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Love's Executioner
- By: Irvin D. Yalom
- Narrated by: C.M. Carlson
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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The collection of 10 absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter....
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Wonderful book - one quibble about recording
- By Anonymous User on 04-07-19
By: Irvin D. Yalom
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Orwell: The Essays
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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A wide-ranging selection of George Orwell's essays, written in the clear-eyed, passionate and uncompromising style that has earned him a reputation as one of Britain's greatest writers....
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This is writing
- By tony on 03-11-22
By: George Orwell
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On Connection
- By: Kae Tempest
- Narrated by: Kae Tempest
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
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Honest, tender and written with piercing clarity, On Connection is a call to arms that speaks to a universal yet intimate truth....
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Impassioned brilliance- this is the beautiful thing
- By Pixieface on 17-10-20
By: Kae Tempest
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Alan Bennett: Untold Stories
- Read by Alan Bennett
- By: Alan Bennett
- Narrated by: Alan Bennett
- Length: 10 hrs
- Original Recording
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Funny, thoughtful, and fascinating, this wonderful series of essays and stories read by the author offers an extraordinary journey into an exceptional career of an award-winning writer....
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Liked
- By Janie on 18-02-23
By: Alan Bennett
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
- By: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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In essays that have been published by the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others—Abdurraqib uses music and culture as a lens through which to view our world so that we might better understand ourselves, and in so doing proves himself a bellwether for our times....
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Wait-- this was amazing
- By Jojob on 13-03-23
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
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The Alan Clark Diaries
- In Power 1983-1992
- By: Alan Clark
- Narrated by: Alan Clark
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
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This was Alan Clark’s first volume of diaries and the only one that he recorded....
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Just wonderful
- By Joe Jones on 13-04-21
By: Alan Clark
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Love's Executioner
- By: Irvin D. Yalom
- Narrated by: C.M. Carlson
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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The collection of 10 absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter....
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Wonderful book - one quibble about recording
- By Anonymous User on 04-07-19
By: Irvin D. Yalom
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Orwell: The Essays
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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A wide-ranging selection of George Orwell's essays, written in the clear-eyed, passionate and uncompromising style that has earned him a reputation as one of Britain's greatest writers....
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This is writing
- By tony on 03-11-22
By: George Orwell
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On Connection
- By: Kae Tempest
- Narrated by: Kae Tempest
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
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Honest, tender and written with piercing clarity, On Connection is a call to arms that speaks to a universal yet intimate truth....
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Impassioned brilliance- this is the beautiful thing
- By Pixieface on 17-10-20
By: Kae Tempest
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Alan Bennett: Untold Stories
- Read by Alan Bennett
- By: Alan Bennett
- Narrated by: Alan Bennett
- Length: 10 hrs
- Original Recording
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Funny, thoughtful, and fascinating, this wonderful series of essays and stories read by the author offers an extraordinary journey into an exceptional career of an award-winning writer....
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Liked
- By Janie on 18-02-23
By: Alan Bennett
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
- By: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In essays that have been published by the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others—Abdurraqib uses music and culture as a lens through which to view our world so that we might better understand ourselves, and in so doing proves himself a bellwether for our times....
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Wait-- this was amazing
- By Jojob on 13-03-23
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
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The Alan Clark Diaries
- In Power 1983-1992
- By: Alan Clark
- Narrated by: Alan Clark
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
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This was Alan Clark’s first volume of diaries and the only one that he recorded....
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Just wonderful
- By Joe Jones on 13-04-21
By: Alan Clark
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Cultural Amnesia
- Notes in the Margin of My Time
- By: Clive James
- Narrated by: Clive James
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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An almanac combining a survey of modern culture with an index of who-was-who and what-was-what, Cultural Amnesia is a unique take on the places and faces that shaped the 20th century....
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Another great clearing in the jungle from CJ
- By Matt on 17-05-08
By: Clive James
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On Meditation
- By: Sri M.
- Narrated by: Rajiv Dadia
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
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In today's challenging and busy world, don't you wish you knew how to quiet your mind and focus on yourself? In On Meditation, renowned spiritual leader, Sri M, answers all your questions on the practice and benefits of meditation....
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Excellent book
- By Sonic on 04-08-23
By: Sri M.
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Dispatches from the Diaspora
- From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter
- By: Gary Younge
- Narrated by: David Monteith
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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For the last three decades Gary Younge has had a ringside seat during the biggest events and with the most significant personalities to impact the black diaspora. He has witnessed how much change is possible and the power of systems to thwart those aspirations....
By: Gary Younge
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Letters to a Young Contrarian
- By: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
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In the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men, and dissidents....
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enjoyed this
- By Leo on 27-06-21
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What My Mother and I Don't Talk About
- Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
- By: Michele Filgate
- Narrated by: Michele Filgate, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Roger Casey, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize that she was actually trying to write about how this affected her relationship with her mother....
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What My Mother And I Don't Talk About
- By Hayley Westwood on 03-05-22
By: Michele Filgate
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Crazy Salad and Scribble, Scribble
- Some Things About Women and Notes on Media
- By: Nora Ephron
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
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Two classic collections of Nora Ephron’s uproarious essays—tackling everything from feminism to the media, from politics to beauty products, with her inimitable charm and distinctive wit—now available in one book for the first time.....
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Nora Ephron-articulate, funny and intelligent
- By Sennichi on 10-10-13
By: Nora Ephron
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In Gratitude
- By: Jenny Diski
- Narrated by: Kim Hicks
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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In August 2014 Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given 'two or three years' to live. She didn't know how to react. All responses felt scripted, laden with cliché....
By: Jenny Diski
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Duplex
- By: Mike Nagel
- Narrated by: Tim Heidecker
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
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Mike Nagel is spending too much time in his duplex. Mostly he’s hungover. There's a squirrel in the attic, the ceiling’s caving in, and he’s not sure who to call about it.
By: Mike Nagel
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The Periodic Table
- By: Primo Levi
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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The Periodic Table by Primo Levi is an impassioned response to the Holocaust: Consisting of 21 short stories, each possessing the name of a chemical element....
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Returno to Torino
- By Welsh Mafia on 24-06-16
By: Primo Levi
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Outlaw Culture
- Resisting Representations
- By: Bell Hooks
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
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According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore Bell Hooks's electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches....
By: Bell Hooks
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The Book of (More) Delights
- Essays, Book 2
- By: Ross Gay
- Narrated by: Ross Gay
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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In these short lyrical essayettes—a follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The Book of Delights—the award-winning author continues his celebration of the everyday delights, inspiring us at this exact moment when we all need a little more hope and joy in our our lives....
By: Ross Gay
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To Throw Away Unopened
- By: Viv Albertine
- Narrated by: Jasmine Blackborow
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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What was I fighting for? Even now I'm not sure. Something so old and so deep, it has no words, no shape, no logic....
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A read again and again book!
- By Sarah Power on 18-01-19
By: Viv Albertine
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On the Origin of Species
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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A literally world-changing book, Darwin put forward the anti-religious and scientific idea that humans in fact evolved over millions of generations from animals....
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Something Old made Something New
- By Tim on 05-03-11
By: Charles Darwin
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High Tide in Tucson
- Essays from Now or Never
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
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In sharing her thoughts about the urgent business of being alive, Kingsolver employs the same keen eyes, persuasive tongue, and understanding heart that characterize her acclaimed fiction....
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Perfect prose poetry
- By Geranium on 28-02-22
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On Drinking
- By: Charles Bukowski
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
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A powerful testament to the pleasures and miseries of a life in drink, and a window into the soul of one of our most beloved and enduring writers, On Drinking is the definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol....
By: Charles Bukowski
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Under the Duvet
- By: Marian Keyes
- Narrated by: Marian Keyes
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
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Many think that Marian leads a glitzy life of limos, television, and showbiz parties - but she would argue that she spends the majority of her life writing alone, wearing her PJs....
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easy book to dip in and out off
- By Leona on 14-04-13
By: Marian Keyes
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United States: Essays 1952-1992
- By: Gore Vidal
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 60 hrs and 15 mins
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Gore Vidal’s reputation as America’s finest essayist is an enduring one. This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work, contains about two-thirds of what he published in various magazines and journals....
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What is better than Gore Vidal
- By Pen Name on 29-08-23
By: Gore Vidal
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Rural Rides
- By: William Cobbett
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 22 hrs and 22 mins
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Between 1821 and 1826, the prolific writer and journalist William Cobbett travelled the countryside of the South of England on foot and horseback. Rural Rides is a fascinating account of his journeys, and depicts a way of life in transition....
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Excellent
- By Zadzaczadlin on 05-07-22
By: William Cobbett
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Henry & June
- By: Anais Nin
- Narrated by: Cherie Lunghi
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
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Anais Nin wrote her diary at the end of 1931, at the close of a sexually tumultuous and emotional year as part of a ménage a trois with fellow writer Henry Miller and his beautiful wife June Mansfield....
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A quest into human mind
- By Henna on 10-08-17
By: Anais Nin
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Bruce Chatwin: A BBC Radio Collection
- In Patagonia & more
- By: Bruce Chatwin
- Narrated by: Russell Tovey, Ian Hogg, Ioan Meredith, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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Author and adventurer Bruce Chatwin was one of the 20th Century’s most charismatic writers. Included in this collection are full-cast dramas and readings from the giant of travel writing – plus a bonus documentary....
By: Bruce Chatwin
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On the Genealogy of Morals
- A Polemic
- By: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Duncan Steen
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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In On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche furthers his pursuit of a clarity that is less tainted by imposed prejudices....
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Should be required reading for maturing adults
- By Nze kkuc akabusi on 20-04-19
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It's Not About the Burqa
- Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race
- By: Mariam Khan
- Narrated by: Mariam Khan, Amna Saleem, Afshan D'souza-Lodhi, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
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What does it mean, exactly, to be a Muslim woman in the West today? According to the media, it’s all about the burqa. Here’s what it’s really about....
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A wonderful selection of personal & vital response
- By Mrs N Forbes on 21-02-19
By: Mariam Khan
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Essential
- Essays by the Minimalists
- By: Joshua Fields Millburn, Ryan Nicodemus
- Narrated by: Justin Malik
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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This book by Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus collects the most relevant essays - some short, some long - from their popular website, TheMinimalists.com....
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mumbling narrator destroys great content
- By Public name on 09-05-17
By: Joshua Fields Millburn, and others
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Themes and Variations
- An Essay
- By: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 30 mins
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In this surprising essay, international bestselling humor writer David Sedaris shares the rewards of a book tour and his devoted readers’ worst-kept secrets....
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Hilarious and thought provoking....
- By Amazon Customer on 14-08-20
By: David Sedaris
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Dispersals
- On Plants, Borders and Belonging
- By: Jessica J. Lee
- Narrated by: Jessica J. Lee
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Born in Canada to a Taiwanese mother and a Welsh father, steeped in both literary and scientific traditions, Jessica J. Lee is a perfectly placed observer of our world in motion. In this vibrant book of linked essays she explores the entanglements of the plant and human worlds, and the echoes and counterpoints she detects in the migration of plants and people - and the language we use to describe them.
By: Jessica J. Lee
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Familiarity Breeds Content
- New and Selected Essays
- By: Joseph Epstein
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 14 hrs
- Unabridged
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America’s greatest living essayist writes about life and aging and being all too nicely out of it. In these personal pieces, he takes on topics as varied as grieving for a dead son, learning Latin late in life, and the pleasures of living with cats. Epstein gives us a “bonfire of his own vanities,” his thoughts about why watching sports is so impossibly seductive, what it is like to be short, and why he misses smoking even decades as a health-obsessed non-smoker.
By: Joseph Epstein
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Notes of a Native Son
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
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James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher father and his experiences of Paris, they capture the complexity of black life at the dawn of the civil rights movement with effervescent wit and prophetic wisdom.
By: James Baldwin
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Ghost Dogs
- On Killers and Kin
- By: Andre Dubus III
- Narrated by: Andre Dubus III
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In Ghost Dogs, Dubus’s nonfiction prowess is on full display in his retelling of his own successes, failures, triumphs, and pain. In his longest essay, “If I Owned a Gun,” Dubus reflects on the empowerment and shame he felt in keeping a gun, and his decision, ultimately, to give it up. Elsewhere, he writes of a violent youth and of settled domesticity and fatherhood, about the omnipresent expectations and contradictions of masculinity, about the things writers remember and those they forget.
By: Andre Dubus III
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Transient and Strange
- Notes on the Science of Life
- By: Nell Greenfieldboyce
- Narrated by: Nell Greenfieldboyce
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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A beautiful blend of explanatory science, original reporting, and personal experience, Transient and Strange captures the ache of ordinary life, offering resonant insights into both the world around us and the worlds within us.
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Duplex
- By: Mike Nagel
- Narrated by: Tim Heidecker
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Mike Nagel is spending too much time in his duplex. Mostly he’s hungover. There's a squirrel in the attic, the ceiling’s caving in, and he’s not sure who to call about it. Not much else seems to happen in Mike Nagel’s Duplex, except of course everything happens there: a distinct mind is constantly working over the absurdity, meaninglessness, and mundanity of contemporary life.
By: Mike Nagel
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Dispersals
- On Plants, Borders and Belonging
- By: Jessica J. Lee
- Narrated by: Jessica J. Lee
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Born in Canada to a Taiwanese mother and a Welsh father, steeped in both literary and scientific traditions, Jessica J. Lee is a perfectly placed observer of our world in motion. In this vibrant book of linked essays she explores the entanglements of the plant and human worlds, and the echoes and counterpoints she detects in the migration of plants and people - and the language we use to describe them.
By: Jessica J. Lee
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Familiarity Breeds Content
- New and Selected Essays
- By: Joseph Epstein
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 14 hrs
- Unabridged
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America’s greatest living essayist writes about life and aging and being all too nicely out of it. In these personal pieces, he takes on topics as varied as grieving for a dead son, learning Latin late in life, and the pleasures of living with cats. Epstein gives us a “bonfire of his own vanities,” his thoughts about why watching sports is so impossibly seductive, what it is like to be short, and why he misses smoking even decades as a health-obsessed non-smoker.
By: Joseph Epstein
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Notes of a Native Son
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher father and his experiences of Paris, they capture the complexity of black life at the dawn of the civil rights movement with effervescent wit and prophetic wisdom.
By: James Baldwin
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Ghost Dogs
- On Killers and Kin
- By: Andre Dubus III
- Narrated by: Andre Dubus III
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In Ghost Dogs, Dubus’s nonfiction prowess is on full display in his retelling of his own successes, failures, triumphs, and pain. In his longest essay, “If I Owned a Gun,” Dubus reflects on the empowerment and shame he felt in keeping a gun, and his decision, ultimately, to give it up. Elsewhere, he writes of a violent youth and of settled domesticity and fatherhood, about the omnipresent expectations and contradictions of masculinity, about the things writers remember and those they forget.
By: Andre Dubus III
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Transient and Strange
- Notes on the Science of Life
- By: Nell Greenfieldboyce
- Narrated by: Nell Greenfieldboyce
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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A beautiful blend of explanatory science, original reporting, and personal experience, Transient and Strange captures the ache of ordinary life, offering resonant insights into both the world around us and the worlds within us.
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Duplex
- By: Mike Nagel
- Narrated by: Tim Heidecker
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Mike Nagel is spending too much time in his duplex. Mostly he’s hungover. There's a squirrel in the attic, the ceiling’s caving in, and he’s not sure who to call about it. Not much else seems to happen in Mike Nagel’s Duplex, except of course everything happens there: a distinct mind is constantly working over the absurdity, meaninglessness, and mundanity of contemporary life.
By: Mike Nagel
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Tales2inspire: The Diamond Collection Series V
- The Moonstone Collections: Book 1 and Book 2
- By: Lois W. Stern, Jan Hurst-Nicholson, Micki Peluso, and others
- Narrated by: Lois W Stern
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
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Each Tales2Inspire book contain stories of a different yet uplifting theme, named for the gemstone whose meaning reflects the theme of that book.
By: Lois W. Stern, and others
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No Judgement
- On Being Critical
- By: Lauren Oyler
- Narrated by: Lauren Oyler
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In this blistering, irreverent and very funny first book of non-fiction, Lauren Oyler - one of the most trenchant, influential, and revelatory critics of her generation - takes on the bizarre particularities of our present moment in a series of interconnected essays about literature, the attention economy, gossip, the role of criticism and her own relentless, teeth-grinding anxiety. No Judgement excavates the layers of psychology and meaning in how we communicate, tell stories and make critical judgements - to offer dazzling insights into how we live and think today.
By: Lauren Oyler
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Supernatural Horror in Literature
- By: H. P. Lovecraft
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Supernatural Horror in Literature is a essay by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, surveying the development and achievements of horror fiction as the field stood in the 1920s and 30s. The essay was researched and written between November 1925 and May 1927, first published in August 1927, and then revised and expanded during 1933–1934. Lovecraft's essay ranges widely, but he first examines the beginnings of weird fiction in the early gothic novel.
By: H. P. Lovecraft
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The Art of Libromancy
- On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century
- By: Josh Cook
- Narrated by: Justin Price
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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With Amazon's growing power in both bookselling and publishing, considering where and how we get our books is more important now than ever. The simple act of putting a book in a reader's hands—what booksellers call handselling—becomes a catalyst for an exploration of the moral, financial, and political pressures all indie bookstores face.
By: Josh Cook
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White as Milk and Rice
- Stories of India's Isolated Tribes
- By: Nidhi Dugar Kundalia
- Narrated by: Avantika Akerkar
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The Maria girls from Bastar practice sex as an institution before marriage, but with rules—one may not sleep with a partner more than three times; the Hallaki women from the Konkan coast sing throughout the day; the Kanjars have plundered, looted and killed generation after generation, and will show you how to roast a lizard when hungry. The original inhabitants of India, these Adivasis still live in forests and hills, with religious beliefs, traditions and rituals so far removed from the rest of the country that they represent an anthropological wealth of our heritage.
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Alphabetical Diaries
- By: Sheila Heti
- Narrated by: Kate Berlant
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Sheila Heti collected half a million words from a decade’s worth of journals, put them in a spreadsheet, and sorted them alphabetically. She spent the next ten years cutting and refining, and was left with 60,000 words of brilliance and mayhem, joy and sorrow. These are her alphabetical diaries.
By: Sheila Heti