Harper Audio Presents

Our guest this week on the pod is Gemma Hartley, the author of Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward.

Gemma Hartley is a writer, reporter, and author. In September 2017, Gemma wrote an article that went viral, titled Women Aren’t Nags – We’re Just Fed Up. That article was viewed by over 2 billion people and gave voice to the frustration and anger of countless women, breaking the dam on the conversation around emotional labor. Fed Up picks off where the article left off, expanding on the role and impact of emotional labor in our lives. Fed Up is on sale now.

Gemma sat down with Ana Maria Alessi, and talked about what she wants the book to accomplish on a national level, why the reach of her article surprised her, the difference between how boys and girls are rewarded for empathy, and more.

At the year's end we chat with Robin Whitten, the editor and founder of AudioFIle Magazine, and one of the voices on their new audiobook review podcast "Behind The Mic."

We talk about starting AudioFile, the growth of the audiobook industry and where it will go int he future, and so much more.

Click Here to Listen to Behind the Mic: https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/podcast/

And follow the links to listen to our titles that made the list

The Other Woman: http://bit.ly/2LrcwoP

Day of the Dead: http://bit.ly/2Le5Y0C

The Poppy War: http://bit.ly/2A9us3K

I'll Be Gone In The Dark: http://bit.ly/2PjCNXo

RFK: http://bit.ly/2Gv5qS6

Barracoon: http://bit.ly/2G0QJWK

Beautiful Country Burn Again: http://bit.ly/2V3cwAH

The Poet X: http://bit.ly/2T3pGeS

The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy: http://bit.ly/2CtXrkf

The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: http://bit.ly/2CsTCvB

Actress and narrator Zosia Mamet takes over hosting duties this week, interviewing author Jonathan Lethem about his latest novel THE FERAL DETECTIVE.

Stick around after the interview, as we give you a sneak peak of the audiobook, with Zosia narrating!

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For our special Halloween episode, we sat down with the debut author of THE WITCH OF WILLOW HALL, Hester Fox.

Hester chats about her background in museums, why she likes writing in public, why wallpaper made her life difficult, and more!

The podcast returns with author of MAN OF WAR and co-founder of the American Warrior Initiative, Sean Parnell

Sean talks about his move from non-fiction to fiction, his aim to make Eric Steele a new hero worth looking up to, the differences between how American military and other foreign militaries are viewed by their country, and more!

When a man from Eric Steele’s past attacks a military convoy and steals a nuclear weapon, Steele and his superiors at the White House are blindsided. Moving from Washington, DC, to the Middle East, Europe, and Africa, Steele must use his considerable skills to hunt this rogue agent, a former brother-in-arms who might have been a friend, and find the WMD before it can reach the United States—and the world is forever changed.

Jim DeFelice joins the podcast to discuss his new book about the history of the Pony Express, WEST LIKE LIGHTNING.

Jim talks about how screwed up congress was during that period of time, just how good of a horse rider you had to be to get a job with the Pony Express, who talked him into writing a book about this topic, and more!

The thrilling narrative history of one of the most enduring icons of the American West, the Pony Express, from the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of American Sniper—an exciting tale of daring young men pushing limits to the extremes across the vast, rugged, and unsettled American West.

Christopher Moore returns to the podcast to discuss his latest sarcastically satiric novel, NOIR

Christopher discusses how Bugs Bunny influenced Noir, talks about his goal to write books that he’d like to read while in the bathtub, plays a game of “what’s my agenda?” and much more.

San Francisco. Summer, 1947. A dame walks into a saloon . . . It’s all very, very Noir. It’s all very, very Christopher Moore.

Elizabeth Acevedo joins the podcast to chat about her new novel-in-verse, The Poet X

Elizabeth discusses a range of topics including how The Poet X is both her story and a universal coming of age for young girls, her experience of discovering poetry at a young age, the process of going from writing poems to a novel, and so much more.

Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing #ownvoices novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth.

Nikki GIovanni joins the podcast to chat about her new collection of poetry A GOOD CRY

In the interview Nikki chats about recording her older poems, the feeling that we don't cry enough, women in religion, and much more.

In A Good Cry, Nikki takes us into her confidence, describing the joy and peril of aging and recalling the violence that permeated her parents’ marriage and her early life. She pays homage to the people who have given her life meaning and joy: her grandparents, who took her in and saved her life; the poets and thinkers who have influenced her; and the students who have surrounded her. Nikki also celebrates her good friend, Maya Angelou, and the many years of friendship, poetry, and kitchen-table laughter they shared before Angelou’s death in 2014.

A Clip From MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS read by Kenneth Branagh by Harper Audio Presents