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Behind the Mic: Chelsea Handler records her audiobook, LIFE WILL BE THE DEATH OF ME Submitted by Jennifer Rubins on March 8, 2019

Fans won’t want to miss Chelsea Handler reading her own intimate memoir, LIFE WILL BE THE DEATH OF ME, on audio—a moving and unforgettable listening experience. The funny, sad, super-honest, all-true story of Chelsea Handler’s year of self-discovery features a nerdily brilliant psychiatrist, a shaman, four Chow Chows, some well-placed security cameras, various family members (living and departed), friends, assistants, and a lot of edibles. Check out an audiobook clip and go behind-the-scenes with Chelsea Read more

Tagged: Author-Read, bookclub, Chelsea Handler, fitness, Life Will Be the Death of Me, memoir

This is the Author | Mark Epstein, M.D. Submitted by This Is the Author Podcast on December 19, 2017

“In this New Year, you might want to try meditation. Some of you may have wondered about the benefits, stress reduction, lowering of anxiety, helping you cope more efficiently, be less frustrated, less addicted in your behavior. The most important thing from the beginning is not to turn it into another self-improvement project. Meditation can be useful if you don’t expect too much from it. So let me guide you a little bit into the way I think about it.”

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Tagged: advice not given, Buddhism, Mark Epstein M.D., meditation, memoir, Podcast, Psychology, self-care, self-help

This Is The Author | Khizr Khan Submitted by This Is the Author Podcast on October 24, 2017

“I wrote this book, An American Family, to tell the story of my family’s immigration to the United States. But behind all this, the American values that inspired me to decide to come to the United States and then make it a home.”

Learn more about An American Family.

Tagged: An American Family, Family History, Immigrant, Immigration, Khizr Khan, memoir, Military Family, Muslim, Muslim Family

This Is The Author | Anna Akana Submitted by This Is the Author Podcast on October 10, 2017

“My book, SO MUCH I WANT TO TELL YOU: Letters to My Little Sister, is a collection of essays and lessons that I’ve learned over the past decade since her suicide in 2007.”

Learn more about So Much I Want to Tell You.

Tagged: anna akana, memoir, Podcast, So Much I want to tell you

This Is The Author | Jaime Lowe Submitted by This Is the Author Podcast on October 3, 2017

“As a magazine writer, I’m always looking for other people’s stories and trying to talk to people about what their lives are like. I always knew that that came from a place from having some pretty crazy experiences as somebody who’s bipolar and that I had all these stories that seemed outlandish and bananas, and that maybe I had to start with my own story. It all definitely started when lithium, the medication that I was taking for bipolar disorder, stopped working for me. All of a sudden, bipolar disorder and lithium became so much more prominent and important in my life. And it became much more clear to me that it was a bigger part of my identity than I ever imagined.”

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Tagged: fitness, jaime lowe, memoir, mental, Personal Memoir, Podcast, Psychology

Julia Child and the Chef Memoir Submitted by Taraneh DJangi on August 14, 2017

Julia Child is a legend. She’s inspired home cooks to try dishes they never thought they would be able to make on their own. On August 15, she would have turned 105. In honor of her, why not listen to one of these Julia Child memoirs and biographies? Read more

Tagged: 32 Yolks, blood bones & butter, chef, comfort me with apples, cooking, dearie, gardener-cook, Julia Child, kitchen confidential, memoir, My Life in France, the french chef in america, yes chef

This Is The Author | David Gessner Submitted by This Is the Author Podcast on June 6, 2017

“After I graduated from college, I set about becoming a writer and playing ultimate frisbee. And I kept doing those things for about 15 years. I wrote about a lot of things—I wrote about my dad’s death, I wrote about the natural world—but it never really occurred to me to write about ultimate. And then after my first book was published I got picked up by a big agent at ICM, and she looked over all my stuff and said, “This is what we should do.” And it was a quick proposal I’d written about going back and playing with the Boston National Champion Ultimate Team. And I would go back in a kind of George Plimpton fashion and play with them and write about the season.”

Learn more about Ultimate Glory.

Tagged: david gessner, memoir, Podcast, sports, Ultimate Frisbee, ultimate glory

This Is The Author | Samantha Irby Submitted by This Is the Author Podcast on May 30, 2017

“My book is about eating snacks and being mad. I wrote my book because I’d already written one and that was pretty fun. I was inspired by revenge; I want everyone who ever doubted me or was ever mean to me to see that I have a book in bookstores and feel really bad about their own lives.”

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Tagged: essays, humor, memoir, Podcast, Samantha Irby, we are never meeting in real life

This Is The Author | Benjamin Taylor Submitted by This Is the Author Podcast on May 23, 2017

“My book is about an extremely consequential 12-month period in American history, and also in the history of my family and my own maturation. Being 11 and 12 is a very interesting time of life, when you, for the first time, begin to establish your frame of reference for the world outside of your experience at home. And, in my case, it was a discovery of history as an inescapable current. We were all writing. These were dangerous years.”

Learn more about The Hue and Cry at Our House.

Tagged: benjamin taylor, Cultural History, memoir, Podcast, the hue and cry at our house

This Is The Author | Jeffrey Tambor Submitted by This Is the Author Podcast on May 16, 2017

“When I was a young actor in New York, I premiered in a show called Sly Fox, which starred the great George C. Scott. I had three lines in the show. Actually, I had one line and I said it three times. It was, ‘You look wonderful, sir,’ which I added ‘oh’ to. ‘Oh, you look wonderful, sir.’ That was free of charge. I remember walking out the stage door one day and there was this legendary autograph hound that went from theater to theater, and he was standing right in front of me as I walked out, and he looked at me and he went, ‘Are you anybody?'”

Learn more about Are You Anybody?

Tagged: are you anybody, Arrested Development, celebrity, Jeffrey Tambor, memoir, Podcast, Transparent