Art audiobooks

Little America

By: Epic

Narrated by: Deepti Gupta, Je Nie Fleming, Kumail Nanjiani, ...

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"Given how much we loved the TV mini-series version of Little America, it’s only natural that we’re jumping at the chance to cry even more with this new audiobook collecting the true stories that inspired the Apple Original Series...Stock up on tissues for this must-listen audiobook." — Paste

From the pages of Epic magazine come the true stories... Read more

Broken Glass

By: Alex Beam

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story of the intimate relationship that gave birth to the Farnsworth House, a masterpiece of twentieth-century architecture—and disintegrated into a bitter feud over love, money, gender, and the very nature of art.

“An intimate portrait . . . alive with architectural intrigue.”—Architect Magazine

In 1945, Edith Farnsworth asked the... 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

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

Despite Virus Fears, Arizona’s Changing Demographic Prepares To Go To The Polls

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Across the country, election officials are scrambling to decide how to
adjust to the coronavirus pandemic. Louisiana and Georgia have postponed
their primary contests, and candidates have eliminated public rallies
entirely. But in Arizona, Tuesday’s primary is still on, and some 80
percent of voters were expected to mail in their ballots ahead... Read more

Gary Owen: #DoinWhatIDo

By: Gary Owen

Narrated by: Gary Owen

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In #DoinWhatIDo Gary Owen hilariously bridges the “lanes” of black and white cultures as only he can, both in his home and on social media. From Black Twitter, his daughter’s homecoming date, to the rules of when we can and cannot use the N-word, no one does it better! Read more

Ibi Zoboi (My Life) with Rita Williams Garcia at Greenlight Bookstore

By: Ibi Zoboi

Narrated by: Rita Williams Garcia

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Rising star Ibi Zoboi (author of the young adult novels American Street and Pride) presents her middle grade fiction debut My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich , in a conversation with her mentor, iconic young people’s fiction author Rita Williams-Garcia, centered on the culture of 1980s Harlem, hip-hop, and sci-fi and black girl nerdiness.... Read more

In Florida, Path To Restoring Felons’ Voting Rights Has Been Fraught With Challenge

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Until 2018, Florida was one of only a few states that banned felons from
voting for life. But that year, a two-thirds majority of the state passed
an initiative to restore voting eligibility to felons who had served their
sentences. It was a major victory for voting rights -- but the subsequent
implementation has been fraught with legal battles,... Read more

Sidney Lumet

By: Maura Spiegel

Narrated by: Kate Mulligan

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The first-ever biography of the seminal American director whose remarkable life traces a line through American entertainment historyAcclaimed as the ultimate New York movie director, Sidney Lumet began his astonishing five-decades-long directing career with the now classic 12 Angry Men, followed by such landmark films as Serpico, Dog Day... Read more

The little-known story of the Republican Party’s 1st presidential nominee

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In a new book, NPR’s Steve Inskeep has chronicled the little-known story of
how the illegitimate son of an immigrant rose to become the Republican
Party’s first presidential nominee in 1856 -- with a lot of help from his
wife. Lisa Desjardins sits down with Inskeep to discuss “Imperfect Union:
How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West,... Read more

The White Blackbird

By: Honor Moore

Narrated by: Stockard Channing

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

"A striking portrait of a woman artist's struggle for life." —Arthur Miller

Margarett Sargent was an icon of avant-garde art in the 1920s. In an evocative weave of biography and memoir, her granddaughter unearths for the first time the life of a spirited and gifted woman committed at all costs to self-expression. Read more

The little-known story of the Republican Party’s 1st presidential nominee

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In a new book, NPR’s Steve Inskeep has chronicled the little-known story of
how the illegitimate son of an immigrant rose to become the Republican
Party’s first presidential nominee in 1856 -- with a lot of help from his
wife. Lisa Desjardins sits down with Inskeep to discuss “Imperfect Union:
How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West,... Read more

Race in America and the Lead-Up to the 2020 Election at Book Passage

By: Paula Farmer, Brian Copeland, Ian Haney Lopez, ...

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Race in America and the Lead-Up to the 2020 Election at Book Passage Read more

Rahm Emanuel, Author of "The Nation City"

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Rahm Emanuel has served as a top adviser to Presidents Clinton and Obama, a
three-term congressman from Illinois and a two-term mayor of Chicago. But
in his new book, “The Nation City,” the longtime Democrat argues that
mayors are today’s most effective U.S. government officials. Emanuel sits
down with Judy Woodruff to discuss that idea as well... Read more

Chad Thornsberry: Smart Comedy From A Dumb Accent

By: Chad Thornsberry

Narrated by: Chad Thornsberry

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Corporate comedian Chad Thornsberry has an instant likeability the second he steps behind a microphone. Chad’s slow paced, conversational style is the perfect backdrop for his hilarious observations.Drawing on experiences ranging from growing up in a trailer park, being a former public school teacher, marriage, kids, and all of life’s everyday... Read more

Cecil Beaton

By: Hugo Vickers

Narrated by: Hugo Vickers

Length: 27 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Cecil Beaton was one of Britain's greatest cultural icons - not just as a photographer capturing some of the most celebrated portraits of the 20th century but also as designer of the iconic sets and costumes for the films My Fair Lady and Gigi.

In 1980, Beaton personally chose Hugo Vickers to be his biographer, entrusting him with his diaries... Read more

The God Child

By: Nana Oforiatta Ayim

Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The God Child by Nana Oforiatta Ayim, read by Adjoa Andoh.

‘Engrossing and memorable’ Ben Okri

'Meditative, gestural, philosophic: a brave reinvention of the immigrant narrative ... Unprecedented' Taiye Selasi

'I read this novel very slowly. I didn't want to miss anything ... It is a rich, beautiful book and when I got to the... Read more

Lisa Wingate (The Book of Lost Friends) at Read It Again Bookstore

By: Lisa Wingate

Narrated by: Lisa Wingate

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Lisa Wingate is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Before We Were Yours, which has remained on the NYT Bestseller List Hardcover and softcover lists for 104 weeks and has sold over 2.5 million copies. She has penned over thirty novels and co-authored a nonfiction book, Before and After with Judy Christie. Her April 2020 novel, The... Read more

Frida in America

By: Celia Stahr

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know todayMexican artist Frida Kahlo adored adventure. In November, 1930, she was thrilled to realize her dream of traveling to the United States to live in San Francisco, Detroit, and New York. Still, leaving her family and her country... Read more

Mary Alice Monroe (On Ocean Boulevard) at Read It Again Bookstore

By: Mary Alice Monroe

Narrated by: Mary Alice Monroe

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

More than 7.5 million copies of Mary Alice Monroe’s books have been published worldwide, and she’s earned numerous accolades and awards, including: Induction into the South Carolina Academy of Authors’ Hall of Fame; the Southwest Florida Author of Distinction Award; South Carolina Award for Literary Excellence; RT Lifetime Achievement Award; the... Read more

The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy

By: Edwin Wong

Narrated by: Greg Patmore

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT, BIRNAM WOOD COMES TO DUNSINANE HILLThe Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy presents a profoundly original theory of drama that speaks to modern audiences living in an increasingly volatile world driven by artificial intelligence, gene editing, globalization, and mutual assured destruction ideologies. Tragedy, according to... Read more

Soap Making

By: Florinda Kull

Narrated by: Aida-Maria Boiesan

Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you Want to Learn and Earn from Soap Making?Discover how to earn making the most wonderful soaps at home. Natural ingredients, the basis of which skin handmade soap is created, have a beneficial effect on the skin.This AudioBook explains to you as a beginner, in simple terms how to create great natural and organic soaps and not just MAKE... Read more

Fate

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer & Adapted by Arnold Aprill

Narrated by: David Cromer, Marge Kotlisky, Malcolm Rothman, ...

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A talkative New Yorker corrals a writer at a cocktail party and forces him to listen to the story of her life. A co-production with the National Jewish Theater.

Recorded before a live audience at Chicago’s Guest Quarters Suite Hotel in July 1992.

Adapted and directed by Arnold Aprill
Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg
Marge Kotlisky as... Read more

The Magic Barrel

By: Bernard Malamud

Narrated by: Shelley Berman, David Cromer, Marge Kotlisky, N...

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Natural comes a classic short story about a young rabbinical student and his fateful encounter with an enigmatic matchmaker. A co-production with the National Jewish Theater.

Recorded before a live audience at Chicago’s Guest Quarters Suite Hotel in July 1992.

Adapted and Directed by Arnold Aprill
Producing Director Susan... Read more