This Is the Author

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This Is the Author episodes

February 14, 2017 S2 E09: George Saunders, Author of Lincoln in the Bardo
"My book is about one night in 1862, Lincoln was president and his 11-year-old son Willy passed away."
5 min
February 07, 2017 S2 E08: Sheri Riley, Author of Exponential Living
"I wrote my book because for many years I thought I was an anomaly and I thought my story was unique to just me."
8 min
February 07, 2017 S2 E08: Sheri Riley, Author of Exponential Living
"I wrote my book because for many years I thought I was an anomaly and I thought my story was unique to just me."
8 min
February 07, 2017 S2 E07: Elan Mastai, Author of All Our Wrong Todays
"My book is about Tom Barren who comes from another version of our world. It's 2016 but this is the 2016 that people in the 1950 and 60s thought we would have."
16 min
February 07, 2017 S2 E07: Elan Mastai, Author of All Our Wrong Todays
"My book is about Tom Barren who comes from another version of our world. It's 2016 but this is the 2016 that people in the 1950 and 60s thought we would have."
16 min
February 07, 2017 S2 E06: Derek Thompson, Author of Hit Makers
"If I had two seconds to say what my book is about, I would say it's the tipping point for pop culture."
13 min
February 07, 2017 S2 E06: Derek Thompson, Author of Hit Makers
"If I had two seconds to say what my book is about, I would say it's the tipping point for pop culture."
13 min
January 31, 2017 S2 E05: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Author of We Should All Be Feminists
"This essay is actually a talk that I gave at a TED conference. I had been asked to speak and I wasn't sure I had anything worthwhile to talk about it. And then I remembered the one thing I feel very strongly about is feminism."
3 min
January 31, 2017 S2 E05: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Author of We Should All Be Feminists
"This essay is actually a talk that I gave at a TED conference. I had been asked to speak and I wasn't sure I had anything worthwhile to talk about it. And then I remembered the one thing I feel very strongly about is feminism."
3 min
January 17, 2017 S2 E04: Graeme Wood, Author of The Way of the Strangers
"My book is about the Islamic State and the worldwide movement of supporters that it has inspired."
5 min