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Magic Hours
By: Tom Bissell
Narrated by: Tom Bissell
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Award-winning essayist Tom Bissell explores the highs and lows of the creative process. He takes us from the set of The Big Bang Theory to the first novel of Ernest Hemingway to the final work of David Foster Wallace; from the films of Werner Herzog to the film of Tommy Wiseau to the editorial meeting in which Paula Fox's work was relaunched... Read more
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How to American
By: Jimmy O. Yang
Narrated by: Jimmy O. Yang & Mike Judge
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Standup comic, actor and fan favorite from HBO's Silicon Valley and the film Crazy Rich Asians shares his memoir of growing up as a Chinese immigrant in California and making it in Hollywood.
"I turned down a job in finance to pursue a career in stand-up comedy. My dad thought I was crazy. But I figured it was better to disappoint my parents for... Read more
Tell Me How It Ends
By: Valeria Luiselli
Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
Length: 2 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US.
Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin American children facing deportation, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman's essay of the same name) humanizes these young... Read more
The Measure of My Powers
By: Jackie Kai Ellis
Narrated by: Jackie Kai Ellis
Length: 4 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 TASTE CANADA AWARDS AND THE RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE. For fans of Eat Pray Love, Wild, and H is for Hawk, The Measure of My Powers is the story of one woman's search for self-love, experienced through food and travel.
"With searing vulnerability and unflinching honesty, Jackie Kai... Read more
Would You Rather?
By: Katie Heaney
Narrated by: Katie Heaney
Length: 5 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of poignant, relatable essays from the author of Never Have I Ever about coming out in her late twenties, entering into her first relationship, and figuring out what it means to be an adult.
When Katie Heaney published her first book of essays, chronicling her singledom up to age twenty-five, she was still waiting to meet the right... Read more
Walking on Water
By: Madeleine L'Engle
Narrated by: Pamela Almand
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
In this classic book, Madeleine L’Engle addresses the questions, What makes art Christian? What does it mean to be a Christian artist? What is the relationship between faith and art? Through L’Engle’s beautiful and insightful essay, readers will find themselves called to what the author views as the prime tasks of an artist: to listen, to remain... Read more
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Other Colors
By: Orhan Pamuk
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 16 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
A luminous essay collection about loneliness, contentment, and the books and cities that have shaped the experience of a Nobel Prize winner and the acclaimed author of My Name is Red.
"One of the essential writers that both East and West can gratefully claim as their own.” —The New York Times Book Review
In the three decades that Nobel... Read more
Can It Happen Here?
By: Cass R. Sunstein
Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
“What makes Trump immune is that he is not a president within the context of a healthy Republican government. He is a cult leader of a movement that has taken over a political party – and he specifically campaigned on a platform of one-man rule. This fact permeates “Can It Happen Here? . . . which concludes, if you read between the lines, that... Read more
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The Return of Marco Polo's World
By: Robert D. Kaplan
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
A bracing assessment of U.S. foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades from the bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and The Coming Anarchy
“[Kaplan] has emerged not only as an eloquent defender of foreign-policy realism but as a grand strategist to whom the Pentagon turns for a tour d’horizon.”—The Wall Street... Read more
We Matter
By: Etan Thomas
Narrated by: Julian Thomas
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Featuring interviews by former NBA player Etan Thomas with over fifty athletes, executives, media figures, and more--and interwoven with essays and critiques by Thomas--We Matter shares the personal tales and opinions of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Russell, Dwyane Wade, Russell Westbrook, Steve Kerr, Oscar Robertson, Mark Cuban, Michael Bennett,... Read more
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Don't Call Me Princess
By: Peggy Orenstein
Narrated by: Peggy Orenstein
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author of Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter delivers her first ever collection of essays—funny, poignant, deeply personal and sharply observed pieces, drawn from three decades of writing, which trace girls’ and women’s progress (or lack thereof) in what Orenstein once called a “half-changed world.”... Read more
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Stay Hungry
By: Sebastian Maniscalco
Narrated by: Sebastian Maniscalco
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
From comedian and actor Sebastian Maniscalco—star of the film About My Father with Robert DeNiro—an inspiring, honest, uproarious collection of essays tracing his career from playing boxing rings and bowling alleys to reaching the pinnacles of comedy success.
At twenty-four, Sebastian Maniscalco arrived in LA with a suitcase and saved up minimum... Read more
Stories I Love to Tell
By: Gene Edwards
Narrated by: Milton Bagby
Length: 3 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
America’s beloved storyteller will guide and thrill your imagination with these classic tales. Join Gene Edwards as he recounts his favorite stories from more than 50 years of travel and ministry. Considered the “Paul Harvey” of Christian writers, Gene Edwards is one of America’s most beloved authors. Stories I Love to Tell, his new book, is a... Read more
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Sold into Egypt
By: Madeleine L'Engle
Narrated by: Pamela Almand
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
This classic work of spirituality from the author of A Wrinkle in Time offers life-transforming insights on the rich heritage of the Bible and shows how the characters of this ancient text are relevant for living the good life now.Is Joseph—the deserted son of Jacob from the Old Testament—relevant in our modern age? For Madeleine L’Engle, the... Read more
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A Stone for a Pillow
By: Madeleine L'Engle
Narrated by: Pamela Almand
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
This classic work of spirituality from the author of A Wrinkle in Time offers life-transforming insights on the rich heritage of the Bible and shows how the characters of this ancient text are relevant for living the good life now.In this book for the curious, spiritual seeker, Madeleine L’Engle offers relevant lessons drawn from the life of... Read more
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What Are We Doing Here?
By: Marilynne Robinson
Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern political climate and the mysteries of faith.Whether... Read more
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And It Was Good
By: Madeleine L'Engle
Narrated by: Pamela Almand
Length: 6 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
This classic work of spirituality from the author of A Wrinkle in Time offers life-transforming insights on the rich heritage of the Bible and shows how the characters of this ancient text are relevant for living the good life now.In the first book of her Genesis Trilogy, beloved author Madeleine L’Engle casts long, loving, and perceptive... Read more
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Words Are My Matter
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 13 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Words Are My Matter gathers talks, essays, introductions to beloved books, and book reviews by Ursula K. Le Guin, one of our foremost public literary intellectuals. A must-listen collection, Words Are My Matter is a manual for investigating the depth and breadth of contemporary fiction—and, through the lens of deep considerations of contemporary... Read more
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Everybody Is Awful
By: Jim Florentine
Narrated by: Jim Florentine & Jim Norton
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A rant-ish memoir by the veteran stand-up comedian and former cohost of That Metal Show, with a foreword by Jim Norton.
Twitter Trolls. Facebook Freaks. Instagram Exhibitionists. These are just a few of the creatures our technology-obsessed culture has spawned in its quest to simplify our lives. The madness is so universal now that everyone has... Read more
Feel Free
By: Zadie Smith
Narrated by: Nikki Amuka-Bird
Length: 13 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
A New York Times Notable Book
From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a new collection of essays
Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel almost two decades ago, Zadie Smith has established herself not just as one of the world's... Read more
Politics Of The Womb
By: Pinki Virani
Narrated by: Monisha Narang
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Among life’s choices is to have children or remain childfree. Yet those who want a child and find themselves unable, live through the trauma of ‘infertility’—cruelly attributed as ‘their fault’—to undergo the tribulations of assisted reproductive technology.
But how safe is aggressive Ivf, invasive Icsi, exploitative ovarian hyper-stimulation... Read more
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
By: Orhan Pamuk
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 4 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Nobel Prize-winning novelist and the acclaimed author of My Name is Red—an inspired, thoughtful, and deeply personal book of essays about reading and writing novels.
In this fascinating set of essays, based on the talks he delivered at Harvard University as part of the distinguished Norton Lecture series, Pamuk presents a comprehensive... Read more
Up Up, Down Down
By: Cheston Knapp
Narrated by: Cheston Knapp
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Daring, wise, hilarious, and tender, this exhilarating collection of seven linked essays by Cheston Knapp tackles Big Questions through seemingly unlikely avenues: an examination of a local professional wrestling promotion becomes a meditation on pain and his relationship with his father; a profile on UFO enthusiasts ends up probing his history... Read more
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I Wrote This Book Because I Love You
By: Tim Kreider
Narrated by: Tim Kreider
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
*A People Top 10 Book of 2018*
The New York Times essayist and author of We Learn Nothing, Tim Kreider trains his singular power of observation on his (often befuddling) relationships with women.
Psychologists have told him he’s a psychologist. Philosophers have told him he’s a philosopher. Religious groups have invited him to speak. He had a... Read more