Memoir Essays

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    • How to Make Memories into Memoirs, Ideas into Essays and Life into Literature
    • By: Bill Roorbach
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • From drawing a map of a remembered neighborhood to signing a form releasing yourself to take risks in your work, Roorbach offers innovative techniques that will trigger ideas for all writers....

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    • By: John Muir
    • Narrated by: Steven Brand
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 138 ratings
    • Part of John Muir's appeal to modern audiences is that he not only explored the American West and wrote about its beauties but also fought for their preservation. Here collected are some of Muir's finest wilderness essays, ranging in subject matter from Alaska to Yellowstone and more....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Joan Didion
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 668 ratings
    • From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter....

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    • By: Joan Didion
    • Length: 5 hrs
    • Release date: 04-22-25
    • Language: English
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    • An extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights

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    • Essays 2003-2020
    • By: Salman Rushdie
    • Narrated by: Raj Ghatak, Salman Rushdie
    • Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Salman Rushdie, in his latest collection of nonfiction, he brings together insightful and inspiring essays, criticism, and speeches that focus on his relationship with the written word and solidify his place as one of the most original thinkers of our time....

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    • An Essay Collection
    • By: Joan Didion
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Hilton Als
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 165 ratings
    • From one of our most iconic and influential writers comes a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt....

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    • Essays
    • By: R. Eric Thomas
    • Narrated by: R. Eric Thomas
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • After going viral “reading” the chaotic political news, having one-too-many awkward social encounters, and coming to terms with his intersecting identities, R. Eric Thomas finally knew who he was and where he was going. He was living his best life....

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    • Essays
    • By: Alexander Chee
    • Narrated by: Daniel K. Isaac
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 303 ratings
    • How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author's manifesto on the entangling of life, literature, and politics, and how the lessons learned from a life spent reading and writing fiction have changed him....

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    • 'Mark Foo's Last Ride,' 'After the Fall,' and Other Essays from the Vault
    • By: Jon Krakauer
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 354 ratings
    • Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these ten gripping essays show why Jon Krakauer is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Etgar Keret
    • Narrated by: Alex Karpovsky
    • Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret’s son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in the midst of a terrorist attack. Etgar’s father gets cancer. The threat of constant war looms over their home....

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    • Peter Dutton’s Strongman Politics
    • By: Lech Blaine
    • Narrated by: Angus McGruther
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • In Bad Cop, Lech Blaine traces the making of a hardman – from Queensland detective to leader of the Opposition, from property investor to minister for Home Affairs. This is a story of ambition, race and power, and a politician with a plan.

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    • By: Virginia Woolf
    • Narrated by: Prunella Scales
    • Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • One of the most famous of all literary dogs, Flush was the golden cocker spaniel belonging to Elizabeth Barrett....

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    • And Other Essays
    • By: Natalie Beach
    • Narrated by: Natalie Beach
    • Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • From the writer whose New York Magazine piece "I Was Caroline Calloway" broke the internet, comes a fresh, incisive, laugh-out-loud funny memoir-in-essays about the frenzied journey to adulthood....

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    • Essays on Pop Culture
    • By: Grace Perry
    • Narrated by: Grace Perry
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • From The Onion and Reductress contributor, this collection of essays is a hilarious nostalgic trip through beloved 2000s media, interweaving cultural criticism and personal narrative to examine how a very straight decade forged a very queer woman....

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    • Letters (2008–2011)
    • By: Paul Auster, J. M. Coetzee
    • Narrated by: Paul Auster, J. M. Coetzee
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 03-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee had been reading each other’s books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008....

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    • By: Sarah Manguso
    • Narrated by: Sarah Manguso
    • Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • A brilliant and exhilarating sequence of aphorisms from one of our greatest essayists....

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    • Collected Writings
    • By: Jack Kerouac, Charles Shuttleworth - editor, Paul Maher Jr. - editor
    • Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
    • Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • This collection of previously unpublished writing culled from the Jack 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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    • By: George Orwell
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 260 ratings
    • Viewed as too libelous to print in England until 1968, the title essay in this collection reveals the abuse Orwell experienced as a child at an expensive and snobbish boarding school....

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