This Is the Author

This Is the Author

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This Is the Author episodes

  • S2 E34: Erin Chack, Author of This is Really Happening
    "We just got finished recording the audio version of my book “This is Really Happening.” My book is about my life. It’s an essay collection about growing up, being in love, it’s about being afraid, it’s about being sick and it’s about getting over it and moving on."
    5 min
  • S2 E33: Chipper Jones, Author of Ballplayer
    "I wrote my book Ballplayer for a couple of different reasons. I wanted to give the reader some insight into my upbringing, my family life, what it was like to be in the dugout, to be in the clubhouse in those pitcher’s meetings on those pitcher’s mounds."
    7 min
  • S2 E33: Chipper Jones, Author of Ballplayer
    "I wrote my book Ballplayer for a couple of different reasons. I wanted to give the reader some insight into my upbringing, my family life, what it was like to be in the dugout, to be in the clubhouse in those pitcher’s meetings on those pitcher’s mounds."
    7 min
  • S2 E31: Barbara Oakley, Author of Mindshift
    "I’d like to tell you about Mindshift and the story behind it. I wrote the book because I was really lucky, I had a second chance at life. But you can have a second chance too. Here’s what I mean. I grew up to be incapable in math and science, as in I flunked my way through elementary, middle and high school math and science. And yet, as an adult I learned how to change my brain from being a math-phobe to --it’s hard for me to even believe it -- a professor of engineering."
    6 min
  • S2 E31: Barbara Oakley, Author of Mindshift
    "I’d like to tell you about Mindshift and the story behind it. I wrote the book because I was really lucky, I had a second chance at life. But you can have a second chance too. Here’s what I mean. I grew up to be incapable in math and science, as in I flunked my way through elementary, middle and high school math and science. And yet, as an adult I learned how to change my brain from being a math-phobe to --it’s hard for me to even believe it -- a professor of engineering."
    6 min
  • S2 E30: Annabelle Gurwitch, Author of Wherever You Go, There They Are
    "I’m one of those people who has always felt this way about family. What am I doing with these people, there has to be a mistake! And as a kid I was always trying to join other families so the first family I ever wanted to join was Star Athlete Federation ‘cause I was a total trekkie and they had those very great, form fitting, very attractive outfits on you know, space was also cool and they were all so together, it was all so cool."
    13 min
  • S2 E30: Annabelle Gurwitch, Author of Wherever You Go, There They Are
    "I’m one of those people who has always felt this way about family. What am I doing with these people, there has to be a mistake! And as a kid I was always trying to join other families so the first family I ever wanted to join was Star Athlete Federation ‘cause I was a total trekkie and they had those very great, form fitting, very attractive outfits on you know, space was also cool and they were all so together, it was all so cool."
    13 min
  • S2 E29: Jo Piazza, Author of How to be Married
    "My book is about what it’s really like to be married. We live in this world where everyone instagrams and facebooks the most perfect parts of their marriage and partnerships but we never really talk about the nitty-gritty. What I realized about getting married – and I got married on the later side, I was 35 years old – is that no one gives you advice for the actual marriage."
    10 min

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