Author Insider
Panio Gianopoulos, Danielle Trussoni, Simone Stolzoff, Marisa Renee Lee, Joanna Stern, Darby Saxbe, Manoush MinutesInside the business of being a writer.
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What Fatherhood Does to the Brain
For decades, conversations about parenting have focused primarily on mothers. But according to psychologist Darby Saxbe, we’ve been overlooking one of the most interesting transformations in family life: what happens when men become fathers...
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Writer and book editor. I post nonfiction book recs (Next Big Idea Club), host Q&As with authors and publishing pros (Author Insider), and share One Good Paragraph of incredible writing (not mine!) every week.
Danielle Trussoni is a New York Times, USA Today, and Sunday Times Top 10 bestselling novelist. She has been a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction jurist and writes the "Dark Matters" column for the New York Times Book Review.
Writer/Designer. Author of How To Not Know, The Good Enough Job, and The Article Book Club (Substack) | simonestolzoff.com
Bestselling author of Grief is Love.
I'm the founder and chief everything officer at New Things. Subscribe at thenewthings.com. I'm also the author of I AM NOT A ROBOT: MY YEAR USING AI TO DO (ALMOST) EVERYTHING. Buy it here! joannastern.com.
Professor at the University of Southern California. I study the neurobiology of parenthood & wrote the book Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How it Shapes Men's Lives.
I’m Manoush Zomorodi, a journalist looking at what all our screen time and sitting are doing to our bodies and brains. I host NPR’s TED Radio Hour and wrote Body Electric (May 5, 2026). This is where I share updates and my ideas in progress.
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