Southern Essays

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    • True Stories from the Heart of the South
    • By: Rick Bragg
    • Narrated by: Rick Bragg
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,349 ratings
    • Keenly observed and written with his insightful and deadpan sense of humor, Bragg explores enduring Southern truths....

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    • Essays
    • By: Helen Ellis
    • Narrated by: Helen Ellis
    • Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 230 ratings
    • The best-selling author of American Housewife is back with a fiercely funny collection of essays on marriage and manners, thank-you notes and three-ways, ghosts, gunshots, gynecology, and the Calgon-scented, onion-dipped, monogrammed art of living as a Southern lady....

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    • From a Notebook
    • By: Joan Didion
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Nathaniel Rich
    • Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard dialogue, observations, interviews, drafts of essays and articles—and here is one such draft that traces a road trip she took with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, in June 1970, through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama....

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    • Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South
    • By: Kami Ahrens
    • Narrated by: Reyna Star
    • Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Pulled from the vast Foxfire archive come twenty-one oral histories from southern Appalachian women. These remarkable narratives illuminate a diverse regional culture held together by the threads that are woven between women and place, and through generations....

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    • Stories from the Deep South
    • By: Rick Bragg
    • Narrated by: Rick Bragg
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 501 ratings
    • Celebrated author and newspaper columnist Rick Bragg brings us an ode to the stories and history of the Deep South, filled with “eclectic nuggets about places and people he knows well” (USA Today) and written with honesty, wit, and deep affection....

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    • Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South
    • By: Margaret Renkl
    • Narrated by: Joyce Bean
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • For the past four years, Margaret Renkl’s columns have offered readers of The New York Times a weekly dose of natural beauty, human decency, and persistent hope from her home in Nashville. Now more than sixty of those pieces have been brought together in this collection....

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    • By: Joan Didion
    • Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
    • Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war....

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    • Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York
    • By: Elizabeth Passarella
    • Narrated by: Jill Blackwood
    • Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 138 ratings
    • In this sharp and slyly profound memoir, Elizabeth Passarella shares stories and upends stereotypes about Southerners, New Yorkers, and Christians, making a case that we are all flawed humans simply doing our best....

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    • Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature
    • By: Dorothy Allison
    • Narrated by: Julie McKay
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • From award-winning author Dorothy Allison comes a collection of critical essays about identity, gender politics, and queer theory, now with a new preface....

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    • Stories about Men for Father's Day
    • By: Daphne Simpkins
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-24
    • Language: English
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    • When my claustrophobic sister Julie Ann and her down-in-the-back husband Jody were trapped on a stalled elevator in a posh hotel, they were not ...

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    • A Few More Thoughts on Interesting People, Far-Flung Places, and the Joys of Southern Comforts
    • By: Julia Reed, Everett Bexley - editor
    • Narrated by: Carol Monda
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Dispatches from the Gilded Age is a collection of essays by Julia Reed, one of America’s greatest chroniclers....

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    • Volume 1: Strange True Tales from the American Southwest
    • By: Ken Layne
    • Narrated by: Ken Layne
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • The cult-y field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert....

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    • Dispatches from Up South (Unabridged Selections)
    • By: Roy Blount Jr.
    • Narrated by: Roy Blount Jr.
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-07
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Here's a sly, dry, hilarious collection of essays, Blount's first in more than 10 years....

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    • LGBTQ Tales of North Carolina
    • By: Wilton Barnhardt - edited by
    • Narrated by: Brad Sanders, Jed Drummond, Holly Warren
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Some of North Carolina's finest fiction and nonfiction writers come together in Every True Pleasure, including David Sedaris, Kelly Link, Allan Gurganus, Randall Kenan, and more. Every True Pleasure speaks with insight and compassion about living LGBTQ in North Carolina....

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    • Ursine Essays from the Mountain South
    • By: Jeff Mann
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Young
    • Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Jeff Mann writes of the passion and pain of being a Southern gentleman invested in many worlds: the hungers of gay bear culture, the frustrations of academia....

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    • By: Joan Didion
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From one of the most important chroniclers of our time come two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks....

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