Art audiobooks

Otra gran obra maestra del cine

By: Tom Hanks

Narrated by: Arturo Mercado Jr.

Length: 15 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

El regreso del legendario Tom Hanks al mundo del libro. Una novela sobre la realización de una película de acción de superhéroes multimillonaria repleta de estrellas... y los humildes cómics que la inspiraron. La primera parte de esta historia tiene lugar en 1947. Un soldado americano con problemas que regresa de la guerra se encuentra con su... Read more

The Infinite Monkey Cage: Series 26-29

By: Brian Cox & Robin Ince

Narrated by: Robin Ince & Brian Cox

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Four fantastic series of the multi-award-winning science/comedy show

Brian Cox and Robin Ince return to take a witty, irreverent and unashamedly rational look at the mysteries of the universe in these four series. Joining them for some hot science and flagrant comic nerdery are a panel of eggheads and entertainers, all eager to take a deep dive... Read more

Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Nick Robbins

Length: 17 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In this unflaggingly suspenseful story of aspirations and moral redemption, humble, orphaned Pip, a ward of his short-tempered older sister and her husband, Joe, is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman. And, indeed, it seems as though that dream is destined to come to pass — because one day, under... Read more

Un puñado de flechas

By: María Gainza

Narrated by: Natalia Pupato

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Un libro en el que se entrecruzan el arte, la literatura y la vida: la confirmación del inmenso talento de María Gainza. Una noche, durante su estancia bonaerense para el rodaje de su película Tetro, Francis Ford Coppola le dijo a María Gainza: «El artista viene al mundo con un carcaj que contiene un número limitado de flechas doradas. Puede... Read more

Say Hello to My Little Friend

By: Nat Segaloff

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

When Brian DePalma's operatically violent and profane Scarface debuted in 1983, the film drew almost as much fire as the relentless gunfire in the film itself. The movie was a remake of 1932's Scarface—revamped for a new era of drugs, sex, and graphic violence. Attacked as both a celebration of cocaine-fueled excess and a condemnation of it, the... Read more

The Leader's Journey

By: Donna Lichaw

Narrated by: Donna Lichaw

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

No one gives you a manual for how to be a great leader. Enter leadership expert Donna Lichaw. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, design thinking, and her years of experience coaching business leaders from the likes of Amazon, Disney, Google, and Mastercard, Lichaw's tried-and-true leadership development methods will empower you to activate... Read more

Token Supremacy

By: Zachary Small

Narrated by: Gabby Beans

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times investigative reporter wades into the murky, pixelated waters of the multibillion-dollar NFT market—the virtual casino that sprang up overnight in 2020 and came crashing down, with all its celebrity hucksters, just two years later. A vibrant and witty exploration of the increasingly blurry line between art and money, artist and... Read more

Here for the Wrong Reasons

By: Annabel Paulsen & Lydia Wang

Narrated by: Mara Wilson & Lindsey Dorcus

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Krystin knows exactly what she wants: a husband, a horse, and a place to hang all her competitive rodeo blue ribbons. But when none of the eligible bachelors in Montana end up being right for her, she turns to reality TV. On Hopelessly Devoted, Krystin will compete against dozens of other women for the heart of this season’s Hopeless Romantic,... Read more

The Zen of Art

By: Carolyn Schlam

Narrated by: Sara Van Beckum

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The Zen of Art starts with the premise that making art is akin to what happens when wind engages with a set of chimes. The chance encounter of source and instrument generates a song that enriches and elevates the moment. Author and artist Carolyn Schlam draws a parallel with what she calls the "Zen of Art"-the process of allowing creative... Read more

The 27 Club: The Lives and Legacies of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Michelle Humphries

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

It is rare in the world of music for a general consensus to form over who was the best at anything. Many would call The Beatles the greatest rock band, but it’s easy to find strongly opinionated dissenters. However, when it came to playing a guitar and laying the soundtrack for the psychedelic era, just about everyone agrees there was Jimi... Read more

The Original Method Actors: The Lives and Legacies of James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Montgomery Clift

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Mary Rossman

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

It would be no exaggeration to say that James Dean has been more mythologized than any other actor in history, a development due more to his off-screen personality and conduct than the films he actually starred in. Much of Dean’s appeal derives from his humble and ordinary origins, and audiences are drawn to the romance of the Indiana farm boy... Read more

The Write Stuff

By: James Walton

Narrated by: James Walton, Sebastian Faulks, Stephen Fry, Si...

Length: 18 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Highlights from the light-hearted literary quiz chaired by James WaltonThe Write Stuff is the book-based panel show that takes a witty and whimsical look at well-known authors and their work. Host James Walton challenges the erudite contestants with tricky literary teasers, which they endeavour to answer using a combination of knowledge and... Read more

In My Humble Opinion: My So-Called Life

By: Soraya Roberts

Narrated by: Sharmila Devar

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A smart, engaging investigation of the show that brought real teens to TV My So-Called Life lasted only 19 episodes from 1994 to 1995, but in that time it earned many devoted viewers, including the showrunners who would usher in the teen TV boom of the late ’90s and the new millennium. With its focus on 15-year-old Angela Chase’s search for her... Read more

Gentlemen of the Shade: My Own Private Idaho

By: Jen Sookfong Lee

Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Gus Van Sant’s film and the ’90s cult of the alternative Gus Van Sant’s 1991 indie darling My Own Private Idaho perplexed and provoked, inspiring a new ethos for a new decade: being different was better than being good. Gentlemen of the Shade examines how the film was a coming-of-age for a generation of young people who would embrace the... Read more

Hollywood Pride

By: Alonso Duralde

Narrated by: Alonso Duralde

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

For generations, members of the LGBTQ+ community in Hollywood needed to be discreet about their lives but—make no mistake—they were everywhere, both in front of and behind the camera. On the eve of the twentieth century, in Thomas Edison’s laboratory, one of the earliest attempts at a sound film depicted two men dancing together as a third plays... Read more

City of Light, City of Shadows

By: Mike Rapport

Narrated by: Paul Daintry

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A top historian offers a new history of Paris’s Belle Époque, the luminous age of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacré-Cœur Basilica, but also of social unrest and violent clashes over what it meant to be French

From the wrought ironwork of the Eiffel Tower to the flourishing art nouveau movement, the Belle Époque is remembered as a golden age for... Read more

Baseball: The Movie

By: Noah Gittell

Narrated by: Noah Gittell

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Baseball has always been a symbol as much as a sport. With a blend of individual confrontation and team play, a luxurious pace, and an immaculate urban parkland setting, it offers a sunny rendering of the American Dream, both the hard work that underpins it and the rewards it promises. Film, America's other national pastime, which magnifies and... Read more

National Treasure: Nicolas Cage

By: Lindsay Gibb

Narrated by: Moniqua Plante

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A celebration of Nicolas Cage ― the man and the meme Nicolas Cage: leading man or character actor? Action hero or goofball comedian? Internet joke or one of the greatest actors of his generation? Beyond the gif bait and easy punchline, Nicolas Cage continually frustrates easy categorization or understanding. In National Treasure, pop culture... Read more

Museum Worthy

By: Elizabeth Campbell

Narrated by: Holly Adams

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Art looting is commonly recognized as a central feature of Nazi expropriation. After the war, the famed Monuments Men (and women) recovered several hundred thousand pieces from the Germans' makeshift repositories. Well publicized restitution cases, such as that of Gustav Klimt's luminous painting featured in the film Woman in Gold, illustrate... Read more

Johnny Carson

By: Henry Bushkin

Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“A close look at how show business power corrupts . . . The dishiest read of the year.” – Janet Maslin, “Ten Favorite Books of the Year,” New York Times
“Here’s Johnny!” Probably everyone in America knows the phrase, whether they watched every episode of The Tonight Show or none because they had to go to bed early on school nights. From 1962 to... Read more

The Art of Dying

By: Peter Schjeldahl

Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

When Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker’s art critic and the leading art writer of his generation, published his eye-opening autobiographical essay, “The Art of Dying,” in December 2019, he reported that he had lung cancer and had been given six months of life. Fortunately, his treatment was showing some improvement, and so, he wrote, “These extra... Read more

Una bonita casualidad

By: Giselle Amorós

Narrated by: Entre Libros Editorial LXL

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Candela y su equipo tienen en el punto de mira a un narcotraficante que opera en la Costa Brava y va extendiéndose cada vez por más territorio. Cuando creen tenerlo y dan el golpe de gracia, se topan con alguien que no esperan, y menos aún de la forma en la que lo hacen. Patrick la deja KO sin tocarle un pelo, y lo que ella no aprecia en un... Read more

Look What You Made Me Do

By: Kat McKenna

Narrated by: Jade Ewen

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it mean to be a FAN?
If you're a Swiftie, you know that it takes commitment and dedication to be in a fandom. And there's nothing more rewarding than sourcing news and updates, anticipating new music and meeting fellow fans. But fan culture today is more intense than ever, from trolling to stalkers to online warfare.

So how did we get... Read more

Sources

By: Uta Hagen

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Uta Hagen, one of the great ladies of the American theatre wrote a deeply personal memoir of her life, from her childhood in Germany to the present. Sources is Miss Hagen’s lyrical account of the special ways love of nature is intertwined with love of art in her life, providing a rare glimpse of the off-stage life of an actress.



Originally... Read more