Résultats Éditeur "Audible Studios" dans Journalistes, rédacteurs et éditeurs

There is no doubt that Yolanda Saldívar pulled the trigger and killed Tejano superstar Selena Quintanilla Pérez on March 31, 1995. But does anyone know what really happened in room 158 of the Days Inn moments before the crime took place? María Celeste Arrarás has many answers, and her unrivaled coverage of the murder, trial, and aftermath made her the undisputed expert on the Selena case.

A moving and illuminating memoir about the life of world-famous author and historian Iris ChangIris Chang's best-selling book, The Rape of Nanking, forever changed the way we view the Second World War in Asia. It all began with a photo of a river choked with the bodies of hundreds of Chinese civilians that shock Iris to her core. Who were these people? Why had this happened and how could their story have been lost to history? She could not shake that image from her head.

Tim Hetherington (1970-2011) was one of the world’s most distinguished and dedicated photojournalists, whose career was tragically cut short when he died in a mortar blast while covering the Libyan Civil War. Tim won many awards for his war reporting, and was nominated for an Academy Award for the critically acclaimed documentary Restrepo. Hetherington’s dedication to his career led him time after time into war zones, and unlike some other journalists, he did not pack up after the story had broken.

Although Hortense Calisher's fiction often draws on autobiographical elements, Herself is a disciplined documentation of the award-winning author's life and work. She surveys the various decades and landscapes she has inhabited, mining her family's Jewish lineage, discussing her children, exploring her greatest artistic influences, and describing her work process in a brave and bold work of autobiography. Herself is a rich collage of essays, reviews, recollections, and observations that unite the writer and the person.

Full of unforgettable figures and an unrelenting spirit of adventure, Strange Stones is a far-ranging, thought-provoking collection of Peter Hessler’s best reportage - a dazzling display of the powerful storytelling, shrewd cultural insight, and warm sense of humor that are the trademarks of his work. Over the last decade, as a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of three books, Peter Hessler has lived in Asia and the United States, writing as both native and knowledgeable outsider in these two very different regions.

Shahan Mufti’s family history, which he can trace back 1,400 years to the inner circle of the prophet Muhammad, offers an enlightened perspective on the mystifying history of Pakistan. Mufti uses the stories of his ancestors, many of whom served as judges and jurists in Muslim sharia courts of South Asia for many centuries, to reveal the deepest roots - real and imagined - of Islamic civilization in Pakistan.

When three colleagues die violently during a single wartime election day in Central America, two female journalists, best friends, are hurled into a torrent of change in their personal and professional lives and in their relationship with each other. The author, bedeviled by stress and feelings of abandonment, hangs on by her fingernails to reporting while her dear friend "just can't take another picture of a dead body" and throws herself into teaching photography to children who live in a garbage dump.

Laura Kasinof studied Arabic in college and moved to Yemen a few years later - after a friend at a late-night party in Washington, DC, recommended the country as a good place to work as a freelance journalist. When she first moved to Sanaa in 2009, she was the only American reporter based in the country. She quickly fell in love with Yemen’s people and culture, in addition to finding herself the star of a local TV soap opera.

La edición del audio libro plenamente definitiva de una época en La Habana. Una sátira enmascarada con una memoria erótica. Ésta audio novela es un museo de mujeres, con el narrador de guía completando cada boceto, detallando cada dibujo, y exhibiendo cada cuadro carnal.

In this poignant book, the writer and investigative journalist Katharine Quarmby describes the 20-year search for her Iranian birth father and her own adoption history. She links this narrative to the wider story that she uncovered during her search - of the many missing Iranian military fathers, who disappeared after the Iranian Revolution, but who are still sought by so many Iranian love-children in Britain today. Her narrative is a meditation on the importance of both birth and adoptive families.

Vivimos un tiempo de profunda crisis de la credibilidad. En el malestar y la inestabilidad de nuestras sociedades late una gran desconfianza hacia las instituciones, los intelectuales, los decisores o los líderes de opinión. La prensa tradicional, sacudida por el intenso cambio tecnológico y la desintermediación en la producción de noticias, sufre también la sospecha del público, no siempre de forma injustificada.

Este es el relato de una reportera de guerra, Adriana Aristizábal, quien estuvo atrapada en la tormenta del conflicto y quien presenció a finales de los años noventa, el fuego cruzado entre guerrilleros de las Farc, paramilitares y las fuerzas armadas, época en la que se registró el punto más álgido del conflicto en Colombia.

Camila è piccola quando i genitori, borghesi alternativi, rompono le regole e decidono di abbandonare la vita normale per unirsi alla comunità di Osho, leader spirituale dell'amore libero e della ricerca della felicità individuale come fine supremo. Diventa così una figlia dei figli dei fiori, una bambina che cresce all'ombra degli ashram hippy, tra meditazioni, musica, danze, totale condivisione dei beni e continui spostamenti da una casa all'altra, dove ogni volta bisogna ricominciare tutto da capo.

Se un giornalista scopre una notizia, la scrive. Tutto il resto fotte niente. C'era un ragazzo che in Calabria decise di fare il giornalista. Lo scelse con lo stesso slancio di un missionario, di un suonatore d'organo, di uno studente di sanscrito. Seguendo una passione incapace di declinarla nell'interesse, di legarla a un salario, mappa la politica, taccia le 'ndrine, ausculta il cuore pieno di aritmie della sua terra.

One of America's best-known rock and entertainment journalists describes his journey from his childhood, cooped up in the "rice room" of his family's restaurant in Oakland's Chinatown, where he did chores, to the major role he played as a writer and editor at Rolling Stone. It is a story of teen worship of Elvis, but also of Chinese customs and the tragic murder of his brother, and of the '60s scene in San Francisco, where he found freedom - and his career.

Tom Wolfe comandó una generación de escritores dispuestos a dinamitar las convenciones de la sociedad tradicional. Estaban allí para contarnos cosas de nosotros mismos de un modo hasta entonces inaudito. Se convirtieron en nuestros sabios orientadores, nuestros heraldos, incluso en nuestra conciencia moral: eran los nuevos periodistas.

Years ago, Steve Hannah’s chance detour through the Midwest cut short a planned cross-country trip. He found himself in Wisconsin, a distinctly different place from the East Coast, where he was born and raised. Charmingly beautiful and full of welcoming people, America’s dairyland would soon become his home. Dairylandia recounts Steve Hannah’s burgeoning love for his adopted state through the writings of his long-lived column, “State of Mind”.

Cambiare sesso. Suad Amiry sa benissimo che è questo l'unico modo per raccontare la paradossale condizione dei lavoratori palestinesi costretti a superare il confine con Israele per trovare lavoro. E così fa. Suad si traveste da uomo e raggiunge nottetempo un villaggio vicino a Ramallah da dove comincia il suo viaggio, lungo le strade costeggiate di olivi che conducono in Israele, insieme al fido Mohammad, a Murad - sfrontato, grezzo, tamarro, un ragazzo come tanti - e ai loro amici.

Una madre, una giornalista e una città, Ostia, dove si spara per le strade. È pensando proprio ai suoi bambini ancora piccoli che Federica Angeli decide di denunciare quel che ha visto una notte dal balcone di casa. A Ostia tutti tacciono, anche quella notte. Lei no, perché sa che domani i suoi figli, diventati adolescenti, potrebbero camminare per quelle vie trasformate in far west. Lollo è il maggiore e ha solo otto anni quando i suoi genitori gli annunciano che la mamma ha vinto quattro autisti come premio per un suo articolo.

Honduras no es Irak, pero cada año mueren asesinadas 85 personas por cada 100.000 habitantes, una cifra que supera a la de Irak. Honduras vive una de las guerras no declaradas menos contadas del mundo. Una guerra laberíntica de todos contra todos: el narco, que transporta a través del país el 90% de la cocaína colombiana y venezolana que llega a Estados Unidos; los pandilleros convertidos en soldados del narco y en extorsionadores; una policía sin medios que, en vez de detener criminales, prefiere ejecutarlos....