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The Light Years
By: Chris Rush
Narrated by: Victor Lodato
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The Light Years is a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the most turbulent times in American history
Chris Rush was born into a prosperous, fiercely Roman Catholic, New Jersey family. But underneath the gleaming mid-century house, the flawless hostess mom, and the thriving businessman dad ran an unspoken tension that, amid... Read More »
Walk Through Walls
By: Marina Abramovic
Narrated by: Marina Abramovic
Length: 14 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
“I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn’t matter, that nothing mattered at all—and it intoxicated me.”
In 2010, more than 750,000 people stood in line at Marina Abramović’s MoMA retrospective for the chance to sit across from her and communicate with her nonverbally in an... Read More »
A Month in Siena
By: Hisham Matar
Narrated by: Hisham Matar
Length: 3 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Return comes a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and life.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND EVENING STANDARD
After finishing his powerful memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy. Always... Read More »
The Porcelain Thief
By: Huan Hsu
Narrated by: Huan Hsu
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A journalist travels throughout mainland China and Taiwan in search of his family’s hidden treasure and comes to understand his ancestry as he never has before.
In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Huan Hsu’s great-great-grandfather Liu’s Yangtze River hometown of Xingang, Liu was forced to bury his valuables, including a vast collection of... Read More »
Minor Feelings
By: Cathy Park Hong
Narrated by: Cathy Park Hong
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness and the struggle to be human
“Brilliant . . . To read this book is to become more human.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to... Read More »
The Chiffon Trenches
By: André Leon Talley
Narrated by: André Leon Talley
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the pages of Vogue to the runways of Paris, this deeply revealing memoir by a legendary style icon captures the fashion world from the inside out, in its most glamorous and most cutthroat moments.
“The Chiffon Trenches honestly and candidly captures fifty sublime years of fashion.”—Manolo Blahnik
During André Leon... Read More »
The Queens of Animation
By: Nathalia Holt
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A BEST BOOK OF 2019: Library Journal, Christian Science Monitor, and Financial Times
From the bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls, the untold, "richly detailed" story of the women of Walt Disney Studios, who shaped the iconic films that have enthralled generations (Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times bestselling author of Hidden... Read More »
My Meteorite
By: Harry Dodge
Narrated by: Harry Dodge
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
One of LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of 2020
An expansive, radiant, and genre-defying investigation into bonding—and how we are shaped by forces we cannot fully know
Is love a force akin to gravity? A kind of invisible fabric which enables communications through space and time? Artist Harry Dodge... Read More »
Ninth Street Women
By: Mary Gabriel
Narrated by: Lisa Stathoplos
Length: 39 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times).
Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic,... Read More »
Leonardo da Vinci
By: Walter Isaacson
Narrated by: Alfred Molina
Length: 17 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life” (The New Yorker).
Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci’s astonishing... Read More »
Shadows in the Vineyard
By: Maximillian Potter
Narrated by: Donald Corren
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Journalist Maximillian Potter uncovers a fascinating plot to destroy the vines of La Romance-Conti, Burgundy's finest and most expensive wine.
In January 2010, Aubert de Villaine, the famed proprietor of the Domaine de la Romance-Conti, the tiny, storied vineyard that produces the most expensive, exquisite wines in the world, received an... Read More »
Room to Dream
By: David Lynch & Kristine McKenna
Narrated by: David Lynch & Kristine McKenna
Length: 15 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
An unprecedented look into the personal and creative life of the visionary auteur David Lynch, through his own words and those of his closest colleagues, friends, and family — adapted by David Lynch from the print book especially for this audio program
In this unique hybrid of biography and memoir, David Lynch opens up for the first time about... Read More »
Sand Talk
By: Tyson Yunkaporta
Narrated by: Tyson Yunkaporta
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability—and offers a new template for living.
As an indigenous person, Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from a unique perspective, one tied to the natural and... Read More »
Old in Art School
By: Nell Painter
Narrated by: Nell Painter
Length: 11 hours
Abridged: No
Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school―in her sixties―to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design; finds meaning in the artists she loves,... Read More »
Art & Fear
By: David Bayles & Ted Orland
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 3 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
What is your art really about? Where is it going? What stands in the way of getting it there?
These are questions that matter, questions that recur at each stage of artistic development—and they are the source for this volume of wonderfully incisive commentary. Art & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made,... Read More »
Your Art Will Save Your Life
By: Beth Pickens
Narrated by: Beth Pickens
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
As a teenager visiting the Andy Warhol Museum, Beth Pickens realized theimportance of making art. As an adult, she has worked as a consultant empowering artists. Intimate yet practical, Your Art Will Save Your Lifehelps artists build a sustainable practice while navigating the world of MFAs,residencies, and institutional funding. Read More »
All the Wrong Moves
By: Sasha Chapin
Narrated by: Sasha Chapin
Length: 5 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
"A briskly told coming-of-age memoir...Chapin has a fine eye for the game's beauty...In the course of his entertaining odyssey, Mr. Chapin offers a Zen-like secret to chess, and to living."
--Wall Street Journal
Sasha Chapin is a victim of chess. Like countless amateurs before him--Albert Einstein, Humphrey Bogart, Marcel Duchamp--the game has... Read More »
How to Be an Artist
By: Jerry Saltz
Narrated by: Jerry Saltz
Length: 2 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
"Inspiration leaps off the pages from Jerry Saltz's new book on creativity. . . . This book is for the artist or non-artist, for the person who gets plain English, for the person who understands that practical talk can coax out the mystical messages that lie underneath." —Steve Martin
Art has the power to change our lives. For many, becoming an... Read More »
I Like to Watch
By: Emily Nussbaum
Narrated by: Emily Nussbaum
Length: 13 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
From The New Yorker’s fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch.
“Emily Nussbaum is the perfect critic—smart, engaging, funny, generous, and insightful.”—David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF... Read More »
Handmade
By: Gary Rogowski
Narrated by: BJ Harrison
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
In an era when there are countless competing claims on one's attention, how does one find the internal focus to be creative? For master furniture craftsman Gary Rogowski, the answer is in the act of creative work itself. The discipline of working with one's hands to create unnecessarily beautiful things shapes the builder into a more complete... Read More »
The Hare with Amber Eyes
By: Edmund de Waal
Narrated by: Micheal Maloney
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who "burned like a comet" in nineteenth-century Paris and Vienna society. Yet by the end of World War II, almost the only thing remaining of their vast empire was a collection of 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox.
The renowned... Read More »
M Train
By: Patti Smith
Narrated by: Patti Smith
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
National Best Seller
From the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as “a roadmap to my life.”
M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes... Read More »
The Lonely City
By: Olivia Laing
Narrated by: Susan Lyons
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
An expertly crafted work of reportage, memoir, and biography on the subject of loneliness told through the lives of six iconic artists, by the acclaimed author of The Trip to Echo Spring. You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavor to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by thousands of strangers. The... Read More »
Who Was Celia Cruz?
By: Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso & Who HQ
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 1 hour 3 minutes
Abridged: No
How did a working-class girl from Cuba become a symbol of artistic freedom for Cuban Americans and the "Queen of Salsa"? Find out in this addition to the Who HQ library!
Although her family and friends know her as Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso, the world refers to her simply as Celia Cruz. Starting her career in 1950, Celia grew... Read More »