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Best Sellers
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Y en n'aura pas de miracle!
- Written by: Geneviève Gagnon
- Narrated by: Geneviève Gagnon
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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L'ouvrage présente 52 chroniques humoristiques pour arrêter de se trouver des excuses, pour garder sa motivation et pour mettre de côté ses complexes, même si on a les bras mous et les cuisses dépendantes affectives.
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satisfactions
- By Line Bondu on 2021-01-23
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Calypso
- Written by: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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With Calypso, Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation - and humor - toward middle age and mortality....
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Great Narration
- By designaholic on 2019-01-16
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Happy-Go-Lucky
- Written by: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about these recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all....
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disappointed
- By Thought this would be a brilliant efficient time saver, but after a few uses found it more frustrating than helpful, and just went back to handwashing brushes on 2023-01-06
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What the Dog Saw
- And Other Adventures
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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The best-selling author of The Bomber Mafia focuses on "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the ways all of us organize experience in this "delightful" (Bloomberg News) collection of writings from The New Yorker....
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Light but Compelling
- By GTHA001 on 2018-09-18
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The Best of Me
- Written by: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
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David Sedaris’s best stories and essays, spanning his remarkable career - as selected and read by the author himself. Featuring fresh and classic recordings, including a new essay and an interview exclusive to the audiobook....
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Be Careful
- By Q on 2022-06-13
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The Inconvenient Indian
- A Curious Account of Native People in North America
- Written by: Thomas King
- Narrated by: Lorne Cardinal
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history - in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America....
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Angry, embarrassed, disgusted, horrified, nauseous, scared and so so sad, but hopeful and now informed.
- By Shantelle Lamouche on 2021-01-18
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Y en n'aura pas de miracle!
- Written by: Geneviève Gagnon
- Narrated by: Geneviève Gagnon
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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L'ouvrage présente 52 chroniques humoristiques pour arrêter de se trouver des excuses, pour garder sa motivation et pour mettre de côté ses complexes, même si on a les bras mous et les cuisses dépendantes affectives.
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satisfactions
- By Line Bondu on 2021-01-23
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Calypso
- Written by: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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With Calypso, Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation - and humor - toward middle age and mortality....
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Great Narration
- By designaholic on 2019-01-16
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Happy-Go-Lucky
- Written by: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about these recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all....
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disappointed
- By Thought this would be a brilliant efficient time saver, but after a few uses found it more frustrating than helpful, and just went back to handwashing brushes on 2023-01-06
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What the Dog Saw
- And Other Adventures
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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The best-selling author of The Bomber Mafia focuses on "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the ways all of us organize experience in this "delightful" (Bloomberg News) collection of writings from The New Yorker....
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Light but Compelling
- By GTHA001 on 2018-09-18
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The Best of Me
- Written by: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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David Sedaris’s best stories and essays, spanning his remarkable career - as selected and read by the author himself. Featuring fresh and classic recordings, including a new essay and an interview exclusive to the audiobook....
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Be Careful
- By Q on 2022-06-13
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The Inconvenient Indian
- A Curious Account of Native People in North America
- Written by: Thomas King
- Narrated by: Lorne Cardinal
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history - in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America....
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Angry, embarrassed, disgusted, horrified, nauseous, scared and so so sad, but hopeful and now informed.
- By Shantelle Lamouche on 2021-01-18
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
- Unabridged Selections
- Written by: Alice Wong
- Narrated by: Alejandra Ospina, Alice Wong
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent - but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture....
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Missing the First Essay
- By Anonymous User on 2021-01-25
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The Myth of Sisyphus
- Written by: Albert Camus
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought....
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requires further reading
- By Anonymous User on 2019-08-19
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Love That Story
- Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life
- Written by: Jonathan Van Ness
- Narrated by: Jonathan Van Ness
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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The Emmy-nominated host of Netflix’s Queer Eye follows up his New York Times-bestselling memoir, Over The Top, with this collection of thought-provoking essays on grief and healing....
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Not for Queer Christians
- By J. Messere on 2022-05-08
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Dad Is Fat
- Written by: Jim Gaffigan
- Narrated by: Jim Gaffigan
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
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In Dad is Fat, stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, who’s best known for his legendary riffs on Hot Pockets, bacon, manatees, and McDonald's, expresses all the joys and horrors of life with five young children....
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Meh.
- By Billy on 2019-01-09
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The Rebel
- Written by: Albert Camus
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is an essay on revolution. As old regimes throughout the world collapse, this classic resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times....
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Not the best of Camus
- By Reza on 2019-12-21
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The Anthropocene Reviewed
- Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
- Written by: John Green
- Narrated by: John Green
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Number-one best-selling author John Green presents a deeply moving and insightful collection of personal essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast....
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Anthropocene Reviewed, Reviewed.
- By Josh Ruberg on 2021-06-03
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Aime-toi, un pas à la fois!
- Written by: Geneviève Gagnon
- Narrated by: Geneviève Gagnon
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Cet ouvrage présente 52 chroniques humoristiques pour trouver sa motivation et la garder tout au long du parcours vers une meilleure santé. Finis les complexes et les excuses! C’est maintenant qu’on s’prend en main....
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Motivation +++
- By Anonymous User on 2021-05-06
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This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
- Written by: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Ann Patchett
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder and Bel Canto examines her deepest commitments: to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband....
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Die Welt von Gestern
- Erinnerungen eines Europäers
- Written by: Stefan Zweig
- Narrated by: Peter Vilnai
- Length: 17 hrs and 34 mins
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Mit den Erinnerungen eines Europäers hat Stefan Zweig seine persönliche, zugleich eine der besten Analysen der Jahrzehnte...
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Trick Mirror
- Reflections on Self-Delusion
- Written by: Jia Tolentino
- Narrated by: Jia Tolentino
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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Jia Tolentino is a peerless voice of her generation, tackling the conflicts, contradictions, and sea changes that define us and our time....
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Reflection on the book
- By Rov on 2021-02-08
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Little Weirds
- Written by: Jenny Slate
- Narrated by: Jenny Slate
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
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You may "know" Jenny Slate from her Netflix special, Stage Fright, as the creator of Marcel the Shell, or as the star of Obvious Child. But you don't really know Jenny Slate until you get bonked on the head by her absolutely singular writing style....
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little hopes
- By sacha ouellet on 2020-05-13
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Your Song Changed My Life
- From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It
- Written by: Bob Boilen
- Narrated by: Bob Boilen
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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From the beloved host and creator of NPR's All Songs Considered and Tiny Desk Concerts comes an essential oral history of modern music, told in the voices of iconic and up-and-coming musicians....
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Inciting Joy
- Essays
- Written by: Ross Gay
- Narrated by: Ross Gay
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In these gorgeously written and timely pieces, prize-winning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, especially during life’s inevitable hardships....
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Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
- Written by: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 28 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Arguably offers an indispensable key to understanding the passionate and skeptical spirit of one of our most dazzling writers....
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Read anything written by Christopher Hitchens
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-09-19
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Managing Expectations
- A Memoir in Essays
- Written by: Minnie Driver
- Narrated by: Minnie Driver
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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In this intimate, beautifully crafted collection, Driver writes and narrates with disarming charm and candor about her bohemian upbringing between England and Barbados; her post-university travails and triumphs....
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Outstanding
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-05-30
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These Precious Days
- Essays
- Written by: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Ann Patchett
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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“Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart....
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J'ai adoré
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-09-24
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Letters to a Young Contrarian
- Written by: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men, and dissidents....
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Hijab Butch Blues
- A Memoir
- Written by: Lamya H
- Narrated by: Ashraf Shirazi
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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When fourteen-year-old Lamya H realizes she has a crush on her teacher—her female teacher—she covers up her attraction, an attraction she can’t yet name, by playing up her roles as overachiever and class clown....
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Cheffe d'oeuvre
- By Gaby Gagné on 2023-08-20
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Dear Dolly
- Collected Wisdom
- Written by: Dolly Alderton
- Narrated by: Dolly Alderton
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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For years, New York Times bestselling author Dolly Alderton has been sharing her wisdom, warmth, and wit with the diverse universe of fans who have turned to her “Dear Dolly” column seeking guidance on a host of life problems....
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Mean Boys
- A Personal History
- Written by: Geoffrey Mak
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Mak
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Fusing personal essay and cultural critique, Mean Boys investigates exile and return, transgression and forgiveness, and the value of faith, empathy, and friendship in a world designed to make us want what is bad for us.
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Intelligence for Dummies
- Essays and Other Collected Writings
- Written by: Glenn O'Brien
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Intelligence for Dummies is a portrait of a keen social observer at the center of the last 50 years of cultural life, captured through a vivid selection of O’Brien’s own writings on music to fashion to downtown art and, just as importantly and unexpectedly, the political temperature of America....
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023
- Written by: Carl Zimmer, Jaime Green
- Narrated by: Katharine Chin, Shahjehan Khan, Nikki Massoud, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2022....
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The Fire Next Time
- Written by: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....
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I had to listen to it a few times
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-09-24
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The Friedrich Nietzsche Collection
- Written by: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Ellis Freeman
- Length: 51 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) has influenced philosophers such as Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Oswald Spengler, George Grant, Emil Cioran, Albert Camus, Ayn Rand, Jacques Derrida, Leo Strauss, Max Scheler, Michel Foucault, and Bernard Williams....
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Arbitrary selections, not the complete books
- By Lord Ba on 2023-06-13
New Releases
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Magical/Realism
- Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
- Written by: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
- Narrated by: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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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.
Written by: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
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The Art of Dying
- Writings, 2019-2022
- Written by: Peter Schjeldahl, Steve Martin - foreword by, Jarrett Earnest - introduction by
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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When Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker’s art critic and the leading art writer of his generation, published his eye-opening autobiographical essay, “The Art of Dying,” in December 2019, he reported that he had lung cancer and had been given six months of life. Fortunately, his treatment was showing some improvement, and so, he wrote, “These extra months are a luxury that I hope to have put to good use.”
Written by: Peter Schjeldahl, and others
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Small Victories
- Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace
- Written by: Anne Lamott
- Narrated by: Anne Lamott
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays that are both wise and irreverent. It's an approach that has become her trademark. Now in Small Victories, Lamott offers a new message of hope that celebrates the triumph of light over the darkness in our lives. Our victories over hardship and pain may seem small, she writes, but they change us--our perceptions, our perspectives, and our lives.
Written by: Anne Lamott
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Mean Boys
- A Personal History
- Written by: Geoffrey Mak
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Mak
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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In this pyrotechnic memoir-in-essays, Mak ranges widely over our landscape of paranoia, crisis, and frenetic, clickable consumption. He grants listeners an inside pass to the spaces where culture was made and unmade over the past decade, from the antiseptic glare of white-walled galleries to the darkest corners of Berlin techno clubs. As the gay son of an evangelical minister, Mak fled to those spaces, hoping to join a global, influential elite. But when calamity struck, it forced Mak to confront the costs of mistaking status for belonging.
Written by: Geoffrey Mak
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Bite by Bite
- Nourishments and Jamborees
- Written by: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Narrated by: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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In Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the way food and drink evoke our associations and remembrances—a subtext or layering, a flavor tinged with joy, shame, exuberance, grief, desire, or nostalgia. Nezhukmatathil restores our astonishment and wonder about food through her encounters with a range of foods and food traditions. From shave ice to lumpia, mangoes to pecans, rambutan to vanilla, she investigates how food marks our experiences and identities and explores the boundaries between heritage and memory.
Written by: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
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Excitable Boy
- Essays on Risk
- Written by: Dominic Gordon
- Narrated by: Dominic Gordon, Kyle Walmsley
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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What happens to the adolescent spirit when all vestiges of innocence about the world are foregone, replaced within the grinding sounds of concrete and metal of the CBD of Melbourne? A place where train tunnels become nesting sites, carpark stairwells spots to refuel on methamphetamine and hide from predators; where agility leads you across nightclub rooftops, yielding cash in tight spaces with a quick reflex. For a rest, why not ride on the back of a train as it speeds through the night? The dangers of a decades-long exploration of risk in the streets of his city is exhilarating.
Written by: Dominic Gordon
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Magical/Realism
- Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
- Written by: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
- Narrated by: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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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.
Written by: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
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The Art of Dying
- Writings, 2019-2022
- Written by: Peter Schjeldahl, Steve Martin - foreword by, Jarrett Earnest - introduction by
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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When Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker’s art critic and the leading art writer of his generation, published his eye-opening autobiographical essay, “The Art of Dying,” in December 2019, he reported that he had lung cancer and had been given six months of life. Fortunately, his treatment was showing some improvement, and so, he wrote, “These extra months are a luxury that I hope to have put to good use.”
Written by: Peter Schjeldahl, and others
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Small Victories
- Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace
- Written by: Anne Lamott
- Narrated by: Anne Lamott
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays that are both wise and irreverent. It's an approach that has become her trademark. Now in Small Victories, Lamott offers a new message of hope that celebrates the triumph of light over the darkness in our lives. Our victories over hardship and pain may seem small, she writes, but they change us--our perceptions, our perspectives, and our lives.
Written by: Anne Lamott
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Mean Boys
- A Personal History
- Written by: Geoffrey Mak
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Mak
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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In this pyrotechnic memoir-in-essays, Mak ranges widely over our landscape of paranoia, crisis, and frenetic, clickable consumption. He grants listeners an inside pass to the spaces where culture was made and unmade over the past decade, from the antiseptic glare of white-walled galleries to the darkest corners of Berlin techno clubs. As the gay son of an evangelical minister, Mak fled to those spaces, hoping to join a global, influential elite. But when calamity struck, it forced Mak to confront the costs of mistaking status for belonging.
Written by: Geoffrey Mak
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Bite by Bite
- Nourishments and Jamborees
- Written by: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Narrated by: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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In Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the way food and drink evoke our associations and remembrances—a subtext or layering, a flavor tinged with joy, shame, exuberance, grief, desire, or nostalgia. Nezhukmatathil restores our astonishment and wonder about food through her encounters with a range of foods and food traditions. From shave ice to lumpia, mangoes to pecans, rambutan to vanilla, she investigates how food marks our experiences and identities and explores the boundaries between heritage and memory.
Written by: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
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Excitable Boy
- Essays on Risk
- Written by: Dominic Gordon
- Narrated by: Dominic Gordon, Kyle Walmsley
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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What happens to the adolescent spirit when all vestiges of innocence about the world are foregone, replaced within the grinding sounds of concrete and metal of the CBD of Melbourne? A place where train tunnels become nesting sites, carpark stairwells spots to refuel on methamphetamine and hide from predators; where agility leads you across nightclub rooftops, yielding cash in tight spaces with a quick reflex. For a rest, why not ride on the back of a train as it speeds through the night? The dangers of a decades-long exploration of risk in the streets of his city is exhilarating.
Written by: Dominic Gordon
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Like Love
- Essays and Conversations
- Written by: Maggie Nelson
- Narrated by: Senn Annis
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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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. The range of subjects is wide—from Prince to Carolee Schneemann to Matthew Barney to Lhasa de Sela to Kara Walker—but certain themes recur.
Written by: Maggie Nelson
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This Part Is Silent
- A Life Between Cultures
- Written by: SJ Kim
- Narrated by: Hannah Choi
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Embracing the possibilities and impossibilities of language, Kim rejoices in the similes of Korean, her mother tongue, and draws inspiration from K-dramas and writers across cultures who sustain her. As borders close in and nations enter lockdown, the journey that Kim traces is fraught-and at once illuminates that the act of remaining present has its own power, allowing boundless hope.
Written by: SJ Kim
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Familiarity Breeds Content
- New and Selected Essays
- Written by: Joseph Epstein
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 14 hrs
- Unabridged
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America’s greatest living essayist writes about life and aging and being all too nicely out of it. In these personal pieces, he takes on topics as varied as grieving for a dead son, learning Latin late in life, and the pleasures of living with cats. Epstein gives us a “bonfire of his own vanities,” his thoughts about why watching sports is so impossibly seductive, what it is like to be short, and why he misses smoking even decades as a health-obsessed non-smoker.
Written by: Joseph Epstein
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Ghost Dogs
- On Killers and Kin
- Written by: Andre Dubus III
- Narrated by: Andre Dubus III
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In Ghost Dogs, Dubus’s nonfiction prowess is on full display in his retelling of his own successes, failures, triumphs, and pain. In his longest essay, “If I Owned a Gun,” Dubus reflects on the empowerment and shame he felt in keeping a gun, and his decision, ultimately, to give it up. Elsewhere, he writes of a violent youth and of settled domesticity and fatherhood, about the omnipresent expectations and contradictions of masculinity, about the things writers remember and those they forget.
Written by: Andre Dubus III
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Transient and Strange
- Notes on the Science of Life
- Written by: Nell Greenfieldboyce
- Narrated by: Nell Greenfieldboyce
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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A beautiful blend of explanatory science, original reporting, and personal experience, Transient and Strange captures the ache of ordinary life, offering resonant insights into both the world around us and the worlds within us.
Written by: Nell Greenfieldboyce
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Duplex
- Written by: Mike Nagel
- Narrated by: Tim Heidecker
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Mike Nagel is spending too much time in his duplex. Mostly he’s hungover. There's a squirrel in the attic, the ceiling’s caving in, and he’s not sure who to call about it. Not much else seems to happen in Mike Nagel’s Duplex, except of course everything happens there: a distinct mind is constantly working over the absurdity, meaninglessness, and mundanity of contemporary life.
Written by: Mike Nagel