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The Great Movies II
- By: Roger Ebert
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Continuing the pitch-perfect critiques begun in The Great Movies, Roger Ebert's The Great Movies II collects 100 additional essays, each one of them a gem of critical appreciation and an amalgam of love, analysis, and history that will send readers back to films with a fresh set of eyes and...
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The Great Movies II
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Series: The Great Movies
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 17-06-25
- Language: English
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Life and Art
- Essays
- By: Richard Russo
- Narrated by: Richard Russo
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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A marvelous new essay collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Somebody's Fool and The Destiny Thief Life and Art—these are the twin subjects considered in Richard Russo’s thirteen masterful new essays—how they inform each other and how the stories we tell ourselves about both...
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Life and Art
- Essays
- Narrated by: Richard Russo
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Three or More Is a Riot
- Notes on How We Got Here: 2012-2025
- By: Jelani Cobb
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From one of the definitive journalists of this era—acclaimed historian, Pulitzer Prize finalist, staff writer at The New Yorker, and Dean of Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism—comes a kaleidoscopic, real-time portrait of the turbulent past...
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Three or More Is a Riot
- Notes on How We Got Here: 2012-2025
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 14-10-25
- Language: English
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Sloppy
- Or: Doing It All Wrong
- By: Rax King
- Narrated by: Rax King
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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From the James Beard Award-nominated author of Tacky, a boldly funny, warts-and-all tour of the bad habits that make Rax King who she is "Most writers are boring people. King, though, seems different: Bettie Page meets Carrie Bradshaw."—Washington Post With Rax King's trademark blend of...
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Thin Skin
- Essays
- By: Jenn Shapland
- Narrated by: Jenn Shapland
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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A GOODREADS MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK Examining capitalism’s toxic creep into the land, our bodies, and our thinking, this incisive new work is “a visceral exploration” (Katherine May, author of Wintering) from a National Book Award finalist and a powerful literary mind. "A wrenching...
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Thin Skin
- Essays
- Narrated by: Jenn Shapland
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 15-08-23
- Language: English
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Letters to a Writer of Color
- By: Deepa Anappara - editor, Taymour Soomro - editor, Madeleine Thien, and others
- Narrated by: Deepa Anappara, Taymour Soomro, Full Cast
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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A vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of color, sharing the experiences, cultural traditions, and convictions that have shaped them and their work “Electric essays that speak to the experience of writing from the...
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Letters to a Writer of Color
- Narrated by: Deepa Anappara, Taymour Soomro, Full Cast
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 07-03-23
- Language: English
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Triage
- On Reading, Writing, and the Interior Life
- By: Richard Russo
- Narrated by: Richard Russo
- Length: 50 mins
- Unabridged
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls One of the most valuable spaces for an artist is the inner life—the sacred place where, outside of the constraints of time and space, meaning is extracted from raw experience and fashioned into art. In this timely new essay, Pulitzer...
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Triage
- On Reading, Writing, and the Interior Life
- Narrated by: Richard Russo
- Length: 50 mins
- Release date: 19-04-22
- Language: English
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Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World
- Essays
- By: Barry Lopez, Rebecca Solnit - introduction
- Narrated by: James Naughton, Rebecca Solnit
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE A “lyrical” (Chicago Tribune) final work of nonfiction from the National Book Award–winning author of Arctic Dreams and Horizon, a literary icon whose writing, fieldwork, and mentorship inspired generations of writers and activists. “Mesmerizing...
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Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World
- Essays
- Narrated by: James Naughton, Rebecca Solnit
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 31-05-22
- Language: English
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The Ecstasy of Influence
- Nonfictions, Etc.
- By: Jonathan Lethem
- Narrated by: Jonathan Lethem
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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What’s a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture? And what’s contemporary culture supposed to do with novelists? In The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem, tangling with what he calls the “white elephant” role of the writer as public intellectual, arrives at an astonishing...
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The Ecstasy of Influence
- Nonfictions, Etc.
- Narrated by: Jonathan Lethem
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 08-11-11
- Language: English
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This Old Man
- All in Pieces
- By: Roger Angell
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Roger Angell, the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, returns with a selection of writings that celebrate a view from the tenth decade of an engaged, vibrant life. Long known for his range and supple prose (he is the only writer elected to membership in both the Baseball Hall of Fame and the...
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This Old Man
- All in Pieces
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 17-11-15
- Language: English
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The Destiny Thief
- Essays on Writing, Writers and Life
- By: Richard Russo
- Narrated by: Richard Russo
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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"It turns out that Russo the nonfiction writer is a lot like Russo the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. He is affably disagreeable, wry, idiosyncratic, vulnerably bighearted, a craftsman of lubricated sentences."—Jay Fielden, New York Times Book Review A master of the novel, short story, and...
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The Destiny Thief
- Essays on Writing, Writers and Life
- Narrated by: Richard Russo
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 08-05-18
- Language: English
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Don't Get Too Comfortable
- The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
- By: David Rakoff
- Narrated by: David Rakoff
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
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The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems David Rakoff’s collection of autobiographical essays, Fraud, established him as one of our funniest, most insightful writers. In Don’t Get Too...
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Don't Get Too Comfortable
- The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
- Narrated by: David Rakoff
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 20-09-05
- Language: English
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Old Age
- A Beginner's Guide
- By: Michael Kinsley
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
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Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit." The notorious baby boomers—the largest age cohort in history—are approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that all about? Was...
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Old Age
- A Beginner's Guide
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 26-04-16
- Language: English
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The Men's Health Playbook
- All the Right Moves for Dating, Sex, and Marriage
- By: Men's Health Magazine
- Narrated by: Hank Jacobs, Nicole Fonarow
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
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Witty and insightful, Men's Health writers Joe Kita, Lisa Jones, Hugh O'Neill, Ron Geraci and others share their personal and often comical experiences as they tackle the universal topics of love, life, and exactly how to find and keep that special someone. The Men's Health Playbook features...
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The Men's Health Playbook
- All the Right Moves for Dating, Sex, and Marriage
- Narrated by: Hank Jacobs, Nicole Fonarow
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 07-06-02
- Language: English
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Blue Nights
- A Memoir
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by...
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Blue Nights
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 01-11-11
- Language: English
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This Living Hand
- And Other Essays
- By: Edmund Morris
- Narrated by: Edmund Morris
- Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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When the multitalented biographer Edmund Morris (who writes with equal virtuosity about Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Beethoven, and Thomas Edison) was a schoolboy in colonial Kenya, one of his teachers told him, “You have the most precious gift of all—originality.” That quality is...
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This Living Hand
- And Other Essays
- Narrated by: Edmund Morris
- Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 23-10-12
- Language: English
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Gratitude
- Essays
- By: Oliver Sacks
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 36 mins
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A deeply moving testimony and celebration of how to embrace life. No writer has succeeded in capturing the medical and human drama of illness as honestly and as eloquently as Oliver Sacks. During the last few months of his life, he wrote a set of essays in which he movingly explored his feelings...
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Burning Questions
- Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2022
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Margaret Atwood, Full Cast
- Length: 19 hrs and 28 mins
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In this brilliant selection of essays—including three new pieces—the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from whether or not The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopia...
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Burning Questions
- Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2022
- Narrated by: Margaret Atwood, Full Cast
- Length: 19 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 01-03-22
- Language: English
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Murakami T
- The T-Shirts I Love
- By: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator
- Narrated by: Kotaro Watanabe
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
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The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami’s extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public. Considered "the world's most popular cult novelist" (The Guardian), Haruki...
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Murakami T
- The T-Shirts I Love
- Narrated by: Kotaro Watanabe
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
- Release date: 23-11-21
- Language: English
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Ex Libris
- 100+ Books to Read and Reread
- By: Michiko Kakutani
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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Pulitzer Prize–winning literary critic Michiko Kakutani shares her enthusiasm for more than 100 books in a series of succinct, thought-provoking essays. “An ebullient celebration of books and reading.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Books can connect people across time zones...
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Ex Libris
- 100+ Books to Read and Reread
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 20-10-20
- Language: English
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