Marina Benjamin hopes that people say that her new book THE MIDDLEPAUSE "completely redefines the debate about aging for women." Her approach is to look at aging as "an embodied experience, and put the body very much back in the frame." She took the time to sit down with Ana Maria Allessi at the 2017 ABA Winter Institute to discuss these ideas and others about the changing opportunities women encounter as they progress through their middle years.

In Radical Candor, Kim Scott explains how to be a kickass boss without losing your humanity. Scott was a CEO coach at Dropbox, Twitter, and other Silicon Valley companies. A previously unpublished novelist, she wrote her latest book in Google Docs with ongoing input from 100 invited editors.

Over the past six years, Bassem Youssef went from being a cardiothoracic surgeon who helped protesters during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution to becoming Egypt's most popular political satirist and TV host. After being exiled from Egypt, Bassem moved to America, where he has continued to produce television and practice medicine. He also penned his first book, REVOLUTION FOR DUMMIES, which he speaks about with Ana Maria Allessi in this episode of HarperAudio Presents.

Women In The Castle took Jessica Shattuck seven years to write, and draws on her ambivalence about her German ancestry. Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle, this historical novel dwells on characters who are neither victims nor heroes, but who must come to terms with the choices that have defined their lives.

Lauren Grodstein's new novel, OUR SHORT HISTORY, looks into the choices that parents make when faced with their own mortality. The author's inspiration for this novel came about after losing three friends to ovarian cancer, two with children still in elementary school. Ms. Grodstein sits down with Ana Maria in Minneapolis to discuss her own experiences with motherhood, her "other professional life" running an MFA program, and her current focus on essay writing.

When asked about his most marked quality as a writer, “Hearts of Men” author Nickolas Butler answers that it’s sincerity. That quality is evident in this heartfelt interview. Learn the writerly superpower he’d most like to possess and the personal advice an airplane seatmate offered after a bumpy ride.

Pam Jenoff, author of the World War II novel THE ORPHAN'S TALE, discusses her work as a diplomat in Krakow, Poland after the fall of communism, working on relations with the Jewish population who had survived the Holocaust, and how the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks changed her career path from being an attorney to embracing her dream to be a novelist.

Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, Angie Thomas’s YA debut addresses issues of racism and police violence with intelligence and heart. Listen to discover why her editor’s letter made her cry and how she found her literary agent on Twitter.

Christina Baker Kline, author of A PIECE OF THE WORLD, thinks about her book as "a philosophical meditation on what it means to find value in your life."

Today, she discusses the Andrew Wyeth painting "Christina's World", which is the inspiration for the novel, as well as what she's learned about the Wyeth and Olson family histories while researching the book in Mid-Coast Maine.

After a career helping such luminaries as Ben Bradlee and Hillary Clinton pen their books, Barbara Feinman Todd has claimed her own voice in the memoir, “Pretend I’m Not Here.” Listen to a view of behind-the-scenes Washington through the eyes of a woman who worked in the trenches and made headlines.