The Brittle Self
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The Magnificent Loser
- A Dramatist's Reckoning with William Jennings Bryan
- By: David Boles
- Narrated by: Dick Terhune
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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Two words in red ink killed a screenplay and began a book. In 1985 a young dramatist sent a teleplay about William Jennings Bryan to a historian for review. It came back with BAD DRAMA scrawled across the title page, and the play was buried.
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The Magnificent Loser
- A Dramatist's Reckoning with William Jennings Bryan
- Narrated by: Dick Terhune
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 31-07-26
- Language: English
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Barbarous Ancestors
- A Natural History of Rule by the Dead, from the Cadaver Synod to the Séance Court
- By: David Boles
- Narrated by: Dick Terhune
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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An argument against rule by the dead. In January of the year 897, the reigning pope had his predecessor's corpse pulled from its tomb, dressed in full vestments, propped upright, and put on trial in Rome.
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Barbarous Ancestors
- A Natural History of Rule by the Dead, from the Cadaver Synod to the Séance Court
- Narrated by: Dick Terhune
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 17-08-26
- Language: English
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The Scientific Aesthetic
- An Operating Theory
- By: David Boles
- Narrated by: Sallybeth
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
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Paris, August 19, 1839. François Arago reads the technical details of Louis Daguerre's photographic process into the joint session of the Académie des Sciences and the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Within weeks the satirical press is mocking photographers as mechanics and copyists.
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The Scientific Aesthetic
- An Operating Theory
- Narrated by: Sallybeth
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 18-06-26
- Language: English
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The Invisible Hand
- Book Two of The EleMenTs Series
- By: David Boles
- Narrated by: Sallybeth
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
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Three months after escaping the tunnels beneath New York City, Elle, Meen, and Teena find themselves under constant surveillance. Prometheus Applied Sciences hasn't forgotten them, and a new operative named Sarah Miller has infiltrated their lives as a volunteer at the group home.
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The Invisible Hand
- Book Two of The EleMenTs Series
- Narrated by: Sallybeth
- Series: The EleMenTs Series, Book 2
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 20-04-26
- Language: English
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The Brittle Self
- A History of the Fragile Mind, from the Glass King to the Simulation
- By: David Boles
- Narrated by: Sallybeth
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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The Brittle Self is a history of one of the oldest fears a mind can hold: that the self is fragile, that it can be seen through, broken, switched off, or shown to be unreal.
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The Brittle Self
- A History of the Fragile Mind, from the Glass King to the Simulation
- Narrated by: Sallybeth
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 20-07-26
- Language: English
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Not My Thing
- How We Teach Cruelty to Cure It, from the Armband to the Diversity Seminar
- By: David Boles
- Narrated by: Boyd Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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In the spring of 1973, a teacher in a Lincoln, Nebraska classroom handed an eight-year-old boy a blue armband marked S, for slave, and set the brown-eyed children over him for the day. The next morning the roles reversed. No one in that room was Black. The lesson, the teacher said, was empathy.
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Not My Thing
- How We Teach Cruelty to Cure It, from the Armband to the Diversity Seminar
- Narrated by: Boyd Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 26-08-26
- Language: English
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No, I Will Not Be Your Friend
- A Book About the Few Who Are
- By: David Boles, Janna Sweenie
- Narrated by: Nick Gallagher
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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Everyone is your friend now. The word that once required an altar can be had for a thumb. For fifty years, David Boles ran his life on one blanket rule: if I know you, you are my friend.
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No, I Will Not Be Your Friend
- A Book About the Few Who Are
- Narrated by: Nick Gallagher
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 27-08-26
- Language: English
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In My Mind I'm Standing Up
- A History of Recantation and the Coerced Word
- By: David Boles
- Narrated by: Ric Chetter
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
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To recant is to take back a belief in public, under pressure, in front of the people who demanded the reversal. The word carries an older sense underneath the modern one.
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In My Mind I'm Standing Up
- A History of Recantation and the Coerced Word
- Narrated by: Ric Chetter
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 18-08-26
- Language: English
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Cat Heads in Space
- The Body Problem
- By: David Boles
- Narrated by: Mia Fothergill
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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Four disembodied cat heads drift through deep space in Life Helmets, searching for their missing bodies. A puppy head who has never had a body searches with them. The soup is stirring in the wrong direction. The quest continues. Whiskerfluff is the captain because someone has to be.
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Cat Heads in Space
- The Body Problem
- Narrated by: Mia Fothergill
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 05-06-26
- Language: English
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Back to Willowbrook
- The Slow Winning and Fast Losing of Disability Rights in America
- By: Janna Sweenie, David Boles
- Narrated by: Sallybeth
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
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On April 23, 2016, a warning went up in a comment thread beneath a blog entry about the ugly laws: the ADA is in danger, and the disabled are being propelled backward. Ten years later came the memorandum that proved the warning right.
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Back to Willowbrook
- The Slow Winning and Fast Losing of Disability Rights in America
- Narrated by: Sallybeth
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 12-08-26
- Language: English
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Beyond the Burial Tree
- The Seizure of the Native Dead and the Unfinished Return
- By: David Boles
- Narrated by: Boyd Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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The conquest of Native America is usually told as two thefts, the theft of the land and the killing of the people. Beyond the Burial Tree adds a third, harder to see because it left no acreage and no body count: the seizure of a people's authority over its own dead.
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Beyond the Burial Tree
- The Seizure of the Native Dead and the Unfinished Return
- Narrated by: Boyd Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 10-08-26
- Language: English
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The Eighteen-Minute Lie
- How a Fake Number Convinced a Century It Had Lost Its Mind, and Who Got Rich Selling the Cure
- By: David Boles
- Narrated by: Nick Gallagher
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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You have heard that the human attention span has fallen below a goldfish's. It is one of the most quoted statistics of the digital age, repeated in TED talks and tenth-grade classrooms, in newspaper trend pieces and the pitch decks of companies selling a cure for the affliction they just named.
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The Eighteen-Minute Lie
- How a Fake Number Convinced a Century It Had Lost Its Mind, and Who Got Rich Selling the Cure
- Narrated by: Nick Gallagher
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 06-08-26
- Language: English
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Underwritten
- The American Experiment in Public Broadcasting, 1967 to 2026 (Institutional Autopsy, Book 3)
- By: David Boles
- Narrated by: Alan Taylor
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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On January 30, 2026, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting filed its Articles of Dissolution with the District of Columbia.
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Underwritten
- The American Experiment in Public Broadcasting, 1967 to 2026 (Institutional Autopsy, Book 3)
- Narrated by: Alan Taylor
- Series: Institutional Autopsy, Book 3
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 06-08-26
- Language: English
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The Human Universal Beautiful
- How Civilizations See, Shape, and Rank the Human Form
- By: David Boles
- Narrated by: Mia Fothergill
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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In the fall of 1984, in a darkened lecture hall at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, two professors offered competing arguments about why beauty matters. The art historian said beauty connects. The film scholar said beauty instructs. Both were right, and both were incomplete.
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The Human Universal Beautiful
- How Civilizations See, Shape, and Rank the Human Form
- Narrated by: Mia Fothergill
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 24-07-26
- Language: English
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Commissioned Monsters
- A Labor History of Fear
- By: David Boles
- Narrated by: Boyd Barrett
- Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
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In the British Museum's Mesopotamian galleries, behind glass, sits a clay mask approximately three thousand eight hundred years old. The face was made to terrify. Hooded sockets sink the eyes into darkness, intestinal coils wrap the brow, and a chipped tooth grins from the left side of the mouth.
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Commissioned Monsters
- A Labor History of Fear
- Narrated by: Boyd Barrett
- Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 14-07-26
- Language: English
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Tomorrow as Tribute
- The Politics of the Burnt Future
- By: David Boles
- Narrated by: Ric Chetter
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
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In the Republic of Buryatia, in southern Siberia, the funerals come in a steady cadence. Since February 2022, Buryatia has supplied combat soldiers to the war in Ukraine at a per-capita rate among the highest of any region in the Russian Federation.
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Tomorrow as Tribute
- The Politics of the Burnt Future
- Narrated by: Ric Chetter
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 13-07-26
- Language: English
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Ischia Is Burning
- A Novel
- By: David Boles
- Narrated by: Dick Terhune
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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Ischia is Burning is a novel I excavated from a steel filing cabinet in a Manhattan apartment, where it had been sitting for more than three decades inside a folder marked Ischia, in the form of a screenplay I wrote at twenty-five years old in the second year of an MFA program at Columbia.
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Ischia Is Burning
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Dick Terhune
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 13-07-26
- Language: English
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The Claimed Body
- How American Institutions Divided the Human Organism Among Themselves
- By: David Boles
- Narrated by: Alan Taylor
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
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In 1862, President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. The Act said that any American willing to settle on 160 acres of public land, live there for five years, and improve the parcel, could file a claim and receive title.
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The Claimed Body
- How American Institutions Divided the Human Organism Among Themselves
- Narrated by: Alan Taylor
- Series: Institutional Autopsy, Book 2
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 10-07-26
- Language: English
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RelationShaping
- Field Studies
- By: David Boles, Janna Sweenie
- Narrated by: Sallybeth
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
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Bologna, the 1920s. Giorgio Morandi spends his working life in a small room at 36 Via Fondazza, painting the same bottles and boxes from a low shelf. The objects barely change. The arrangements barely change. What changes across forty years is what Morandi sees in the space between the bottles.
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RelationShaping
- Field Studies
- Narrated by: Sallybeth
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 07-07-26
- Language: English
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Beautiful Numbness
- Art, Sedation, and Twenty-Five Centuries of the Standing Ovation
- By: David Boles
- Narrated by: Dick Terhune
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
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A pharmacist's grandson discovers that art is the oldest prescription in Western civilization.
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Beautiful Numbness
- Art, Sedation, and Twenty-Five Centuries of the Standing Ovation
- Narrated by: Dick Terhune
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 12-06-26
- Language: English
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