The Sportswriter
The Best Fiction Podcasts for Listeners Who Love a Good Story
You can’t beat a good story. Luckily, humans are great at storytelling, and the best fiction podcasts are all the proof that the modern listener requires. Get the popcorn ready; it’s storytime.
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Independence Day
- Frank Bascombe, Book 2
- Written by: Richard Ford
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance4
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Pulitzer Prize Winner, Fiction 1996 Hailed as a major American novel, Independence Day is a relentlessly thoughtful, heart-wrenching, yet hilarious portrait of an ordinary American man. Wickedly realistic details and dialog entice you to see modern life filtered through the first-person...
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Independence Day
- Frank Bascombe, Book 2
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Series: Bascombe Trilogy, Book 2
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2008-10-31
- Language: English
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$29.13 or free with 30-day trial
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The Sportswriter
- Frank Bascombe, Book 1
- Written by: Richard Ford
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance6
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Story6
In this “powerful” blockbuster of a novel (The New York Times), the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day introduces his most beloved character, failed novelist turned sportswriter Frank Bascombe, during an Easter weekend, as he moves through the great losses of his life. As a...
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The Sportswriter
- Frank Bascombe, Book 1
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Series: Bascombe Trilogy, Book 1
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2008-03-20
- Language: English
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$22.93 or free with 30-day trial
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Sorry For Your Trouble
- Stories
- Written by: Richard Ford
- Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance3
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A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit and candor! In Sorry for Your Trouble, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Richard Ford enacts a stunning meditation on memory, love and loss...
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Sorry For Your Trouble
- Stories
- Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 2020-05-12
- Language: English
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$31.52 or free with 30-day trial
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The Lay of the Land
- Written by: Richard Ford
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 24 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance0
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BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with the author. With The Sportswriter, in 1985, Richard Ford began a cycle of novels that ten years later – after Independence Day won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award – was hailed by The Times of London as “an extraordinary epic [that]...
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The Lay of the Land
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Series: Bascombe Trilogy, Book 3
- Length: 24 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2006-10-24
- Language: English
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$36.31 or free with 30-day trial
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Selected Shorts
- The William Hurt Collection
- Written by: Tobias Wolff, Ron Carlson, Richard Ford, and others
- Narrated by: William Hurt
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance1
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A collection of poignant, romantic and funny tales performed by Academy Award -winning actor William Hurt....
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Selected Shorts
- The William Hurt Collection
- Narrated by: William Hurt
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 2009-02-24
- Language: English
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$10.82 or free with 30-day trial
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Rock Springs
- Stories
- Written by: Richard Ford
- Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In these 10 exquisite stories, Richard Ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West....
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Rock Springs
- Stories
- Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2014-12-19
- Language: English
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$19.93 or free with 30-day trial
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Canada
- Written by: Richard Ford
- Narrated by: Thibault de Montalembert
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Great Falls, Montana, 1960. Dell Parsons a 15 ans lorsque ses parents braquent une banque, avec le fol espoir de rembourser un créancier menaçant...
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Canada
- Narrated by: Thibault de Montalembert
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 2014-03-27
- Language: French
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$22.85 or free with 30-day trial
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Thalia Book Club: Richard Ford's 'The Sportswriter', 'Independence Day', and 'The Lay of the Land'
- Written by: Richard Ford
- Narrated by: Isaiah Sheffer, David Strathairn
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Original Recording
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author talks candidly about his celebrated trilogy of novels....
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Thalia Book Club: Richard Ford's 'The Sportswriter', 'Independence Day', and 'The Lay of the Land'
- Narrated by: Isaiah Sheffer, David Strathairn
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Release date: 2008-02-27
- Language: English
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$8.23 or free with 30-day trial
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Valentinstag
- Written by: Richard Ford
- Narrated by: Christian Brückner
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Richard Fords berühmteste Figur, Frank Bascombe, ist zurück. Und nun, mit 74, wird seine unangefochtene Meisterschaft, auf lässige Weise...
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Valentinstag
- Narrated by: Christian Brückner
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2023-08-30
- Language: German
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$22.50 or free with 30-day trial
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Zwischen ihnen
- Written by: Richard Ford
- Narrated by: Christian Brückner
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Mit siebzehn Jahren verliebt sich Edna Akin aus Arkansas, in Parker Ford, einen Jungen vom Land mit den durchscheinend hellblauen Fordaugen...
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Zwischen ihnen
- Narrated by: Christian Brückner
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2018-03-16
- Language: German
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$14.50 or free with 30-day trial
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Kanada
- Written by: Richard Ford
- Narrated by: Christian Brückner
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Abridged
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Illegaler Handel,ein Banküberfall, drei Morde und ein Junge in de Welt der Erwachsenen, in der es keine Unschuldigen gibt....
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Kanada
- Narrated by: Christian Brückner
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 2013-06-07
- Language: German
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$20.41 or free with 30-day trial
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Irische Passagiere
- Written by: Richard Ford
- Narrated by: Christian Brückner
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Die Menschen, von denen Richard Ford in Irische Passagiere erzählt, haben oft knapp die falsche Abzweigung im Leben genommen, oder einfach...
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Irische Passagiere
- Narrated by: Christian Brückner
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2020-09-21
- Language: German
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$20.90 or free with 30-day trial
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