Rachel Smalter Hall

With this deeply engaging audio essay editor Rachel Smalter Hall explores the lure of the iconic Ann M. Martin series and babysitting in general.

Celebrity chef Kwame Onwuachi has been whetting appetites with his fusion style for the last few years but now he’s perking up ears with his compelling and moving self-narrated memoir.

The debut author of the highly anticipated new novel shares how in trying to write something that she’d want to read, where she saw herself reflected, she found a story that would touch so many more.

The author, whose emotionally compelling and nuanced narrative became the first memoir to win our annual title, talks about what it meant to voice his own story — both to him and the mother to whom he wrote it.

This multi-talented young author shares how her darkly comedic breakout thriller about a pair of interesting Nigerian sisters came to life and why it soars in audio.

When editor Rachel Smalter Hall realized that self-development titles were not the only places she was gleaning her life lessons, so much became clear. See how closely her experiences match or differ from yours, and we bet you’ll find they somehow still resonate.