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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
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The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, best-selling author John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale - from the QWERTY keyboard and sunsets to Canada geese and Penguins of Madagascar.
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Anthropocene Reviewed, Reviewed.
- By Josh Ruberg on 2021-06-03
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The Anthropocene Reviewed
- Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
- Narrated by: John Green
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2021-05-18
- Language: English
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But What If We're Wrong?
- Thinking About the Present as If It Were the Past
- Written by: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman, Fiona Hardingham
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there's nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already been defined and accepted is (probably) pretty close to how reality will be viewed in perpetuity. And then, of course, time passes. Ideas shift. Opinions invert. What once seemed reasonable eventually becomes absurd, replaced by modern perspectives that feel even more irrefutable and secure - until, of course, they don't.
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Wish it was Chuck
- By Anonymous User on 2017-11-22
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But What If We're Wrong?
- Thinking About the Present as If It Were the Past
- Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman, Fiona Hardingham
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2016-06-07
- Language: English
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Wildwood
- A Journey Through Trees
- Written by: Roger Deakin
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
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A much-loved classic of nature writing from environmentalist and the author of Waterlog, Roger Deakin, Wildwood is an exploration of the element wood in nature, our culture and our lives. From the walnut tree at his Suffolk home, he embarks upon a quest that takes him through Britain, across Europe, to Central Asia and Australia, in search of what lies behind man's profound and enduring connection with wood and trees.
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Wildwood
- A Journey Through Trees
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2020-11-26
- Language: English
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Selected Non-Fictions, Volume 3
- Written by: Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger - editor translator, Esther Allen - translator, and others
- Narrated by: Diego Diment
- Length: 25 hrs and 49 mins
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It will come as a surprise to some that the greater part of Jorge Luis Borges's extraordinary writing was not in the genres of fiction or poetry, but in the various forms of non-fiction prose. His thousands of pages of essays, reviews, prologues, lectures, and notes on politics and culture—though revered in Latin America and Europe as among his finest work—have scarcely been translated into English.
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Selected Non-Fictions, Volume 3
- Narrated by: Diego Diment
- Series: Selected Non-Fictions, Book 3
- Length: 25 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2023-07-11
- Language: English
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How to Ruin Everything
- Essays
- Written by: George Watsky
- Narrated by: George Watsky
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
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Are you a sensible, universally competent individual? Are you tired of the crushing monotony of leaping gracefully from one lily pad of success to the next? Are you sick of doing everything right? In this brutally honest and humorous debut, musician and artist George Watsky chronicles the small triumphs over humiliation that make life bearable and how he has come to accept defeat as necessary to personal progress. The essays in How to Ruin Everything range from the absurd (how he became an international ivory smuggler) to the comical, to the revelatory.
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Performance is great!
- By Anonymous User on 2020-07-15
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How to Ruin Everything
- Essays
- Narrated by: George Watsky
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2016-06-14
- Language: English
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The Seven Good Years
- A Memoir
- Written by: Etgar Keret
- Narrated by: Alex Karpovsky
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
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The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret’s son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in the midst of a terrorist attack. Etgar’s father gets cancer. The threat of constant war looms over their home and permeates daily life. What emerges from this dark reality is a series of sublimely absurd ruminations on everything from Etgar’s three-year-old son’s impending military service to the terrorist mind-set behind Angry Birds.
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The Seven Good Years
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Alex Karpovsky
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2015-06-16
- Language: English
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On Mysticism
- Written by: Jorge Luis Borges, Suzanne Jill Levine - editor, Maria Kodama - editor introduction
- Narrated by: Diego Diment
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
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Jorge Luis Borges immersed himself and his readers in metaphysical fantasies—playing reason against faith, belief against logic. His profound knowledge of eastern religions was an endless source of inspiration for his writing. On Mysticism—edited by Borges’s widow, Maria Kodama—brings together a stunning group of prose pieces and poems that speak to this signature theme of his writing, from some of his most celebrated works to others that appear here in English for the first time.
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On Mysticism
- Narrated by: Diego Diment
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2023-07-11
- Language: English
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Feel Free
- Essays
- Written by: Zadie Smith
- Narrated by: Nikki Amuka-Bird
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
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Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel almost two decades ago, Zadie Smith has established herself not just as one of the world's preeminent fiction writers but also a brilliant and singular essayist. She contributes regularly to The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books on a range of subjects, and each piece of hers is a literary event in its own right.
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Feel Free
- Essays
- Narrated by: Nikki Amuka-Bird
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2018-02-06
- Language: English
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Crying in the Bathroom
- A Memoir
- Written by: Erika L. Sánchez
- Narrated by: Erika L. Sánchez
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the nineties, Erika Sánchez was a self-described pariah, misfit, and disappointment—a foul-mouthed, melancholic rabble-rouser who painted her nails black but also loved comedy, often laughing so hard with her friends that she had to leave her school classroom. Twenty-five years later, she’s now an award-winning novelist, poet, and essayist, but she’s still got an irrepressible laugh, an acerbic wit, and singular powers of perception about the world around her.
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Crying in the Bathroom
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Erika L. Sánchez
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 2022-07-12
- Language: English
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Raising Raffi
- The First Five Years
- Written by: Keith Gessen
- Narrated by: Keith Gessen
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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Keith Gessen was nearing forty and hadn’t given much thought to the idea of being a father. He assumed he would have kids, but couldn’t imagine what it would be like to be a parent, or what kind of parent he would be. Then, one Tuesday night in early June, the distant idea of fatherhood came careening into view: Raffi was born, a child as real and complex and demanding of his parents’ energy as he was singularly magical.
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Raising Raffi
- The First Five Years
- Narrated by: Keith Gessen
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2022-06-07
- Language: English
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Chuck Klosterman X
- The Audio Companion to a Highly Specific and Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century
- Written by: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
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New York Times best-selling author and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman presents a unique Audio Companion for Chuck Klosterman X, in which he contextualizes and reads from the collection of his best articles and essays, providing both a fascinating tour of the past decade and an ideal introduction to the mind of one of the sharpest and most prolific observers of our unusual times.
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A biased review
- By Bill on 2019-07-21
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Chuck Klosterman X
- The Audio Companion to a Highly Specific and Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century
- Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 2017-05-16
- Language: English
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Tales of Two Planets
- Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World
- Written by: John Freeman - editor
- Narrated by: full cast, Bahni Turpin, Roy Vongtama, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live. In the past five years, John Freeman, previously editor of Granta, has launched a celebrated international literary magazine, Freeman's, and compiled two acclaimed anthologies that deal with income inequality as it is experienced.
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Tales of Two Planets
- Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World
- Narrated by: full cast, Bahni Turpin, Roy Vongtama, John Freeman, Kim Mai Guest, Deepti Gupta, Dominic Hoffman, Sonya Macari, Sunil Malhotra, Jorjeana Marie
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2020-08-04
- Language: English
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Intimations
- Six Essays
- Written by: Zadie Smith
- Narrated by: Zadie Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
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Written during the early months of lockdown, Intimations explores ideas and questions prompted by an unprecedented situation. What does it mean to submit to a new reality - or to resist it? How do we compare relative sufferings? What is the relationship between time and work? In our isolation, what do other people mean to us? How do we think about them? What is the ratio of contempt to compassion in a crisis? When an unfamiliar world arrives, what does it reveal about the world that came before it?
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Intimations
- Six Essays
- Narrated by: Zadie Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
- Release date: 2020-07-28
- Language: English
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Everything's Trash, but It's Okay
- Written by: Phoebe Robinson, Ilana Glazer - foreword
- Narrated by: Phoebe Robinson
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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New York Times best-selling author and star of 2 Dope Queens Phoebe Robinson is back with a new, hilarious, and timely essay collection on gender, race, dating, and the Dumpster fire that is our world. Written in her trademark unfiltered and witty style, Robinson's latest collection is a call to arms. Outfitted with on-point pop culture references, these essays tackle a wide range of topics: giving feminism a tough-love talk on intersectionality, telling society's beauty standards to kick rocks, and calling foul on our culture's obsession with work.
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Entertaining and insightful
- By InvisiblePhotographer on 2019-09-20
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Everything's Trash, but It's Okay
- Narrated by: Phoebe Robinson
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 2018-10-16
- Language: English
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A Slip of the Keyboard
- Collected Non-fiction
- Written by: Terry Pratchett
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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With a foreword by Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett has earned a place in the hearts of readers the world over with his bestselling Discworld series – but in recent years he has become equally well-known and respected as an outspoken campaigner for causes including Alzheimer’s research and animal rights.
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A Slip of the Keyboard
- Collected Non-fiction
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2014-09-25
- 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 35 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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wonderful read!
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-09-01
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Small Victories
- Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace
- Narrated by: Anne Lamott
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 2014-11-10
- 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 24 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 24 mins
- Release date: 2024-05-14
- Language: English
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My First Popsicle
- An Anthology of Food and Feelings
- Written by: Zosia Mamet - editor
- Narrated by: Zosia Mamet, Sian Clifford, Kaley Cuoco, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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Of all the essentials for survival: oxygen, water, sleep, and food, only food is a vast treasure trove of memory and of sensory experience. Food is a portal to culture, to times past, to disgust, to comfort, to love: no matter one's feelings about a particular dish, they are hardly ever neutral.
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My First Popsicle
- An Anthology of Food and Feelings
- Narrated by: Zosia Mamet, Sian Clifford, Kaley Cuoco, Ted Danson, Matt Flanders, Tony Hale, Katie Holmes, Hamish Linklater, Rosie Perez, Busy Philipps, Andrew Rannells, Gabourey Sidibe, Patti Smith, full cast
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2022-11-01
- Language: English
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White Girls
- Written by: Hilton Als
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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White Girls is about, among other things, blackness, queerness, movies, Brooklyn, love (and the loss of love), AIDS, fashion, Basquiat, Capote, philosophy, porn, Eminem, Louise Brooks, and Michael Jackson. Freewheeling and dazzling, tender and true, it is one of the most daring and provocative books of recent years, an invaluable guide to the culture of our time.
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White Girls
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2021-08-17
- Language: English
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A Paris All Your Own
- Best-Selling Women Writers on the City of Light
- Written by: Eleanor Brown - editor
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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Editor Eleanor Brown presents a collection of personal essays from 18 different authors about their experiences in the City of Light.
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A Paris All Your Own
- Best-Selling Women Writers on the City of Light
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2017-07-04
- Language: English
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