Harper Audio Presents

Neil Gaiman, arguably the most embracing author of audiobooks, takes a break while recording his new book NORSE MYTHOLOGY to discuss his twenty-five year love affair with spoken word recording, as well as his lifelong fascination with myth and folklore.

It took Teresa Messineo seven years to research and pen her debut novel about World War Two nurses, THE FIRE BY NIGHT. The problem? Many of the nurses returning from the Pacific Theatre were forced to sign an oath of secrecy with the US Government hiding their wartime service for a 60-year period. Today, Teresa discusses tracking down first-hand accounts from the few 90-year-old WW2 nurses still remaining in order to collect accurate information for the novel. She also recalls her childhood growing up home-schooled on an organic farm in the '70s, deciding to go to a Catholic high school so she could play basketball, and fabricating her report card - with the help of her father - to get her into an Honors-level English class.

Debbie Cenziper and Jim Obergefell, the co-authors of Love Wins, join us to explain how the story of marriage equality is as much a love story and legal thriller as it is a political tale.

Gene Stone penned an earnest response to our presidential election, The Trump Survival Guide, in 12 days. Learn why (and how) he did it.

Patricia Wells left a career at the New York Times for a two-year writing assignment in France and has remained there for over 35 years. A self-taught cook, Patricia has multiple James Beard Award nominations and wins for her cookbooks, and wrote the much-lauded Food Lover's Guide to Paris. Today, she takes Ana Maria Allessi through her writing career, life as a French food celebrity, and the only thing she uses the microwave for.

Complete with merrily drunken Aunties and sleeping Uncles, Dylan Thomas’s “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” evokes the snowy, cozy Christmas of everybody’s memory or fantasy. Hear the narrative brought to life by its author in this classic recording.

Nearly 30 years after her untimely death, Kathleen Collins’ fiction is gaining exposure and earning the admiration of Zadie Smith, Roxane Gay, and Miranda July – to name just a few. Her daughter, Nina Collins, assembled the forthcoming collection, “Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?” Here, she discusses life with her dynamic mother.

Jason Diamond's unstable young life in Chicagoland split between divorced parents helped drive his obsession with the tragicomic movies of John Hughes, such as The Breakfast Club and Home Alone. When life eventually led Diamond to New York City in the pursuit of authoring a Hughes biography, his eventual book editor persuaded him to write his memoirs instead – focusing on the impact Hughes' movies had on the author. Today, Jason Diamond talks with Ana Maria Allessi about failure, Florida, Cubs fandom, and the book writing process.

It is harvest season 1881 in a Little Town on the Prairie. Laura Ingalls is 15, and in the midst of what Ma describes as “a whirl of gaiety.” In celebration of Thanksgiving, Harper Audio presents the award-winning actress Cherry Jones narrating a holiday scene from the 7th book of the classic Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

In Wally Lamb's new novel I'LL TAKE YOU THERE, Felix, a film scholar who runs a Monday night movie club, encounters the ghost of a movie director from Hollywood's silent era who invites him to relive scenes from his past projected on the movie screen. It should come as no surprise that in today's interview, Mr. Lamb discusses the impact that myths retold in a modern light have had on his creative process. Also listen to Wally touch upon his decades as both an educator and student, his fear of starting each novel from a blank slate, and what invigorates him about today's publishing industry.