Art audiobooks

The Gin Game

By: D.L. Coburn

Narrated by: Katherine Helmond & Harris Yulin

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The quiet porch of a rest home for the aged explodes with emotion when prim Fonsia Dorsey sits down to play gin rummy with the cynical Weller Martin. Fonsia is drawn to Weller, but she just can't stop winning at cards, while Weller bemoans the bad luck that is ruining his game and has dogged him throughout his life. Tragic yet uproariously... Read more

Vietgone

By: Qui Nguyen

Narrated by: Will Dao, Desiree Mee Jung, Greg Watanabe, Paul...

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Saigon has fallen, and two Vietnamese refugees meet in an Arkansas relocation camp before setting out on a rip-roaring road trip across America. Qui Nguyen tells the hilarious and only slightly not-true version of how his parents met and built a life for themselves in a new land.

Recorded before a live audience at the UCLA James Bridges Theater... Read more

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

By: Adapted by Kate McAll

Narrated by: Seamus Dever, Adhir Kalyan, Stacy Keach, Mike M...

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The 1815 eruption of Indonesia’s Tambora volcano had a catastrophic effect on climate around the world. In North America and Europe, the following twelve months became known as “the year without summer.” Confined indoors by the relentless rain and cold, a group of friends, including 18-year old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and poet Lord Byron,... Read more

The Camera Lies

By: Dan Callahan

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Alfred Hitchcock is said to have once remarked, "Actors are cattle," a line that has stuck in the public consciousness ever since. For Hitchcock, acting was a matter of contrast and counterpoint, valuing subtlety and understatement over flashiness. He felt that the camera was duplicitous, and directed actors to look and act conversely. In The... Read more

The Radio Right

By: Paul Matzko

Narrated by: Kyle Tait

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

In the past few years, trust in traditional media has reached new lows. Many Americans disbelieve what they hear from the "mainstream media," and have turned to getting information from media echo chambers which are reflective of a single party or ideology. In this book, Paul Matzko reveals that this is not the first such moment in modern... Read more

Stages

By: Albert Poland

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Albert Poland, legendary Broadway and Off-Broadway producer and general manager, presents Stages: A Theater Memoir.



THE SHOWS



Little Shop of Horrors, The Grapes of Wrath, Long Day's Journey into Night, Glengarry Glen Ross, As Is, The Boy from Oz, Steel Magnolias, One Mo' Time, The Fantasticks, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Neon Woman, A Lie of... Read more

6/19

By: Vincent Fiorello

Narrated by: James R. Tramontana

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

I had a gap year, I'll admit that to myself. I can write a book alone on coming close to my closing but when the summer of 2019 hit I was reborn, Illuminated on the way I wanted the next year to go, the projects to roll out, the life I wanted to push into. It was in June that I wrote a short story a day. One for each of the 30 days, stories... Read more

Irony and Outrage

By: Dannagal Goldthwaite Young

Narrated by: Rachel Perry

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

For almost a decade, journalists and pundits have been asking why we don't see successful examples of political satire from conservatives or of opinion talk radio from liberals. This book turns that question on its head to argue that opinion talk is the political satire of the right and political satire is the opinion programming of the left.



In... Read more

Nobody Knows What They're Doing

By: Lee Crutchley

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Everything no one will tell you about being an artist



Nobody Knows What They're Doing is an honest guide to the creative life for artists of all kinds. Lee Crutchley, author of How to Be Happy (Or At Least Less Sad), skips the platitudes, positive affirmations, and guarantees of success; he'll never ever tell you to just Do What You Love.... Read more

The Kindness of Strangers

By: Salka Viertel

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir about showbiz in the early twentieth century that travels from the theaters of Vienna, Prague, and Berlin, to Hollywood during the golden age.



Salka Viertel's autobiography tells of a brilliant, creative, and well-connected woman's pilgrimage through the darkest years of the twentieth century, a journey that would take her from a remote... Read more

Serving Face

By: Felix Le Freak

Narrated by: Felix Le Freak

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Let the world's most celebrated drag queens transform and empower you with their sick'ning style, wit and wisdom.

However you want to werk it - out-there eleganza, easy-breezy realness, and everything in between - Serving Face is like the gentle hand of your Drag Mother guiding you towards a life more fabulous.

It has all the inspiring,... Read more

Une vie d’adulte

By: James Hyndman

Narrated by: James Hyndman

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

À l’origine de ce récit, il y a un journal tenu il y a une douzaine d’années. L’acteur y consignait observations, réminiscences, réflexions et instantanés de vie, composant au fil des pages une déambulation sans itinéraire défini, à la manière de Journal intime, le film de Nanni Moretti. Famille, enfance, errances, folie, Graal amoureux, besoin... Read more

The Emancipation of Slaves through Music

By: Mathew Knowles

Narrated by: Mathew Knowles & Jacqueline Burgess

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Emancipation of Slaves Through Music, music mogul Dr. Mathew Knowles presents a keen examination of the liberating effects of music on an oppressed people. By taking readers on the journey of its secret use during slavery up through its eventual commercialization in the industry, he exposes the art form's true power. Between its... Read more

Lee Miller

By: Carolyn Burke

Narrated by: Ann Richardson

Length: 18 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A trenchant yet sympathetic portrait of Lee Miller, one of the iconic faces and careers of the twentieth century.Carolyn Burke reveals Miller as a multifaceted woman: both model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and mother, and, in later years, gourmet cook—the last of the many dramatic transformations she underwent... Read more

Dark Shadows: Return to Collinwood

By: Kathryn Leigh Scott & Jim Pierson

Narrated by: Kathryn Leigh Scott, David Selby, Lara Parker &...

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Dark Shadows: Return to Collinwood presents a look back at four decades of the successful spooky soap opera that made sympathetic vampire Barnabas Collins a pop culture phenomenon and prompted the big-budget, big-screen Warner Bros. revival starring longtime fan Johnny Depp, directed by Tim Burton, that premieres May 11, 2012.  With the ongoing... Read more

Can I Recycle This?

By: Jennie Romer

Narrated by: Jennie Romer

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The first illustrated guidebook, now adapted for audio, that answers the age-old question: Can I Recycle This?

Since the dawn of the recycling system, men and women the world over have stood by their bins, holding an everyday object, wondering, "can I recycle this?" This simple question reaches into our concern for the environment, the care we... Read more

Secrets of the Force

By: Edward Gross & Mark A. Altman

Narrated by: Dan Bittner, Mark A. Altman, Natalie Naudus, Na...

Length: 23 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes an introduction read by Mark A. Altman

From the authors of The Fifty-Year Mission and So Say We All, comes the first and only comprehensive oral history of the Star Wars movie franchise.

For the past four decades, no film saga has touched the world in the way that Star Wars has, capturing the imaginations of filmgoers and... Read more

Always Young and Restless

By: Melody Thomas Scott

Narrated by: Elizabeth Scott & Melody Thomas Scott

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Melody Thomas Scott admits she is nothing like her Young and the Restless role, who has seen it all in her forty-year tenure on America's highest-rated daytime serial. But the high drama, angst, and catastrophes aren't confined to her character's plotlines. In this captivating memoir, Melody reveals behind-the-scenes tales of her own riveting... Read more

Silent Film

By: Donna Kornhaber

Narrated by: Emily Beresford

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Encompassing the thirty-five year span between the initial development of film technology in the mid-1890s and the adoption of synchronized sound in the late 1920s, the cinema's silent era is both one of the most important epochs of film history and one of the most misunderstood within the popular imagination. In this brief, engaging account,... Read more

I Am Frida Kahlo

By: Brad Meltzer

Narrated by: Fabiola Stevenson, Carolina Ayala, Kyla Garcia,...

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The famous Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is the 23rd hero in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series, adapted for audio, from Brad Meltzer and Christopher Eliopoulos

This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves.... Read more

Inside Comedy

By: David Steinberg

Narrated by: David Steinberg

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The world of comedy and comedians of the last five decades. By the man the New York Times calls "a comic institution himself," the only comedian (twenty-six years in stand-up) to have made Elie Wiesel laugh, as well as having appeared on The Tonight Show (140 times, second only to Bob Hope, but who's counting). From the director of TV comedy... Read more

Sunshine Girl

By: Julianna Margulies

Narrated by: Julianna Margulies

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Known for her outstanding performances on the groundbreaking television series The Good Wife and ER, Julianna Margulies deftly chronicles her life and her work in this deeply powerful memoir.
 
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY GOOD HOUSEKEEPING • “At once a tender coming-of-age story and a deeply personal look at a young woman making... Read more

Water, Wood, and Wild Things

By: Hannah Kirshner

Narrated by: Hannah Kirshner

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

"With this book, you feel you can stop time and savor the rituals of life." --Maira Kalman

An immersive journey through the culture and cuisine of one Japanese town, its forest, and its watershed--where ducks are hunted by net, saké is brewed from the purest mountain water, and charcoal is fired in stone kilns--by an American writer and food... Read more

Material

By: Nick Kary

Narrated by: Nick Kary

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A master craftsperson explores the ways in which working with our hands reveals the essence of both our humanity and our relationship with the natural, material world In our present age of computer-assisted design, mass production and machine precision, the traditional skills of the maker or craftsperson are hard to find. Yet the desire for... Read more