This is the Author Podcast: Authors Share Library Memories, Part 2 Submitted by Taraneh DJangi on September 27, 2018

In this special edition of our podcast This is the Author, we’re celebrating Library Card Sign-up Month by asking authors to share with us some of their favorite library memories. From childhood libraries to trips to libraries with their children, each of these authors illustrate what we know: not only are libraries a place where you have stories and information at your fingertips, but they are also places of comfort, refuge, and joy. Read more

Tagged: Library Card Sign-Up Month, This is the Author

This is the Author Podcast: Authors Share Library Memories, Part 1 Submitted by Taraneh DJangi on September 20, 2018

Listen to authors Mayim Bialik, Heather Turgeon, Allison Pataki, Grant Wahl, Nathalie Nino, Camas Davis, and Mark & Angel Chernoff share why libraries are so special to them.

Tagged: Allison Pataki, Angel Chernoff, Beauty in the Broken Places, Boying Up, Camas Davis, Getting Back to Happy, Grant Wahl, Heather Turgeon, Killing It, Leapfrog, Library Card Sign-Up Month, Marc Chernoff, Masters of Modern Soccer, Mayim Bialik, Nathalie Molina Niño, The Happy Sleeper, This is the Author

A Discussion With the Talent Behind The Distance Home Submitted by Erin Murphy on August 22, 2018

The Distance Home, the debut from author Paula Saunders, has been called “an exquisite, searing portrait of family and of people coping with whatever life throws at them while trying to keep close to one another,” in a starred review in Booklist. Read more

Tagged: Guest Post, Paula Saunders, Rebecca Lowman, The Distance Home

Creating the Audiobook for THERE THERE Submitted by Taraneh DJangi on August 2, 2018

If you don’t have Tommy Orange’s debut novel, There There, in your library’s audiobook collection, then drop everything and get it now. Not only will you alleviate the hold list for your patrons, but you’ll also be providing them with another way to experience this richly layered story. Read more

Tagged: New York Times Bestseller, Producer, Producer Q&A, There There, Tommy Orange