It Occurs to Me That I Am America
New Stories and Art
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Narrated by:
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Christian Barillas
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Francois Chau
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Kyla Garcia
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Parry Shen
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Candace Thaxton
About this listen
In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from 30 best-selling and award-winning authors - including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Mary Higgins Clark, and Lee Child - with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen.
When Donald Trump claimed victory last November, the US literary world erupted in indignation. Many of America's leading writers and artists openly resist the current administration's dogma and earliest policy moves, and they're not about to go gently into that good night. In It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art, more than 30 of the most acclaimed modern writers consider the fundamental ideals of a free, just, and compassionate democracy - through fiction.
Featuring artwork by some of today's best known artists, cartoonists, and graphic novelists - including Art Spiegelman, Roz Chast, Marilyn Minter, and Eric Fischl - who cover political, social, and cultural issues, this anthology is a beautiful, enduring collection that will resonate with anyone concerned with the contest for our American soul.
© 2018 Richard Russo, Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Lee Child, Mary Higgins Clark, Jonathan Santlofer, Christian Barillas, Francois Chau, Kyla Garcia, Parry Shen, Candace Thaxton, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Alice Walker, Alice Hoffman, Walter Mosley, Michael Cunningham
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©2018 Jonathan Santlofer. All rights reserved (P)2018 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reservedListeners also enjoyed...
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1 out of 5 stars
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The most boring book ever
- By Bootylady on 12-22-19
By: Lee Child
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Inherit the Dead
- A Novel
- By: Lee Child, Lisa Unger, C. J. Box, and others
- Narrated by: Christopher Evan Welch
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 349
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 310
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Pericles "Perry" Christo is a P.I. with a past. A one-time NYPD homicide cop, Perry has been struggling since he lost his badge, and his marriage, in a notorious corruption scandal. So when wealthy Upper East Side matron Julia Drusilla calls him one cold February night, he jumps at the chance to work what seems to be a straightforward (and lucrative) case. Julia needs Perry to track down the whereabouts of her beautiful yet aimless daughter, Angelina, who is about to become a very wealthy young heiress.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth
- By Mel on 10-09-13
By: Lee Child, and others
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Empire Falls
- By: Richard Russo
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty
- Length: 20 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,382
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,229
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,228
Dexter County, Maine, and specifically the town of Empire Falls, has seen better days, and for decades, in fact, only a succession from bad to worse. One by one, its logging and textile enterprises have gone belly-up, and the once vast holdings of the Whiting clan (presided over by the last scion’s widow) now mostly amount to decrepit real estate. The working classes, meanwhile, continue to eke out whatever meager promise isn’t already boarded up. Miles Roby gazes over this ruined kingdom from the Empire Grill, an opportunity of his youth that has become the albatross of his life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hugely Enjoyable
- By margaret on 01-23-12
By: Richard Russo
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Safe Enough
- And Other Stories
- By: Lee Child
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 80
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 80
For the past twenty years, Lee Child has been one of the bestselling authors in the world, thanks to the popularity of his iconic and instantly recognizable hero Jack Reacher. But even at the height of Reacher's fame, Child's short story writing was not confined to the series; throughout the course of his career, he published tales about a range of characters on both sides of the law, including assassins, a body guard, CIA and FBI agents, gangsters, and more.
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4 out of 5 stars
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nice 5 hours for the most part
- By DougC on 09-06-24
By: Lee Child
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Eleven Numbers
- A Short Story
- By: Lee Child
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 537
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 508
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 508
Nathan Tyler is an unassuming professor at a middling American university with a rather obscure specialty in mathematics—in short, a nobody from nowhere. So why is the White House calling? Summoned to Washington, DC, for a top-secret briefing, Nathan discovers that he’s the key to a massive foreign intelligence breakthrough. Reading between the lines of a cryptic series of equations, he could open a door straight into the heart of the Kremlin and change the global balance of power forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- By Or on 02-02-25
By: Lee Child
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The Twisted Women's Book Club
- By: Karin Slaughter, Lee Child, B.A. Paris, and others
- Narrated by: January LaVoy, Andi Arndt, Saskia Maarleveld, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,541
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,503
Dr. Margaret Richter has it all. She’s rich, thanks to her best-selling self-help books. She has a beautiful home in Cape Cod overlooking the beach. And she has a monthly book club that everyone is dying to get invited to. Literally. Because behind the crystal wine glasses, the fine linens and the catered hors d'oeuvres lies a tangled web of secrets, of deceit, of murder. No member of the book club is innocent—and many are guilty. And the person with the most to hide is Margaret Richter herself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great after understanding the premise!
- By Kat on 04-14-25
By: Karin Slaughter, and others
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- Robert Moses
- 10-13-23
Fantastic
Varied and thoughtful and well told, after reading it occurs to me that I am America and I am not alone.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-14-21
Fantastic!!! So moving.
This book has me be more comforted that such artists were so moved to reveal some of my confused and upset thoughts and feelings. Every American should listen to it. I appreciate America even more. Thank you for making this svailsble!❤️
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