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Monsters
By: Claire Dederer
Narrated by: Claire Dederer
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A timely, passionate, provocative, blisteringly smart interrogation of how we make and experience art in the age of cancel culture, and of the link between genius and monstrosity. Can we love the work of controversial classic and contemporary artists but dislike the artist?
"A lively, personal... Read more
The Art Thief
By: Michael Finkel
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Michael Finkel
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser.
In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us into Breitwieser’s strange world—unlike most thieves, he never stole for... Read more
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
By: Matthew Perry
Narrated by: Matthew Perry
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
"Going into his "why," Perry's audiobook is a fascinating listen."- AudioFile
This program is read by the author.
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY TIME, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, GOODREADS, USA TODAY, AND MORE!
The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory... Read more
Shit, Actually
By: Lindy West
Narrated by: Lindy West
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
**Your Favorite Movies, Re-Watched**
New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author Lindy West was once the in-house movie critic for Seattle's alternative newsweekly The Stranger, where she covered film with brutal honesty and giddy irreverence. In Shit, Actually, Lindy returns to those roots, re-examining beloved and iconic movies from... Read more
Do You Believe in Fairies?
By: Ashley Anne Strobridge
Narrated by: Ashley Anne Strobridge
Length: 51 minutes
Abridged: No
This is an audio journey through a collection of original Nature photography paired with original poetry & prose. Within you'll find lyrical audio descriptions of photos spanning the landscapes of my home state of Vermont, as well as a curated selection of photos from Virginia. This art is paired with whimsical & impactful poetry in... Read more
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Hollywood: The Oral History
By: Jeanine Basinger & Sam Wasson
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon & Marni Penning
Length: 28 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine Hepburn, Meryl Streep, Harold Lloyd, and nearly four hundred others, assembled from the American Film Institute’s treasure trove of interviews, reveals a fresh history of the American movie industry from its beginnings to today. From the archives... Read more
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All About Me!
By: Mel Brooks
Narrated by: Mel Brooks
Length: 15 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
At 95, the legendary Mel Brooks continues to set the standard for comedy across television, film, and the stage. Now, for the first time, this EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) winner shares his story in his own words.
“Laugh-out-loud hilarious and always fascinating, from the great Mel Brooks. What else do you expect from the man who knew Jesus... Read more
Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
Narrated by: Leslie Jamison
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage—an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love.
Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true, the complex. She has been compared... Read more
Get the Picture
By: Bianca Bosker
Narrated by: Bianca Bosker
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Get the Picture is one of the funniest books I’ve read . . . Brilliant.” —The Washington Post
“A gripping and often hilarious investigation into the art world. . . . Bosker goes full Tom Wolfe.” —TIME
“Funny, whip-smart, and gorgeously written, Get the Picture will forever transform the way you see. . . . I... Read more
This Time Together
By: Carol Burnett
Narrated by: Carol Burnett
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
This touching and hilarious memoir is 100 percent Carol Burnett—funny, irreverent, and irresistible.
Carol Burnett is one of the most beloved and revered actresses and performers in America. The Carol Burnett Show was seen each week by millions of adoring fans and won twenty-five Emmys in its remarkable eleven-year run. Now, in This Time... Read more
On Freedom
By: Maggie Nelson
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
An expansive, exhilarating work of criticism by one of the most significant writers of our day.
So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long... Read more
When I Was Your Age
By: Kenan Thompson
Narrated by: Kenan Thompson
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
“Kenan is a master storyteller with extraordinary stories to tell. I wouldn’t miss this for the world.”—Leslie JonesWhen I Was Your Age is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older and wiser, and luck, life, and learning from the school of hard knocks, from SNL's longest-serving actor, Kenan ThompsonKenan Thompson... Read more
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Every Man for Himself and God Against All
By: Werner Herzog
Narrated by: Werner Herzog
Length: 13 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of his epic artistic career in a long-awaited memoir that is as inventive and daring as anything he has done before
Werner Herzog was born in September 1942 in Munich, Germany, at a turning point in the Second World War. Soon Germany would be defeated... Read more
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
By: Lenny Bruce
Narrated by: Ronnie Marmo
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
During the course of a career that began in the late 1940s, Lenny Bruce challenged the sanctity of organized religion and other societal and political conventions; he widened the boundaries of free speech. Critic Ralph Gleason said, "So many taboos have been lifted and so many comics have rushed through the doors Lenny opened. He utterly changed... Read more
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The Lady from the Black Lagoon
By: Mallory O'Meara
Narrated by: Mallory O''Meara & Mallory O'Meara
Length: 9 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
2019 SCIBA Book Award Winner for Biography
A Hugo and Locus Award Finalist
Winner of the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award
The Los Angeles Times Bestseller
A Thrillist Best Book of the Year
A Book Riot Best Book of 2019
One of Booklist’s 10 Best Art Books of the Year
The Lady from the Black Lagoon uncovers the life and work of Milicent Patrick—one of... Read more
Neverwhere
By: Neil Gaiman
Narrated by: Anthony Head, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher...
Length: 3 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Beneath the streets of London there is another London. A subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube stations. A somewhere that is Neverwhere... An act of kindness sees Richard Mayhew catapulted from his ordinary life into the strange world of London Below. There he meets the Earl of Earl's Court, faces a life-threatening ordeal at the... Read more
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Funny Weather
By: Olivia Laing
Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
"One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction" (Harper's Bazaar) explores the role of art in the tumultuous twenty-first century.
In the age of Trump and Brexit, every crisis is instantly overridden by the next. The turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century generates anxiety and makes it difficult to know how to react. Olivia... Read more
Chasing Beauty
By: Natalie Dykstra
Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
Length: 15 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
The vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner—creator of one of America’s most stunning museums—an American original whose own life was remade by art. Isabella Stewart Gardner’s museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston’s Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Its... Read more
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Blood, Sweat & Chrome
By: Kyle Buchanan
Narrated by: Fred Berman, Aspen Vincent, Dan Bittner, Derek ...
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
A full-speed-ahead oral history of the nearly two-decade making of the cultural phenomenon Mad Max: Fury Road—with more than 130 new interviews with key members of the cast and crew, including Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy, and director George Miller, from the pop culture reporter for The New York Times, Kyle Buchanan.It won six Oscars and has been... Read more
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The Secret Lives of Color
By: Kassia St. Clair
Narrated by: Kassia St. Clair
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
One of USA Today's “100 Books to Read While Stuck at Home During the Coronavirus Crisis”
A dazzling gift, the unforgettable, unknown history of colors and the vivid stories behind them in a beautiful multi-colored volume.
“Beautifully written . . . Full of anecdotes and fascinating research, this elegant compendium has all the... Read more
The Swans of Harlem
By: Karen Valby
Narrated by: Karlya Shelton-Benjamin, Sheila Rohan, Lydia Ab...
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood, a legacy erased from history—until now.
“This is the kind of history I wish I learned as a child dreaming of the stage!” —Misty Copeland, author of Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy
“Utterly absorbing,... Read more
Opposable Thumbs
By: Matt Singer
Narrated by: Matt Singer
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB.
You asked whether Siskel & Ebert had given it “two thumbs up.”
On a cold Saturday afternoon in 1975, two men (who had known each other for eight years before they’d ever exchanged a word) met for lunch in a Chicago pub. Gene... Read more
Riding the Elephant
By: Craig Ferguson
Narrated by: Craig Ferguson
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
From the comedian, actor, and former host of The Late Late Show comes an irreverent, lyrical memoir in essays featuring his signature wit.
Craig Ferguson has defied the odds his entire life. He has failed when he should have succeeded and succeeded when he should have failed. The fact that he is neither dead nor in a locked facility (at the... Read more
Classic BBC Radio Shakespeare: Tragedies
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Full Cast, Ian McKellen, Paul Scofield & Peggy ...
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Three powerful radio productions from the BBC archives starring Ian McKellen, Ronald Pickup and Paul Scofield and a host of celebrated acting talent . These three legendary plays, performed by some of the best-known theatrical actors of the 20th Century, are the perfect way to commemorate England's greatest dramatist.
Romeo and Juliet: The... Read more