Art audiobooks

Rocky Jordan, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: Jack Moyles & a full cast

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Rocky Jordan, a banished American detective who now owns The Café’ Tambourine in Cairo, Egypt—the gateway to the ancient East, where adventure and intrigue unfold against the backdrop of antiquity!Reminiscent of Humphrey Bogart’s character Rick Blaine from the classic film Casablanca, Rocky Jordan was banished by enemies from St. Louis and... Read more

Suspense, Vol. 5 - Abridged

By: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Suspense mixed mystery, suspicion, and dangerous adventure like no other. Featuring the biggest names in Hollywood, it stirred your nerves to offer you a precarious situation and then withhold the solution … until the last possible moment!Conceived as a potential radio vehicle for Alfred Hitchcock to direct, Suspense was a radio series of epic... Read more

Kevin Doyle: 30 Year Old Virgin

By: Kevin Doyle

Narrated by: Kevin Doyle

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing up in a devoutly Christian home, Kevin was saving sex for marriage. After moving to New York City to pursue a career as an actor, he quickly fell in love and got engaged. A month before his wedding, he called it off and found himself in a precarious position, a 30 year old virgin. A story of heartbreak and horniness that has been called... Read more

A Trailblazer Of Earth Music

By: Paul Winter

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Since the 1960s Paul Winter has been in the vanguard of musicians who express special appreciation for the natural music of our world, including wolves, whales, birds, wind and water. His inclusivity combines everything from Bach to Bossa Nova, and his albums, Common Ground and Callings, are cultural landmarks, as is his album Missa Gaia/Earth... Read more

Quarantine Session #20: Raven Leilani + Samantha Irby

By: Raven Leilani

Narrated by: Samantha Irby

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this electrifying pre-publication event, Raven Leilani launches her highly anticipated novel Luster in conversation with fiercely brilliant comedian Samantha Irby. Leilani's novel of a young Black woman's artistic and sexual trajectory is the starting point for a passionate and hilarious conversation about (among other things) the... Read more

The Reason Why

By: John Long and The Dasilva Theatre Players

Narrated by: John Long and The Dasilva Theatre Players

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul's just a guy trying to work his life out. He has a reason why he was caught with the frog in the blender. And it's a damn good one! He tells his story with sardonic wit. Read more

Bonfire of the Vanderbilts

By: Gerald Everett Jones

Narrated by: Rebecca Roberts

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1892 Paris, Julius Stewart painted The Baptism, a Vanderbilt family scene that contains an embarrassing secret. In the present day, art historian Grace Atwood becomes obsessed with the painting and its hidden clues for reasons that have more to do with her personal ghosts. Either her doting husband is trying to make her think she's crazy, or... Read more

Das ganze Leben ist Begegnung (ungekürzte Autorinnenlesung)

By: Katja Ebstein

Narrated by: Katja Ebstein

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Gute Begegnungen: Brausepulver für die Seele, Futter für den Verstand. Katja Ebstein erzählt zum ersten Mal von den bedeutenden Stationen ihres Lebens und den Begegnungen, die sie geprägt haben. Sie erzählt, wie ihre Eltern ihr Musikalität und Freiheitsliebe mit auf den Weg gegeben haben. Wie Willy Brandt zu ihrem politischen Ziehvater wurde,... Read more

The God of the Witches

By: Margaret Alice Murray

Narrated by: Catherine Fuller

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook is intended for the general listener as well as for the student of Anthropology. In this volume I have followed one line only of Anthropological enquiry, the survival of an indigenous European cult and the interaction between it and the exotic religion which finally overwhelmed it.I have traced the worship of the Horned God... Read more

Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon

By: James Hibberd

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The official, definitive oral history of the blockbuster show from Entertainment Weekly’s James Hibberd, published with HBO’s official support. 

It was supposed to be impossible. George R.R. Martin was a frustrated television writer who created his bestselling A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novels to be an unfilmable saga bound only by the limits... Read more

Golem Girl

By: Riva Lehrer

Narrated by: Riva Lehrer & Cassandra Campbell

Length: 14 hours

Abridged: No

The vividly told, gloriously illustrated memoir of an artist born with disabilities who searches for freedom and connection in a society afraid of strange bodies

“Golem Girl is luminous; a profound portrait of the artist as a young—and mature—woman; an unflinching social history of disability over the last six decades; and a hymn to life, love,... Read more

The 99% Invisible City

By: Roman Mars & Kurt Kohlstedt

Narrated by: Roman Mars

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible podcast, comes a guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities. Narrated by Roman Mars, with a bonus Q&A and a Full Episode of 99% Invisible. Have you ever wondered what those bright, squiggly graffiti marks on the sidewalk mean?Or stopped to consider why you don't see... Read more

Working on a Song

By: Anaïs Mitchell

Narrated by: Anaïs Mitchell & Steve Earle

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"Working On A Song is one of the best books about lyric writing for the theater I've read."—Lin-Manuel Miranda

Anaïs Mitchell named to TIME's List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World of 2020

An illuminating book of lyrics and stories from Hadestown—the winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical—from its author, songwriter... Read more

I, Beethoven

By: David Serero

Narrated by: David Serero

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"I, Beethoven" is a One-Man-Play where Ludwig van Beethoven returns in 2020 to tell his own story from birth to death, including his legacy. This play written at the first person, by David Serero, gives a theatrical dimension to this autobiographical text based on Beethoven's life. The play and recording are made in honor of the 250th Birthday... Read more

Jesus Trejo: Stay At Home Son

By: Jesus Trejo

Narrated by: Jesus Trejo

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Jesus Trejo’s first one-hour special, "Stay At Home Son", explores the Long Beach native’s upbringing as seen through his comedic lens. As an only-child to immigrant parents, Trejo grew up learning many of life’s lessons in the most unconventional ways, all while constantly feeling the need to meet his parents’ high expectations. From running... Read more

Write This Way

By: Kristin N. Spencer

Narrated by: Kristin N. Spencer

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

How to Gain 10 Years of Writing Experience in 6 Easy Lessons.What if you could skip forward in time and avoid all of the pain and heartbreak associated with writing group or professor critiques? You’ve been told that to become a better writer, you must have your work torn to pieces by other writers, but that process is draining and slow. What if... Read more

Behind the Sequins

By: Shirley Ballas

Narrated by: Shirley Ballas

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Leave it all on the floor...

Queen of Latin Ballroom, Shirley Ballas has a spectacular dance career spanning over 40 years - she has Cha-Cha'd her way across the world's dance floors to become a multi-award-winning ballroom champion and one of the most renowned dancers in the world. In 1996, Shirley retired from competitive dancing to become a... Read more

Silent Film

By: Donna Kornhaber

Narrated by: Emily Beresford

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Encompassing the thirty-five year span between the initial development of film technology in the mid-1890s and the adoption of synchronized sound in the late 1920s, the cinema's silent era is both one of the most important epochs of film history and one of the most misunderstood within the popular imagination. In this brief, engaging account,... Read more

Quarantine Session #19: Douglas Martin + Darcey Steinke

By: Douglas Martin

Narrated by: Darcey Steinke

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Douglas A. Martin discusses the reissue of his novel, Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother, with his friend and fellow Brooklyn author Darcey Steinke. In their discussion of Martin's fictionalized story of the less-successful sibling of Emily, Charlotte and Anne Bronte, the two wrestle with how traditional biography fails to make room for... Read more

Better Alphabets

By: Akash Shrivastava

Narrated by: Travis Isaacson

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Better Alphabets aims to bridge creative learning with art. A lot of the alphabet book haven't been updated for the generation today, leaving them disconnected. This book changes that, C for cat? Naah! C for Climate! Just like R for Recycle, M for Mars!Come and join us on our journey to see what a better alphabet book looks like!You can see the... Read more

Tres horas en el Museo del Prado

By: Eugenio d'Ors

Narrated by: Ramón Langa

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

En este clásico ensayo el filósofo Eugenio d´Ors realiza un recorrido por la que es considerada una de las pinacotecas más importantes del mundo, el Museo del Prado. A través de la visita por las diferentes salas del museo, d´Ors nos guía a través de una selección de obras y a través de ellas nos ofrece su particular visión sobre los... Read more

Comedy in Color, Volume 1

By: Laugh Out Loud

Narrated by: Lil Rel with a curated lineup of comedians from...

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A brand-new audio series collecting live recordings of the most hilarious stand-up comedy routines from Laugh Out Loud’s hit Comedy in Color franchise, which debuted on Pluto TV.

Comedy In Color, Volume 1 welcomes listeners to the largest international comedy festival on earth with curated stand-up sets from ten jam-packed shows at the... Read more

The Camera Lies

By: Dan Callahan

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Alfred Hitchcock is said to have once remarked, "Actors are cattle," a line that has stuck in the public consciousness ever since. For Hitchcock, acting was a matter of contrast and counterpoint, valuing subtlety and understatement over flashiness. He felt that the camera was duplicitous, and directed actors to look and act conversely. In The... Read more

Beautiful

By: Stephen Michael Shearer

Narrated by: Christa Lewis

Length: 17 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Surprising Story of Hedy Lamarr, "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World"

Hedy Lamarr's exotic beauty was heralded across Europe in the early 1930s. Yet she became infamous for her nude scenes in the scandalous movie Ecstasy. Trapped in a marriage to one of Austria's munitions barons, a friend of Mussolini's who hid his Jewish heritage to... Read more