Press & Interviews

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Press for MAID the Netflix Original Series is located on the MAID series page here.

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• “100 Notable Books of 2019,” The New York Times, November 25, 2019
• “50 notable works of nonfiction in 2019,” Washington Post, November 21, 2019
• “Best books of 2019 so far,” Newsweek, May 26, 2019
• “These are the books you should read this summer,” CNN, May 24, 2019
• “Disrespected by the toilet: Stephanie Land on her book, Maid,” Crooked Media, April 26, 2019
• “These local authors’ books should be the next on your nightstand,” New Day Northwest, KING-5 TV, April 16, 2019
• “Top Nonfiction of the Year (So Far), Goodreads, April 16, 2019
• Off-Kilter Podcast, April 4, 2019
• ‘A Mother’s Will to Survive,’ with Stephanie Land, Montana Public Radio, March 21, 2019
• “31 Must-Read Stories for Every Day of Women’s History Month,” Bustle, March 1, 2019
• KCPW Mountain Money interview, February 25, 2019
• CNN Interview, February 17, 2019
• “She used to scrub toilets for $9 an hour. Now her book about it is a best seller,” CNN, February 17, 2019
• “Maid Author Stephanie Land on Her Years in Housekeeping,” Parade, February, 15, 2019
• 9 New Books We Recommend This Week, The New York Times, February 14, 2019
• Briefly Noted, The New Yorker, February 18 & 25, 2019
• The Hill TV, February 11, 2019
• New York Times podcast, February, 8, 2019
• “Parenting Below the Poverty Line,” North Bay Bohemian, February 5, 2019
• MAID review, Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 4, 2019
• Interview with Soledad O’Brien, Matter of Fact TV, February 2, 2019
• “From middle class to homeless: A mother’s unapologetic memoir,” The Washington Post, February 1, 2019
• “The Brutal Economy of Cleaning Other People’s Messes, for $9 an Hour,” The New York Times, January 31, 2019
• “‘Maid’ Offers a Striking Portrait of Single-Working-Motherhood,” The Nation, January 31, 2019
• “The Writer’s Life / Stephanie Land, Increasing Visibility, Increasing Compassion,” Shelf Awareness, January 29, 2019
• “The Crushing Logistics of Raising a Family Paycheck to Paycheck,” The Atlantic, January 28, 2019
• “7 Must-Read New Memoirs by Moms,” Kveller, January 28, 2019
• “New book explores single mom’s rise from the grips of poverty,” Good Morning Washington / WJLA, January 28, 2019
• “Maid author Stephanie Land on the rigged math of being poor,” Salon, January 27, 2019
• “The Author of Maid Doesn’t Want to be Called a Success Story,” The CUT, January 25, 2019
• “The Best Reviewed Books of the Week,” Book Marks, January 25, 2019
• “Time to think more about who does your dirty work,” The Ledger, January 25, 2019
• “‘Maid’: Memoir doubles as expose of classism,” Montana Kaimin, January 24, 2019
• “Author Stephanie Land on struggling against a system seemingly stacked against the working poor,” The Seattle Times, January 23, 2019
• “Porn, opioids and a freezer full of cigarettes: what one cleaner saw in America’s homes,” The Guardian, January 23, 2019
• Interview with Alison Stewart on ‘All Of It,’ WNYC, January 23, 2019
• “Five takeaways from Stephanie Land’s memoir, ‘Maid,‘” USA Today, January 22, 2019
• C-SPAN interview, January 22, 2019
• Author interview, Kirkus, January 22, 2019
• Review of MAID, New York Journal of Books
• “Novel Ideas for January 2019,” Missourian, January 18, 2019
• “Meet Stephanie Land, author of ‘Maid,’ a mother’s memoir on the reality of poverty,” Hartford Courant, January 18, 2019
• “Books of the Week,” Publisher’s Weekly, January 18, 2019
• “Week of Women,” BUST, January 18, 2019
• “The grinding fear and stress of a homeless mother,” Boston Globe, January 16, 2019
• “My 2018 in Reading and Writing,” Roxane Gay, January 16, 2019
• “This Memoir Will Make You Rethink All the Times You’ve Judged “Bad” Mothers,” Electric Literature, January 16, 2019
• “20 books to look out for in 2019, according to local experts,” Boston Globe, January 15, 2019
• A Q&A with Stephanie Land, Author of February’s Indie Next List Pick, BTW / American Booksellers, January 15, 2019
• “Maid’s tell-all reveals dirty secrets of America’s middle class,” New York Post, January 12, 2019
• “8 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in January,” Parade, January 7, 2019
• “New books to look forward to in 2019,” Newsday, January 7, 2019
• “11 New Books to Read This January” TIME, January 4, 2019
• “10 Best Winter Reads,” The Saturday Evening Post, January 3, 2019
• “8 New Books You Should Read This January,” Vulture, January 3, 2019
• “The Best Nonfiction Books Coming Out This Year,” BookBub, January 2, 2019
• “10 New Books Amazon’s Editors Say are Must-Reads This January,” Business Insider, January 1, 2019
• The 10 Best Nonfiction Books Coming Out in January 2019,” Bustle, January 1, 2019
• Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers, Spring 2019
• Amazon Best Book of the Month, January Spotlight Pick
• “7 Books That You Should Resolve to Read This January,” InStyle, December 31, 2018
• “16 Books By Women Coming Out in January 2019 That We Can’t Wait to Read,” BUST
• “The 10 Most Anticipated Books of 2019, According to Independent Bookstores,” Forbes, December 18, 2018
• “The Best New Books to Read This Winter,” SheKnows, November 25, 2018
• Starred Review for MAID, Publishers Weekly
• Starred Review for MAID, Kirkus

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– Interview with Terry Gross of Fresh Air, January 29, 2019
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– Excerpt from MAID in The New York Times, January 12, 2019
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-Essay in The Washington Post, January 22, 2019
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• Profile for WordPress.com’s #AnythingIsPossible Campaign, January, 2019.
• Appearance on Nieuwsuur, November, 2018.
• “Who Gets to Tell Stories About Poverty?” American Prospect, November, 2018.
• Interview with Amanda Wilgus for Cutbank, November, 2018.
• “Writing out of Poverty,” interview with Publishers Weekly, October, 2018.
• Interview for Leigh Stein’s weekly newsletter, October, 2018.
• Tell Us Something, Theme: “It’s Complicated,” October, 2018.
• “This mom fell into poverty and got out,” Upworthy, September, 2018.
• “Should you give in and declutter?,” USA Today, February, 2018.
• “Land takes on title of ‘Social Justice Warrior,’” Missoulian, June, 2017.
• #HandsOff Campaign Video, Center for American Progress, May, 2017.
• “Welfare helped this single mom get through college,” CNN, May, 2017.
• “Missoula writer receives death threats..,” Missoula Independent, Dec., 2016.
• Keynote speaker at Center for American Progress event on December 12, 2016.
• “Missoula woman loses desire to date…,” ABC Fox, Missoula, MT, December, 2016.
• “Missoula writer: Trump’s election…,” KPAX News, Missoula, MT, December, 2016.
• “The BinderCast: Episode 13: Stephanie Land,” podcast, November, 2016.
• Speech opening BinderCon New York, November 2016.
• “The Classism of Minimalism,” NHPR’s Word of Mouth, August, 2016.
• “Parenting Pitfalls: Renegades, Privilege…,” NPR All Things Considered, May, 2016.
• “Mamalode Podcast, Episode 1,” March, 2016.
• “Things you learn cleaning…,” ABC Radio National’s Life Matters, December, 2015.

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• BookExpo Announces Editors’ Buzz Picks, Publishers Weekly, March, 2018.
• “The High Cost of Becoming a Writer as a Single Mom,” Longreads, Jan., 2018.
• #2 in Soloish’s Top Stories of the Year, Washington Post, June, 2017.
• “Men Taking their Wives’ Last Names,” Refinery29, June, 2017.
• “This single mom turned her life around,” Romper, May, 2017.
• “Gained Weight? No Sex? ..It’s all Trump’s Fault,” New York Post, December, 2016.
• “It’s not you, it’s Trump,” Wall Street Journal, December, 2016.
• Segment on Bill O’Reilly, The O’Reilly Factor, December, 2016.
• BinderCon Newsletter, November 2016.
• “Program lifts writers from poverty,” Columbia Journalism Review, October, 2016.
• “An Essay Gone Viral,” WordPress Discover, September, 2016.
• “Meet Stephanie Land,” BinderCon Newsletter, September, 2016.
• “Cleaning up and Spreading ‘Goodwill,’” The Herald News, August, 2016.
• “The Trouble with the Decluttering Craze,” tpt.org, August, 2016.
• “Women we Read This Week,” Vela, July, 2016.
• Letters to the NYT Editor about “Class Politics of Decluttering,” July, 2016.
• “Why is this meme still in circulation?,” Slate, May 2016.
• “Monday’s Montanan,” profile, Missoulian (front page in print), April, 2016.
• Segment on The Doctors TV show, April, 2016.
• “This mom wants to teach her daughters about sex…,” Mic.com, April, 2016.

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