Art audiobooks

Natural Blonde - Abridged

By: Liz Smith

Narrated by: Liz Smith

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

From Tallulah Bankhead to Joan Crawford to the Kennedys and Madonna, the ultimate insider, Liz Smith has hobnobbed, air-kissed, and lunched with just about everybody who's been anybody over the last half-century--and then rushed to tell the world all about it. Now, in this candid, down-to-earth autobiography, she tells all about herself, and... Read more

Lost and Found Sound

By: The Kitchen Sisters & Jay Allison

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

On January 1, 1999, All Things Considered aired the first in a series of richly layered stories that trace the soundtrack of the 20th century. Broadcast weekly through 1999, continuing monthly through 2000, Lost & Found Sound chronicles, reflects, and celebrates the human experience in rare recordings and "sonic snapshots" submitted by... Read more

Married to Laughter - Abridged

By: Jerry Stiller

Narrated by: Jerry Stiller

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara began performing together in coffehouses in Greenwich Village in the 1960's, and then as frequent guests on The Ed Sullivan Show. They based their standup characters on exaggerated vrsions of themselves, especially in the irrepressible commercials for Blue Nun wine. Offstage they raised two children, Amy and... Read more

Definitely Above Average

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion.

After the birth of Garrison Keillor's daughter, the stories, songs, and sketches on A Prairie Home Companion took on a distinctly parental bent. This new collection gathers the warmest, funniest, most affectionate examples: dance tunes and comedy with sound effects; songs featuring Chet Atkins,... Read more

I Rant, Therefore I Am - Abridged

By: Dennis Miller

Narrated by: Dennis Miller

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Once again there's good news for those of us who rage at the evening news, shake our heads at Washington's business-as-usual, or watch as politicians carom helplessly between political crises and sex scandals: Dennis Miller is back with his third installment of hilarious observations, I Rant, Therefore I Am.

Dennis Miller first gained national... Read more

Interview with poet Seamus Heaney

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Interview with poet Seamus Heaney on his translation of the poem Beowulf Read more

Pretty Good Jokes

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Fulfilling the flood of requests from enthused listeners, Pretty Good Jokes combines all the jokes from A Prairie Home Companion's first four joke shows (1996-1999). It is an entertaining mix of knock-knocks, one-liners, North Dakota, religious, animal, bar, and light bulb jokes, those famous "yo mama" insults and much more. This live recording... Read more

Selznick - Abridged

By: Bob Thomas

Narrated by: Carl Reiner

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It was the triumph and the tragedy of his life. As a producer, he had reached the pinnacle of success; there was nowhere else to go. In this biography, noted Hollywood chronicler Bob Thomas reveals the stormy career of a shrewd, self-confident intellectual whiz kid who today personifies the image of a studio head during the Golden Age of movies.... Read more

Eigenes Konto

By: Matthias Beltz

Narrated by: Matthias Beltz

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Was ist das überhaupt für ein Land, so fragte sich noch jüngst eine besorgte Bürgerin, in der ein Knallerbsenstrauch mehr wert ist als ein Maschendrahtzaun? Es ist ein ungerechtes Land, muss man dieser Frau antworten, ein Land, in dem nur der als Mensch zählt, der ein eigenes Girokonto bei der Bank hat. Wen die Bank nicht kennt, der besitzt auch... Read more

Zero Hour 6

By: unknown

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

An episode from Rod Serling’s The Zero Hour radio program entitled “Wife of the Red-Haired Man” and starring Patty Duke, John Astin, Howard Duff, Harold Gould, and Benny Ruben. Read more

Grace Under Pressure

By: Peggy Fleming

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1968, a teenage girl in a chartreuse dress delivered a breathtaking free-skating program that captured the only winter Olympics gold medal for the United States.  Peggy Fleming continued to earn the highest marks in her skating career, but she deserved even higher marks for her grace under pressure off the ice. Read more

The Spirit of Intuition

By: Judith Orloff, M.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A courageous pioneer who risked ridicule and rejection in order to better serve patients, Orloff has made incredible breakthroughs in the field of psychiatric care. Her powerful advice is for both doctors and patients, with fresh new concepts that apply to all areas of life, not just your health. Read more

Nuhr nach vorn

By: Dieter Nuhr

Narrated by: Dieter Nuhr

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Liveaufnahme aus dem Haus der Springmaus in Bonn, 1998. Mit Studiomoderationen. Read more

A Prairie Home Companion 25th Anniversary Collection

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This anniversary release features highlights from 25 years on the air, including favorite monologues like "Truckstop," "Gospel Birds" and "Pontoon Boat," plus brand-new stories never before available on audio. Also includes a special bonus collection of 25 toe-tapping tunes with down-home music from long-time show regulars, including Butch... Read more

Chanting:  The Sound of Spirit

By: Robert Gass

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The magic of chanting has a calming, awakening and sometimes even consciousness-altering mystery about it.  From singing hymns together in church to learning nursery songs in kindergarten, we’ve all experienced the joy and resonance chanting can bring.  In his early days as a rock musician, Robert Gass tapped into "the tribal music of the... Read more

Braces - Abridged

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Braces hurt. Braces are embarrassing. Braces are inconvenient. Many get fitted with them at the very time of their life when their self-confidence is lowest and their self-consciousness is highest. This coming-of-age story, created and performed by Donald Davis, employs the author's trademark characterizations and humor to explore the state of... Read more

Listening for the Crack of Dawn - Abridged

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Donald Davis was born into a southern Appalachian mountain world rich in stories. He grew up listening to his father and his Uncle Frank tell stories of their boyhood, all the while taking in the details of his own childhood experience. These stories of growing up in Appalachia in the 1950s are funny and true, nostalgic and bittersweet. The... Read more

The Grand Canyon - Abridged

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

If you have never ridden a mule along a 48-inch wide trail whose ledge drops off, in places, 700 feet to the Colorado River, straight down, you may have difficulty picturing the temporary insanity that leads otherwise responsible adults to sign away the remainder of their natural life expectancy just for the chance to see the Grand Canyon's... Read more

Miss Daisy - Abridged

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An eccentric schoolteacher and a widow-lady babysitter are the heroines in these new digital studio recordings of Donald Davis' two all-time most-requested stories. "It was the 42nd year she had taught fourth grade", yet there was nothing routine about Miss Daisy or her methods. Rather than settle for textbook work (Miss Daisy left textbooks in... Read more

Big-Screen Drive-In Theater - Abridged

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The drive-in is dying. People can blame the demise on cable television, luxury theaters with sound systems so technical NASA engineers are needed to install them, or on a host of other modern conveniences and distractions. In reality, the drive-in operator of the Sulpher Springs Big-Screen Drive-In Theater hired a young Donald Davis to work his... Read more

Christian Dior

By: Marie-France Pochna

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Christian Dior's career, a veritable fairy tale, is set in a rich tapestry of Paris cultural life before, during, and after the war. Much of Dior's daily inspiration emanated from the world of the intellectual and artistic elite, in which he moved with such people as Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc, Henry Sauguet, Jean Cocteau, and Raoul Dufy.Born... Read more

Rodin

By: Frederic V. Grunfeld

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 27 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Auguste Rodin was not only the greatest sculptor—known for such works as The Thinker, The Kiss, The Hand of God, and dozens of others—but also one of the most remarkable personalities of modern times. He was an artist who outraged contemporaries with his disturbingly unfinished monuments, a sensualist who shocked France with his scandalous... Read more

The Painted Word

By: Tom Wolfe

Narrated by: Harold N. Cropp

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

No one skewers the popular movements of American culture like Tom Wolfe. In 1975, he turned his satirical pen to the pretensions of the contemporary art world, a world of social climbing, elitist posturing, and ingeniously absurd self-justifying theorizing. He addresses the scope of Modern Art, from its founding days as Abstract Expressionism... Read more

Pure Drivel

By: Steve Martin

Narrated by: Steve Martin

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album!

Steve Martin's talent has always defied definition: an actor who's kept us riveted for over 25 years, a razor-sharp screenwriter, an acclaimed playwright. In this ingeniously funny collection of humorous riffs, those who thought Martin's gifts were confined to the screen will discover what readers... Read more