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What We Talk About When We Talk About Books
By: Leah Price
Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggerated Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us: the willpower to focus on a sustained argument, the... Read more
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The Bright Book of Life
By: Harold Bloom
Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
Length: 21 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
America's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition—from Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Man—in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction.
In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloom—who for more than half a century was... Read more
Year of the Monkey
By: Patti Smith
Narrated by: Patti Smith
Length: 4 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Riveting, elegant, and humorous, New York Times bestseller Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.
Following a run of new year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by... Read more
Wonderworks
By: Angus Fletcher
Narrated by: Jacques Roy
Length: 15 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
This “fascinating” (Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times bestselling author of Outliers) examination of literary inventions through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, shows how writers have created technical breakthroughs—rivaling scientific inventions—and engineering enhancements to the human heart and mind.
Literature is a... Read more
Devotion
By: Patti Smith
Narrated by: Patti Smith
Length: 2 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative invention.A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic—its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of... Read more
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The Light Room
By: Kate Zambreno
Narrated by: Kate Zambreno
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
“Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in closeup.“ —Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
From “one of our most formally ambitious writers” (Esquire), a moving account of caretaking in a time of uncertainty and loss
In The Light Room, Zambreno offers her most profound and... Read more
Ordinary Wonder Tales
By: Emily Urquhart
Narrated by: Anne Wessel
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
A journalist and folklorist explores the truths that underlie the stories we imagine—and reveals the magic in the everyday.“I’ve always felt that the term fairy tale doesn’t quite capture the essence of these stories,” writes Emily Urquhart. “I prefer the term wonder tale, which is Irish in origin, for its suggestion of awe coupled with... Read more
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Happily
By: Sabrina Orah Mark
Narrated by: Gilli Messer
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • A beautifully written memoir-in-essays on fairy tales and their surprising relevance to modern life, from a Jewish woman raising Black children in the American South—based on her acclaimed Paris Review column “Happily”
“One of the most inventive, phenomenally executed books I’ve read in decades.”—Kiese... Read more
Unfinished Business
By: Vivian Gornick
Narrated by: Vivian Gornick
Length: 4 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
One of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her life.“I sometimes think I was born reading…I can’t remember the time when I didn’t have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me.”Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornick’s celebration of passionate... Read more
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Books for Living
By: Will Schwalbe
Narrated by: Jeff Harding
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of the beloved New York Times best-selling The End of Your Life Book Club, an inspiring and magical exploration of the power of books to shape our lives in an era of constant connectivity.
Why is it that we read? Is it to pass time? To learn something new? To escape from reality? For Will Schwalbe, reading is a way to entertain... Read more
An Angel Walks Through the Stage and Other Essays
By: Jon Fosse
Narrated by: Kåre Conradi
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature Jon Fosse said farewell to theory early in his career, choosing poetry, fiction, and drama as his mediums of choice. Here, however, in a selection from his two books of essays, we see just how incisive a critic and memoirist he can be. Not only including a generous portion of Fosse's writing on... Read more
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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
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Justicia
By: Michael J. Sandel
Narrated by: Alejandro Vargas-Lugo
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Un viaje fascinante y entretenido a través de los conceptos que subyacen en las controversias políticas y morales de la actualidad. PREMIO PRINCESA DE ASTURIAS DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES 2018 En Justicia, el prestigioso autor y profesor Michael Sandel examina el papel de la justicia en nuestras vidas y en la sociedad, y explica cómo la filosofía... Read more
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What Makes This Book So Great
By: Jo Walton
Narrated by: Nicole Poole
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
As any fan of Jo Walton's Among Others might guess, Walton is both an inveterate reader of SF and fantasy, and a chronic rereader of books. In 2008, then-new science fiction mega-site Tor.com asked Walton to blog regularly about her rereading—about all kinds of older fantasy and SF, ranging from acknowledged classics, to guilty pleasures, to... Read more
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Laughter in Ancient Rome
By: Mary Beard
Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear—a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it play in the world of the law... Read more
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The Occult Sylvia Plath
By: Julia Gordon-Bramer
Narrated by: Julia Gordon-Bramer
Length: 15 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
• Decodes the alchemical, Qabalistic, hermetic, spiritual, and Tarot-related references in many of Plath’s poems
• Based on more than 15 years of research, including analysis of Plath’s unpublished personal writings from the Plath archives at Indiana University
• Examines the influences of Plath’s parents, her early interests in Hermeticism, and... Read more
Second Chances
By: Stephen Greenblatt & Adam Phillips
Narrated by: Donald Corren & Steven Crossley
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud
In this fresh investigation, Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips explore how the second chance has been an essential feature of the literary imagination and a promise so central to our existence that we try to reproduce it again and again.... Read more
The Book of Mothers
By: Carrie Mullins
Narrated by: Sarab Kamoo
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Sweet, supportive, dependable, selfless. Long before she had children of her own, journalist Carrie Mullins knew how mothers should behave. But how? Where did these expectations come from—and, more importantly, are they serving the mothers whose lives they shape? Carrie's suspicion, later crystallized while raising two small children, was that... Read more
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A Kind of Madness
By: Uche Okonkwo
Narrated by: Nene Nwoko
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A searing, unflinching collection of stories set in Nigeria that explores themes of community expectations, familial strife, and the struggle for survival.
A teenage girl from a poor family is dazzled by her rich, vivacious friend, but as the friend's behavior grows unstable and dangerous, she must decide whether to cover for her or risk... Read more
Staging America
By: Jeffery Kennedy
Narrated by: Daniel Henning
Length: 27 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The Provincetown Players created a revolution in American theatre, making room for truly modern approaches to playwriting, stage production, and performance. In Staging America, Jeffery Kennedy gives listeners the unabridged story in a meticulously researched and comprehensive narrative that sheds new light on the history of the Provincetown... Read more
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Personas e ideas (Ensayista liberal 1)
By: Enrique Krauze
Narrated by: Miguel Ángel Álvarez
Length: 12 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Volumen que inicia una colección de seis tomos llamada "Ensayista liberal", donde confluirán diversos textos inéditos, perfiles, ensayos y entrevistas del historiador Enrique Krauze. Primer volumen de la nueva colección "Ensayista Liberal". Enrique Krauze es una figura fundamental en los círculos intelectuales mexicanos, como colaborador de... Read more
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Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope
By: Barbara Will
Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
Length: 8 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Thirty years have passed since Cornel West's book Race Matters rose to the top of the bestseller lists in 1993. Yet his book remains as relevant as ever to American culture—even more so, if one considers its influence on contemporary racial justice movements such as Black Lives Matter, prison justice, and the fight for police reform. Prophetic... Read more
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Common Ground
By: Maris D. Hawkins & Florencia G. Henshaw
Narrated by: April Doty
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
"Common Ground is accessible to teachers at all levels yet firmly rooted in current questions of second language acquisition (SLA). One of its primary strengths is the authors themselves, both of whom are accomplished language teachers who understand the challenges and opportunities in communication-focused language teaching. Their experience,... Read more
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The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters, and Yokai of Japanese Myth
By: Thersa Matsuura
Narrated by: Thersa Matsuura
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover everything you’ve ever wondered about the legendary spirits, creatures, and figures of Japanese folklore including how they have found their way into every corner of our pop culture from the creator of the podcast Uncanny Japan.
Welcome to The Book of Japanese Folklore: a fascinating journey through Japan’s folklore through profiles of... Read more