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All Things Are Too Small
- Essays in Praise of Excess
- Written by: Becca Rothfeld
- Narrated by: Ruth Crawford
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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All Things Are Too Small is brilliant cultural and literary critic Becca Rothfeld’s plea for derangement: imbalance, obsession, gluttony, and ravishment in all domains of life, from literature to romance. In a healthy culture, Rothfeld argues, economic security allows for wild aesthetic experimentation and excess, yet in our contemporary world, we’ve got it flipped. The gap between rich and poor yawns hideously wide, while we compensate with misguided attempts to effect equality in love and art, where it does not belong.
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All Things Are Too Small
- Essays in Praise of Excess
- Narrated by: Ruth Crawford
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 2024-05-28
- Language: English
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Über die Pflicht zum Ungehorsam gegen den Staat / Walden - Reflexionen über Konsumverweigerung und ökologische und ausgewogene Lebensführung
- Written by: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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Zwei Werke von Henry David Thoreau: Im Jahr 1849 schrieb er seinen weltberühmten Essay über die Pflicht zum Ungehorsam gegen den Staat. In diesem stellte er sich außerhalb einer Gesellschaft, die, obwohl auf den Prinzipien der Freiheit und Gleichheit aller gegründet, nicht in der Lage war, die Sklaverei abzuschaffen. Ungekürzte Lesung (Tracks 1 - 14). Fünf Jahre später folgte Walden oder Das Leben in den Wäldern - seit langem DAS Buch für Aussteiger, Frugalisten, Konsumverweigerer - oder auch ganz einfach nur Naturliebhaber.
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Über die Pflicht zum Ungehorsam gegen den Staat / Walden - Reflexionen über Konsumverweigerung und ökologische und ausgewogene Lebensführung
- Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2024-04-30
- Language: German
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Being (Sick) Enough
- Thoughts on Invisible Illness, Childhood Trauma, and Living Well When Surviving Is Hard
- Written by: Jessica Graham
- Narrated by: Jessica Graham
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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Wise and embodied, fearless and necessary, Being (Sick) Enough is both a wild awakening and a love letter to your whole self: the pains and suffering, joys and brightness, and vital connections that hold each of us as we navigate what it means to be here, like this, right now.
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Being (Sick) Enough
- Thoughts on Invisible Illness, Childhood Trauma, and Living Well When Surviving Is Hard
- Narrated by: Jessica Graham
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2025-01-14
- Language: English
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Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften
- Written by: Walter Benjamin
- Narrated by: Sven Görtz
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
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Walter Benjamin (1892 - 1940), war vieles: Philosoph, Kulturkritiker, Übersetzer - aber auch ein Schriftsteller. Auf der Flucht vor den Nazis, die Frankreich besetzt hatten, nahm er sich an der spanischen Grenze das Leben. Sein Essay Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften beweist außerordentlich eindrucksvoll, dass eine an sich wissenschaftliche Analyse großer Literatur selbst große Literatur sein kann!
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Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften
- Narrated by: Sven Görtz
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2024-04-27
- Language: German
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Der neue Antisemitismus
- Written by: Jean Améry
- Narrated by: Axel Wostry, Beate Himmelstoß
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
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Jean Amérys Essays, die zwischen 1969 und 1976 geschrieben wurden, erschrecken geradezu durch ihre Aktualität. Sie lesen sich in ihrer Prägnanz, als wären sie für den heutigen Tag geschrieben. Ausgehend von seinem Judesein, das ihm von den Nürnberger Gesetzen aufgezwungen wurde, beschreibt Jean Améry seine existentielle Bindung an Israel, seine Solidarität ist jedoch nicht bedingungslos. Und doch ist für ihn Israel das Land, das allen entrechteten Juden der Welt den aufrechten Gang gelehrt hat.
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Der neue Antisemitismus
- Narrated by: Axel Wostry, Beate Himmelstoß
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2024-07-01
- Language: German
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I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying
- A Memoir
- Written by: Youngmi Mayer
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
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In I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying, Youngmi jokes through the retelling of her childhood as an offbeat biracial kid in Saipan, a place next to a place that Americans might know. She jokes through her difficult adolescence where she must parent her own parents: a mother who married her husband because he looked like white Jesus (and the singer of The Bee Gees). And with humor and irreverence and full-throated openness, she jokes even while sharing the story of what her family went through during the last century of colonialism and war in Korea.
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I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying
- A Memoir
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2024-11-12
- Language: English
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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 25 mins
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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.
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Magical/Realism
- Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
- Narrated by: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2024-05-14
- Language: English
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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
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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.
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Small Victories
- Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace
- Narrated by: Anne Lamott
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 2024-05-01
- Language: English
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Danse Macabre
- Written by: Stephen King
- Length: 18 hrs
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From the author of dozens of #1 New York Times bestsellers and the creator of many unforgettable movies comes a vivid, intelligent, and nostalgic journey through three decades of horror as experienced through the eyes of the most popular writer in the genre. In 1981, years before he sat down to tackle On Writing, Stephen King decided to address the topic of what makes horror horrifying and what makes terror terrifying. Here, in ten brilliantly written chapters, King delivers one colorful observation after another about the great stories, books, and films that comprise the horror genre.
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Danse Macabre
- Length: 18 hrs
- Release date: 2024-10-01
- Language: English
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The Uses of Literature
- Written by: Italo Calvino
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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In these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are challenged to understand the world. Calvino himself made the selection of pieces to be included in this volume.
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The Uses of Literature
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2024-06-04
- Language: English
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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
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- Written by: Kiese Laymon
- Length: 5 hrs
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Brilliant and uncompromising, piercing and funny, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is essential listening. This new edition of award-winning author Kiese Laymon’s first work of nonfiction looks inward, drawing heavily on the author and his family’s experiences, while simultaneously examining the world—Mississippi, the South, the United States—that has shaped their lives. With subjects that range from an interview with his mother to reflections on Ole Miss football, Outkast, and the labor of Black women, these insightful essays highlight Laymon’s profound love of language.
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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
- Essays
- Length: 5 hrs
- Release date: 2024-10-15
- Language: English
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The Language of the Night
- Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
- Written by: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan, Michael Crouch
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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The Language of the Night is Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-length collection of essays and criticism, with sections on her own background, on fantasy and science fiction, on writing, and on the future of literate science fiction. Each section is introduced with commentary by Susan Wood and the book contains a complete bibliography of Le Guin’s work (at the time of publication).
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The Language of the Night
- Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan, Michael Crouch
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2024-09-17
- Language: English
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Love
- Written by: Martin Luther King Jr.
- Length: 12 hrs
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A remarkable compilation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s reflections on love and its transformative power—a stellar addition to Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Love
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 2024-10-22
- Language: English
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Blue Pastures
- Written by: Mary Oliver
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
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With consummate craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has fashioned fifteen luminous prose pieces: on nature, writing, and herself and those around her. She praises Whitman, denounces cuteness, notes where to find the extraordinary, and extols solitude. Nature speaks to her and she speaks to nature.
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Blue Pastures
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2024-06-18
- Language: English
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024
- Written by: Bill McKibben, Jaime Green
- Length: 12 hrs
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Award-winning environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill McKibben selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in the previous year.
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 2024-10-22
- Language: English
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Anleitung zum Alleinsein
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- Written by: Jonathan Franzen, Eike Schönfeld - Übersetzer
- Narrated by: Sascha Rotermund
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
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15 Essays des gefeierten Autors von Die Korrekturen, Freiheit und Crossroads. Virtuos und pointiert setzt sich Jonathan Franzen mit dem Geist seiner Zeit auseinander und offenbart ganz persönliche Erfahrungen: In fünfzehn Essays ergründet er »die Schwierigkeit, in einer lärmenden und zerstreuenden Massenkultur Individualität und Vielschichtigkeit zu bewahren: die Frage, wie Alleinsein geht«. Gegen eine medial beschleunigte Welt und von Ideologien gefärbte Wahrnehmung setzt er die kreative Abgeschiedenheit, den genauen Blick, das Lesen.
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Anleitung zum Alleinsein
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- Narrated by: Sascha Rotermund
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2024-04-22
- Language: German
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60歳からは「自分ファースト」で生きる。
- Length: 5 hrs
- Release date: 2024-06-30
- Language: Japanese
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Schlafen
- Written by: Theresia Enzensberger
- Narrated by: Theresia Enzensberger
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
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Theresia Enzensberger kann nicht schlafen. Also schreibt sie ein Buch über den Schlaf und folgt dabei den verschiedenen Stadien, die wir in der Nacht durchleben. So beginnt sie in der zähneknirschenden Leichtschlafphase mit einem Essay über die Moralisierung von Schlaf, Traum als politische Metapher und die Folgen allgemeinen Schlafmangels. Fast unmerklich wird ihr Text in der Tiefschlafphase privater, innerlicher, und eröffnet uns eine intensivere, persönlichere Sicht auf die Welt, die Kunst, die Literatur.
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Schlafen
- Narrated by: Theresia Enzensberger
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2024-05-13
- Language: German
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The Devolution of Woman
- Written by: Rebecca Lucy Taylor
- Length: 10 hrs
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In her remarkable literary debut, Taylor (AKA Self Esteem) will explore the devolution of a woman. As Self Esteem, Rebecca Taylor has given voice to the feelings of insecurity and misogyny-induced frustration whilst emboldening a whole new audience with powerful, truth-telling lyricism. Her latest album 'Prioritise Pleasure' was voted the Guardian's top album of 2021. She has written the music for Prima Facie, Jodie Comer's theatre debut and music for Dolly Alderton's TV Adaptation for the BBC of Everything I Know About Love.
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The Devolution of Woman
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 2024-10-10
- Language: English
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