariana Margulis, and Jessica Lanyadoo. Go behind the mic with these authors as they talk about love: first love, misguided love, true love, and even love from an astrological point of view. Plus, find out whose dream audiobook narrator is a toss-up between Bart Simpson and…Scarlett Johansson.
The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/623945/the-gravity-of-us/
But Like Maybe Don't? by Arianna Margulis: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/622023/but-like-maybe-dont/
Astrology for Real Relationships by Jessica Lanyadoo and T. Greenaway: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/603459/astrology-for-real-relationships/
S5 E12: In this episode, meet co-authors Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, Emily Balcetis, and Janice Kaplan. When making a change, sometimes it’s the little things that matter, sometimes it’s the big ones. Step into the recording studio and hear what motivated each of these authors to write and record their audiobooks.
Designing Your Work Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/592536/designing-your-work-life/
Clearer, Closer, Better by Emily Balcetis: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/557217/clearer-closer-better/
The Genius of Women by Janice Kaplan: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/598507/the-genius-of-women/
S5 E11: In this episode meet Eilene Zimmerman, Conor Dougherty, and Sierra Crane Murdoch. Go behind the mic with these authors and hear what it was like for them to bring their intensely researched, timely, and thought-provoking works to their audiobooks.
Smacked by Eilene Zimmerman: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/574587/smacked/
Golden Gates by Conor Dougherty: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/585765/golden-gates/
Yellow Bird by Sierra Crane Murdoch: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/545014/yellow-bird/
S5 E10: Welcome to another episode of This Is the Author - In Conversation, a more intimate behind the mic chat with our authors in the audiobook studio. Today you’ll meet author Lance Rubin and narrator Katie Schorr. This husband and wife team collaborated in more ways than one to bring the humor and heartbreak of CRYING LAUGHING to life. The main character of Winnie is actually inspired by Katie – who shares why she wishes she was actually more like this young protagonist when she was growing up. Booklist says: “This book is for anyone who’s ever attended high school, had a crush, gotten news they weren’t prepared to deal with, or learned that someone close to them isn’t quite who they thought they were—in short, for everyone." Listen in as Lance and Katie discuss the surprising superhero-related evolution of CRYING LAUGHING, their favorite parts of the audiobook experience, and which celebrity Lance would love to narrate his next book. Enjoy!
Crying Laughing by Lance Rubin and read by Kate Schorr: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/576699/crying-laughing/
S5 E9: In this episode, meet Wendelin Van Draanen, Kristina Kuzmic, and Tara Schuster. Each of these authors has written a memoir full of insight, humor, and warmth. Now it’s time to go behind the mic and hear the unvarnished truth about what it was like for them to record their own work. Plus, find out who likes to listen to audiobooks while cooking a famously epic rice dish.
Hope in the Mail by Wendelin Van Draanen: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/606418/hope-in-the-mail/
Hold On, But Don't Hold Still by Kristina Kuzmic: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/600077/hold-on-but-dont-hold-still/
Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies by Tara Schuster: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/565945/buy-yourself-the-fcking-lilies/
S5 E8: In this episode, meet Dr. Daniel Siegel and Dr. Tina Payne Bryson, Beth Newell and Jackie Ann Ruiz, and Dr. Cara Natterson. These authors have written illuminating parenting books that will change the way you think about raising children – and actually decrease your stress about it at the same time. Go behind the mic and find out what inspired them to write and read their audiobooks.
The Power of Showing Up by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/562899/the-power-of-showing-up/
There's No Manual by Beth Newell and Jackie Ann Ruiz: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/565832/theres-no-manual/
Decoding Boys by Cara Natterson, M.D.: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/600223/decoding-boys/
S5 E6: In this episode, meet Steve Inskeep, Kate Winkler Dawson, and William Wheeler. Go behind the mic with these experienced documentarians and hear what it was like to record their audiobooks. Plus, find out who has learned a lot about story structure from listening to children’s audiobooks in the car.
Imperfect Union by Steve Inskeep: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/555136/imperfect-union/
American Sherlock by Kate Winkler Dawson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/602318/american-sherlock/
State of War by William Wheeler: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/624614/state-of-war/
S5 E5: In this episode, meet authors David Levithan, R. Eric Thomas, and John Kenney, and get ready to laugh as you hear each of these witty writers describe what it was like to narrate their own audiobooks. Plus, find out who listens to audiobooks right before bed, who mispronounced the word “mistake” and had to do re-takes, and who can’t seem to find his clothes right now.
19 Love Songs by David Levithan: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/600199/19-love-songs/
Here for It by R. Eric Thomas: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/588517/here-for-it/
Love Poems for Married People by John Kenney: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/603885/love-poems-for-married-people/
S5 E5: In this episode meet authors Jennie Allen, Robin Meyers, and Dr. Lee Warren. These authors have written poignant books about faith and life; now hear what it was like for them to share their journeys from the recording studio. Plus, find out one author’s secret recipe for a great story.
Get Out of Your Head by Jennie Allen: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/540868/get-out-of-your-head/
Saving God from Religion by Robin R. Meyers: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/595102/saving-god-from-religion/
I've Seen the End of You by W. Lee Warren, M.D.: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/600494/ive-seen-the-end-of-you/
S5 E4: In this episode meet Holly Whitaker, Romi Neustadt, and Laura Huang. Go behind the mic with these authors and hear what it was like to record their audiobooks—and what they discovered in the process!
Quit Like a Woman by Holly Whitaker: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/605025/quit-like-a-woman/
You Can Have It All, Just Not at the Same Damn Time by Romi Neustadt: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/611452/you-can-have-it-all-just-not-at-the-same-damn-time/
Edge by Laura Huang: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/600457/edge/
S5 E3: In this episode, meet Wayne Baker, Robin Dreeke, and Rick Wilson. Go behind the mic with these experts in human behavior and hear what it was like to record their audiobooks. Plus, find out who listens to audiobooks while riding a tractor!
All You Have to Do Is Ask by Wayne Baker: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/607570/all-you-have-to-do-is-ask/
Sizing People Up by Robin Dreeke: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/600291/sizing-people-up/
Running Against the Devil by Rick Wilson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/623822/running-against-the-devil/
S5 E2: Welcome to our first episode of This is the Author in Conversation, a more intimate behind the mic chat with our authors in the audiobook studio. This is Jennifer Rubins from Penguin Random House Audio and I’m thrilled to invite you into my conversation with Rachel Friedman, the author of AND THEN WE GREW UP: On Creativity, Potential, and the Imperfect Art of Adulthood. Publishers Weekly named it a Best Book of 2019 and in a starred review said “Anyone who’s ever looked back longingly at an old passion and wondered what might have been will find an empathetic friend in Friedman.” I actually had the honor of narrating the audiobook, so listen in as Rachel and I discuss her book, our own creative paths, parenthood, and of course, why we love audiobooks.
And Then We Grew Up by Rachel Friedman: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/558563/and-then-we-grew-up/
S5 E1: In this episode, meet Adam Davidson, co-authors David Meerman Scott and Reiko Scott, and Jordan Raynor. Step into the audio booth with these authors and hear their unique perspectives on the economy, innovation, and work. Plus, find out who has attended 75 Grateful Dead concerts!
The Passion Economy by Adam Davidson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/239718/the-passion-economy/
Fanocracy by David Meerman Scott and Reiko Scott: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/608545/fanocracy/
Master of One by Jordan Raynor: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/603787/master-of-one/
S4 E70: In this episode meet Kelly McGonigal, John Mark Comer, and model and dietitian Maye Musk. Join each of these authors behind the mic as they talk about writing and narrating their audiobook, and hear what they are most excited to share with listeners. Plus, find out which of these authors “decorated” the studio while recording—and with what!
The Joy of Movement by Kelly McGonigal: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/564895/the-joy-of-movement/
The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/600096/the-ruthless-elimination-of-hurry/
A Woman Makes a Plan by Maye Musk by https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/607734/a-woman-makes-a-plan/
S4 E69: In this episode meet Kenneth Paul Rosenberg, Buster Benson, and Jeff Lindsay. Step into the studio with these careful observers of human nature, and learn what inspired them to write and narrate their audiobooks. Plus, find out whose background in performance helped him polish his narrator chops!
Bedlam by Kenneth Paul Rosenberg: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/602602/bedlam/
Why Are We Yelling? by Buster Benson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/598274/why-are-we-yelling/
Just Watch Me by Jeff Lindsay: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/589677/just-watch-me/
S4 E68: In this episode, meet journalist Timothy Egan, author of A Pilgrimage to Eternity, and Clark Strand and Perdita Finn, co-authors of The Way of the Rose. Go behind the mic with these authors and hear more about the spiritual paths that inspired their audiobooks. Plus, discover the pronunciations that tripped up even these careful wordsmiths!
A Pilgrimage to Eternity by Timothy Egan: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/558305/a-pilgrimage-to-eternity/
The Way of the Rose by Clark Strand and Perdita Finn: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/532917/the-way-of-the-rose/
S4 E66: In this episode meet Andrew Marantz, Scott Adams, and Bari Weiss. Each of these authors is a keen observer of the ways in which ideas are spread online and in the public sphere. Hear them talk about their work, and what it was like to record their audiobooks. Plus, find out who thought the audio booth was "so relaxing."
Antisocial by Andrew Marantz: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/562022/antisocial/
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/315487/how-to-fail-at-almost-everything-and-still-win-big/
How to Fight Anti-Semitism by Bari Weiss: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/616727/how-to-fight-anti-semitism/
S4 E67: In this episode meet John Hodgman, Cameron Douglas, and Guy Snodgrass. Go behind the mic with these authors as they talk about the experiences that inspired them to write and record their audiobooks. Plus find out which noises are "the bane of audiobook narration."
Medallion Status by John Hodgman: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/595005/medallion-status/
Long Way Home by Cameron Douglas: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/565964/long-way-home/
Holding the Line by Guy M. Snodgrass: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/609833/holding-the-line/
S4 E64: In this episode, meet Yancey Strickler, Sasha Sagan, and Gary Ferguson. As Yancey notes in this interview, “the world of value is bigger than we think.” Go behind the mic with each one of these authors as they talk about variations on this idea as viewed through the lenses of business, philosophy, and engagement with the natural world. Plus, get new audiobook recommendations from these three voracious listeners!
This Could Be Our Future by Yancey Strickler: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/591594/this-could-be-our-future/
For Small Creatures Such as We by Sasha Sagan: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/566611/for-small-creatures-such-as-we/
The Eight Master Lessons of Nature by Gary Ferguson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/575767/the-eight-master-lessons-of-nature/
S4 E65: In this episode, meet Adam Gidwitz, Adam Grant & Allison Sweet Grant, and John Cena. Discover the inspiration behind A Tale Dark and Grimm, listen to husband and wife writing team Adam and Allison discuss The Gift Inside the Box, and hear how John Cena applies “elbow grease” in his own life. Plus, learn the one question that may change dinnertime conversations with your kids forever.
A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/306780/a-tale-dark-and-grimm/
The Gift Inside the Box by Adam Grant and Allison Sweet Grant: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/610620/the-gift-inside-the-box/
Elbow Grease vs. Motozilla by John Cena: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/609295/elbow-grease-vs-motozilla/
S4 E63: THIS IS THE ILLUSTRATOR (special ep with Melissa Sweet). In this special episode of This Is the Author, we present: This Is the Illustrator! Meet artist Melissa Sweet, who illustrated the audiobook cover for the new production of E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web, narrated by Meryl Streep and a full cast. Learn what led Melissa to this project, and what it is about audiobooks that make the imagination run wild. After the interview, stick around to hear our new recording of Charlotte’s Web read by Meryl Streep and a full cast.
Charlotte's Web by Melissa Sweet and E. B. White: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/623904/charlottes-web/
S4 E62: In this episode meet Rachel Maddow, Deepak Chopra, and Ali Wong.
These authors may all be household names but listening to them talk about their recording experiences feels like meeting them for the first time.
Learn more about what inspired each of their books. Plus, find out why narrating an audiobook is like a trip to the gym!
Blowout by Rachel Maddow: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/576330/blowout/
Metahuman by Deepak Chopra, M.D. : https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/27415/metahuman/
Dear Girls by Ali Wong: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/561707/dear-girls/
S4 E61: In this episode meet Jonathan Vaughters, Christopher McDougall, and Mira and Jayson Calton.
Join these authors behind the mic as they share how physical activity has impacted various aspects of their lives. From professional cycling to burro racing to building bone health, these authors’ passions will inspire you to learn more about the mind-body connection.
Plus, find out who compared narrating his audiobook to riding a roller coaster, and why!
One-Way Ticket by Jonathan Vaughters: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/602426/one-way-ticket/
Running with Sherman by Christopher McDougall: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/552855/running-with-sherman/
Rebuild Your Bones by Jayson Calton, PhD and Mira Calton, CN: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/592293/rebuild-your-bones/
S4 E60: In this episode meet Eve Rodsky, J.J. Sutherland, and Latasha Morrison.
These authors are pioneering new ways to think about equity, offering practical steps to help better achieve it in the division of labor in our homes, in the ways we operate at work, and in our steps toward racial reconciliation in everyday life.
Hear what it was like for them to record their audiobooks. Plus, find out which of these authors narrated their entire audiobook standing up!
Fair Play by Eve Rodsky: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/605905/fair-play/
The Scrum Fieldbook by J.J. Sutherland: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/566254/the-scrum-fieldbook/
Be the Bridge by Latasha Morrison: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/592177/be-the-bridge/
S4 E59: In this episode meet authors Ruta Sepetys, Carolina de Robertis, and Morgan Parker.
Whether they’ve delved into hidden histories or explored the inner workings of the teenage psyche, these authors have written nuanced and moving novels that are meant to be heard on audio.
Hear them describe the events that inspired their work. Plus, discover the identity of the “friend who got you when your other friends didn’t.”
The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/311731/the-fountains-of-silence/
Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/576271/cantoras/
Who Put This Song On? by Morgan Parker: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/592224/who-put-this-song-on/
S4 E58: In this episode meet Nico Tortorella, author of SPACE BETWEEN; Akilah Hughes, author of OBVIOUSLY; and Cory Allen author of NOW IS THE WAY. Each of these young writers is using their creativity and talent to inspire others to grow—through art, introspection, and joyous expression. Hear them talk honestly about recording their audiobooks; plus, find out which of these authors has finally become their own “love bomb.”
Space Between by Nico Tortorella: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/586542/space-between/
Obviously by Akilah Hughes: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/531147/obviously/
Now Is the Way by Cory Allen: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/588475/now-is-the-way/
In this episode, meet Jim Williams, author of PATH OF THE PUMA; Robert Pondiscio, author of HOW THE OTHER HALF LEARNS; and Rhonda Magee, author of THE INNER WORK OF RACIAL JUSTICE. What big cats can teach us about the environment. The lessons learned from years of teaching at a public school. The ways mindfulness in law school classrooms helps students talk about race. These are the passions of the authors, who are applying their professional experiences to further conversations around timely issues. Plus, find out which of these authors wore a very special good luck T-shirt into the recording booth.
Path of the Puma by Jim Williams: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/624255/path-of-the-puma/
How The Other Half Learns by Robert Pondiscio: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/563406/how-the-other-half-learns/
The Inner Work of Racial Justice by Rhonda V. Magee: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/565790/the-inner-work-of-racial-justice/
In this episode meet Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of DIAGNOSIS; Dr. David Fajgenbaum, author of CHASING MY CURE; and Dr. Elizabeth Stanley, author of WIDEN THE WINDOW.
Each of these writers brings medical expertise and creative thinking to their profession in an effort to educate, illuminate, and bring hope and healing to people suffering with difficult symptoms and elusive diagnoses.
Listen to them reflect on their recording experiences. Plus, find out which author thinks a certain famous TV doctor could be a natural at reading her audiobook.
DIAGNOSIS by Lisa Sanders: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/622051/diagnosis/
CHASING MY CURE by David Fajgenbaum: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/567298/chasing-my-cure/
WIDEN THE WINDOW by Elizabeth Stanley: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/553620/widen-the-window/
In this episode meet Sarah Hurwitz, author of HERE ALL ALONG; David Platt, author of SOMETHING NEEDS TO CHANGE; and Melissa D’Arabian, author of TASTING GRACE.
Go behind the mic with these authors as they share what inspired their often unexpected—and revelatory—spiritual journeys.
Plus, discover the word one seasoned pro has been mispronouncing—albeit with considerable flair—for years.
HERE ALL ALONG by Sarah Hurwitz: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/572627/here-all-along/
SOMETHING NEEDS TO CHANGE by David Platt: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/565915/something-needs-to-change/
TASTING GRACE by Melissa D’Arabian: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/586104/tasting-grace/
In this episode meet Brad Smith, author of TOOLS AND WEAPONS; Jason Harris, author of THE SOULFUL ART OF PERSUASION; and Tricia Clarke-Stone and Antoinette M. Clarke, authors of DOUBLE DOWN.
Hear from these exceptional trailblazers on the importance of both understanding the tools of our trades and emotionally connecting with the stories that we tell. And guess who channeled their grandmother and a special bedtime nursery rhyme during the recording!
TOOLS AND WEAPONS by Brad Smith: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/604709/tools-and-weapons/
THE SOULFUL ART OF PERSUASION by Jason Harris: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/595283/the-soulful-art-of-persuasion/
DOUBLE DOWN by Antoinette M. Clarke & Tricia Clarke-Stone: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/574557/double-down/
In this episode meet Padma Venkatraman, author of A TIME TO DANCE; Peter McGough, author of I'VE SEEN THE FUTURE AND I'M NOT GOING; and John Mauceri, author of FOR THE LOVE OF MUSIC. A novel in verse about the power of dance. A memoir about life as an artist in 1980s New York City. An answer to the question, “why should we listen to classical music?” This week’s episode covers the many ways in which art affects our lives and the lives of those we encounter.
Hear more about these authors’ behind-the-mic experiences, and find out who once listened to a famous epic fantasy series on audio as motivation to clean the house.
A TIME TO DANCE by Padma Venkatraman: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/309664/a-time-to-dance/
I'VE SEEN THE FUTURE AND I'M NOT GOING by Peter McGough: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/561291/ive-seen-the-future-and-im-not-going/
FOR THE LOVE OF MUSIC by John Mauceri: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/564744/for-the-love-of-music/
In this special edition of our podcast This Is the Author, we’re celebrating Library Card Sign-up Month by asking celebrated children’s authors to share some of their favorite library memories. Listen to John Cena, Ann Bausum, Steve Sheinkin, and Adam Gidwitz share why libraries are so special to them, and why getting a library card is the first step to a lifetime of adventure!
In this special edition of our podcast This Is the Author, we’re celebrating Library Card Sign-up Month by asking authors to share some of their favorite library memories. Listen to Gretchen Rubin, Mira Jacob, Laura Lynne Jackson, Elissa Altman, Emily Nussbaum, Ocean Vuong, Geraldine Brooks, and Jane Green share why libraries are so special to them.
In this episode, meet Marie Forleo, author of EVERYTHING IS FIGUREOUTABLE; Lee Hartley Carter, author of PERSUASION; and Jorjeana Marie, author of IMPROV FOR WRITERS. Whether it’s figuring out what stands between you and your dreams, crafting a persuasive message, or actualizing your artistic talents – each of these authors offer compelling insights and problem-solving tools that you can apply to both your personal and professional life. Find out what it was like for them to record their work, plus hear why for one of these authors, reading the “smack down” portion of her audiobook was especially fun.
EVERYTHING IS FIGUREOUTABLE by Marie Forleo: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/567276/everything-is-figureoutable/
PERSUASION by Lee Hartley Carter: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/576098/persuasion/
IMPROV FOR WRITERS by Jorjeana Marie: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/575394/improv-for-writers/
In this episode, meet Elissa Altman, author of MOTHERLAND; Olivia Gatwood, author of LIFE OF THE PARTY; and Caitlin Moscatello, author of SEE JANE WIN.
Whether they explored the mother-daughter relationship and the complexities of caregiving, tackling phobias through poetry, or the political campaigns of four female first-time candidates, these authors have all written and narrated timely and personal stories that will immediately pull you in.
Find out what it was like for these authors to record their audiobooks, plus hear why one author likes to listen to audiobooks as she gets ready in the morning!
MOTHERLAND by Elissa Altman: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/553946/motherland/
LIFE OF THE PARTY by Olivia Gatwood: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/600047/life-of-the-party/
SEE JANE WIN by Caitlin Moscatello: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/566480/see-jane-win/
In this episode meet Ibram X. Kendi, author of HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST; Maggie Paxson, author of THE PLATEAU; and Gretchen Rubin, author of FORTY WAYS TO LOOK AT WINSTON CHURCHILL.
These authors have researched their subjects deeply, unearthing history and examining the stories of others. They’ve each found themselves personally moved by the power of history and how it is at work in all of our lives.
Hear more about how recording these audiobooks affected them, and what “little” audiobook one of these authors returns to again and again.
HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST by Ibram X. Kendi: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/564299/how-to-be-an-antiracist/
THE PLATEAU by Maggie Paxson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/318886/the-plateau/
FORTY WAYS TO LOOK AT WINSTON CHURCHILL by Gretchen Rubin: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/158609/forty-ways-to-look-at-winston-churchill/
In this episode, meet Pablo Cartaya, author of EACH TINY SPARK; Ibi Zoboi, author of MY LIFE AS AN ICE CREAM SANDWICH; and Natasha Diaz, author of COLOR ME IN.
Each author has written a nuanced coming-of-age novel for kids and teens, featuring young characters looking to find their place within their communities, their friendship circles, and even their own families—without losing what is unique about themselves. Plus, find out why one of these authors picked “Pew!” as the best word to describe the experience of recording her audiobook.
EACH TINY SPARK by Pablo Cartaya: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/570364/each-tiny-spark/
MY LIFE AS AN ICE CREAM SANDWICH by Ibi Zoboi: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/538516/my-life-as-an-ice-cream-sandwich/
COLOR ME IN by Natasha Diaz: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/565269/color-me-in/
S4 E46: In this episode meet Sister Helen Prejean, author of RIVER OF FIRE; Mat Best, author of THANK YOU FOR MY SERVICE; and Mike Donehey, author of FINDING GOD’S LIFE FOR MY WILL.
Each of these authors shares their personal story in an honest, authentic voice that will make listeners reconsider everything from religion to life in the army. And find out which author would cast Chris Pratt as their audiobook narrator.
RIVER OF FIRE by Sister Helen Prejean: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/133675/river-of-fire/
THANK YOU FOR MY SERVICE by Mat Best: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/557219/thank-you-for-my-service/
FINDING GOD’S LIFE FOR MY WILL by Mike Donehey: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/586107/finding-gods-life-for-my-will/
S4 E44: In this episode meet Gretchen McCulloch, author of BECAUSE INTERNET; Jia Tolentino, author of TRICK MIRROR; and Carrie Goldberg, author of NOBODY’S VICTIM. These women explore different facets of today’s culture and society—everything from the internet’s effect on language to reality TV and wedding culture to society’s treatment of victims of assault. Then find out which author finally took a stand in the gif (jiff) versus gif debate!
Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/540664/because-internet/
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/567511/trick-mirror/
Nobody's Victim by Carrie Goldberg and Jeannine Amber: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/563897/nobodys-victim/
S4 E45: In this episode meet Monica Swanson, author of BOY MOM; Hannah Shaw, author of TINY BUT MIGHTY; and Oren Klaff, author of FLIP THE SCRIPT. The life lessons these authors share will appeal to everyone from animal lovers to parents to business owners. Plus discover which author was inspired by the audiobook BIG MAGIC, by Elizabeth Gilbert.
Boy Mom by Monica Swanson and Wendy Speake: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/580301/boy-mom/
Tiny But Mighty by Hannah Shaw: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/591628/tiny-but-mighty/
Flip the Script by Oren Klaff: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/564813/flip-the-script/
S4 E43: In this episode meet Julianna Miner, author of RAISING A SCREEN-SMART KID; Reverend Molly Baskette & Dr. Ellen O’Donnell, authors of BLESS THIS MESS; and Natalie Wexler, author of THE KNOWLEDGE GAP. When it comes to parenting and education, there is a lot of content out there, and this can feel overwhelming. These authors hope to share their knowledge and experience with listeners in order to educate and guide them. Plus find out why one author struggled with pronouncing the word ‘data.’
Raising a Screen-Smart Kid by Julianna Miner: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/558408/raising-a-screen-smart-kid/
Bless This Mess by Rev. Molly Baskette and Ellen O'Donnell, PhD: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/602309/bless-this-mess/
The Knowledge Gap by Natalie Wexler: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/547653/the-knowledge-gap/
S4 E42: In this episode meet Mollie Hemingway, co-author of JUSTICE ON TRIAL; Janet Messineo, author of CASTING INTO THE LIGHT; and Bruce Deel, author of TRUST FIRST. These audiobooks allow the listener to go behind the scenes of a monumental news event, to see through a woman’s point of view in the male-dominated world of fishing, and to become inspired to help others. Plus discover which author is excited for her mom to hear the audiobook.
Justice on Trial by Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/618205/justice-on-trial/
Casting into the Light by Janet Messineo: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/576850/casting-into-the-light/
Trust First by Sara Grace and Bruce Deel: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/588937/trust-first/
S4 E41: In this episode meet Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin, authors of HOW TO SKIMM YOUR LIFE; Kristy Shen, co-author of QUIT LIKE A MILLIONAIRE; and Summer Rayne Oakes, author of HOW TO MAKE A PLANT LOVE YOU. With topics like making day-to-day tasks easier, learning about money, and caring for plants, these books were inspired by these women’s desire to help others. Plus, discover which author’s dream narrator is Lorelei King—the voice behind Stephanie Plum.
How to Skimm Your Life by The Skimm: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/606226/how-to-skimm-your-life/
Quit Like a Millionaire by Kristy Shen, Bryce Leung and JL Collins: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/592323/quit-like-a-millionaire/
How to Make a Plant Love You by Summer Rayne Oakes: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/599282/how-to-make-a-plant-love-you/
S4 E40: In this episode meet Vivian Mabuni, author of OPEN HANDS, WILLING HEART; Laura Lynne Jackson, author of SIGNS; and Nathan Finochio, author of HEARING GOD. These authors are all about connection and guidance, and their audiobooks will help you find your anchor and guide you to a fulfilled life by connecting to God, the Other Side, or to others. Plus find out why one author chose LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE as her last great audiobook listen.
Open Hands, Willing Heart by Jennie Allen and Vivian Mabuni: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/573381/open-hands-willing-heart/
Signs by Laura Lynne Jackson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/554649/signs/
Hearing God by Nathan Finochio: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/573380/hearing-god/
S4 E39: In this episode meet Ruth Reichl, author of SAVE ME THE PLUMS; Emily Nussbaum, author of I LIKE TO WATCH; and Emilie Pine, author of NOTES TO SELF. Each of these nonfiction writers shares work inspired by her life, whether it’s a memoir about her career or essays about personal-yet-universal experiences. And find out which writer would cast Julia Whelan as her dream narrator.
Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/210646/save-me-the-plums/
I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/563025/i-like-to-watch/
Notes to Self by Emilie Pine: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/607959/notes-to-self/
S4 E37: In this episode meet Elaine Welteroth, author of MORE THAN ENOUGH; Amber Scorah, author of LEAVING THE WITNESS; and Tiffany Jenkins, author of HIGH ACHIEVER. These women share their personal journeys—complete with mistakes and hardships—in such an intimate and vulnerable way that listeners will be inspired to examine their own lives and spark conversations with those around them. Plus find out which author describes the recording process as being “a little bit like therapy.”
More Than Enough by Elaine Welteroth: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/598362/more-than-enough/
Leaving the Witness by Amber Scorah: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/549565/leaving-the-witness/
High Achiever by Tiffany Jenkins: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/612800/high-achiever/
S4 E38: In this episode meet Jon Meacham, co-author of SONGS OF AMERICA; Matthew Stanley, author of EINSTEIN’S WAR; and Steve Sheinkin, author of AMELIA EARHART AND THE FLYING CHARIOT. History is the driving force behind each of these authors’ audiobooks. These authors use storytelling as a way to engage and connect listeners to the past, to topics ranging from American music to Amelia Earhart to World War I. Even non-history buffs will fall in love with history after listening to each author talk about his audiobook. Then find out which author would cast Helen Mirren as his audiobook narrator.
Songs of America by Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/612367/songs-of-america/
Einstein's War by Matthew Stanley: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/608113/einsteins-war/
Amelia Earhart and the Flying Chariot by Steve Sheinkin: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/563483/amelia-earhart-and-the-flying-chariot/
S4 E36: In this episode meet Ocean Vuong, author of ON EARTH WE’RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS; Jamil Zaki, author of THE WAR FOR KINDNESS; and Winona Guo & Priya Vulchi, authors of TELL ME WHO YOU ARE. By sharing their stories, these authors are breaking down barriers from language to race in order to help people find commonalities and connection. Discover which author would have a famed DEAD POETS SOCIETY actor narrate their audiobook.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/600633/on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous/
The War for Kindness by Jamil Zaki: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/550616/the-war-for-kindness/
ell Me Who You Are by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/602186/tell-me-who-you-are/
S4 E35: In this episode meet Larry Diamond, author of ILL WINDS; Amanda Little, author of THE FATE AND THE FOOD; and Elliot Ackerman, author of PLACES AND NAMES. Each of these authors tackles necessary and timely subjects in their audiobooks, from the alarming rise of anti-democratic politics around the world to climate change. Listeners will come away with a new understanding of the world after hearing from these authors. Plus, find out why one author would cast Will Ferrell to read his audiobook.
Ill Winds by Larry Diamond: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/588987/ill-winds/
The Fate of Food by Amanda Little: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/536426/the-fate-of-food/
Places and Names by Elliot Ackerman: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/580119/places-and-names/
S4 E34: In this episode meet Jennifer Pastiloff, author of ON BEING HUMAN; Megan Monahan, author of DON’T HATE, MEDITATE!; and Ayaz Virji, author of LOVE THY NEIGHBOR. These authors share messages of happiness, lightness, and hope in their audiobooks. They will inspire listeners to find each of these feelings in their own lives, and to make a change within themselves and in the world around them. And hear how one author couldn’t decide between two dream narrators: Idris Elba and Michelle Obama.
On Being Human by Jennifer Pastiloff: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/579736/on-being-human/
Don't Hate, Meditate! by Megan Monahan: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/592542/dont-hate-meditate/
Love Thy Neighbor by Alan Eisenstock and Ayaz Virji, M.D.: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/591608/love-thy-neighbor/
S4 E33: In this episode meet Jane Green, author of THE FRIENDS WE KEEP; Leah Hager Cohen, author of STRANGERS & COUSINS; and Belinda Luscombe, author of MARRIAGEOLOGY. At the heart of each of these audiobooks is the idea that relationships shape us, from friends and families to lovers and spouses. Indeed, these women are excited about the relationship between themselves and you, the listener. Plus discover which author found accent inspiration from the audiobook A GAME OF THRONES and the rest of the series.
The Friends We Keep by Jane Green: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/540213/the-friends-we-keep/
Strangers and Cousins by Leah Hager Cohen: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/318957/strangers-and-cousins/
Marriageology by Belinda Luscombe: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/556998/marriageology/
S4 E32: In this episode meet Robert Knott, author of ROBERT B. PARKER’S BUCKSKIN; Eric Liu, author of BECOME AMERICA; and Jill Lepore, author of THIS AMERICA. Told in varying styles, from a beloved and uniquely American genre of fiction to meditations about our country today, these audiobooks all took inspiration from the history of the United States of America. Plus, find out which author has been told he sounds just like actor Rob Lowe.
Robert B. Parker's Buckskin by Robert Knott: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/557797/robert-b-parkers-buckskin/
Become America by Eric Liu: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/608645/become-america/
This America by Jill Lepore: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/621073/this-america/
S4 E31: In this episode, meet John Cena, author of ELBOW GREASE; Ashley Iaconetti & Jared Haibon, authors of LUCY & CLARK; and Jesselyn Silva, author of MY CORNER OF THE RING. Whether by encouraging kids to never give up, to have the confidence to make new friends, or to achieve their dreams, these authors all hope their audiobooks will inspire young listeners. Plus, find out which author’s dream narrator would be Jack Black.
Elbow Grease by John Cena: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/564705/elbow-grease/
Lucy & Clark by Ashley Iaconetti and Jared Haibon: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/621077/lucy-and-clark/
My Corner of the Ring by Jesselyn Silva: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/588592/my-corner-of-the-ring/
S4 E30: In this episode, meet Ann Bausum, author of Viral; Matt McCarthy, author of Superbugs; and Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking. From potentially life-threatening illnesses to the death penalty as a part of our criminal justice system, the often-overlooked and complicated topics explored by each of these authors will educate and inspire listeners. Plus, discover which author’s family would schedule road trips around each release of the Harry Potter audiobooks.
VIRAL: The Fight Against AIDS in America by Ann Bausum: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/536244/viral-the-fight-against-aids-in-america/
Superbugs by Matt McCarthy: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/555197/superbugs/
Dead Man Walking by Helen Prejean: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/133674/dead-man-walking/
S4 E29: In this episode, Jayson Greene, author of Once More We Saw Stars; John Von Sothen, author of Monsieur Mediocre; and Raegan Moya-Jones, author of What It Takes. From processing a devastating personal tragedy, to drawing back the curtain on daily life in Paris, to building a big career out of an idea that originated at a kitchen table, these authors are able to reveal the powerful universalities we all share as a result of them each getting deeply personal about their own experiences. Plus, hear why the subway is one author’s favorite place to listen to everything.
Once More We Saw Stars by Jayson Greene: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/558379/once-more-we-saw-stars/
Monsieur Mediocre by John von Sothen: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/557160/monsieur-mediocre/
What It Takes by Raegan Moya-Jones: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/550499/what-it-takes/
S4 E28: In this episode, meet Jordan Lee Dooley, author of Own Your Everyday; Shannon Bream, author of Finding the Bright Side; and Dr. Linda Lancaster, author of Harmonic Healing. These authors aim to help listeners find their purpose and live their best lives by sharing insights, teaching hard-earned lessons, and providing inspiration and encouragement. And, find out which author would cast fellow Southerner Reese Witherspoon as her audiobook narrator.
Own Your Everyday by Jordan Lee Dooley: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/565942/own-your-everyday/
Finding the Bright Side by Shannon Bream: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/564164/finding-the-bright-side/
Harmonic Healing by Dr. Linda Lancaster: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/592241/harmonic-healing/
S4 E27: In this episode meet, Janny Scott, author of The Beneficiary; Michael Brendan Dougherty, author of My Father Left Me Ireland; and Erin Lee Carr, author of All That You Leave Behind. Each of these authors wrote and read their audiobooks in order to explore the deeply personal—and often complex--histories that they shared with their fathers. Plus, hear how one female author would actually cast a male actor to record her audiobook.
The Beneficiary by Janny Scott: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/318254/the-beneficiary/
My Father Left Me Ireland by Michael Brendan Dougherty: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/591812/my-father-left-me-ireland/
All That You Leave Behind by Erin Lee Carr: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/551517/all-that-you-leave-behind/
S4 E26: In this episode meet, Geraldine Brooks, author of Foreign Correspondence; Jason Baumann, author of The Stonewall Reader; and Stoney Stamper, author of My First Rodeo. From reconnecting with old pen pals to exploring integral and unknown pieces of LGBT history to sharing the ups-and-downs of fatherhood, this episode explores the importance of sharing stories and preserving voices from our pasts. And, find out how through recording her audiobook, one author was able to reconnect with her younger selves.
Foreign Correspondence by Geraldine Brooks: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/18931/foreign-correspondence/
The Stonewall Reader: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/576364/the-stonewall-reader/
My First Rodeo by Stoney Stamper: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/572720/my-first-rodeo/
S4 E24: In this episode meet, Hal Elrod, author of The Miracle Equation; Ashley Neese, author of How to Breathe; and Erin Lowry, author of Broke Milennial Takes On Investing. These three authors decided to write and record their audiobooks in order to share formulas, lessons, and wisdom that will help listeners live a balanced, less stressful life. And, find out which author would cast any of the Real Housewives of New York to narrate her audiobook.
The Miracle Equation by Hal Elrod: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/600801/the-miracle-equation/
How to Breathe by Ashley Neese: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/598412/how-to-breathe/
Broke Millennial Takes On Investing by Erin Lowry: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/580096/broke-millennial-takes-on-investing/
S4 E25: In this episode meet Tyler Kepner, author of K: A HISTORY OF BASEBALL IN TEN PITCHES; Monica L. Smith, author of CITIES; and Matthew Sleeth, author of REFORESTING FAITH. Each of these authors wants to ensure that the history and importance of particular people and places are acknowledged, explored, and celebrated—whether it’s a beloved baseball pitcher, a bustling city, or the beauty of trees in the natural world. And, learn why one author’s recording experience reminded him of reading aloud in first grade.
K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches by Tyler Kepner: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/532815/k-a-history-of-baseball-in-ten-pitches/
Cities by Monica L. Smith: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/553231/cities/
Reforesting Faith by Matthew Sleeth: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/573382/reforesting-faith/
S4 E23: In this special episode, meet Martha Hall Kelly, bestselling author of Lilac Girls. She tells us about her newest audiobook, Lost Roses which is narrated by four talented narrators: Catherine Taber, Tavia Gilbert, Kathleen Gati and Karissa Vacker.
Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly:
S4 E22: In this episode meet Helen Ellis, author of SOUTHERN LADY CODE; Lizzie Post, author of HIGHER ETIQUETTE; and Cathy Guisewite, author of FIFTY THINGS THAT AREN'T MY FAULT. While listening to stories about Southern Lady charm, cannabis etiquette, and Cathy’s famous AACK, you will fall in love with these ladies’ laugh-out-loud honesty about the writing and recording process. Plus learn which author’s mother made a special appearance in the recording booth.
Southern Lady Code by Helen Ellis: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/567252/southern-lady-code/
Higher Etiquette by Lizzie Post: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/586479/higher-etiquette/
Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault by Cathy Guisewite: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/562685/fifty-things-that-arent-my-fault/
S4 E21: Library Edition, Part 3: In this special edition of our podcast This Is the Author, we’re celebrating National Library Week by asking authors to share some of their favorite library memories with us. Listen to authors A.S. King, Cathy Guisewite, Deborah Fallows, Jill Schlesinger, Steven Johnson, Pamela Druckerman, Eliza Kennedy, Heather Turgeon, and Alexia Vernon share why libraries are so special to them. Enjoy.
S4 E19: In this episode meet Mira Jacob, author of GOOD TALK; Robert W. Lee, author of A SIN BY ANY OTHER NAME; and Carlotta Walls LaNier, author of A MIGHTY LONG WAY. These authors share their personal narratives, exploring the topics of race, identity, and our country’s history, and will no doubt inspire listeners’ own conversations. And find out which author described their recording process as “a bear.”
Good Talk by Mira Jacob: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/543942/good-talk/
A Sin by Any Other Name by Robert W. Lee: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/583142/a-sin-by-any-other-name/
A Mighty Long Way by Carlotta Walls Lanier: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/97776/a-mighty-long-way/
S4 E20: In this episode meet Gigi Gorgeous, author of HE SAID, SHE SAID; Shannon Sedgwick Davis, author of TO STOP A WARLORD; and Kwame Onwuachi, author of NOTES FROM A YOUNG BLACK CHEF. More than one of these authors described the audio recording process as therapeutic. Hear their reasons why, which range from overcoming the childhood fear of being picked to read aloud to completing the final step in a long publishing journey. These authors inspire us all to achieve our dreams and fight for what we believe in. Plus, find out which author would cast Snoop Dogg to narrate their audiobook.
He Said, She Said by Gigi Gorgeous: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/566733/he-said-she-said/
To Stop a Warlord by Shannon Sedgwick Davis: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/234332/to-stop-a-warlord/
Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi and Joshua David Stein: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/553923/notes-from-a-young-black-chef/
S4 E17: In this episode meet Carolyn Forché, author of WHAT YOU HAVE HEARD IS TRUE; Eric O’Neill, author of GRAY DAY; and Evan Ratliff, author of THE MASTERMIND. These authors reveal personal truths, undercover spy stories, and dark secrets in their riveting audiobooks. Hear the truth about what it was like to record…including which author had trouble pronouncing United States over and over again.
What You Have Heard Is True by Carolyn Forché: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/586566/what-you-have-heard-is-true/
Gray Day by Eric O'Neill: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/566823/gray-day/
The Mastermind by Evan Ratliff: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/549566/the-mastermind/
S4 E18: In this episode meet Emily Arnold McCully, author of DREAMING IN CODE; Matthew Gray Gubler, author of RUMPLE BUTTERCUP; and A.S. King, author of DIG. From illuminating the life of a brilliant mathematician to using a delightfully weird monster to encourage kids to be themselves, the stories these authors bring to life will enthrall listeners. Plus, find out which author can’t distinguish her own recorded voice from her sister’s.
Dreaming in Code by Emily Arnold McCully: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/606896/dreaming-in-code/
Rumple Buttercup by Matthew Gray Gubler: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/589016/rumple-buttercup-a-story-of-bananas-belonging-and-being-yourself/
Dig by A.S. King: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/532327/dig/
S4 E15: In this episode, meet Alex Kotlowitz, author of AN AMERICAN SUMMER; Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt, author of BIASED; and Preet Bharara, author of DOING JUSTICE. These authors’ timely audiobooks explore the complex topics of violence, race, and criminal justice. Hear about the meaningful and influential interviews that contributed to these audiobooks, and how these personal stories and different perspectives can help us reflect on our own. Plus, find out which author was inspired, in part, by Tim O’Brien’s seminal book THE THINGS WE CARRIED.
An American Summer by Alex Kotlowitz: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/236520/an-american-summer/
Biased by Jennifer L. Eberhardt, PhD: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/557462/biased/
Doing Justice by Preet Bharara: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/567283/doing-justice/
S4 E16: In this episode, meet Sunita Puri, author of THAT GOOD NIGHT; Oren Jay Sofer, author of SAY WHAT YOU MEAN; and Serene Jones, author of CALL IT GRACE. By sharing spiritual lessons and life skills, these authors aim to help listeners communicate their needs and achieve more meaningful lives. Plus, discover which author’s dream narrator is Bryan Cranston.
That Good Night by Sunita Puri: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/551602/that-good-night/
Say What You Mean by Oren Jay Sofer: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/576130/say-what-you-mean/
Call It Grace by Serene Jones: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/553290/call-it-grace/
S4 E14: In this episode, meet Helen Oyeyemi, author of GINGERBREAD; Halle Butler, author of THE NEW ME; and Chris Bohjalian, author of WINGSPAN. It’s a rare treat when fiction authors step behind the mic to read their written words aloud—and, luckily, each of these authors had a blast! Plus, discover which famous (classic) author has the best gingerbread recipe.
Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/318837/gingerbread/
The New Me by Halle Butler: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/580133/the-new-me/
Wingspan by Chris Bohjalian: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/609086/wingspan/
S4 E13: In this episode meet David Dean Bottrell, author of WORKING ACTOR; Laura Vanderkam, author of JULIET'S SCHOOL OF POSSIBILITIES; and Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin, authors of THE HOME EDIT. Whether it’s making a dream career come true, learning how to manage your time efficiently, or organizing your home, each of these authors wants to help make listeners lives’ easier. And catch which author had trouble pronouncing the word “Artists.”
Working Actor by David Dean Bottrell: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/572592/working-actor/
Juliet's School of Possibilities by Laura Vanderkam: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/594558/juliets-school-of-possibilities/
The Home Edit by Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/565028/the-home-edit/
S4 E12: In this episode, meet Amber Tamblyn, author of ERA OF IGNITION; Laurie Halse Anderson, author of SHOUT; and Joan Chittister, author of THE TIME IS NOW. Each of these women are contributing to and growing the conversations surrounding sexual assault, the power of the #metoo movement, and the importance of standing up for what we believe in. Plus, find out which of these impassioned activists wants the mighty Ruth Bader Ginsberg to narrate her audiobook.
Era of Ignition by Amber Tamblyn: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/599499/era-of-ignition/
SHOUT by Laurie Halse Anderson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/305770/shout/
The Time Is Now by Joan Chittister: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/600100/the-time-is-now/
S4 E11: In this episode, meet Jacob Tobia, author of Sissy; Abby Maslin, author of Love You Hard, and Andrew Rannells, author of Too Much is Not Enough. These illuminating memoirs that explore the value of trans storytelling, a different kind of love story that’s far from a fairy tale, and the early career wins that led to a success on the stage and screen - will assure listeners that they aren’t alone in their experiences. And guess which celebrity reader one author would have chosen to make their audiobook instantly sexy.
Sissy by Jacob Tobia: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/566884/sissy/
Love You Hard by Abby Maslin: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/572953/love-you-hard/
Too Much Is Not Enough by Andrew Rannells: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/573459/too-much-is-not-enough/
S4 E10: In this episode, meet Dr. Lisa Damour, a psychologist and New York Times contributor; David Wallace-Wells, a deputy editor at New York magazine; and Judith Grisel, a behavioral neuroscientist. From brain science to earth science, the topics these authors’ audios address add much-needed conversation to understanding anxiety, addiction and climate change. Plus, hear why you may rethink how you talk to teenagers. Enjoy!
Under Pressure by Lisa Damour, Ph.D.: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/561788/under-pressure/
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/586541/the-uninhabitable-earth/
Never Enough by Judith Grisel: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/557515/never-enough/
S4 E09: In this episode, meet creator of Millennial Money, Grant Sabatier, artist and lead pastor of Mosaic, Erwin Raphael McManus, and businessman Aaron Dignan. As you listen to each of these authors talk about their audiobooks, their messages of taking action will inspire you—whether at work, with your finances, or within yourself—to enable a fuller life. And, find out which author said that narrating helps him become a better writer. Enjoy!
Financial Freedom by Grant Sabatier: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/566272/financial-freedom/
The Way of the Warrior by Erwin Raphael McManus: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/540636/the-way-of-the-warrior/
Brave New Work by Aaron Dignan: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/572983/brave-new-work/
S4 E08: In this episode, meet Jodie Patterson, a social activist, entrepreneur, and writer; Susan Packard, cofounder of HGTV; and Ayelet Tsabari, an award-winning writer. Hear about the intense emotional journeys that took place behind the mic in bringing these books to life and how their recording processes were affected by sharing their vulnerabilities. Plus, hear why one author’s dream narrator would be one of her daughters. Enjoy!
The Bold World by Jodie Patterson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/551563/the-bold-world/
Fully Human by Susan Packard: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/565693/fully-human/
The Art of Leaving by Ayelet Tsabari: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/532922/the-art-of-leaving/
S4 E07: In this episode, meet award-winning journalist, producer, and New York Times bestselling author Raymond Arroyo; award-winning author (and former oceanographer) Padma Venkatraman; and owner and creator of The Homeschool Alliance, Julie Bogart. Drawing on inspiration from childhood memories, travel adventures, and insights in education, hear why each of these authors are excited to share their stories with listeners. Plus, discover how one author used her high school acting experience to help her narrate. Enjoy!
Will Wilder #3: The Amulet of Power by Raymond Arroyo: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/253059/will-wilder-3-the-amulet-of-power/
The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/551690/the-bridge-home/
The Brave Learner by Julie Bogart: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/567245/the-brave-learner/
S4 E06: In this episode, meet bestselling author Jill Santopolo, inspirational speaker and CEO of Creative Trespassing Tania Katan, and founder of Girls Who Code Reshma Saujani. Hear why recording an audiobook is just plain FUN – despite it being hard – and why one author needed permission to have fun recording it. These authors’ audiobooks will encourage listeners to look at things in a new light, empower themselves and be brave. And, guess which author’s dream narrator would be Kermit the Frog. Enjoy!
More Than Words by Jill Santopolo: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/557947/more-than-words/
Creative Trespassing by Tania Katan: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/566682/creative-trespassing/
Brave, Not Perfect by Reshma Saujani: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/561367/brave-not-perfect/
S4 E05: In this episode, meet Jill Schlesinger, business analyst for CBS News; Cynthia Johnson, an entrepreneur, marketer, and speaker; and Liz Fosslien, an illustrator and marketing and design consultant. Become inspired to change the way you think about money, to develop a person brand, and to recognize and learn from emotions in the workplace thanks to these three authors and the stories they share. And learn about the way one author uses to help her pronounce “niche.” Enjoy!
The Dumb Things Smart People Do with Their Money by Jill Schlesinger: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/588918/the-dumb-things-smart-people-do-with-their-money/
Platform by Cynthia Johnson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/566346/platform/
No Hard Feelings by Mollie West Duffy and Liz Fosslien: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/564051/no-hard-feelings/
S04 E04: In this episode, meet bestselling author Nadia Bolz-Weber, film critic and historian David Thomson, and adventurous debut author Will Hunt. Hear the personal stories and moments and movies that inspired their audiobooks. Plus, hear which author would want Lisa Simpson to narrate her audiobook. Enjoy!
Shameless by Nadia Bolz-Weber: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/247945/shameless/
Sleeping with Strangers by David Thomson:https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/533506/sleeping-with-strangers/
Underground by Will Hunt: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/240262/underground/
S4 E03: In this episode, meet Hillary Frank, creator of the popular parenting podcast “The Longest Shortest Time,” self-described "professional soul-searcher" Megan Griswold, and Jane Mosbacher Morris, the Founder and CEO of TO THE MARKET. Each of these women were inspired to share insights they’ve learned in order to help listeners and improve the world around them. And, learn why one author wants to take her dad with her on her book tour. Enjoy!
Weird Parenting Wins by Hillary Frank: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/563936/weird-parenting-wins/
The Book of Help by Megan Griswold: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/592246/the-book-of-help/
Buy the Change You Want to See by Jane Mosbacher Morris with Wendy Paris: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/567244/buy-the-change-you-want-to-see/
S4 E02: In this special episode, meet Christopher Paolini, author of the internationally bestselling Inheritance Cycle series. He tells us about his newest audiobook, The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm, which is narrated by his longtime reader, Gerard Doyle.
S4 E01: In this episode, meet memoirist Dani Shapiro, author Soniah Kamal, and professor Emily Bernard. From fearless family memoirs to updating classic fiction to reflect her own culture, each of these authors’ works share deeply personal pieces of themselves. Hear how the recording process affected each writer and, discover which author’s dreams of being an actress were finally achieved in the recording booth. Enjoy!
Inheritance by Dani Shapiro: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/554262/inheritance/
Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/567399/unmarriageable/
Black Is the Body by Emily Bernard: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/538934/black-is-the-body/
In this episode, meet success coach and motivational speaker Jen Sincero, editor & founder of becomingminimalist.com Joshua Becker, and author & founder of This Naked Mind Annie Grace. Whether you’re beginning a new journey of personal change, or continuing on a transformational path, let these authors inspire you and help you along. And, discover which author created a new, hybrid word to describe the recording experience.
You Are a Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/550318/you-are-a-badass-at-making-money/
The Minimalist Home by Joshua Becker: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/250883/the-minimalist-home/
This Naked Mind by Annie Grace: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/577190/this-naked-mind/
In this special episode of This is the Author we asked, "What’s your recipe for a good story?" Hear Mitch Abblett, Nick McDonell, Bryan Stevenson, Maeve Higgins, Chip Conley, James Clear, Rachel Marie Martin, Scott Harrison, and Mya Spalter share their vital ingredients for a good story.
In this episode, meet illustrator and coloring book author Johanna Basford, bestselling YA author Stephanie Kate Strohm, and Caldecott Award-winning author and illustrator Emily Arnold McCully. Whether it was a collection of bedtime stories shared with a child or dreams of a romantic city like Paris, these three women share a piece of themselves with listeners in their audiobooks. You’ll be transported and delighted…and you may want a warm croissant to munch on as you listen.
Johanna Basford: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/blog/listen-color-ivy-inky-butterfly/
Love à La Mode Stephanie Kate Strohm by https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/596820/love-la-mode/
Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/336146/mirette-on-the-high-wire/
In this special compilation episode of This is the Author, hear what inspires authors Nic Stone, Torrey Maldonado, Michelle LeClair, Kevin Young, Maeve Higgins, and Carey Nieuwhof to write their books.
In this special episode of This is the Author we asked, "What’s your recipe for a good story?" Hear Markus Zusak, Kate Inglis, Tyler Reagin, Khalida Brohi, George Packer, Sam Anderson, Ryan North, Beth Comstock, and Glory Edimshare their vital ingredients for a good story.
In this episode, meet CEO of Menlo Innovations, Richard Sheridan—although you may want to refer to him as Chief Joy Officer—therapist and meditation teacher, Ralph De La Rosa, and journalist Hamish McKenzie. From stories of joyful leadership to why we need a more joyful meditation practice, you’ll be inspired by the fascinating lessons and research these authors have to share.
Chief Joy Officer by Richard Sheridan: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/557539/chief-joy-officer/
The Monkey Is the Messenger by Ralph De La Rosa: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/576131/the-monkey-is-the-messenger/
Insane Mode by Hamish McKenzie: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/549834/insane-mode/
In this inspiring, love-filled episode of This is the Author, hear from Bishop Michael Curry, who delivered his sermon on the redemptive power of love at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle; meet the charismatic cast of Netflix’s Queer Eye (otherwise known as the Fab Five), who strive to help all of us celebrate our best lives; and listen to United States Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who shares the bold and brave stories of women suffragists as well as those of personal family members who taught her to be strong and courageous.
The Power of Love by Michael Curry: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/604756/the-power-of-love/
Queer Eye by Antoni Porowski, Tan France, Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown and Jonathan Van Ness: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/601971/queer-eye/
Bold & Brave by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/566148/bold-and-brave/
In this special compilation of This is the Author, we asked authors to reveal their recipes for a great story. Hear Torrey Maldonado, Heather Won Tesoriero, Jedidiah Jenkins, Marcellus Wiley, Sam Maggs, KJ Dell'Antonia, Daniel Siegel, Cristen Conger, Caroline Ervin, Tom O'Bryan, and Matt de la Peña reveal their secret ingredients, whether that be radical truth-telling or a pinch of metaphorical salt. Thinking of cooking up some stories yourself? Have a listen, and let the creative mixing begin!
In this episode, meet former NFL player Marcellus Wiley, cofounder of MBAs Across America, Casey Gerald, and staff writer for The New Yorker Bill Buford. Football—the American and British variety—plays an important role in each of these authors’ lives. Speaking from their personal experiences, they share musings, lessons, and expertise that may make you think about how sports and society’s expectations have affected your own life. And, hear why narrating is surprisingly more difficult than “a triple day training camp practice”.
Never Shut Up by Marcellus Wiley: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/572553/never-shut-up/
There Will Be No Miracles Here by Casey Gerald: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/549841/there-will-be-no-miracles-here/
Among the Thugs by Bill Buford: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/20946/among-the-thugs/
In this episode, meet writer Jessica Brody, author and entrepreneur James Clear, and speaker and sales expert Anthony Iannarino. From how to write a novel to how to change your habits to how to be a great salesperson, you’ll be guided to motivation.
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/554039/save-the-cat-writes-a-novel/
Atomic Habits by James Clear: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/543993/atomic-habits/
Eat Their Lunch by Anthony Iannarino: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/585767/eat-their-lunch/
In this episode, meet journalist Gary Pomerantz, writer George Packer, and popular science writer Steven Johnson. Using the lens of sports, culture, technological innovation, and family, these authors explain why journeying to the past is necessary in order to see the present in a new light. And, find out which Hollywood legend is one author’s dream narrator.
The Last Pass by Gary Pomerantz: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/553223/the-last-pass/
Blood of the Liberals by George Packer: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/580451/blood-of-the-liberals/
How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/538407/how-we-got-to-now/
In this episode meet podcast hosts of Unladylike, Cristen Conger & Caroline Ervin, director and writer, Jill Soloway, creator of the groundbreaking and award-winning TV series Transparent, and founder of Well-Read Black Girl, Glory Edim. You’ll be prepared to smash (glass) ceilings, defy gender roles, and support diverse voices after listening to these authors share both their own inspiring stories – and those of other rabble rousers and role models. And, find out which author’s narration experience taught her that she needs to do a few more core strength exercises.
Unladylike by Cristen Conger and Caroline Ervin: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/558376/unladylike/
She Wants It by Jill Soloway: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/259082/she-wants-it/
Well-Read Black Girl by Glory Edim: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/576456/well-read-black-girl/
In this episode meet motivational speaker and coach Alexia Vernon, writer Mya Spalter, and blogger Rachel Marie Martin. Listen in as these experts lead you on a path of transformation and empowerment whether you’re seeking professional, spiritual or personal advice and inspiration. And, find out why one author’s dream narrator would actually be a full cast of wonderful, strong women.
Step Into Your Moxie by Alexia Vernon: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/574482/step-into-your-moxie/
Enchantments by Mya Spalter: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/565183/enchantments/
The Brave Art of Motherhood by Rachel Marie Martin: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/565671/the-brave-art-of-motherhood/
In this episode meet bestselling kids and young adult authors Markus Zusak, Matt de la Peña, and Nic Stone. You’ll hear how their own pasts each inspired them to write their latest stories, whether it’s from an idea that came to one author twenty years ago, to the book one author wishes she had as a guidepost when she was in high school – and of course, why it’s so important for kids to be able to see and hear themselves in books. Plus, from Jim Dale to one’s own brother, hear who their dream narrators might be.
Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/196150/bridge-of-clay/
Carmela Full of Wishes by Matt de la Peña: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/549616/carmela-full-of-wishes/
Odd One Out by Nic Stone: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/534051/odd-one-out/
In this episode meet travel writer Jedidiah Jenkins, author and advice columnist Heather Havrilesky, and CEO Scott Harrison. They address the big questions so many of us ask ourselves every day: What is my purpose? Who am I meant to be? And how can I lead a meaningful life that positively impacts others? The personal stories shared in this episode will leave you thinking about positive ways to make change and feel good about yourself. Not to mention, find out which author’s dream narrator pick has a voice that’s “buttery and dangerous.”
To Shake the Sleeping Self by Jedidiah Jenkins: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/557260/to-shake-the-sleeping-self/
What If This Were Enough? by Heather Havrilesky: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/557733/what-if-this-were-enough/
Thirst by Scott Harrison: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/562193/thirst/
In this episode of THIS IS THE AUTHOR, hear from beloved actors and happily married couple Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally, writer and host Sam Maggs, and singer Mashonda Tifrere. From marriage to friendships and collaborations to co-parenting, you’ll explore all the different kinds of personal relationships that can enrich your life. And, find out which author’s dream narrator is the voice of Wonder Woman.
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullaly and Nick Offerman - http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/555344/the-greatest-love-story-ever-told/
Girl Squads by Sam Maggs - http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/605744/girl-squads/
Blend by Mashonda Tifrere - http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/563906/blend/
In this episode, meet entrepreneur Scott Belsky, marketing experts Jay Baer and Daniel Lemin, and entrepreneur Chris Yeh. You’ll learn about some of the most important--but often forgotten--pieces of business-building. Whether you want to optimize your team’s productivity or create word of mouth buzz among consumers, these experts will walk you through it. And, hear why, even when narrating a business book, channeling emotions is important.
In this special edition of This is the Author, authors Mark and Jay Duplass, Jan Chozen Bays, Stephanie Rosenbloom, Aaron Mahnke, Claudia Renton, Nick Pyenson, and Richard Russo share why libraries are so special to them.
In this episode of THIS IS THE AUTHOR meet hospitality entrepreneur Chip Conley, political commentator and editor Reihan Salam, and journalist Nick McDonell. From how we communicate in the workplace, to how we discuss the immigration debate, and how we talk about the casualties of war, these authors’ books will make you think about the varying viewpoints that affect our world each day. And, find out why, when you’re fifty years old, you should actually only think of yourself as 32 years into your adulthood. Enjoy.
Wisdom at Work by Chip Conley: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/566232/wisdom-at-work/
Melting Pot or Civil War? by Reihan Salam: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/552397/melting-pot-or-civil-war/
The Bodies in Person by Nick McDonell: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/545087/the-bodies-in-person/
In this episode of THIS IS THE AUTHOR meet Google Ventures' "design sprint” creators Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky, Catalyst Leader president Tyler Reagin, and Tal Keinan . With these authors, you’ll get access to their handbooks for productivity, leadership, and faith. Plus, find out which author would love to have Winston Churchill narrate his audiobook. Enjoy.
Make Time by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/564727/make-time/
The Life-Giving Leader by Tyler Reagin: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/558321/the-life-giving-leader/
God Is in the Crowd by Tal Keinan: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/576166/god-is-in-the-crowd/
In this episode of THIS IS THE AUTHOR meet performer Dessa, author and photographer Kate Inglis, and innovation leader Beth Comstock. Hear the incredibly intimate and true stories of love and loss that brought each writer to the mic and find encouragement and support in facing grief and fear. Plus, discover why recording an audiobook is a delicate balance between narrator and listener. Enjoy.
My Own Devices by Dessa: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/561615/my-own-devices/
Notes for the Everlost by Kate Inglis: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/561748/notes-for-the-everlost/
Imagine it Forward by Beth Comstock: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/548754/imagine-it-forward/
In this episode of THIS IS THE AUTHOR meet Mark Cucuzzella, three-time Super Bowl winner Michael Lombardi, and Dr. Tom O’Bryan. You’ll be inspired by all of these authors to live better by embracing your dreams and focusing on your health. Plus, discover why one author finds nicknames essential. Enjoy.
Run for Your Life by Mark Cucuzzella, MD: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/253698/run-for-your-life/
Gridiron Genius by Michael Lombardi and Bill Belichick: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/567325/gridiron-genius/
You Can Fix Your Brain by Dr. Tom O’Bryan: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/592179/you-can-fix-your-brain/
In this special edition of This is the Author, listen to authors Mayim Bialik, Heather Turgeon, Alison Pateki, Grant Wahl, Nathalie Nino, Camas Davis, and Mark & Angel Chernoff share why libraries are so special to them.
In this episode of THIS IS THE AUTHOR meet astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author Ryan North, and venture capitalist Bradley Tusk. Go from space exploration to start-ups, as each of these authors explores the surprising intersection of seemingly-unrelated things: science and military power, history and science, and politics with tech, and business. Plus, hear one author’s plan to gain an invite to Patrick Stewart’s birthday party. Enjoy
Accessory to War by Neil deGrasse Tyson: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/598826/accessory-to-war/
How to Invent Everything by Ryan North: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/561339/how-to-invent-everything/
The Fixer by Bradley Tusk: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/575666/the-fixer/
In this episode of THIS IS THE AUTHOR meet social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, former Scientologist Michelle LeClaire, and pastor Carey Nieuwhof. Hear the passion behind each author’s personal journey to the mic and what inspired them; be inspired by the strength and self-love required to escape from a cult; and learn what it takes to be a good leader. Plus, find out which author had trouble pronouncing ramen noodles! Enjoy.
The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/557315/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/
Perfectly Clear by Michelle LeClair and Robin Gaby Fisher: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/535093/perfectly-clear/
Didn't See It Coming by Carey Nieuwhof: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/565668/didnt-see-it-coming/
In this episode of THIS IS THE AUTHOR meet lawyer and social justice advocate Bryan Stevenson, teacher and novelist Torrey Maldonado, and former CBS News producer and reporter Heather Won Tesoriero. Hear how these authors are redefining what it means to be a superhero– whether it’s by standing up for America’s youth in underrepresented communities, writing stories that speak to the superhero in all young people, or introducing us to a superhero science teacher and his awe-inspiring students. Plus, discover how one author would use a time machine to find one of his dream narrators. Enjoy.
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/224792/just-mercy/
Tight by Torrey Maldonado: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/556833/tight/
The Class by Heather Won Tesoriero: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/554335/the-class/
In this episode of THIS IS THE AUTHOR meet activist Khalida Brohi, poet Kevin Young, and bestselling writer and journalist Jeanne Marie Laskas. You’ll hear about stories from all over the world from the “voiceless” women in Pakistan, to the voices of one’s childhood, to the heartfelt letters of everyday Americans. Plus, learn why poetry, like song, is meant to be shared out loud. Enjoy.
I Should Have Honor by Khalida Brohi : http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/536847/i-should-have-honor/
Brown by Kevin Young: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/553753/brown/
To Obama by Jeanne Marie Laskas: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/564583/to-obama/
In this episode we hear from Nathalie Molina Niño, author of Leapfrog, Chris Bailey, author Hyperfocus, and Steve Hilton, author of Positive Populism.
Leapfrog by Nathalie Molina Niño: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/561511/leapfrog/
Hyperfocus by Chris Bailey: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/562033/hyperfocus/
Positive Populism by Steve Hilton: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/576515/positive-populism/
In this episode we hear from Dr. Sharon Saline, author of What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew, KJ Dell’Antonia, author How to Be a Happier Parent, and Maxie McCoy, author of You're Not Lost.
What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew by Dr. Sharon Saline: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/562282/what-your-adhd-child-wishes-you-knew/
How to Be a Happier Parent by KJ Dell’Antonia : http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/539268/how-to-be-a-happier-parent/
You're Not Lost by Maxie McCoy: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/563905/youre-not-lost/
In this episode, we hear from Daniel J. Siegel, MD, author of AWARE, Sam Anderson, author of Boom Town, and Anand Giridharadas, author of Winners Take All.
Aware by Daniel J. Siegel, MD: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/539757/aware/
Boom Town by Sam Anderson: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/228335/boom-town/
Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/539747/winners-take-all/
In this episode of This is the Author, the author, Howard Michael Gould, and the narrator, John Michael Higgins, discusses recording Last Looks.
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/564309/last-looks/
In this episode of THIS IS THE AUTHOR meet “Unmistakable Creative” podcaster Srinivas Rao, businesswoman Tiffani Bova, and entrepreneur Jessica Honegger. You’ll learn personal and professional skills as these authors talk about creativity, discovering new paths to success, facing your fears…and why one author may have found a new career path thanks to the recording process!
An Audience of One by Srinivas Rao: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/534660/an-audience-of-one/
Growth IQ by Tiffani Bovi: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/565890/growth-iq/
Imperfect Courage by Jessica Honegger: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/564762/imperfect-courage/
In this episode of THIS IS THE AUTHOR meet comedian Maeve Higgins, poet Fatimah Asghar, and psychologist Mitch Abblett. You’ll go on a journey of personal enlightenment with these authors as they talk about everything from being an immigrant, to how writing is a way of thinking, and how we can better understand ourselves and our patterns in order to find happiness. Plus, perhaps our new favorite answer to who an author’s dream narrator would be if not herself. Hint – he’s blue and has a major sweet tooth.
Maeve in America by Maeve Higgins: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/546681/maeve-in-america/
If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/565781/if-they-come-for-us/
The Five Hurdles to Happiness by Mitch Abblett: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/567055/the-five-hurdles-to-happiness/
"What inspired me to write this memoir was I had a daughter four years ago, and my mother, who had been dead for a long time, was an alcoholic. And as I began to write about motherhood I realized that one thing that was very important to me, in my life with my daughter, was to sort of break a cycle of silence and secrecy that exists within most alcoholic families."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/550388/now-my-heart-is-full/
"I was inspired to write the book when my old editor-in-chief from SAVEUR Magazine reached out to me while I was in France because he'd read some online post that I'd written and said, 'You should think about writing a book.' And I remember telling him, 'No, I don’t want to write a book.'"
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/531102/killing-it/
"My novel is titled IMMIGRANT, MONTANA. A young man comes to America from India, and hears Dr. Ruth on the radio. He also wants to fall in love, have sex."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/565697/immigrant-montana/
"I was inspired by Isabel Allende’s memoir PAULA, which she wrote when her daughter was in a coma, which she ultimately did not recover from. I remember I found that book when I was in my MFA program, already pretty close to done with my book. I read that and I saw how she was addressing her daughter directly, and giving the family history to her daughter in an effort to revive her daughter and bring her back to this world. And I realized that what I had wanted to do all along with this book, which felt a little crazy to me in my head, was something that could actually be done."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/557106/crux/
"I was inspired to write my book HAPPIER AT HOME because I realized that for me, one of the most important elements for my happiness was feeling happy at home. And I wanted to really dig deep. I wanted to think about how I could be more "at home" at home."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/209400/happier-at-home/
"I wrote my book because I had to. I didn’t plan on it to be a book. I kept notebooks for several years after my wife died and at a certain point I started transcribing them and I realized that in doing that it was not just helping me understand certain things but it was giving me a certain kind of distance I needed to move forward."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/563747/the-widowers-notebook/
"Here I was really kind of cruising into the very heart of middle age and suddenly there was this compound called Omega-3’s and also this Omega-3 compound was implicitly and explicitly connected to the entire food system of the ocean, at least in how it’s discussed in most magazines and newspapers. I thought this was a good way in to look at a lot of different things going on in the ocean but yet remain focused on what readers are interested in, which is their health and their food."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/317361/the-omega-principle/
"The inspiration for this book came from a few places; It was really a knitting together of a number of stories and themes that I had been working on for years, having to do with problems with the welfare system, and the kind of grand promise of just giving people cash coming from developing countries, like Brazil. "
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/551618/give-people-money/
"What inspired us to write this book was that we saw so many families and parents struggling with the dilemma of conflicting sleep advice that they were getting. A lot of parents telling us that they really had a feeling that their child was capable of better sleep but that they wanted to be good, responsive, warm parents, and that they’d been reading about attachment parenting and the importance of responding to your baby, your child, so how could they make sense of these two things?"
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/314488/the-happy-sleeper/
"I wrote my book because I didn’t want to have any secrets and I thought that it would be important to talk about the abuses that women face in jail. I also thought it would be important to talk about books, because even though we live in the digital age, there’s nothing better than holding a book in your hand."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/566410/the-lost-chapters/
"I was inspired to write this book because I actually wrote a book called GIRL CODE a couple of years ago, which was all about women coming together and supporting one another. But I noticed there was an issue. Women were totally excited and on board to support one another, and they knew that they’d be happier if they did that, but they couldn’t get there if they didn’t have confidence in themselves first."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/561708/like-she-owns-the-place/
"My book is about my five years that I spent in the white house in the Obama administration and the two months I spent in the Trump administration as a stenographer. I actually got the job on Craigslist so I was a bit of a fish out of water. The story is really about a young woman, me, finding her way along the corridors of power and making a lot of bad decisions and poor life choices, and having a lot of embarrassing moments, but also figuring out what’s important and what’s not—all while having a front row seat to history."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/563880/from-the-corner-of-the-oval/
"ASTROBALL is really the result of several twists of fate. In 2014, in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, I wrote a cover story about what was then the worst team in baseball, one of the worst teams in baseball history, and we predicted on the cover that they would win the 2017 World Series. And then they actually did. I just had to write a book about the new techniques they used to get from the bottom to the top."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/586547/astroball/
"Hope Nation is a collection of stories and essays about hope written by some of my personal favorite YA writers writing for readers today."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/561595/hope-nation/
"I wrote this book with Rodney Anderson at Stanford because I suffered from chronic pelvic pain for over 20 years and gratefully I found a way to stop it. The recovery from pelvic pain was one of the major miracles of my life. We wrote this book to bring this amazing method to the many who suffer from chronic pelvic pain syndrome who have not found an answer to their condition."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/558308/a-headache-in-the-pelvis/
"A lot of the inspiration for this book came from experiences doing fieldwork. I’ve been fortunate in being able to do a lot of different kinds of scientific fieldwork, whether it's digging up fossils, tagging the backs of living whales, or dissecting their carcasses. "
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/556686/spying-on-whales/
"I wrote my book because I’ve been thinking about what has gone wrong in our relations between men and women for as long as I’ve been an adult. As I say in the book, my life tracks almost perfectly with the modern second-wave feminist movement, and I think I have a perspective that lifespan gives me about what has gone right and wrong with the movement."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/548987/sex-matters/
"I had always wanted to write a memoir one day, and I had always wanted to write a book, and I thought that it'd be a unique opportunity to speak to a number of issues I care deeply about—issues of free speech, issues of race, class, inequality—and ultimately, to speak to the ways in which I hope to make a positive difference in the lives of others."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/562651/uncensored/
"I decided to write this for three reasons. I wanted a vehicle to keep the spotlight bright on the Flint water crisis because I knew that the nation's attention would fade while many of the needs and problems resulting from the crisis would remain. Second, I also wanted a vessel to share the Flint story not only for our terrible lessons, but to also share that there are Flints everywhere, communities raddled with poverty, injustice, and lost democracy. Finally, I wanted a megaphone to tell the story of how science spoke truth to power and how we are using the cutting-edge science of what toxic stress does to the brain, to build resilience and give hope to the kids of Flint, and kids everywhere."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/550935/what-the-eyes-dont-see/
"REGULATORY HACKING: A PLAYBOOK FOR STARTUPS is really the culmination of this incredibly cool journey I’ve had the privilege to go on over the last five years. Through co-founding 1776 with Donna Harris, I’ve gotten to meet these incredible startup founders all over the world: from Silicon Valley, from Washington D.C., but also Nairobi, Singapore, London, Brussels. And this is really more a story about the incredible things I’ve learned from them."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/561758/regulatory-hacking/
"I wrote my book, SOMEBODY I USED TO KNOW, because I wanted to show the audience that the diagnosis of dementia doesn’t have to mean the end. When people hear the word “dementia” they often think of the end stages. I wanted to show how each person has a beginning, and a middle, and many adventures and laughter in between."
Learn more; http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/563464/somebody-i-used-to-know/
"What planted the seed for this book was a couple of things. I allude to this story of my dad being an engineer, working in nuclear energy. I grew up with this storyline about how all of these amazing scientists collaborated together to create this groundbreaking thing that was going to change the world. Then when I was an adult, I learned how that same technology was probably going to be what wipes us out. I kind of freaked out about this for a while."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/556172/dream-teams/
"What brought me to write about the Wyndham sisters was the painting, really, the painting that hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It’s a tremendous painting, it’s enormous, and it takes up almost one big wall of the gallery. And if you go and see that painting you’ll see that it kind of socks you in the face. And it was that question of what lay behind that image of perfection of these three women dressed all in white, and what their lives were."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/246524/those-wild-wyndhams/
"I wrote my book because I saw so many creatives, especially marketers, who I work with everyday that would stop before they start."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/558024/the-creative-curve/
"I wrote this book as a consequence of being obsessed, I would say, with the insanity of the Cold War. It struck me in the '80s, and I suppose in the late '70s, that the fact that two armed camps had appeared in the world, each of which was poised to destroy the other utterly, and themselves at the same time, was a problem of such paramount importance that nothing else was worth thinking about."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/597643/maps-of-meaning/
"I began to write this book a few years after we moved to Gainesville, Florida, where we’ve been for about 12 years. The first few years I really lived here kicking and screaming. I did not want to be here. And eventually I started to understand that my more interesting and maybe more complex work comes out of a sense of ambivalence."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/318610/florida/
"What inspired me to write GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY is that most people come to psychotherapy trying to get out of their own way. It’s the greatest block to their success, their happiness, their wellbeing, to living a life they won’t regret, when they get to the end of it."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/337376/get-out-of-your-own-way/
"My book is a memoir entitled THE TERRIBLE, and THE TERRIBLE is my real-life story. I wrote a memoir by mistake. I intended to write a work of fiction, and when I sat down to write this work of fiction, everything that came out was true."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/563909/the-terrible/
"I wrote this book because I saw so many women struggling with what it is that they thought they were supposed to eat, and things weren’t going the way they expected it to."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/548326/the-archetype-diet/
"I wrote my book because from as far back as I can remember, I treasured my alone time. And I love to travel, so I set out to answer the question: What might the benefits of being alone and traveling alone be, if any?"
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/534829/alone-time/
"My book is about myself and my father, Harold Ramis. It’s about our relationship together, and him, and sort of just the story of our life. I wrote it after he died because I just didn’t want to forget anything about him. I needed to have something to represent and capture him for myself, for my family, my children, and for everyone that knew and loved him."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/557045/ghostbusters-daughter/
"My personal journey inspired the book. By turning 40 myself, I had suddenly entered this age that no one could define for me. For the first time I had to sort of define it for myself."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/317649/there-are-no-grown-ups/
"This book is the second part of a three-book series that is taking the stories told through my podcast called LORE as well as stories that aren’t public on the podcast, and presenting them in an organized, collated, curated sense. The first book was about monstrous creatures, about things, and this book, being called WICKED MORTALS, is about all of those dastardly and tricky human beings who have done unspeakable things."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/563771/the-world-of-lore-wicked-mortals/
"I knew I wanted to write another book about time management, and really the phrase “off the clock” popped into my head while I was running in Maine one morning. I had gone there for a long weekend trip with my husband, and it was one of those strange experiences where in the morning I suddenly realized I had nothing I had to do that day, which is kind of a rare thing in my life. I took off to run and as I was running along, that phrase, “I am off the clock” popped into my head. And so I wanted to explore that idea a little more."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/558518/off-the-clock/
"The book is about how each of us have the power to create movements and walks you through the steps of how to do that, as told through the real stories of people and sometimes surprising people who have already done it."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/544572/purposeful/
"My novel Star of the North is a thriller set in North Korea, American and China. It’s about three characters, all unconnected, whose lives cross in unusual and unexpected ways."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/566367/star-of-the-north/
"Getting Back to Happy is really the journey of the lessons we learned from losing two loved ones back to back to illness and suicide and then losing Angel’s breadwinning job in the downturn of the economy. Certainly, there’s people who have it worse but everyone internalizes pain and depression and grief in different ways. It was a very low point in our lives."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/565695/getting-back-to-happy/
"What planted the seed for me to write this book was my own postpartum healing experience. As I was in my own recovery process, I recognized that I was having individual considerations but I could also tell that what I was going through was a collective and archetypal experience."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/546620/the-fourth-trimester/
"I wrote my book because I really felt like Jim Brown is a complicated figure, and we don’t write enough about complicated people. He is not perfect, he is not evil, he is not an angel. I think that in itself provides lessons that are incredibly rich for us today. We don’t do much good in this world when we put our heroes so high up on a pedestal that we can’t even reach them."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/317613/jim-brown/
The Men in Blazers are two English-born, soccer-obsessed broadcasters who have savored the dizzying growth of the game along with millions of Americans, as if it was a rollicking, sporting telenovela playing out in real life. This is their behind-the-scenes interview discussing the recording of Men in Blazers Present Encyclopedia Blazertannica.
Learn more about Encyclopedia Blazertannica: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/252515/men-in-blazers-present-encyclopedia-blazertannica/
"The seed for this book was actually a vacation I took to Seattle a few years ago when I stopped in Pioneer Square. There was a giant totem pole there and there was a ranger wearing a smoky bear hat. He told me that in 1899, there had been a brief fad of stealing totem poles from Alaska."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/539111/tip-of-the-iceberg/
"This subject is something of a departure for me. I think a lot of people associate me with books about food and agriculture or maybe gardening. But if you go back far enough there’s a strain of interest or continuity that perhaps explains it. I think my real subject as a writer is the human engagement with nature, with other species in nature."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/529343/how-to-change-your-mind/
"I started out wanting to write a book about how a marriage could survive infidelity. I had this idea of creating this character who was a very powerful woman, who had everything in her life under control, who then had to confront this massive, unexpected problem. Then I was going to show how she got through it. The interesting thing what happened is that she had other ideas. As I wrote the book, I got father and farther away from what I thought it was going to be about."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/537836/do-this-for-me/
"My book is the story of my life told from the perspective of race. It’s about my own racial journey and understanding who I am and who America is."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/555849/im-still-here/
"What planted the seed for BOYING UP was GIRLING UP, which I wrote to explain the process of becoming a woman from a girl. And there was a lot of interest from people I spoke to who liked GIRLING UP who wondered if I could do the equivalent for boys."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/567379/boying-up/
"I’ve been doing this work for a long time, many of you know, over 35 years, and this is my fourth book. What I really think of as a gift to the people doing customer experience work, leaders around the world, people on the front lines, and I wanted to really create a simplified approach to how to improve customers’ lives."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/556171/would-you-do-that-to-your-mother/
"The inspiration for my book was actually a conversation I was having with the Disney book group. I was working with them to promote the book AHSOKA, which I did the audiobook for and helped promote since I do the voice of Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars. And we were brainstorming what more we could do together, and somebody asked me if I’d be interested in telling my story of how I started her universe and how I became the voice of Ahsoka. I said, 'You know, I don't really feel like I’ve lived enough of a life to write a memoir, in fact I still feel like I have several more chapters yet to live out. But I would love to write an advice book because I do not feel that I would have a story to tell without Disney. Disney taught me how to dream it and do it.'"
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/580082/its-your-universe/
"We didn’t think we were ever gonna write books. Pamela at Ballantine said “Would you guys wanna write a book?” and we were like, “How much?" "Who’s gonna read that?” She had all these ideas and then all of a sudden we were like, wait a minute...maybe, maybe we do have something to say. Would people read it?"
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/535098/like-brothers/
"I think there were two ideas behind this book. One of them is simply the joy of exploration. Before Deb and I began these travels around the country we’d been living for a number of years in China. And there we had a bias in favor of just going whenever we could–on trains or buses or horses or yaks–to see remote things. We had the opportunity to do that in the U.S. because of our long background with a small airplane, so we thought: let’s try it here. The other, as time went on, was to sort of grab people by the lapels and tell them what we had seen."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/550194/our-towns/
"What planted the seed for this book was beginning to see children who were obese and beginning to see Type II Diabetes in children, which in the entirety of my training in pediatrics we had never seen before. And so I realized we had a very serious problem. Also what inspired me was doing mindful eating myself for decades and enjoying it so much, and then finding that when I did classes or workshops on mindful eating, people really enjoyed it a lot themselves. And also they had a lot of insights about their behaviors and were freed from kinds of prisons they had put themselves in around eating."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/9948/mindful-eating/
"This book wasn’t so much written as collected, in the sense that over the years (and some of these essays are fairly old, some of them go back a good decade or so), writers get the opportunity every now and then to give talks. Most of the time when you have a book out, people ask you to read from the book. Other times, people want what I guess is being referred to these days as valued added. You’ve written this book, or a bunch of books, but people want to know what’s going on inside you."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/558311/the-destiny-thief/
"FAILURE IS AN OPTION is the story of a Jewish man who’s failed most of his life. It’s actually personal stories tied together, from my early childhood all the way up until now, and about how in small ways I have failed all along."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/558430/failure-is-an-option/
"THE MEANING REVOLUTION is a book about the difficulties every company has to solve in order to operate effectively. This is a dilemma between individual accountability and collective cooperation. On the one hand, every company wants each one of its members to work as hard and as conscientiously as possible. But on the other hand, the company also wants each member to subordinate their own individual work to the collective needs of the organization as a whole."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/555558/the-meaning-revolution/
"I was inspired to write this book after I had just completed writing my last two books: SO SAD TODAY, which is a collection of essays, and LAST SEXT, which is a collection of poems...and I found myself still trying to parse what love is, what lust is, and fantasy from reality, so I was still obsessed with these topics."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/557707/the-pisces/
"The inspiration for this book was actually a classic baseball book by the political writer George Will, who became a sports writer for a time and wrote a book called MEN AT WORK: THE CRAFT OF BASEBALL. And I am very upfront saying that this is George Will’s idea for soccer, because his book was terrific."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/184701/masters-of-modern-soccer/
"What planted the seed for this book idea was that following Dave’s stroke, because I knew he couldn’t remember anything in his state of amnesia and I didn’t really count on myself to be able to remember everything about the ICU and rehab, I began writing him a series of letters. And the word document, I saved it just the first night as DearDave.doc because that was how the first letter started."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/554652/beauty-in-the-broken-places/
"My book ASK A MANAGER is about the difficult conversations you might need to have at work during your career and how to approach them, including the specific wording to use when you do. It focuses in particular on the awkward and kind of cringey conversations that people dread the most, things like what to say if you’re allergic to your boss’s perfume, or if you made a pretty serious mistake at work, or if you lost your cool and you snapped at a coworker."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/554334/ask-a-manager/
"This is what I guess some people would call a food memoir. THE BEST COOK IN THE WORLD came about because of a time when my mom was sick. I was in her kitchen in her cabin in the foothills of the Appalachians and it just struck me as how wrong it was—she was in the hospital, and the kitchen was cold and dark and empty, and it was just wrong. And it struck me then that there was no written record of her food. Not just recipes, but there was no written history, no memoir in even the most unofficial way, of how her food came to be. I wrote this book because I wanted to fix that."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/17374/the-best-cook-in-the-world/
"The seed for this book was my experience building this startup and how painful that process was, and how much I didn’t want anyone else to have to go through the exact same pain. Or at least if they did go through it, they would know that they could have avoided it by listening to this book."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/547217/lost-and-founder/
"What planted the seed for this book was literally when I was a little girl, and my father gave me a pair of boxing gloves, and he taught me how to defend myself. I was the third of three daughters and this is the world I came into. And you’ll hear all about my boxing-glove story in the audiobook."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/228438/born-with-wings/
"My book SUICIDE OF THE WEST is about how capitalism, democracy, modernity itself is unnatural and accidental. We stumbled into almost everything we value about the civilization we live in and because we stumbled into it, we tend to take it for granted. When you take something for granted that is a kind of ingratitude. So my argument sort of traces where Western civilization comes from, where democracy and capitalism come from, and how we are losing it."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/530123/suicide-of-the-west/
"I found out I was writing a poetry book at the end of last year and I had all of 45 days to put it together. And I wrote this entire book while I was traveling to Peru to go do an Ayahuasca immersion with some shamans in the middle of the jungle and I've never had to work on something so diligently before. Every single day. If I missed one day I would have been off track. I kind of fell into a vortex with this book, this poetry vortex."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/586136/all-of-it-is-you/
"This is a story of natural disasters through human history, from Pompeii to Hurricane Katrina to the Japanese Great Tsunami, the stories of natural disasters, so that we can see how these disasters affect us both physically and socially."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/554995/the-big-ones/
"What planted the seed for this book for me was an agent who came to me because he had benefited personally from our work and from our collaborative problem solving approach and it had a transformative effect upon him and his family. And he came to me and said he thought there was a much broader audience for my work."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/540671/changeable/
"This book actually began when the editor of THE NEW YORKER, David Remnick, called me into his office and asked me to explain Texas because he can’t understand why I live here. And, to be honest, I’ve wondered about that myself. "
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/561612/god-save-texas/
"I’ve worked as a journalist in politics for a number of years and the subject of immigration has always fascinated me, not simply because my family is a family of immigrants but also because of the fundamental questions that the issue of immigration raises: Who are we as a country? Who is an American? What does it mean to be an American? And how have those definitions changed overtime? So when I began this book I wanted to address those central questions through a personal lens and this is the result of that endeavor."
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"I first saw STAR WARS when I was tiny, I think I was three. RETURN OF THE JEDI was probably the first movie I saw at the movie theaters, and I saw it many times...I was in love. And I’m still in love. I’ve just loved that world my whole life."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/568276/last-shot-star-wars/
"What planted the seed for this book was the Air traffic control strike of 1981. It was a turning point in my life and, obviously, it was a big turning point in my father’s life. And it was also a huge turning point in labor history, not only in America but around the world."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/549724/air-traffic/
"Our book is about influence. The question is: What is influence? On a very basic level, influence can be defined as the ability to move a person or persons to a desired action, usually within the context of a specific goal. Now that definition is legitimate and certainly works but I don’t believe it’s the substance of influence, which really is pull."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/314009/the-go-giver-influencer/
"My book is about endurance; specifically, it’s about this emerging sport known “fastest known times,” which are basically trail records on the super long trails like the Appalachian Trail and Pacific Crest Trail. But it also talks about the really amazing people who have set these records, and some of them are my friends and mentors. I wanted to talk about them and then also share my experience as a record setter and illustrate how it was so empowering for me to realize that there is no gender divide when it comes to endurance."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/548048/the-pursuit-of-endurance/
"I was inspired by my work as a veterinary internal medicine specialist. Although, if I'm honest, when I first started writing this book it was not going to be about my job as a vet. It was going to be about pretty much anything other than that. But once I started writing I realized that there was really only one story I wanted to tell, and that was the story of my patients and the things that they’ve taught me about life, and about medicine, and about being a veterinarian."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/250324/my-patients-and-other-animals/
"I wrote this book because, over the years, I saw how my perspectives, although molded and sculpted to warrant success, weren’t really the norm of athletes or most people. It’s a false misnomer that you have to have this angst or chip on your shoulder to succeed as an athlete, and science now supports that positivity and optimism are really the drivers of success."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/555798/let-your-mind-run/
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"The origin of this book came from a speech that I gave a few years ago about the importance of the first 100 days of the customer relationship. At the time, to be frank, I wasn’t sure whether it was a good idea or not. But I was asked to give a speech at an event where there was a contest, and the audience would vote on their favorite speech, and the winner would win a $10,000 prize that was a donation to the charity of their choice. Well, thankfully, the audience voted for my speech. And in that moment, I knew that there might be some legs under this idea."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/561172/never-lose-a-customer-again/
"This book is actually my memoir. Being a chef, a restaurateur, and a cooking show host—I'm known for that. But the more I cooked, the more I wrote cookbooks...the more people wanted to know about me, my personal life. Because my trek, my coming to America, my being an immigrant, has an interesting story. And in today’s time I felt I wanted to share my story, my experience as an immigrant coming to America—the difficulties in doing so and the joys and the rewards that I reaped in coming to America."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/549475/my-american-dream/
"I wrote the book and get to be in it. It’s very exciting. I casted myself as Christopher because I felt like it was a really fun departure for me as an actor. I love that Christopher is the kind of guy a piece of us wanted to be a little bit growing up, and kind of, still now. No worries in the world, and exudes this confidence that comes from, probably a six-pack, of both beer and the one on his stomach."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/554754/folded-notes-from-high-school/
"My book is about being a young—well, relatively young—disgusting idiot who makes terrible choices, and wants to get revenge on anyone who ever dumped me."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/555854/meaty/
"I’ve worked in education for a long time, and I’ve written quite a few books addressed to people as individuals and also to educators, but I’ve also had lots of conversation with parents. I am a parent. And I’m constantly being asked by parents about what’s going on in education, and what the right thing is to do for their children."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/315396/you-your-child-and-school/
"Our book is about so many wonderful things. It’s really about being raw, and real, and not being ashamed to speak the truth, and I get that from my mom. Growing up I could ask her any and everything, whether it be about sex, drugs, dating, relationships—it did not matter! She would answer me honestly."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/561936/perfect-is-boring/
"My book is about three young people: Freya, Harun, and Nathaniel. They are complete strangers who have seemingly nothing in common except for this one key thing, which is that each of them, in their own way, is lost. They collide, literally, in New York's Central Park, and that kicks off a day together where they form this intense friendship and a little bit of romance as they kind of come to understand that maybe the way out of their own loss lies is inhabiting one another’s."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/554278/i-have-lost-my-way/
"I wrote MY DEAD PARENTS because after my mother died I was cleaning out her house and found love letters that my parents had exchanged long before my sister and I were born. The letters were so fascinating and totally confusing because the people that my parents were in those letters were so different form the people I knew."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/247514/my-dead-parents/
"My book is about taking down Confederate monuments in New Orleans, but it’s really about race in America, and particularly in the Deep South. I wrote this book because it was time for the people in the South and the people of America to face the issue of race and be truthful about it."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/575468/in-the-shadow-of-statues/
"This story is the story of the first human beings to go to the Moon. Now we often think of Apollo 11 as the first lunar mission, and of course that was the first mission that landed people on the Moon, but Apollo 8 was the first time human beings broke out of earthly orbit, went into orbit around another world, and, to my way of thinking, effectively became a species of two worlds."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/557389/to-the-moon/
"The whole series was about Frank Einstein, 10-year-old kid genius, who invents the most amazing things. And this last one was the most fun of all because he invented a zipper that could connect different parts of space time. I mean, not easy to do but Frank Einstein, genius, has a way to do it"
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/588767/frank-einstein-and-the-space-time-zipper/
"My book is about women throughout computing and internet history. It’s really a story of the 20th and 21st century told through anecdotes of women’s experiences interfacing with technology."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/545427/broad-band/
"My book is about a man named Alexander Mackenzie and a journey he took in 1789. He was looking for the Northwest Passage and what he actually found was the Arctic Ocean. Alexander Mackenzie has been lost a bit to history, at least in the United States, and I started writing this book when I discovered that Mackenzie was the first European to cross North America, or the first recorded crossing of North America."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/543135/disappointment-river/
"My book is a memoir of my coming out and entering into my first relationship. It’s sort of a follow-up to my first memoir, which came out four years ago, which was about how I had never had a boyfriend and couldn’t figure out why. And this book is about the years that followed and kind of figuring that all out."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/554715/would-you-rather/
"My book is about my own journey as a transgender person, as an advocate, and as someone who’s working for equality for LGBTQ people across the country. The story really is about my relationship with my late husband, Andy, who was a transgender man, and it was really through my relationship with Andy that I learned some of my most important lessons in this fight for equality."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/557681/tomorrow-will-be-different/
"My book is called SECOND WIND and it's a memoir of the comeback I tried to do in the Sunfish Class back in 1992-93. And it’s a very personal book because it’s not just about trying to become a Sunfish North American Champion again, it’s about my life on Nantucket as a stay-at-home dad and how I had alienated myself from the sport of sailing that had once meant everything to me."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/558410/second-wind/
"ISLANDBORN is about a little girl named Lola who is an immigrant, but she left the island when she was very, very little so she didn’t grow up with any memories of the island. And what happens is she’s one of those girls who’s surrounded by her immigrant community and everybody talks about the island, and everybody reminisces about this place that they left, and she has no memories of it. And she really wants some sort of connection, she wants to remember."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/553899/islandborn/
"It’s about 13 remarkable women who have positively changed the course of history for the better through their contributions in science, in advancing women’s rights, in helping push the boundaries of what we understand about medicine, in giving more beauty to the world and helping more people understand why conservation is all of our responsibilities, and so much more. All 13 of these women deeply inspire me, and I hope that they inspire the girls and boys who will read the book when it comes out in March."
Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/573478/she-persisted-around-the-world/
"My book is about my experience of living in Japan as a young man, as a student at a film school in Tokyo in the 1970s. It was a very extraordinary time to be there as a young Westerner who was interested in Japanese film and theater."
Learn more about A Tokyo Romance: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/534126/a-tokyo-romance/
"My book is called HOW LUCK HAPPENS and it is about how you make luck happen in your life. I started thinking about the topic after I wrote THE GRATITUDE DIARIES and I was inspired to look at other big topics that affect our lives and happiness. It occurred to me that we think of luck as something that just falls from the sky, but as I researched the topic with my co-author, Barnaby Marsh, I realized that we have so much more control over events than we sometimes realize."
Learn more about How Luck Happens: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/552926/how-luck-happens/
"The story of my book is that I’ve been writing these “I’ve Been Thinking” columns for some time now in my Sunday paper and lots of friends and readers encouraged me to put them together into a book because they seem to help people with their day-to-day life. I’m a big believer in inspiration books that I have by the side of my bed that have helped me in my own life and I know how important books like this are to people if they’re going through rough patches or they’re dealing with something for the first time."
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"My book is about a SEAL team at war, and someone who wants to belong to that team: someone who wants to be a part of something bigger than himself. He tries to imagine what that is as he’s trying to become that bigger thing."
Learn more about Bring Out The Dog: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/232350/bring-out-the-dog/
"I’ve described BACHELOR NATION as a combination of an oral history of the franchise, a cultural analysis of why so many smart feminists are obsessed with the show, and also a lot of juicy, behind-the-scenes tidbits about how the sausage is made."
"THE COMMON GOOD is about the obligations we owe one another, the duties we owe each other as members of the same society. I wrote THE COMMON GOOD because we’re living in an incredibly stressful and cynical and narcissistic era."
"My book is about retiring and how that whole world is changing for baby boomers. It’s going to be so much different than the way our parents looked at retirement."
"My book is about the experience of women in Silicon Valley. It is called BROTOPIA: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley. It is my first book. And I wrote it because while Silicon Valley is an incredible place that's created incredible things, there is one glaring flaw and that is that women have largely been excluded from the greatest wealth creation in the history of the world. There are very few women building and working at these companies."
"My book, CRINGEWORTHY, is a nonfiction book about feelings of embarrassment, self-consciousness, awkwardness, and just generally things that make me cringe. And I wrote it because these are feelings that have driven me insane for most of my life."
"My book is about trying to figure out my own prosperity gospel. I thought I was an expert in this movement called the American Prosperity Gospel, which has millions of believers who think that God will give them health and wealth and all manner of good things in response to their own righteousness. And so I wrote an academic book about it and thought myself to be quite the careful and distant observer of it."
"My book is about rudeness. It’s about the world getting ruder...from social media to television to impatience in politics. And it’s been happening more and more in Britain and it’s been happening a lot more in America. It just seems like we treat each other in a much worse way than we used to."
"My book is about my search for Barbara Newhall Follett, the child prodigy and adventurer who vanished in 1939. But it’s also about my marriage and my quest for independence but also stability. And I think that a lot of things about Barbara’s life really resonated with me."
"I was inspired to write from the first time that I encountered this change triangle at an academic conference. I had spent my whole life studying psychology and biology, and what makes people move and grow and tick, and I had never learned any of this information on emotions before."
"My book is about raising confident and compassionate girls. I’ve been working with girls in therapy and in groups for almost 20 years now and I’ve seen a lot of changes in girlhood. One thing that I started to notice about 10 years ago was that the mean girl phenomenon seemed to be starting younger and younger."
"I started to realize that if happiness was all about just you, there’s this invisible cap that occurs in terms of your happiness where we can’t seem to sustain the growth or continue its growth up even higher. So we started to think a little bit differently about happiness. And the conclusion I came to, which is the reason I wrote BIG POTENTIAL, is that I think that happiness, while it is an individual choice, is not just a personal choice; it’s also an interconnected one."
"My book is an inspiring, research-driven, field-tested guide to creating an extraordinary career and meaningful life. It’s based on over a decade of study and practice, and offers actionable steps to becoming more purposeful, productive, and effective in all areas of your work. And it’s really fun."
"Our book is about what parents and other caregivers can do in their interactions with their kids that actually develop a more integrated brain that creates a receptive state for learning and keeping the inner spark of your child alive and well."
"My book is about how to approach meditation as a layperson. A lot of times when we think about meditation we normally associate it with this sort of monastic type of activity. I learned how to meditate with this person 15 years ago who really changed my life and changed my understanding of the practice and I wanted to share those principles with other people who were like me, who were struggling to meditate, people who had a lot of questions around the practice. In order to give them answers in a real world practical way."
"My book is about loss and impermanence, death but most essentially, love; it’s a love story. It’s about a young man named Jim Bird, who at the beginning of the book, dies, technically for just a few minutes, and returns with no memory of any lights, or angels or tunnels, or anything exciting like that. Anything that indicates there might be something waiting for him on the other side, or waiting for any of us for that matter. And coming back with that knowledge spurs an investigation of sorts into hopefully there is something and maybe he didn’t see it."
"When you’re young, love is given to you if you’re lucky enough to have at least one caring parent or caretaker, but over the course of a child’s life, I think the idea of love evolves. I was trying to explore that. And I think at some point there’s always going to be a fall from grace and I wanted to see how does a kid go from realizing their initial perception of love doesn’t fit with the real world and it has to be something bigger and greater, something they seek on their own."
"I wrote this book because I wanted to read it. A couple of years ago I realized I was making all kinds of “When” decisions in my life. Everything from “when” to exercise during the day to “when” to do certain kinds of work, to “when” to abandon a project. And I realized I was making those decisions in a pretty haphazard way."
"The book’s about my career as a negotiator in responding to a wide range of hostage barricade and suicide incidents -- covering prison rides, right-wing malicious stand-offs, religious zealot sieges, terrorist embassy takeovers, airplane hijackings, and the kidnapping of American citizens abroad."
"In this New Year, you might want to try meditation. Some of you may have wondered about the benefits, stress reduction, lowering of anxiety, helping you cope more efficiently, be less frustrated, less addicted in your behavior. The most important thing from the beginning is not to turn it into another self-improvement project. Meditation can be useful if you don’t expect too much from it. So let me guide you a little bit into the way I think about it."
"Our book is about...well the short answer is our book is about meditation. The slightly longer answer is our book is for people who think meditation is not for them or that they could never do it. I had written a previous book called 10% HAPPIER which was all about how I, as a skeptical news man, stumbled upon meditation and how it made a significant difference in my life. I assumed, kind of naively, that when I wrote my book and explained all of my reasons for meditating, including the fact that there's science that suggests it's really good for you, I kind of assumed that everyone would start meditating."
"PLAYING WITH FIRE is set in the 1968 presidential campaign, but the book is about nothing less than life and death, because that's what was at stake in the 1968 presidential campaign."
"My book is called SPINELESS, and I named it that because it’s about jellyfish, and jellyfish are indeed, spineless. And it’s that very spinelessness that’s given them the ability to proliferate in today’s oceans. But it’s not just about jellyfish, it’s also about me growing my spine as a writer, a middle-aged woman, in a land-locked Austin, Texas."
"I wrote this book, AN AMERICAN FAMILY, to tell the story of my family’s immigration to the United States. But behind all this, the American values that inspired me to decide to come to the United States and then make it a home."
"I had been working in the single-mom space through my blog and podcast, and speaking and media engagements, for more than five years. I was raised by a single mom, I became a single mom, and I had a lot of initial shame around being a single mom. And, you know what? It happens to suit me really well. And I found myself relaxing into this time that I’m in and finding all these women—there’s ten million single moms in our country, millions worldwide, and these women have nothing to be ashamed about. I’m meeting incredible women every day that are doing incredible things—in business, in their communities, with their families—and I wanted to reach out to them. And I wanted to inspire the women that aren’t quite there yet."
"My book is about how I learned to be a leader and how I built my company. I wrote it because when I started I would spend every Friday night in the bookstore, reading about CEOs and successful organizations, so that I could learn from them. And I found wonderful stories and amazing stories of success, but I always left wondering how they did it."
"My book is about life in the Texas border country. It follows my family’s migration into Texas from Missouri in the 1850s. But in a larger sense, it’s about the migration of different peoples, through a distinctly unwelcoming landscape over the last 14,000 years."
"My book, SO MUCH I WANT TO TELL YOU: Letters to My Little Sister, is a collection of essays and lessons that I’ve learned over the past decade since her suicide in 2007."
"People always ask me why I wrote the book, where did I get the idea to write the book. As with most of my books, the idea did not come from me, it came from others, specifically two friends to whom I dedicate the book. One is Markus Spieker, who lives in Germany, and the other is my dear friend here in New York, Greg Thornbury, who is the president of the Kings College. I had never thought about writing a biography of Luther, but these two very dear friends kept pushing me to think about it saying that the 500th anniversary of the reformation, October 31st, 1517 presented a perfect occasion for people to rethink his legacy, and in many cases, learn about this seminal figure, whom perhaps, they had never encountered. The more I looked into it, I was myself embarrassed at how little I knew and at how shockingly seminal Luther was."
"I think that I realized there were a lot of stories and ideas that didn’t really make sense to talk about on stage in a stand-up context because they were just too embarrassing, or not funny enough, or just too personal, and I couldn’t figure out a way to perform them live. And so I started writing them down and they just sat in this document, and I just hoped one day I’d get brave enough to do it or smart enough to figure out how to do them on stage, and I just couldn’t. People kept suggesting I write a book and I always just felt like, 'Oh God, that’s something you do when you have a long life.' I just didn’t feel like I had enough to offer, and then I thought, “Oh, maybe I should do all those stories that I've never figured out how to tell on stage. Maybe they’re a book.' And I started looking at them and I was like, “Wow this stuff’s embarrassing, I’m never gonna be able to say this in front of people.' So I just gave up on that ever happening and I started turning it into a book. And then to get through it I had to get an intention together, I had to get a mantra together and I was like, 'Okay, I’m gonna write the book that I wish had been available to me when I was 18. I wanna write a bible for people who want to grow and feel better about their awful choices.'"
"FASTER THAN NORMAL is about understanding that a trait that many of us are born with, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, is not the curse or the disability that we’ve been told it is all of our lives, that if managed properly, allows us to be faster than normal, to have quicker a brain, to come up with answers faster than other people, to create, to explore, to learn faster and differently, to get more hours in our day back, to get more of our life back. It is a gift, not a curse."
"My book is about adolescents—how they age, how they grow, and how they make decisions. Why do they do what seem like the most insane things at times? I wrote my book because I’ve always been really interested in the teenage years, and not only teens, but adolescence, that period of time from about 10,11,12 until about 25, 26,27, when we actually start to not only become, but act, like adults. Those years so many things change and we all remember those years in in our own lives so acutely, so intensely, just like it was yesterday. Well, it turns out there are a bunch of reasons why that is the case and we set a path for ourselves during those years that really forecasts our future…so much inevitably changes and predicts who we will become and how we will get there. And that is something that has fascinated me my entire life."
"As a magazine writer, I’m always looking for other people’s stories and trying to talk to people about what their lives are like. I always knew that that came from a place from having some pretty crazy experiences as somebody who’s bipolar and that I had all these stories that seemed outlandish and bananas, and that maybe I had to start with my own story. It all definitely started when lithium, the medication that I was taking for bipolar disorder, stopped working for me. All of a sudden, bipolar disorder and lithium became so much more prominent and important in my life. And it became much more clear to me that it was a bigger part of my identity than I ever imagined."
"My book THE FOUR TENDENCIES is about a personality framework that I’ve identified called the Four Tendencies that divides all of humanity into four types: Upholder, Questioner, Obliger, and Rebel. I got my first insight into this framework when I had lunch with a friend and she said something that got me obsessed with this question of personality types. She said, 'I know I would be happier if I would go running, and when I was in high school I was on the track team and I never missed track practice, so why can’t I go running now?' And I thought, 'Well, why? It’s the same person, the same behavior, at that time it was effortless but now she can’t do it. What’s going on?' My determination to figure out the answer to that question, in the end, led me to write a whole book, called THE FOUR TENDENCIES."
"I was inspired to write this book, UNLEASHING THE INNOVATORS, because I love big companies, I worked in one for 25 years, and in my consulting practice, company after company I meet is struggling with culture change, and revitalization, and growth, and energy, and risk and dealing with fear of failure. And many of them were using startups to try to kind of put new energy into the company. And yet, I didn’t think there was a playbook for that."
"Hi, my name is Erwin Raphael McManus. I live here in Los Angeles, California and I’m the lead pastor of a community of faith called Mosaic. I just wrote a book called THE LAST ARROW. And THE LAST ARROW is really about living a life without regret. I began to ask the question, “what is it about people that often times confuses quitting with failing?” Since so many times in life we lower our expectations, and so in some ways the subtext title for me is that we should never settle."
"What inspired me to write MEDITATE WITH ME: A Step-by-Step Mindfulness Journey was I wanted kids to have a way to slow down. I wanted to give kids a beloved book that they could connect to, that they could interact with, practices that were easy for them, a way to feel their breath in their body, a way to slow down when they need it, and a way to really calm themselves…a way to sort of start practicing self-soothing techniques that they’ll really need throughout their entire lives."
"My book, READING WITH PATRICK, is about a student of mine named Patrick, and this remarkable literary and intellectual awakening we experienced together in a county jail in Arkansas. He was a student in my class who was incredibly bright, really quiet, and just had trouble coming to school. I really encouraged him to come to school to write and to read and we had this incredible year together where he improved incredibly. Three years after this, I’ve left Arkansas—it’s a place where a lot of people leave—I agonize about it, I decide to go to law school. My parents are like, “what the heck are you doing in Arkansas?” Three years later, I’m in law school and I find out from a friend that Patrick had gotten into a fight and killed someone. I was totally devastated. I was shocked. I went back to Arkansas to visit him in county jail and I discovered that his reading skills had regressed. They were worse when I first met him in the eighth grade, and it’s because he had dropped out of school the year after I left the Delta. The heart of the book is really about us reading together in jail for seven months while we’re waiting for his trial, and about the incredible agility and the power of reading together and writing together. And it’s also about me grappling with my own failures and trying to think about the legacy of racism and poverty in the Mississippi Delta."
"It is about basically finding an email when my daughter was three weeks old that led me to the discovery that my husband was not who I thought he was. And showing the really perfect fairy tale 'before' aspects of our relationship and then the 'after' parts, where I’m just uncovering lie after lie and kind of unraveling this double life he had been living. I wrote my book because I actually didn’t feel like I had a choice not to. It kind of wrote itself in four months and it felt like I was writing to survive."
"It took me 10 years to write DRAW YOUR WEAPONS. I wrote it after seeing two photographs. The first photograph I saw was a picture of a man and he was holding a violin, and I read the newspaper story about him. It turned out he was a conscientious objector during World War II who’d protested the internment of Japanese Americans, and was put in prison. While he was there, he built a violin. And the newspaper story I read about him was about his grandson completing that violin and giving it to him on his birthday. And everything in my body said, 'you have to write about this person.'"
"I found myself writing about a lot of these women in my day job, which is a culture writer at BuzzFeed. And it seemed clear to me that there was something that was changing. I used to be a professor, and I focused on media studies but also gender studies. And so I was very familiar with the ways that attitude towards women, an embrace of feminism, and unruliness generally, kind of ebb and flow over decades."
"The story behind my book THE CHANGELING is that I became a new father and started taking endless numbers of photos of my son, and posting them to Facebook almost immediately. And then I had to ask myself why in the world was I sharing something so private."
"Somebody asked me ‘Do you want to do an autobiography?’ I wasn’t going to do it now—I say this in my introduction. I thought it’s what you do at the end...I did not know the rules. But they said, 'Do it!' I thought, okay, I’ll do one. It’s a halfway point. This is my first half of life."
"My book is about two families who go on a cruise together down the coast of Central America. They meet an Argentinian family and everyone goes ashore. And then a series of small things go wrong and the six kids go missing. So the novel goes back and forth between the parents, who are frantic, and the kids, who are more resourceful than anyone knew, including them."
"After I graduated from college, I set about becoming a writer and playing ultimate frisbee. And I kept doing those things for about 15 years. I wrote about a lot of things—I wrote about my dad’s death, I wrote about the natural world—but it never really occurred to me to write about ultimate. And then after my first book was published I got picked up by a big agent at ICM, and she looked over all my stuff and said, “This is what we should do.” And it was a quick proposal I’d written about going back and playing with the Boston National Champion Ultimate Team. And I would go back in a kind of George Plimpton fashion and play with them and write about the season."
"The book is about communicating and relating to other people, and it’s called IF I UNDERSTOOD YOU, WOULD I HAVE THIS LOOK ON MY FACE? And that’s really what it’s about, it's about the value of relating. I think the basis of communicating is when you understand what’s going on in the head of the person you’re talking to or communicating with, whether you’re talking to them in person or in a written piece of material. You’ve got to know what they’re going through—otherwise, you’re just spraying information at them."
"This book is about celebrating everything that makes our boys uniquely boy, and using their strengths to inspire and prepare them to grow up into the men they long to become, by taking a step back into history and taking on knight training."
"My book is about eating snacks and being mad. I wrote my book because I’d already written one and that was pretty fun. I was inspired by revenge; I want everyone who ever doubted me or was ever mean to me to see that I have a book in bookstores and feel really bad about their own lives."
"The book is inspired by three of my mentors: Viktor Frankl, Joseph Campbell, and Carl Jung. It is based on their teaching and learnings. I talk about archetypes and their shadows. Within each of us there are a polarity of character. One will lead us to greatness and one will lead us to our gaps."
"My book is about an extremely consequential 12-month period in American history, and also in the history of my family and my own maturation. Being 11 and 12 is a very interesting time of life, when you, for the first time, begin to establish your frame of reference for the world outside of your experience at home. And, in my case, it was a discovery of history as an inescapable current. We were all writing. These were dangerous years."
"As a writer for Fortune magazine, I look for the biggest, most important, most interesting, most colorful business stories, period. I also have lived in Silicon Valley for almost 20 years now. And so, as Uber was exploding on the scene, it fairly quickly became obvious to me that that was the story that had all the qualities I was looking for…”
"It’s a food history of the modern South that begins in 1955 with the Montgomery bus boycotts. Women who baked cakes and pies and sold them literally fueled the bus boycotts. And it ends in 2015 as a newer South comes into focus. A newer South in which tamale makers of Mexican descent are as much a part of the Southern story as anyone else."
"When I was a young actor in New York, I premiered in a show called Sly Fox, which starred the great George C. Scott. I had three lines in the show. Actually, I had one line and I said it three times. It was, 'You look wonderful, sir,' which I added 'oh' to. 'Oh, you look wonderful, sir.' That was free of charge. I remember walking out the stage door one day and there was this legendary autograph hound that went from theater to theater, and he was standing right in front of me as I walked out, and he looked at me and he went, 'Are you anybody?'"
"This story is really about homecoming. It’s about cooking and getting into the world of cooking in all its so many crazy, wild places. From home cooking to the kitchens of New York City, to farmhouse kitchens and warehouse squat kitchens, this book really shows how you can cook well or you can learn something about cooking anywhere you are."
"My book, most generally, is about anxiety. It’s half memoir, about my own anxiety issues that I’ve struggled with for the last twenty-five years, along with a deep dive into the science of anxiety, looking at everything from the genetics to the neuroscience behind anxiety."
"My book is about my sexual coming of age and my adolescence and my going off the rails a bit in my mid-life. The book came about because I started writing about my adolescence and it was hard remembering that time. Also, I realized I really hate coming-of-age memoirs and I started to wonder why was I writing one. As a teenager and young adult I had been, well, I was kinda trouble. I was sexually fast and took drugs and dropped outta school and was kinda a bad kid. And I wasn’t quite that bad in mid-life but I started to, sort of, um, wanna get in trouble again. And I realized that was why I was writing about my adolescence. And that the book was really about both of those and how they’re in dynamic with each other."
"I wrote a book called Girling Up, which is a map of the process of becoming a young woman from being a girl, and the book literally covers everything from puberty to how we grow, how our brains work, how and why we socialize, how we cope with hard things in life and how we matter in the world."
"I wrote this book with Jorge Cham because we were really excited to share our enthusiasm for exploring the unknown, or looking out into the universe and thinking about the possible crazy things that could be revealed to us. There are lots of books out there about science and explaining what science does know and all the amazing things science has learned, but we really felt like nobody was talking about what we don’t know, what’s out there left for young people who are going into science to discover and people who are interested in science, what they might learn. "
"My book The Light We Lost is about two people who meet in college on September 11, 2001, and fall in love, but the universe has other plans for them. This story follows them over the next 13 years as they come in and out of each other’s lives. I wrote my book because of a really bad breakup actually and I wanted to tell a story about someone who was feeling what I was feeling at the moment."
"Over the years, narrating Magic Tree House has become more and more fun. In the beginning I was kind of nervous and I wanted to make sure I did all the voices right. I practiced a lot ahead of time, and now, after what, 55 books, it’s just a way of life. I know the characters so well and I know the stories and I enjoy so much making them come alive for myself again."
"In my work as an organizational psychologist, in almost 15 years, I noticed that to a person, people who I was coaching and working with were most successful, knew who they were, how they were seen and how they fit into the world around them. But over and over I saw a shortage of self-awareness, not just in the companies I worked in, but nearly everywhere I looked. And I think a lot of people would agree."
"I’ve been a magazine journalist for about 25 years and have spent a great deal of time in the Middle East during that time, writing about the upheavals in the region. And about 2 ½ years ago the editor-in-chief of the NYT Magazine came to me with a proposal of taking a really comprehensive look at the Arab’s spring revolts that began in 2011, that utterly transformed the Middle East. And he held out the idea that if what I found was compelling enough that they might give me the entire issue of the magazine, something that had never been done with the NYT Magazine before."
"My book You’re the Only One I Can Tell, Inside the Language of Women’s Friendships, is about women talking to friends. My last two books were about sisters and about mothers and daughters. Women’s friendships are the third, all-female relationships in women’s lives. I was inspired to write it, both because, friendships have been so important to my own life, but also because I’ve heard so much about friends from my friends."
"This is Lance Rubin, author of Denton Little’s Death Date and Denton Little’s Still Not Dead. The first book is about a 17-year-old named Denton Little who lives in a world that’s much like our own except for one key difference -- everybody knows their death date. And, Denton Little is a 17-year-old whose death date, when the first book starts, is tomorrow, the same day as his senior prom."
"My book is called There is No F*cking Secret, Lessons from a Badass Bitch, and what inspired me to write this book is that so many people have decided who they think I am, and tell me who they think I am, and come to me all the time and ask me what my secret is. And, I want the world to see who I really am, and the only way I could do that is by writing this book."
"We just got finished recording the audio version of my book “This is Really Happening.” My book is about my life. It’s an essay collection about growing up, being in love, it’s about being afraid, it’s about being sick and it’s about getting over it and moving on."
"I wrote my book Ballplayer for a couple of different reasons. I wanted to give the reader some insight into my upbringing, my family life, what it was like to be in the dugout, to be in the clubhouse in those pitcher’s meetings on those pitcher’s mounds."
"My book is about being the boss of your life and taking charge of your career. It’s about being the boss you and being the boss of a bigger company and being the boss of your own business."
"I’d like to tell you about Mindshift and the story behind it. I wrote the book because I was really lucky, I had a second chance at life. But you can have a second chance too. Here’s what I mean. I grew up to be incapable in math and science, as in I flunked my way through elementary, middle and high school math and science. And yet, as an adult I learned how to change my brain from being a math-phobe to --it’s hard for me to even believe it -- a professor of engineering."
"I’m one of those people who has always felt this way about family. What am I doing with these people, there has to be a mistake! And as a kid I was always trying to join other families so the first family I ever wanted to join was Star Athlete Federation ‘cause I was a total trekkie and they had those very great, form fitting, very attractive outfits on you know, space was also cool and they were all so together, it was all so cool."
"My book is about what it’s really like to be married. We live in this world where everyone instagrams and facebooks the most perfect parts of their marriage and partnerships but we never really talk about the nitty-gritty. What I realized about getting married – and I got married on the later side, I was 35 years old – is that no one gives you advice for the actual marriage."
"My book, You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth, is about figuring out what’s holding you back from making money, how to get over it and start changing things in your life so that you can start making money."
"My book is based on the draft of a novel I wrote and gave up on over 15 years ago when I was in my early 20s and I only reread it in my thirties and at that point I had gotten a PhD in Literature and I spent time teaching undergraduates and I published a book of essays -- which you definitely read or listen to as an audiobook -- it’s called The Possessed."
"I’m a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford but a few years ago I took over from Richard Dawkins as the Professor for the Public Understanding of Science. The title always makes me laugh a little bit because I think everyone expects I must know the whole of science and here I am to explain it to you all. But it got me thinking, certainly no scientists must know it all but maybe there might come a point when science knows everything about the universe. Maybe we could answer all the great unsolved problems about the universe."
"My book Lucky Broken Girl is based on a true story, something that really happened to me. Me and my family had just arrived to NY in the ‘60s from Cuba, fleeing communism and we were just getting settled, adapted, I was learning English, and we were adjusting with difficulties but we were adjusting to our new life, a new language, a new culture."
"There are many field guides for the songs of birds, the songs of crickets, there are no guides of the songs of trees. So I wanted to go sit and listen to all the incredible different sounds that emerge from trees that echo within their wood and to share some of that experience with readers and get beyond the experience and into the stories behind them."
"My book is about dictionaries and about the English language and the people who write dictionaries and about people who use the English language. I wrote the book out of my experiences as a lexicographer, which is a writer and editor of dictionaries and because the more you do lexicography, the more you find out about English, and English is an amazing language, even though it drives people up the proverbial wall."
"My little book is called Is It Evil Not to be Sure and it is a collection of remembrances, creative ideas and teensy diary entries from a year of my life in college. I didn’t know I was writing a book when it happened, it was just my way of staying connected to myself through a really challenging period in my life and when I went back and looked at it later, I felt like there was a collection there that was at least maybe make people laugh and possibly inspire women, other people to record their lives because I found it to be such a soothing and important exercise and rereading it has been powerful to me."
"My book Crazy Is My Superpower is essentially about female empowerment. I wrote my book because as a little kid I promised myself I would. Anytime there was some sort of hardship in my life I sort of just told myself it was happening so that I could pass the lesson along one day. And as I got older I noticed that it kinda became essential that someone started speaking out on these topics I didn’t think I’d be brave enough to speak out on my own.”
"My book is about mercy as the answer to almost all questions and problems and the way home to peace and to getting to become the people we were born to be. I was inspired because I felt this country and world are starving to death for truth and laughter and a reminder that kindness and grace that last, all evidence of the contrary."
"My book is about food and family, and how food either does or sometimes doesn’t hold families and friends together. At the center of the book is my mom who really led an extraordinarily and interesting and passionate and inspiring life. She was connected to food her entire life, her family owned a famous restaurant on the LES of NY called Ratner’s…”
"My book is about the life of Charles Dillon Casey Stengel, one of the legendary names in baseball history. He was even selected by major league baseball network as the greatest character in the history of baseball. I wrote the book because it had been 33 years since a major biography had been done about him and the coming of the internet has provided a lot more information that was previously known."
"My book You Were Not Born to Suffer is really about how to love yourself unconditionally and practically. After years of suffering, studying, and searching I discovered logically how most forms of disease and depression were caused by us never learning how to love ourselves and what that actually means."
“The book began about 4-5 years ago; I was traveling with my young daughters to Rome to tag along with my wife on a business trip. And I’m a father, I have young girls and I kinda live my life surrounded by women and I write a lot about relationships and I write a column in NYT on contemporary families.”
“The title of the Gargoyle Hunters is drawn from a 1962 NY Herald Tribune Sunday magazine story – the cover story actually. Technically, gargoyles are waterspouts, crafted in the shapes of grotesque animals or humans.”
"Recording my audiobook was easier than I thought it was gonna be. And more fun, I really enjoyed doing it."
The idea for my book came to me after moving back to Pakistan, where I was born, having lived many years in America and London.
"My book is all about cleaning, but it’s not the typical cleaning book you would expect. It’s actually a book designed for people that don’t have the time or the gumption to read these giant bible-sized cleaning books."
"For nearly a decade, I worked inside the Federal Reserve as an advisor to one of the most hawkish central bankers of all time, Richard Fisher. My book is about the time that I spent there, at the FED, trying to do public service for my country."
"My book is about one night in 1862, Lincoln was president and his 11-year-old son Willy passed away."
"I wrote my book because for many years I thought I was an anomaly and I thought my story was unique to just me."
"My book is about Tom Barren who comes from another version of our world. It's 2016 but this is the 2016 that people in the 1950 and 60s thought we would have."
"If I had two seconds to say what my book is about, I would say it's the tipping point for pop culture."
"This essay is actually a talk that I gave at a TED conference. I had been asked to speak and I wasn't sure I had anything worthwhile to talk about it. And then I remembered the one thing I feel very strongly about is feminism."
"My book is about the Islamic State and the worldwide movement of supporters that it has inspired."
"My book is about a group of teens who go on what's a pretty typical trip for kids on the east coast to take during middle school or high school."
"My book is about people who wanted more than just the token attempt at making change in the world."
"The story behind my book, well, it's the story of evolution, which is the story behind every person."
"My book is about learning what is not working for us and what is working for us, and starting to do the things that are really more beneficial to our lives."
"My book is a general interest textbook of anatomy and physiology structured as an FAQ about human bodies."
"I was inspired to write 'The Science of Selling' because I realized that many of the most common sales practices actually conflict with what behavioral science and neuroscience has proven regarding how our brains are wired to be influenced and construct buying decisions."
"I wrote Ray & Joan because I'm a longtime public radio reporter who was always curious about this woman Joan Kroc whose name is repeated on the air all the time because she gave a huge gift of $250 miliion that saved the network."
"I've been a TV critic for over 40 years and this book is sort of everything I know put into one book."
"I want this book to be inspirational for any generation, for artists or anyone else, who have to go through any hard life and time in order to achieve anything."
"My book makes the case that the idea of a 'divine design' that has helped to mandate and determine the rise of the United States of America isn't just a matter of opinion, it's the truth, it's a fact."
"My book is about woodworking and my wood shop, and I wanted to record my audiobook because I've been told by a lot of my listeners that my reading put them to sleep so it makes a great gift for people with insomnia."
"This book is about Julia Child's second career which takes place mostly in the 1970s, and is period most people don't know about Julia's life."
"My book is about growing up in Queens. In a lot of ways it's a slice of life of what it's like to be a working class woman in Queens . . . and on the other hand it's got an interesting social strata hopping element to it."
"The book is about Hanukkah 1971 when I was twelve years old, living in the suburbs of the suburbs of LA, doing magic, praying for a miracle and waiting for it to snow."
"In the publishing landscape there aren't a lot of essay collections by funny women of color so I felt like it was a good time to just kind of jump in there and shake things up a little bit."
"My book is about my travels with field biologists in many parts of the world the past 35-40 years observing wildlife, particularly birds which are my passion, and the efforts in conservation and protecting species which are threatened everywhere."
"My book is about aviation mysteries. It begins with Malaysia 370 and goes back though time and talks about other mysterious aviation disasters."
"My book is about my childhood. It's a memoir of my childhood and adolescence, told through stories."
"My book, The Tao of Bill Murray, is about Bill Murray and all the crazy adventures and antics he gets into in public."
Penguin Random House Producer Aaron Blank interviews Carol Burnett about her iconic show, and her upcoming book about it, In Such Good Company.
"I decided to write this book because I had been asked by a lot of other writers if they could do a history of our show, and I thought, you know, I should really write the history of this show because I'm the one who lived it."
"My book is about ephemeral nature of life and how we all have to seize the day and live life like we know it's going to end but not in that cheesy YOLO way."
"The Cheat Code is about ways that entrepreneurs and the creative class these tricks and tips to their lives to get ahead faster."
"Don't Think Twice is about when I suffered three great losses over a six month period."
"My book is about a young man whose body is at war with itself and the enemy was unknown to him."
"My book is about the political phenomenon Donald Trump shaking up the world, destroying the most evil people in it, to wit, Washington Republicans."