• The Auburn Conference

  • A Novel
  • By: Tom Piazza
  • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
  • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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The Auburn Conference

By: Tom Piazza
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
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It is 1883, and America is at a crossroads. At a tiny college in upstate New York, an idealistic young professor has managed to convince Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Confederate memoirist Forrest Taylor, and romance novelist Lucy Comstock to participate in the first (and last) Auburn Writers’ Conference for a public discussion about the future of the nation. By turns brilliantly comic and startlingly prescient, The Auburn Conference vibrates with questions as alive and urgent today as they were in 1883—the chronic American conundrums of race, class, and gender, and the fate of the democratic ideal.

©2023 Tom Piazza (P)2023 Blackstone Publishing

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Very clever! Loved the discourse amongst 19th century American writers.

The greatest writers of 19th century America are brought to life at a writer’s conference organized by a young and naive academic. It’s fun and thought provoking. Enjoyed the narrator’s voices for each character.

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Boring

The listen was boring. I didn't want to finish but I had to for my book club.

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