Art audiobooks

Quarantine Session #25: Adam Smyer + Irma Herrera

By: Adam Smyer

Narrated by: Irma Herrera

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Adam Smyer discusses his biting and hilarious guidebook You Can Keep That to Yourself: A Comprehensive List of What Not to Say to Black People, for Well-Intentioned People of Pallor with writer and performer Irma Herrera. Their discussion addresses questions of impact vs. intent, the state of violence against black people in America, and... Read more

Quarantine Session #26: Sid Meier + David Ewalt

By: Sid Meier

Narrated by: David Ewalt

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Legendary game developer Sid Meier (creator of Pirates, Railroad Tycoon, and Sid Meier's Civilization) talks about his own story, as related in his book Sid Meir's Memoir!, with award-winning technology journalist David Ewalt. Their conversation is a gamer's dream, covering Sid's four decades in game creation and answering questions about his... Read more

Quarantine Session #27: Mychal Denzel Smith + Brit Bennett

By: Mychal Denzel Smith

Narrated by: Brit Bennett

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Set squarely in the context of an America ravaged by a pandemic and racial and political violence, Mychal Denzel Smith's discussion of his book Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream with novelist Brit Bennett is a fierce, brilliant and unapologetic conversation, leavened with gallows humor. Mychal delineates the distinction between being... Read more

Quarantine Session #28: Michael Ian Black + Liz Plank

By: Michael Ian Black

Narrated by: Liz Plank

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The multi-talented Michael Ian Black discusses his book A Better Man: A (Mostly) Serious Letter to my Son with award-winning journalist and author Liz Plank in a conversation about toxic masculinity that is highly irreverent in the best way. Michael addresses topics from his father's death to his "artsy" childhood, and the emotional hardening... Read more

Quarantine Session #29: Brooklyn Indie Party

By: Adam Smyer, Andrea Rosenberg, Stephanie Jean, M...

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Greenlight’s annual Brooklyn Indie Party (ten years and counting) goes virtual for 2020! Editors and publishers from eleven small publishers introduce authors Adam Smyer, Andrea Rosenberg, Stephanie Jean, Matthew Burgess, Kim McLarin, Jenzo DuQue, Megan Cummins, JinJin Xu, Rivka Galchen, Grace Schulman, and Zahra Patterson for an epic,... Read more

Quarantine Session #30: Roman Mars & Kurt Kohlstedt + Seth Godin

By: Roman Mars

Narrated by: Seth Godin

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

The beloved 99% Invisible podcast takes book form in The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design, and host and creator Roman Mars and digital director and producer Kurt Kohlstedt talk with legendary podcaster, author and marketing expert Seth Godin about the transition. The trio of podcast pros talk about the... Read more

Quarantine Session #31: Eric Adams + Bryant Terry

By: Eric Adams

Narrated by: Bryant Terry

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and award-winning chef, author, and educator Bryant Terry offer an inspiring conversation on food and racial justice as they discuss Eric's book Healthy at Last: A Plant-Based Approach to Preventing and Reversing Diabetes and Other Chronic Illnesses. Eric talks about the terrible commonness of diabetes in... Read more

Zombie Gospel

By: Danielle Strickland

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

What can zombies teach us about the gospel? The hit show The Walking Dead is set in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by mindless zombies. The characters have one goal: survive at all costs. At first glance there doesn't seem to be much the show can teach us about God or ourselves. Or is there? Author and speaker Danielle Strickland didn't... Read more

Lame of Thrones

By: The Harvard Lampoon

Narrated by: Joshua Manning

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From Harvard's legendary humor publication comes an outrageous, uproariously funny parody of Game of Thrones, in the tradition of their previous bestselling parody book classics Bored of the Rings, Nightlight, and The Hunger Pains.
An affectionate but take-no-prisoners send-up of the massive literary and television franchise, Lame of Thrones... Read more

Pelle Hermanni ja äitiliini

By: Simo Ojanen

Narrated by: Jan-Christian Söderholm

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Pelle Hermannilla on lämpimät välit herttaiseen äitiinsä, jota Hermanni kutsuu äitiliiniksi. Äitiliinin syntymäpäivä on tulossa, ja sekös saa Hermannin elämän pois tolaltaan – Hermannin täytyy keksiä äitiliinille lahja! Äidille on kovin vaikeaa keksiä vietävää, sillä äitiliini asuu pienessä talossa, joka on jo tupaten täynnä tavaraa.Ja tapahtuu... Read more

Sirkuspelle Hermanni

By: Simo Ojanen

Narrated by: Jan-Christian Söderholm

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Hermanni ei ole mikä tahansa mies – hän on ihka oikea sirkuspelle! Ja sirkuspellen elämä ei tietystikään ole ihan tavallista elämää. "Sirkuspelle Hermanni" on kokoelma tarinoita Hermannin hulvattomasta elämästä. Välillä Hermannilla on hattu kadoksissa, välillä hän viettää vapaapäivää onkien – ja hoitaa sirkuksen eläimiä, kuten Jeremias-norsua,... Read more

The Grand Gypsy

By: Ottavio Canestrelli with Ottavio Gesmundo

Narrated by: Ottavio Gesmundo

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

What do Adolf Hitler, Mahatma Gandhi, and Ed Sullivan have in common? Ottavio Canestrelli crossed paths with each. He performed with the Krone Circus in Italy and Germany from 1922 to 1924 on the eve of Hitler’s rise to power; he witnessed a rally for Mahatma Gandhi in India in 1931; and he appeared twice on the Ed Sullivan Show during the... Read more

THE CHARISMA BOOK: Improve Your Small Talk Skills with Charismatic Communication

By: Francis L. Eckart

Narrated by: dms

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to become a truly charismatic person who can inspire positivity in others with a charm and personality like no other. The book will let you know about the elements of charisma and characteristics of a charismatic person.Through this book, Benjamin takes you through the significance and... Read more

Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling

By: Mark Minett

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 14 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling reveals an Altman barely glimpsed in previous critical accounts of the filmmaker. This re-examination of his seminal work during the "Hollywood Renaissance" or "New Hollywood" period of the early 1970s (including M*A*S*H, Brewster McCloud, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Images, The Long... Read more

The Gallery of Miracles and Madness

By: Charlie English

Narrated by: Enn Reitel

Length: 13 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The untold story of Hitler’s war on “degenerate” artists and the mentally ill that served as a model for the “Final Solution.”
 
“A penetrating chronicle . . . deftly links art history, psychiatry, and Hitler’s ideology to devastating effect.”—The Wall Street Journal

As a veteran of the First World War, and an expert in art history and medicine,... Read more

The View from the Bridge

By: Nicholas Meyer

Narrated by: Nicholas Meyer

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

When Nicholas Meyer was asked to direct the troubled second Star Trek film, he was something less than a true believer. A bestselling author and successful director, he had never been a fan of the TV series. But as he began to ponder the appeal of Kirk, Spock, et al., he realized that their story was a classical nautical adventure yarn... Read more

The Road to Roses

By: Desiree Hartsock Siegfried

Narrated by: Desiree Hartsock Siegfried

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

For anyone looking for a light in the darkness, The Road to Roses?is a transformative guide to finding the strength to hold your head high, even when you're at your lowest. Whether your heart has been broken, your dream has been put on hold, or your character has been placed under the microscope, Desiree Hartsock Siegfried's story will give you... Read more

Pelle Hermannin mansikkaloma

By: Simo Ojanen

Narrated by: Jan-Christian Söderholm

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Työ on työtä, myös sirkuspellen elämässä! Tämän Pelle Hermanni saa huomata, kun lääkäri patistaa Hermannia pitämään lomaa – Hermanni kun ei ole viettänyt sellaista vuosikausiin.Hermannin kesä ei kuitenkaan kulu pelkästään marjoja poimien ja taivaalle tuijotellen, vaan siihen mahtuu erilaisia kommelluksia lähes joka päivä. Pian pellen kesä... Read more

The Measure of Man

By: Lawrence Rothfield

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

It was one of the most concentrated surges of creativity in the history of civilization. Between 1390 and 1537, Florence poured forth an astonishing stream of magnificent artworks. But Florentines did more during this brief period than create masterpieces. As citizens of a fractious republic threatened from below, without, and within, they also... Read more

Wild Minds

By: Reid Mitenbuler

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The vivid and untold story of the golden age of classic animation and the often larger-than-life artists who created some of the most iconic cartoon characters of the twentieth centuryIn 1911, the famed cartoonist Winsor McCay debuted an animated version of his popular newspaper strip, Little Nemo in Slumberland. Loosely inspired by Sigmund... Read more

Easy Crafts for the Insane

By: Kelly Williams Brown

Narrated by: Kelly Williams Brown

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Adulting comes a story about how to make something when you’re capable of nothing.
 

Kelly Williams Brown had 700 Bad Days. Her marriage collapsed, she broke three limbs in separate and unrelated incidents, her father was diagnosed with cancer, and she fell into a deep depression that ended in what... Read more

Hystryo

By: Enrico Bernard

Narrated by: Alexander Ballinger

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

Anno domini 2012. Rom steht unter katastrophalem Schneefall. Der Verkehr ist gelähmt, die Stadt ist gesperrt, die Kälte sinkt. Wo soll man Schutz finden? Das Licht einer Bar oder eines Restaurants scheint eine Unterkunnft anzubieten. Leider ist es "nur" ein Theater. Der Protagonist dieses Abenteuers findet sich trotz seiner Abneigung gegen das... Read more

Trini's Blues

By: B.A. Buie

Narrated by: B.A. Buie

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

What if the man you thought would be your forever became a fleeting mirage, a lesson disguised as love? In "Trini's Blues," a deeply personal journey unfolds, revealing the story of a woman who embarked on a path to self-healing. Told in the unique voice of Atlanta's rising Indie author and poet, this memoir isn't about him—it's about her. It's... Read more

I, Marie Antoinette

By: David Serero

Narrated by: Lisa Monde

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

"I, MARIE ANTOINETTE" is a one woman theater play, written by David Serero, about the most iconic Queen of France: Marie Antoinette. Under the form of an autobiography, Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) tells her story from birth to death, to contemporary audience. Read more