Ben Matchar
CEO
Ben founded Talking Book as a senior at Bennington College in Vermont. He has a long-held fascination with the intersection of economics and the arts. He is the winner of more than 100 Pulitzer Prizes, in his heart, where it truly matters. He is currently listening to The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber.
Kris Hartrum
Acquisitions
For six years Kris was a freelance writer in Tokyo, Japan where he mostly drank and played street fighter. After curating content for eBay in NYC, Kris moved to North Carolina to run his big fat mouth about Hemingway’s A Cat In The Rain and co-found Talking Book.
Dave Burr
Production
Dave is a master of sound and all things mid-sized rural NC towns. He comes from another dimension and a long line of great David’s including Bowie and Byrne.
Jameson Hartrum
Accounts
Before coming to Talking Book Jameson worked in both adult films and high-level sales. He is currently listening to Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.
Dani Harris
Designer
Dani Harris is a bookcover designer and content curator for Talking Book. She is also a dancer and the badass mother of the one and only Max Henry Hartrum.
Marcy Hanneman
Publicity
Marcy is a first generation extraterrestrial and plant lover. For tales of her home world, you would have to ask her cat, Toru.
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