Art audiobooks

The Simpsons

By: John Ortved

Narrated by: Justine Eyre & John Allen Nelson

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The Simpsons is one of the most successful shows to ever run on television. From its first moment on air, the series's rich characters, subversive themes, and layered humor resounded deeply with audiences both young and old who wanted more from their entertainment than what was being meted out at the time by the likes of Full House, Growing... Read more

Bill T. Jones - Extended Interview

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Bill T. Jones has long been recognized as one of this country’s leading contemporary dancers and choreographers, known for his mix of athleticism and his willingness to take on big subjects from the world around him. Most recently, Jones is tackling history: Traveling around the country are works about the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln, and... Read more

The American Journey of Barack Obama

By: The Editors of Life Magazine

Narrated by: The Editors of Life Magazine

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

For decades Americans have turned to LIFE to see, understand, and remember the most important events and people of our time. Just as LIFE once opened up the glittering Kennedy White House, LIFE now focuses its lens on Barack Obama.

The American Journey of Barack Obama covers the candidate from his childhood and adolescence to his time as editor... Read more

Green Metropolis

By: David Owen

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Most Americans think of crowded cities as ecological nightmares—as wastelands of concrete and garbage and diesel fumes and traffic jams. Yet residents of compact urban centers, David Owen shows, individually consume less oil, electricity, and water than other Americans. They live in smaller spaces, discard less trash, and, most important of all,... Read more

An Actor's Business

By: Andrew Reilly

Narrated by: Andrew Reilly

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

An Actor's Business covers everything you need to know to market yourself as an actor, with thorough and concise information about the movie-making process, drama school, community theatre, acting on television and in commercials, unions, and agents. A thorough and well-written resource for anyone wanting to understand all facets of the acting... Read more

Spiral Jetta

By: Erin Hogan

Narrated by: JoAnna Perrin

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Erin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American land art: a salty coil of rocks, four hundred stainless steel poles, a gash in a mesa, four concrete tubes, and military sheds filled with cubes. Her journey took her through the states of Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and... Read more

Last Words - Abridged

By: George Carlin

Narrated by: Patrick Carlin

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For the last 14 years of his life, the brilliant, caustic, and hilarious George Carlin worked on his autobiography—now, written with bestselling author Tony Hendra and posthumously published, Carlin has proven that even after death, he is still one of the funniest men who ever lived.

One of the undisputed heavyweight champions of American comedy,... Read more

America--An Insider's View

By: Gerld Rosen, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Gerald Rosen has seen America from most every vantage point. He grew up in a house without books, obtained an ivy league Ph.D. in literature, and went on to run a liquor store on the edge of Harlem. He's crossed paths, in one way or another, with Miles Davis, Jack Kerouac, Janis Joplin…even Babe Ruth. So his observations about American culture... Read more

Cabin Pressure: The Complete Series 2

By: John Finnemore

Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch, Full Cast, John Finnemore...

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Cabin Pressure is set in the wing and a prayer world of a tiny, one-plane charter airline; staffed by two pilots, one on his way down, and one who was never up to start with. Whether flying a nervous bassoonist to Gdansk or a horrible sister to Helsinki, no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult.

Carolyn Knapp-Shappey, MJN... Read more

Robert Altman

By: Mitchell Zuckoff

Narrated by: Various

Length: 18 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Altman—visionary director, hard-partying hedonist, eccentric family man, Hollywood legend—comes roaring to life in this rollicking cinematic biography, told in a chorus of voices that can only be called Altmanesque.

His outsized life and unique career are revealed as never before: here are the words of his family and friends, and a few... Read more

Robert Altman - Abridged

By: Mitchell Zuckoff

Narrated by: Various

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Robert Altman—visionary director, hard-partying hedonist, eccentric family man, Hollywood legend—comes roaring to life in this rollicking cinematic biography, told in a chorus of voices that can only be called Altmanesque.

His outsized life and unique career are revealed as never before: here are the words of his family and friends, and a few... Read more

Double Take

By: Kevin Michael Connolly

Narrated by: Kevin Michael Connolly

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“Kevin Connolly has used an unusual physical circumstance to create a gripping work of art. This deeply affecting memoir will place him in the company of Jeanette Walls and Augusten Burroughs.” — Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants “Charming … Connolly recounts growing up a scrappy Montana kid—one who happened to be born without legs...... Read more

Car Talk: Tales of the Brothers Grime

By: Ray Magliozzi & Tom Magliozzi

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The Brothers Grimm told tales that in their original, unedited form were strange, sometimes rambling, and of dubious moral integrity—in other words, they’re the perfect model for our Brothers Grime, the Tappet Brothers. America’s favorite auto mechanics share reminiscences, rants, and hate mail in another time-wasting yet genuinely useful... Read more

American Rebel

By: Marc Eliot

Narrated by: Marc Eliot

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

As an actor, he seduced us with his tough-guy charm in A Fistful of Dollars and Dirty Harry. As a director and a producer, he amazed us with his artistic insight and technical savvy in Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, and Changeling. Clint Eastwood represents the finest cinematic achievements of the last decades, and he remains one of film's... Read more

We'll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives

By: Paul Shaffer & David Ritz

Narrated by: Paul Shaffer

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman's band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir of a life in-and love of-show business.How does a kid go from a remote Canadian town at the tip of Lake Superior to the bright lights of Broadway and a gig leading the band on Letterman?... Read more

If This Was Happiness

By: Barbara Leaming

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Rita Hayworth was the epitome of 1940s Hollywood glamour. A huge box office star, her sultry figure was pasted by GIs onto the first atom bomb ever detonated. Yet behind the smoldering image lay a tragic secret that wrecked her private life. A pathologically shy child, Rita was thrust into the sordid limelight as her vaudevillian father’s... Read more

3rd & Bird

By: Josh Selig

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Five episodes from the hugely popular animated series featuring Samuel, Rudy and Muffin – as seen on BBC TV. ‘A Chorus for Us’, ‘Rolling Along’, ‘To Play or Not to Play’, ‘The Muffin Express’ and ‘Samuel’s Dance’. Read more

It’s Not What You Think - Abridged

By: Chris Evans

Narrated by: Chris Evans

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The story of how one council estate lad made good, really very good, and survived – just about – to tell the tale… Chris Evans’s extraordinary career has seen him become one of the country’s most successful broadcasters and producers. From The Big Breakfast to Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush and TFI Friday, Chris changed the TV... Read more

The Hollywood Studios

By: Ethan Mordden

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Hollywood in the years between 1929 and 1948 was a town of moviemaking empires. The great studios were estates of talent: sprawling, dense, diverse. It was the Golden Age of the Movies, and each studio made its distinctive contribution. But how did the studios, “growing up” in the same time and place, develop so differently? What combinations of... Read more

Who Killed Hollywood?

By: Peter Bart

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In this passionate love-hate letter to the film industry, Peter Bart pulls together his best columns from Variety and GQ, outlining in detail the history and inner workings of Hollywood. In story after story, Bart shows how the major studios have diverted their energies away from production of the shrewdly crafted pictures that once made the... Read more

Strange Things Happen

By: Stewart Copeland

Narrated by: Stewart Copeland

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“An excellent read.” —St. Petersburg Times “An often hilarious, always candid and astutely observed memoir chronicling a life observed, largely, from the vantage point of a drum throne.”—Buffalo News Rock legend Stewart Copeland, drummer for seminal pop trio The Police, shares his stories from before, during, and after his days with Sting and... Read more

Making Movies

By: Sidney Lumet

Narrated by: Richard Davidson

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the greatest directors of all time, Sidney Lumet has made movies that have been nominated for more than 50 Academy Awards. Making Movies is an honest and unflinching look at the business and craft of movie making. Lumet's book reveals the ingredients for the potion that brings movie magic to life and assures one thing: you will never look... Read more

The Dude Abides

By: Cathleen Falsani

Narrated by: Allen Secher

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Fans of the eccentric and edgy films of the Coen brothers know there's more going on in their films than meets the eye. Award-winning author and columnist Cathleen Falsani is the perfect guide for Coen fans, inviting them to take a deeper look at the popular films, from their debut Blood Simple to the recent Burn After Reading and all the... Read more

Poetry: Medicine For The Soul

By: Kim Rosen, MFA

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn how poetry gives us solace in our darkest hours and lifts our spirits, with Kim Rosen, author of Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words. As you listen to Ms. Rosen recite her own favorite passages, you’ll feel a shamanic power speaking to your unconscious at a level beyond where any mere words can reach. Read more