Stephanie Land didn’t take the traditional path to writing a New York Times Bestselling memoir MAID: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive. And she didn’t take the traditional path to having her memoir be adapted into a Netflix Emmy-nominated series MAID. Stephanie and Gabe talk about her struggles as a single mother living in public housing with two children and her determination to become a writer.

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Buy Stephanie's nonfiction book Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

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Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker)

Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist)

Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner)

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (NYT's bestselling author of Friday Black)

Rebecca Makkai (author of The Great Believers)

About the Host:

Gabe Hudson is the award-winning author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta’s “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney’s, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney’s for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He taught at Princeton University, and currently teaches at Columbia University. 

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