Art audiobooks

Living in Data

By: Jer Thorp

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In the fall of 2009, the data artist Jer Thorp wrote a pair of algorithms to inscribe names on the 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan. The project involved designing a layout that allowed for “meaningful adjacencies”?family members, business partners, coworkers?to be etched into the bronze in close proximity. Thorp presented his results in competition... Read more

You Talkin' To Me?

By: Linda Seger & John Rainey

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Unlike the chitchat of everyday life, dialogue must express character, advance the story, suggest a theme, and include a few memorable lines that audiences will be quoting for decades to come. The best stories have dialogue that sparkles, but it’s easy for inexperienced writers to fall into common pitfalls like creating dialogue that’s wooden or... Read more

Old-Time Radio's Greatest Shows, Volume 28

By: Carl Amari

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of the best and most popular programs from the Golden Age of Radio, digitally remastered, and including performances from some of Hollywood’s most beloved stars, like Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Joel McCrea, and many more.

Volume 28: Audio Table of Contents:

The Adventures of Michael Shayne
“Mary Noble Suspects Uncle Biggs” starring... Read more

Old-Time Radio's Greatest Shows, Volume 29

By: Carl Amari

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of the best and most popular programs from the Golden Age of Radio, digitally remastered, and including performances from some of Hollywood’s most beloved stars, like Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, and many more.

Volume 29: Audio Table of Contents:

The Adventures of Maisie
“The Duel” starring Ann Sothern (11/2/50)
 
Casey,... Read more

Old-Time Radio's Greatest Shows, Volume 30

By: Carl Amari

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of the best and most popular programs from the Golden Age of Radio, digitally remastered, and including performances from some of Hollywood’s most beloved stars, like Cary Grant, Eve Arden, Richard Crenna, and many more.

Volume 30: Audio Table of Contents:

Academy Award Theater
“Suspicion” starring Cary Grant and Ann Todd... Read more

Seeing Like an Artist

By: Lincoln Perry

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn to see art as an artist does. As the mysteries of techniques and styles are revealed, viewing paintings and sculptures becomes a more powerfully enriching experience that will stay in your mind long after you’ve left a museum.A visit to a museum can be overwhelming, exhausting, and unrewarding. Lincoln Perry wants to change that. In eleven... Read more

Winter Kisses at Roseford Café

By: Fay Keenan

Narrated by: Harriet Hare

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

An escapist, festive read to warm your heart this holiday season, from TOP 100 bestseller Fay Keenan'Wonderfully festive' Jo BartlettHollywood comes to Roseford, as Christmas wishes really do come true…The sleepy Somerset village of Roseford is the temporary home for the cast and crew of the latest Christmas movie, and there’s excitement in the... Read more

Quarantine Session #106: NoViolet Bulawayo + Novuyo Tshuma

By: NoViolet Bulawayo

Narrated by: Novuyo Tshuma

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In a virtual event co-presented with our friends at Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, MA, award-winning author NoViolet Bulawayo joined us to launch GLORY, her “manifoldly clever, brilliant... satire with sharper teeth” (The NYT Book Review). Inspired by the unexpected fall by coup in November 2017 of Robert G. Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s president of... Read more

Quarantine Session #107: Yanyi + Sandra Lim

By: Yanyi

Narrated by: Sandra Lim

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

We bid farewell to our “Quarantine Season” of podcasts as we navigate our way back to in-person author events at Greenlight Bookstore! For our virtual season’s swan song, we reprise award-winning poet Yanyi’s virtual launch event for DREAM OF THE DIVIDED FIELD, a collection on heartbreak and transitions, written with a piercing lyric ferocity.... Read more

Astrology Poetry 101: Cypher

By: Gregory Sulface

Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Drop in on this whimsical non-linear prose between the signs of the Zodiac.
Moderated by Professor Emeritus. There is beach boy Aquarius, soulful Pisces, grumpy Taurus, Virgo the peacemaker - you get the idea. Gregory Sulface prose here on display is cubist surrealism. A one of a kind!
Imagine when the zodiac signs have all gathered together,... Read more

Frida

By: Hayden Herrera

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 19 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

""Through her art, Herrera writes, Kahlo made of herself both performer and icon. Through this long overdue biography, Kahlo has also, finally, been made fully human."" — San Francisco ChronicleHailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and... Read more

Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras

By: Duncan Tonatiuh

Narrated by: Armando Duran

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Funny Bones tells the story of how the amusing calaveras-skeletons performing various everyday or festive activities-came to be. They are the creation of Mexican artist Jose Guadalupe (Lupe) Posada (1852-1913). In a country that was not known for freedom of speech, he first drew political cartoons, much to the amusement of the local population... Read more

Iconic Advantage

By: Soon Yu & Dave Birss

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Modern business gurus all cry for the need to innovate, to disrupt, and to act like a startup. It's hard to argue with that kind of thinking. It's sexy and exciting. But it's wrong. Too many businesses become enamored by shiny new objects and end up overlooking the value locked away in their existing products. Maybe your business is one of them.... Read more

The Shattered Lens

By: Jonathan Alpeyrie, Bonnie Timmermann & Stash Lu...

Narrated by: Qarie Marshall

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Capturing history was Jonathan Alpeyrie's job, but he never expected to become a news story himself. For a decade, the French American photojournalist weaved in and out of over a dozen conflict zones. But, during his third assignment to Syria, Alpeyrie was betrayed by his fixer and handed over to a band of Syrian rebels. For eighty one days, he... Read more

A Futile and Stupid Gesture

By: Josh Karp

Narrated by: Chris Lutkin

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

This ultimate biography of National Lampoon and its cofounder Doug Kenney offers the first complete history of the immensely popular magazine and its brilliant and eccentric characters. Relying on wonderful stories about the comedy scene in New York City in the 1970s and National Lampoon's place at the center of it, author Josh Karp chronicles... Read more

Top Billin'

By: Bill Bellamy

Narrated by: Bill Bellamy

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

From the MTV trailblazer, stand-up comedian, and actor, a hilariously candid memoir that is an intimate, entertaining, and heartfelt tour through the exclusive, elusive, and eternally iconic world of ’90s pop culture.Imagine 50 Cent’s Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter written by a nerdy Black kid from Newark, New Jersey, who made it big despite the... Read more

Meeting of Minds

By: Steve Allen

Narrated by: Steve Allen

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

By “ assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were... Read more

Meeting of Minds

By: Steve Allen

Narrated by: Steve Allen

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

By “ assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were... Read more

Meeting of Minds

By: Steve Allen

Narrated by: Steve Allen

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

By “ assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were... Read more

Meeting of Minds

By: Steve Allen

Narrated by: Steve Allen

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

By “ assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were... Read more

Meeting of Minds

By: Steve Allen

Narrated by: Steve Allen

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

By “ assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were... Read more

Meeting of Minds

By: Steve Allen

Narrated by: Steve Allen

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

By “ assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were... Read more

Meeting of Minds

By: Steve Allen

Narrated by: Steve Allen

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

By “ assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were... Read more

Meeting of Minds

By: Steve Allen

Narrated by: Steve Allen

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

By “ assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were... Read more