HeyJaredBabes in Bookland: Your Women's Memoir Podcast
Women have always written extraordinary memoirs. We just haven't always talked about them loudly enough — until now. Babes in Bookland is a podcast dedicated entirely to memoirs by women, for women who are hungry for honest storytelling, big feelings, and real lives on the page.
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- Sep 15, 2026
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Nadia Bowers on Her Memoir "Dear Dealer" (opens the original)
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What do you do when the person who destroyed your family is also, undeniably, a human being? That's the question at the center of Nadia Bowers's Dear Dealer , and it's the question we sit with for this entire conversation. Nadia's sister Sasha died in 2015 after taking drugs laced with fentanyl, and rather than write a simple story of a villain and a victim, Nadia spent nearly a decade writing directly to the man who sold them to her. We talk about the letter that became a This American Life epi
Ariel Lawhon on "The Pirate Queen" (opens the original)
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What does it take to reclaim a woman's story when history itself was written by people who had every reason to erase her? That's the question at the center of our conversation with Ariel Lawhon, bestselling author of The Frozen River and her newest novel, The Pirate Queen, about the real life Irish chieftain Grace O'Malley. We talk about why Grace doesn't appear anywhere in official Irish history, and how the only record of her survives in the snide, grudging English state papers written by the
Emilee Hackney on Her Memoir "All That's Unseen" (opens the original)
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What does it cost to love a place and a faith that shaped you, even after they've hurt you? This week I sit down with Emilee Hackney, author of the New York Times bestselling memoir All That's Unseen , to talk about growing up in Tazewell, Virginia, and the long, winding path that took her from a Pentecostal church pew to Harvard Yard to a bestseller list. We talk about the church she grew up in from age five, the engagement she entered as a teenager, and the slow, painful process of questioning
Friday Fiction: Rachel Hochhauser's "Lady Tremaine" (opens the original)
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What if the woman we've been taught to hate for six centuries was just doing what it took to survive in a world that gave her almost no options? That's the question Rachel Hochhauser sat with long before she ever sat down to write, and it's the question that turns into her debut novel, Lady Tremaine , the instant New York Times bestseller and Reese's Book Club pick that reimagines Cinderella's stepmother as a woman worth understanding rather than a woman worth fearing. Rachel and I talk about ho
Mallary Tenore Tarpley on Her Memoir "SLIP" (opens the original)
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What if recovery was never meant to be a finish line? Mallary Tenore Tarpley spent over twenty years writing and rewriting the story that became Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery , and what she landed on upends how we're taught to think about healing. She calls it the middle place: the space between acutely sick and fully recovered where most people actually live, and where almost no one gives them permission to stay. Mallary story starts at eight years old, when her mother di
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