5 MINUTE LISTEN: Library Love from Authors in the Audio Studio: Mychal Threets, Elizabeth Berg, Chuck Klosterman, Dominic Hoffman, and more!

By Jennifer Rubins | April 17 2026 | Excerpts & VideosAudiobook NewsFrom the Author

We are SO happy you’re here to listen to these incredible authors share their love for the library during National Library Week, April 19-25, 2026! Click below to hear a special episode of Penguin Random House Audio’s This is the Author podcast. Hear from Mychal Threets, this year’s National Library Week Honorary Chair and author of I’m So Happy You’re Here: A Celebration of Library Joy, as well as bestselling authors Elizbeth Berg, Chuck Klosterman, and Susan Orlean, award-winning narrator and author, Dominic Hoffman, and many more! Got 5 minutes? This compilation will fill your heart with library joy. . .

Episode features interview clips from the following authors:
Mychal Threets, Arthur C. Brooks, Tom Junod, Elizabeth Berg, Erin McGoff, Angela Buchdahl, Zachary Rubin, Dominic Hoffman, Chuck Klosterman, C .Thi Nguyen, and Susan Orlean

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