Harper Audio Presents

Summerland is our favorite vacation spot that we're not quite ready to part with. It’s also a fantasy novel for all ages by the Pulitzer Prize winning author, Michael Chabon. This week we feature a clip of Summerland (the novel), performed by Michael Chabon himself.

Best-selling author Wendy Corsi Staub writes like a rocket, so we’re not entirely surprised that she managed to give birth on a Sunday and revise Ed Koch’s manuscript by Wednesday. Listen in as we chat with Wendy about red herrings, swimming to audiobooks, and the scariest thing in the entire world.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has always been notorious! Impressed by legal victories over the red-baiting of McCarthyism, Kiki – RBG's childhood nickname – decided to become a lawyer. At Harvard Law she made Law Review, despite her sense that the few female students were regarded as exotic animals in a menagerie. This excerpt from her 2015 biography explores her origins.

Get a sneak peek at the new Hercule Poirot mystery Closed Casket!

When Agatha Christie's Estate chose bestselling author Sophie Hannah to write the next Hercule Poirot mystery, Sophie realized that she'd always had a very Christie-ish mystery in mind, one that would be perfect for Poirot and his little grey cells. Sophie joins us for a chat about high expectations, calm bravery, and the brilliantly simple murder motive in her upcoming Hercule Poirot mystery Closed Casket We're keeping mum on the motive, but stay tuned after the interview to listen to the first chapter of Closed Casket.

Thomas Jefferson is dead. That was the slur flung at him during the election campaign of 1800. Join us at HarperAudio Presents as Joseph Cummins, author of ANYTHING FOR A VOTE, shows us that dirty electioneering is nothing new.

This week, we are especially grateful for bright, brave minds like those of Kennedy Odede and Jessica Posner, authors of FIND ME UNAFRAID. Join us for a timely re-listen to be reminded of an individual’s capacity to make a meaningful difference in the world around them.

Debbie Cenziper and Jim Obergefell, the coauthors of LOVE WINS, join us to explain how the story of marriage equality is as much a love story and a legal thriller as it is a political tale. Download the audiobook via iTunes http://ads.harpercollins.com/hcaudiopres?isbn=9780062471475&retailer=apple

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Beatriz Williams, author of A CERTAIN AGE, stops by to chat about the dangers of proposal-by-proxy, the difference between historical fiction and vintage fiction, and introduces us to the Carrie Bradshaw of the 1920’s.

PS: The 1930’s book on 1920’s history that Beatriz mentions is Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen.

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Journalist Katherine Ozment joins us to discuss new book GRACE WITHOUT GOD and to describe how a Good Friday question from her 9 year old prompted her to explore secular approaches to religious ritual.

Bill Lascher joins us to discuss his upcoming book, EVE OF A HUNDRED MIDNIGHTS, about a pair of war journalist sweethearts who fell in love while covering WWII in the field. Their story is as sweet as it is completely outrageous. Did we mention that they brought two pandas on their honeymoon at the friendly behest of the First Lady of China?

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