This Is the Author

By Penguin Random House AudioArts

This Is the Author episodes

April 04, 2017 S2 E19: Peter Gethers, Author of My Mother's Kitchen
"My book is about food and family, and how food either does or sometimes doesn’t hold families and friends together. At the center of the book is my mom who really led an extraordinarily and interesting and passionate and inspiring life. She was connected to food her entire life, her family owned a famous restaurant on the LES of NY called Ratner’s…”
5 min
March 28, 2017 S2 E18: Marty Appel, Author of Casey Stengel
"My book is about the life of Charles Dillon Casey Stengel, one of the legendary names in baseball history. He was even selected by major league baseball network as the greatest character in the history of baseball. I wrote the book because it had been 33 years since a major biography had been done about him and the coming of the internet has provided a lot more information that was previously known."
5 min
March 28, 2017 S2 E18: Marty Appel, Author of Casey Stengel
"My book is about the life of Charles Dillon Casey Stengel, one of the legendary names in baseball history. He was even selected by major league baseball network as the greatest character in the history of baseball. I wrote the book because it had been 33 years since a major biography had been done about him and the coming of the internet has provided a lot more information that was previously known."
5 min
March 21, 2017 S2 E17: Blake Bauer, Author of You Were Not Born To Suffer
"My book You Were Not Born to Suffer is really about how to love yourself unconditionally and practically. After years of suffering, studying, and searching I discovered logically how most forms of disease and depression were caused by us never learning how to love ourselves and what that actually means."
8 min
March 21, 2017 S2 E17: Blake Bauer, Author of You Were Not Born To Suffer
"My book You Were Not Born to Suffer is really about how to love yourself unconditionally and practically. After years of suffering, studying, and searching I discovered logically how most forms of disease and depression were caused by us never learning how to love ourselves and what that actually means."
8 min
March 21, 2017 S2 E16: Bruce Feiler, Author of The First Love Story
“The book began about 4-5 years ago; I was traveling with my young daughters to Rome to tag along with my wife on a business trip. And I’m a father, I have young girls and I kinda live my life surrounded by women and I write a lot about relationships and I write a column in NYT on contemporary families.”
11 min
March 21, 2017 S2 E16: Bruce Feiler, Author of The First Love Story
“The book began about 4-5 years ago; I was traveling with my young daughters to Rome to tag along with my wife on a business trip. And I’m a father, I have young girls and I kinda live my life surrounded by women and I write a lot about relationships and I write a column in NYT on contemporary families.”
11 min
March 21, 2017 S2 E15: John Freeman Gill, Author of The Gargoyle Hunters
“The title of the Gargoyle Hunters is drawn from a 1962 NY Herald Tribune Sunday magazine story – the cover story actually. Technically, gargoyles are waterspouts, crafted in the shapes of grotesque animals or humans.”
8 min
March 21, 2017 S2 E15: John Freeman Gill, Author of The Gargoyle Hunters
“The title of the Gargoyle Hunters is drawn from a 1962 NY Herald Tribune Sunday magazine story – the cover story actually. Technically, gargoyles are waterspouts, crafted in the shapes of grotesque animals or humans.”
8 min
March 13, 2017 S2 E14: Ariel Levy, Author of The Rules Do Not Apply
"Recording my audiobook was easier than I thought it was gonna be. And more fun, I really enjoyed doing it."
5 min