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Themes and Variations
- An Essay
- Written by: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Dismissed by a bored author at a book signing, a betrayed young man named David Sedaris made a vow. Someday, when it was his turn at the table, he’d connect with his readers. The experience has been even more revealing than he’d hoped.In this hilarious and perceptive essay, the celebrated humorist reflects on the unusual patterns of forced socialization between author and audience, and the obligations and sometimes surprising returns of not-so-chance encounters with strangers: jokes, secrets, insights, and even charity.
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- By Alma on 2024-12-30
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Themes and Variations
- An Essay
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 30 mins
- Release date: 2020-04-28
- Language: English
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Upstream
- Selected Essays
- Written by: Mary Oliver
- Narrated by: Hala Alyan, Joy Sullivan, Kate Baer
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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“I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.” So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which revered poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of the natural world and the world of literature. Emphasizing the significance of her childhood “friend” Walt Whitman, who inspired her to vanish into the world of her own writing, Oliver meditates on the forces that allowed her to create a life for herself out of work and love.
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Upstream
- Selected Essays
- Narrated by: Hala Alyan, Joy Sullivan, Kate Baer
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2023-04-18
- Language: English
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The Abundance
- Narrative Essays Old and New
- Written by: Annie Dillard
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins, Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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In recognition of her long and lauded career as a master essayist, a landmark collection including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work, rigorously curated by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author herself. With a foreword by Geoff Dyer. “A writer who never seems tired, who has never...
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The Abundance
- Narrative Essays Old and New
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins, Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2021-05-11
- Language: English
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The Western Canon
- The Books and School of the Ages
- Written by: Harold Bloom
- Narrated by: James Armstrong
- Length: 22 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon. He argues against ideology in literary criticism; he laments the loss of intellectual and aesthetic standards; he deplores multiculturalism, Marxism, feminism, neoconservatism, Afrocentrism, and the New Historicism. Insisting instead upon "the autonomy of aesthetic," Bloom places Shakespeare at the center of the Western Canon.....
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The Western Canon
- The Books and School of the Ages
- Narrated by: James Armstrong
- Length: 22 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2000-10-26
- Language: English
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The Slicks
- On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift
- Written by: Maggie Nelson
- Narrated by: Maggie Nelson
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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A keen, ardent celebration of unbridled female ambition in the work of Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath In The Slicks, Maggie Nelson positions culture-dominating pop superstar Taylor Swift and feminist cult icon Sylvia Plath as twin hosts of the female urge toward wanting hard, working hard, and...
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The Slicks
- On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift
- Narrated by: Maggie Nelson
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Release date: 2025-11-25
- Language: English
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Liebe! Ein Aufruf
- Written by: Daniel Schreiber
- Narrated by: Daniel Schreiber
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Ohnmacht ist zum politischen Grundgefühl unserer Zeit geworden. Eine Rhetorik des Hasses und der Menschenverachtung hat den politischen Diskurs gekapert. Unser Zusammenleben ist wieder von mehr Gewalt geprägt. Dabei wissen wir genau, dass es gerade jetzt auf aktiven Widerstand ankommt, auf gemeinschaftliches Handeln. In seinem neuen Buch zeigt Daniel Schreiber einen radikalen Weg auf: Die Rückbesinnung auf eine Idee der Liebe als politische Kraft.
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Liebe! Ein Aufruf
- Narrated by: Daniel Schreiber
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2025-11-18
- Language: German
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Girls Play Dead
- Acts of Self-Preservation
- Written by: Jen Percy
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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A lyrical and groundbreaking exploration of the misunderstood ways women survive and forever carry trauma from the award-winning New York Times Magazine writer Jen Percy. “A groundbreaking exploration of women’s often shamed and silenced responses to sexual assault...Extensive, empathetic...
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Girls Play Dead
- Acts of Self-Preservation
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 2025-11-11
- Language: English
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The Book of the City of Ladies
- Written by: Christine de Pizan
- Narrated by: Georgina Sutton
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Shocked and distressed by a male writer's vilification of women, Christine de Pizan has a powerful dreamlike vision in which she is visited by three personified Virtues: Reason, Rectitude and Justice. They tell her she has been chosen to write a book which will be like a city, housing virtuous women and protecting them from feminist attack. Partly myth, partly fact, The Book of the City of Ladies is an extraordinary, pioneering and impassioned defense of women that set out to shatter misogynist cliches and serve to instill self-worth in its female listeners of the time.
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After more than 600 years more relevant then ever.
- By Terrie Holgerson on 2020-05-15
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The Book of the City of Ladies
- Narrated by: Georgina Sutton
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2020-05-06
- Language: English
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
- An Essay Collection
- Written by: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Hilton Als
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects...
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
- An Essay Collection
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Hilton Als
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2021-01-26
- Language: English
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On Animals
- Written by: Susan Orlean
- Narrated by: Susan Orlean
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Magnificent.” —The New York Times * “Beguiling, observant, and howlingly funny.” —San Francisco Chronicle * “Spectacular.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis) * “Full of astonishments.” —The Boston Globe Susan Orlean—the beloved New Yorker staff writer...
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On Animals
- Narrated by: Susan Orlean
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 2021-10-12
- Language: English
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Quietly Hostile
- Essays
- Written by: Samantha Irby
- Narrated by: Samantha Irby
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A GLAMOUR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A hilarious new essay collection from Samantha Irby "engages readers with her characteristic combination of laugh-out-loud moments, heartfelt passages and plenty of awkward experiences.... Quietly Hostile will delight established...
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just became irritating.
- By Leith Kelsey on 2024-02-20
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Quietly Hostile
- Essays
- Narrated by: Samantha Irby
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2023-05-16
- Language: English
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The Language of the Night
- Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
- Written by: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan, Michael Crouch
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Le Guin’s sharp and witty voice is on full display in this collection of twenty-four essays, revised by the author a decade after its initial publication in 1979. The collection covers a wide range of topics and Le Guin’s origins as a writer, her advocacy for science fiction and fantasy as mediums for true literary exploration, the writing of her own major works such as A Wizard of Earthsea and The Left Hand of Darkness, and her role as a public intellectual and educator.
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The Language of the Night
- Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan, Michael Crouch
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2025-06-17
- Language: English
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La vie n'est pas une course
- Written by: Léa Stréliski
- Narrated by: Léa Stréliski
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Je m’adresse aux essoufflés. À ceux qui ont tout essayé. Aux éreintés qui poursuivent le bonheur sans l’atteindre. Ceci n’est pas une recette, mais un portrait des temps qui courent et qui font du bien quand ils s’arrêtent. Un appel à une autre manière de vivre.
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Décevant
- By minie375 on 2021-10-29
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La vie n'est pas une course
- Narrated by: Léa Stréliski
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Release date: 2020-09-21
- Language: French
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Sitting Pretty
- The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body
- Written by: Rebekah Taussig
- Narrated by: Rebekah Taussig
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most. Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early...
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A beautiful, funny, insightful and important book.
- By Amazon Customer on 2024-09-18
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Sitting Pretty
- The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body
- Narrated by: Rebekah Taussig
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2020-08-25
- Language: English
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Reading Like a Writer
- A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
- Written by: Francine Prose
- Narrated by: Nanette Savard
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters and discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer...
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Reading Like a Writer
- A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
- Narrated by: Nanette Savard
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2007-04-10
- Language: English
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A Sand County Almanac
- And Sketches Here and There
- Written by: Aldo Leopold
- Narrated by: Fisher Neal
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Leopold's essays on conservation will open the mind of any listener who gives them a chance. The first part uses essays for each of the 12 months to share the rhythm of life on his restored Wisconsin farmland, and uses the stories to branch into eye opening lessons on the history of man's use and abuse of it. The second part continues using stories from Leopold's experiences in wild places across North America to expand the lessons to a much wider view. The final part of the work seeks to lay out a better path for humanity, using solid logic and deep philosophical questioning.
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A Sand County Almanac
- And Sketches Here and There
- Narrated by: Fisher Neal
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2025-07-09
- Language: English
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On Being 40(ish)
- Written by: Lindsey Mead - editor
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Madeleine Maby, Soneela Nankani, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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In the vein of The Bitch in the House, 15 powerful women offer captivating, intimate, and candid explorations about what it’s really like turning 40 - and life beyond.
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On Being 40(ish)
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Madeleine Maby, Soneela Nankani, Joy Osmanski, Candace Thaxton
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 2019-02-05
- Language: English
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On the Origin of Species
- Written by: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Abridged
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Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion and a life-long committed Darwinist, abridges and reads this special audio version of Charles Darwin's famous book. A literally world-changing book, Darwin put forward the anti-religious and scientific idea that humans in fact evolved over millions of generations from animals, starting with fish, all the way up through the ranks to apes, then to our current form.
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The Origin of Evolutionary Theory
- By Norman on 2024-04-11
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On the Origin of Species
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2007-12-03
- Language: English
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Bravey
- Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas
- Written by: Alexi Pappas, Maya Rudolph - foreword
- Narrated by: Alexi Pappas, Maya Rudolph - foreword
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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When “Renaissance runner” (New York Times) Alexi Pappas - Olympic athlete, actress, filmmaker, and writer - was four years old, her mother died by suicide, drastically altering the course of Pappas’s life and setting her on a search for female role models. When her father signed his bereaved daughter up for sports teams as a way to keep her busy, female athletes became the first women Pappas looked up to, and her Olympic dream was born. At the same time, Pappas had big creative dreams, too: She wanted to make movies, write, and act.
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Must Read for Those Looking to Achieve Greatness
- By Christina P on 2022-08-18
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Bravey
- Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas
- Narrated by: Alexi Pappas, Maya Rudolph - foreword
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 2021-01-12
- Language: English
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The Hidden Lamp
- Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women
- Written by: Zenshin Florence Caplow - editor, Reigetsu Susan Moon - editor
- Narrated by: Caroline McLaughlin, Judith West
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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The Hidden Lamp is a collection of 100 koans and stories of Buddhist women from the time of the Buddha to the present day. This revolutionary book brings together many teaching stories that were hidden for centuries, unknown until this volume. These stories are extraordinary expressions of freedom and fearlessness, relevant for men and women of any time or place. In this audio, we meet nuns, laywomen practicing with their families, famous teachers honored by emperors, and old women selling tea on the side of the road.
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The Hidden Lamp
- Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women
- Narrated by: Caroline McLaughlin, Judith West
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2016-04-07
- Language: English
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