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All Things Are Too Small
- Essays in Praise of Excess
- By: Becca Rothfeld
- Narrated by: Ruth Crawford
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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All Things Are Too Small is brilliant cultural and literary critic Becca Rothfeld’s plea for derangement: imbalance, obsession, gluttony, and ravishment in all domains of life, from literature to romance. In a healthy culture, Rothfeld argues, economic security allows for wild aesthetic experimentation and excess, yet in our contemporary world, we’ve got it flipped. The gap between rich and poor yawns hideously wide, while we compensate with misguided attempts to effect equality in love and art, where it does not belong.
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All Things Are Too Small
- Essays in Praise of Excess
- Narrated by: Ruth Crawford
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 05-28-24
- Language: English
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I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying
- A Memoir
- By: Youngmi Mayer
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
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In I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying, Youngmi jokes through the retelling of her childhood as an offbeat biracial kid in Saipan, a place next to a place that Americans might know. She jokes through her difficult adolescence where she must parent her own parents: a mother who married her husband because he looked like white Jesus (and the singer of The Bee Gees). And with humor and irreverence and full-throated openness, she jokes even while sharing the story of what her family went through during the last century of colonialism and war in Korea.
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I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying
- A Memoir
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 11-02-24
- Language: English
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Y2K
- How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on a Future That Never Was)
- By: Colette Shade
- Length: 12 hrs
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The early 2000s conjures images of dial-up internet connections, inflatable furniture, Hummer H2s, blinged out rap videos, and the feeling that the stock market would go up forever. The arrival of the new millennium was marked by a sense of both unbridled optimism and existential dread. For many it felt like the end of history; we’d solved all the big problems. No more wars, no more racism, no more sexism. But then history kept happening. In Y2K, Colette Shade offers a darkly funny meditation, unpacking everything from the pop culture to the political economy of the period.
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Y2K
- How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on a Future That Never Was)
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 01-07-25
- Language: English
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Kafka Dub - Betrachtungen über Sünde, Leid, Hoffnung und den wahren Weg
- By: Franz Kafka
- Narrated by: Ingo Fried
- Length: 47 mins
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...habe gerade Kafka-Dub gehört: Zuerst dachte ich: 42, du weißt schon, Douglas Adams, dann war ich ganz bei meinem Jahr mit Milton: Paradise Lost, dann beim Zenmeister und seiner berühmten Aufgabe, mit einer Hand zu klatschen, und zum Ende hin fragte ich mich, wie das wohl zu Ende gehen kann: Haus, Tisch, warten, allein, Welt, Dub, Dub, Dub... Kafka Dub ist ein Hörbuchprojekt zu Franz Kafkas Zürauer Aphorismen, die nach Kafkas Tod von seinem besten Freund Max Brod als Betrachtungen über Sünde, Leid, Hoffnung und den wahren Weg veröffentlicht wurden und will eine neue Perspektive auf Kafkas zeitloses Werk finden.
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Kafka Dub - Betrachtungen über Sünde, Leid, Hoffnung und den wahren Weg
- Narrated by: Ingo Fried
- Length: 47 mins
- Release date: 06-02-24
- Language: German
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Danse Macabre
- By: Stephen King
- Length: 18 hrs
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From the author of dozens of #1 New York Times bestsellers and the creator of many unforgettable movies comes a vivid, intelligent, and nostalgic journey through three decades of horror as experienced through the eyes of the most popular writer in the genre. In 1981, years before he sat down to tackle On Writing, Stephen King decided to address the topic of what makes horror horrifying and what makes terror terrifying. Here, in ten brilliantly written chapters, King delivers one colorful observation after another about the great stories, books, and films that comprise the horror genre.
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Danse Macabre
- Length: 18 hrs
- Release date: 10-01-24
- Language: English
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The Language of the Night
- Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan, Michael Crouch
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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The Language of the Night is Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-length collection of essays and criticism, with sections on her own background, on fantasy and science fiction, on writing, and on the future of literate science fiction. Each section is introduced with commentary by Susan Wood and the book contains a complete bibliography of Le Guin’s work (at the time of publication).
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The Language of the Night
- Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan, Michael Crouch
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 09-17-24
- Language: English
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The Uses of Literature
- By: Italo Calvino
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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In these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are challenged to understand the world. Calvino himself made the selection of pieces to be included in this volume.
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The Uses of Literature
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 06-04-24
- Language: English
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Los que sueñan el sueño dorado [Those Who Dream the Golden Dream]
- By: Joan Didion, Javier Calvo Perales - traductor
- Narrated by: Susie Caraballo
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
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Joan Didion es una de las cronistas fundamentales de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. En una edición a cargo de Claudio López de Lamadrid, Los que sueñan el sueño dorado reúne por primera vez en castellano una selección de artículos y ensayos de sus libros.
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Los que sueñan el sueño dorado [Those Who Dream the Golden Dream]
- Narrated by: Susie Caraballo
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 07-11-24
- Language: Spanish
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Blue Pastures
- By: Mary Oliver
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
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With consummate craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has fashioned fifteen luminous prose pieces: on nature, writing, and herself and those around her. She praises Whitman, denounces cuteness, notes where to find the extraordinary, and extols solitude. Nature speaks to her and she speaks to nature.
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Blue Pastures
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 06-18-24
- Language: English
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Bone of the Bone
- Essays on America from a Daughter of the Working Class
- By: Sarah Smarsh
- Length: 10 hrs
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Compiling Smarsh’s reportage and more poetic reflections, Bone of the Bone is a singular work covering one of the most tumultuous decades in civic life. Timely, filled with perspective-shifting observations, and a pleasure to read, Sarah Smarsh’s essays—on topics as varied as the socioeconomic significance of dentistry, laws criminalizing poverty, fallacies of the “red vs. blue” political framework, working as a Hooters Girl, and much more—are an important addition to any discussion on contemporary America.
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Bone of the Bone
- Essays on America from a Daughter of the Working Class
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 09-10-24
- Language: English
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Magical/Realism
- Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
- By: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
- Narrated by: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
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Upon becoming a new mother, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal was called to Mexico to reconnect with her ancestors and recover her grandmother’s story, only to return to the sudden loss of her marriage, home, and reality. In Magical/Realism, Villarreal crosses into the erasure of memory and self, fragmented by migration, borders, and colonial and intimate violence, reconstructing her story with pieces of American pop culture, and the music, video games, and fantasy that have helped her make sense of it all.
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Magical/Realism
- Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
- Narrated by: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 05-14-24
- Language: English
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コンビニオーナーぎりぎり日記――昨夜10時からワンオペ勤務、夫が来たら交替します
- Narrated by: はぎわら ちはる
- Series: 日記シリーズ, Book コンビニオーナー
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 05-14-24
- Language: Japanese
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The Art of Dying
- Writings, 2019-2022
- By: Peter Schjeldahl, Steve Martin - foreword, Jarrett Earnest - introduction
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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When the New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl published his widely read autobiographical essay “The Art of Dying” in December 2019, he reported that he had lung cancer and his oncologist had given him six months to live, but his experimental treatment was showing some improvement. “These extra months,” he wrote, “are a luxury that I hope to have put to good use.” And he did. The Art of Dying: Writings, 2019-2022 begins with that essay and collects all 46 pieces that he wrote for the magazine before his death in October 2022.
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The Art of Dying
- Writings, 2019-2022
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 05-14-24
- Language: English
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A Shimmering, Serrated Monster!
- The Mark Leyner Reader
- By: Mark Leyner, Rick Kisonak, Sam Lipsyte - foreword
- Length: 15 hrs
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Praised as “chaotic and vibrant” (Charles Yu), “visionary” (Sam Lipsyte), and “supremely original” (John Cusack), the work of Mark Leyner has inspired a generation of contemporary novelists and has long deserved its place of recognition among the literary superstars of the seismic postmodernism-influenced movement of the early 21st century. A Shimmering, Serrated Monster!: The Mark Leyner Reader samples the staggering highlights from Leyner’s extraordinary career in all of its bizarre and infatuating glory.
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A Shimmering, Serrated Monster!
- The Mark Leyner Reader
- Length: 15 hrs
- Release date: 09-10-24
- Language: English
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Self-Portrait
- Collected Writings
- By: Jack Kerouac, Charles Shuttleworth - editor, Paul Maher - editor
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
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Jack Kerouac's archive is vast. Throughout his life he was constantly writing, and he meticulously saved and catalogued his material. The result is that beyond the work published in his lifetime there has been a rich stream of posthumous writing that is far from tapped, adding depth to his lifework and our understanding of the man. This collection of previously unpublished writing culled from the Kerouac archive, and as a companion to Paul Maher Jr.'s Becoming Kerouac, spans Jack's adult life, from a journal written at age seventeen to autobiographical reflections a few years before his death.
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Self-Portrait
- Collected Writings
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 06-11-24
- Language: English
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Dancing on My Own
- Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy
- By: Simon Wu
- Length: 12 hrs
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In Robyn’s 2010 track Dancing on My Own, the Swedish pop-singer chronicles a night on the dance floor in the shadow of a former lover. She is bitter, angry, and at times desperate, and yet by the time the chorus arrives her frustration has melted away. She decides to dance on her own, and in this way, she transforms her solitude into a more complex joy.
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Dancing on My Own
- Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 06-25-24
- Language: English
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An Angel Walks Through the Stage and Other Essays
- By: Jon Fosse, May Brit-Akerholot - translator
- Narrated by: Kåre Conradi
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
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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 literature and theater—including the irresistible "Thomas Bernhard and His Grandfather"—this collection also includes such personal essays such as "My Dear New Norwegian," "Old Houses," and "He Who Didn't Want to Become a Teacher."
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An Angel Walks Through the Stage and Other Essays
- Narrated by: Kåre Conradi
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 05-21-24
- Language: English
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A Town Without Time
- Gay Talese’s New York
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 11-12-24
- Language: English
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茶の湯の冒険 「日日是好日」から広がるしあわせ
- Narrated by: 山内 美幸
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 09-06-24
- Language: Japanese
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Like Love
- Essays and Conversations
- By: Maggie Nelson
- Narrated by: Senn Annis
- Length: 12 hrs
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Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends and idols, bring to life Nelson's passion for dialogue and dissent. Arranged chronologically, Like Love shows the writing, thinking, feeling, reading, looking and conversing that occupied Nelson while writing iconic books such as Bluets and The Argonauts.
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Like Love
- Essays and Conversations
- Narrated by: Senn Annis
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 05-23-24
- Language: English
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