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Monsters
By: Claire Dederer
Narrated by: Claire Dederer
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A timely, passionate, provocative, blisteringly smart interrogation of how we make and experience art in the age of cancel culture, and of the link between genius and monstrosity. Can we love the work of controversial classic and contemporary artists but dislike the artist?
"A lively, personal... Read more
The Art Thief
By: Michael Finkel
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Michael Finkel
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser.
In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us into Breitwieser’s strange world—unlike most thieves, he never stole for... Read more
The Power Broker: Volume 2 of 3
By: Robert A. Caro
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 23 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century.
Robert Caro's... Read more
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
By: Matthew Perry
Narrated by: Matthew Perry
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
"Going into his "why," Perry's audiobook is a fascinating listen."- AudioFile
This program is read by the author.
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY TIME, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, GOODREADS, USA TODAY, AND MORE!
The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory... Read more
Shit, Actually
By: Lindy West
Narrated by: Lindy West
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
**Your Favorite Movies, Re-Watched**
New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author Lindy West was once the in-house movie critic for Seattle's alternative newsweekly The Stranger, where she covered film with brutal honesty and giddy irreverence. In Shit, Actually, Lindy returns to those roots, re-examining beloved and iconic movies from... Read more
Do You Believe in Fairies?
By: Ashley Anne Strobridge
Narrated by: Ashley Anne Strobridge
Length: 51 minutes
Abridged: No
This is an audio journey through a collection of original Nature photography paired with original poetry & prose. Within you'll find lyrical audio descriptions of photos spanning the landscapes of my home state of Vermont, as well as a curated selection of photos from Virginia. This art is paired with whimsical & impactful poetry in... Read more
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All About Me!
By: Mel Brooks
Narrated by: Mel Brooks
Length: 15 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
At 95, the legendary Mel Brooks continues to set the standard for comedy across television, film, and the stage. Now, for the first time, this EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) winner shares his story in his own words.
“Laugh-out-loud hilarious and always fascinating, from the great Mel Brooks. What else do you expect from the man who knew Jesus... Read more
Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
Narrated by: Leslie Jamison
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage—an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love.
Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true, the complex. She has been compared... Read more
Get the Picture
By: Bianca Bosker
Narrated by: Bianca Bosker
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Get the Picture is one of the funniest books I’ve read . . . Brilliant.” —The Washington Post
“A gripping and often hilarious investigation into the art world. . . . Bosker goes full Tom Wolfe.” —TIME
“Funny, whip-smart, and gorgeously written, Get the Picture will forever transform the way you see. . . . I... Read more
This Time Together
By: Carol Burnett
Narrated by: Carol Burnett
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
This touching and hilarious memoir is 100 percent Carol Burnett—funny, irreverent, and irresistible.
Carol Burnett is one of the most beloved and revered actresses and performers in America. The Carol Burnett Show was seen each week by millions of adoring fans and won twenty-five Emmys in its remarkable eleven-year run. Now, in This Time... Read more
Hollywood: The Oral History
By: Jeanine Basinger & Sam Wasson
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon & Marni Penning
Length: 28 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine Hepburn, Meryl Streep, Harold Lloyd, and nearly four hundred others, assembled from the American Film Institute’s treasure trove of interviews, reveals a fresh history of the American movie industry from its beginnings to today. From the archives... Read more
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When I Was Your Age
By: Kenan Thompson
Narrated by: Kenan Thompson
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
“Kenan is a master storyteller with extraordinary stories to tell. I wouldn’t miss this for the world.”—Leslie JonesWhen I Was Your Age is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older and wiser, and luck, life, and learning from the school of hard knocks, from SNL's longest-serving actor, Kenan ThompsonKenan Thompson... Read more
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Every Man for Himself and God Against All
By: Werner Herzog
Narrated by: Werner Herzog
Length: 13 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of his epic artistic career in a long-awaited memoir that is as inventive and daring as anything he has done before
Werner Herzog was born in September 1942 in Munich, Germany, at a turning point in the Second World War. Soon Germany would be defeated... Read more
The Lady from the Black Lagoon
By: Mallory O'Meara
Narrated by: Mallory O''Meara & Mallory O'Meara
Length: 9 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
2019 SCIBA Book Award Winner for Biography
A Hugo and Locus Award Finalist
Winner of the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award
The Los Angeles Times Bestseller
A Thrillist Best Book of the Year
A Book Riot Best Book of 2019
One of Booklist’s 10 Best Art Books of the Year
The Lady from the Black Lagoon uncovers the life and work of Milicent Patrick—one of... Read more
Life with Picasso
By: Francoise Gilot & Carlton Lake
Narrated by: Mary Sarah
Length: 15 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Françoise Gilot was in her early twenties when she met the sixty-one-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a well-to-do upper-middle-class family, who had sent her to Cambridge and the Sorbonne and hoped that she would go into law, the young woman defied their wishes and set her sights on being an artist. Her introduction to Picasso led... Read more
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The Secret Lives of Color
By: Kassia St. Clair
Narrated by: Kassia St. Clair
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
One of USA Today's “100 Books to Read While Stuck at Home During the Coronavirus Crisis”
A dazzling gift, the unforgettable, unknown history of colors and the vivid stories behind them in a beautiful multi-colored volume.
“Beautifully written . . . Full of anecdotes and fascinating research, this elegant compendium has all the... Read more
Cabin Pressure: The Complete Series 1
By: John Finnemore
Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch, Full Cast, John Finnemore...
Length: 2 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Cabin Pressure is set in the wing and a prayer world of a tiny, one-plane charter airline; staffed by two pilots, one on his way down, and one who was never up to start with. Whether flying actresses to Italy, cricketers to the Sahara, or a cat to Abu Dhabi, no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult.
Carolyn Knapp-Shappey, MJN... Read more
Opposable Thumbs
By: Matt Singer
Narrated by: Matt Singer
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB.
You asked whether Siskel & Ebert had given it “two thumbs up.”
On a cold Saturday afternoon in 1975, two men (who had known each other for eight years before they’d ever exchanged a word) met for lunch in a Chicago pub. Gene... Read more
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
By: Peter Biskind
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 23 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1969, a low-budget biker movie, Easy Rider, shocked Hollywood with its stunning success. An unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll (onscreen and off), Easy Rider heralded a heady decade in which a rebellious wave of talented young filmmakers invigorated the movie industry. In Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Peter Biskind takes us... Read more
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It's Not TV
By: Felix Gillette & John Koblin
Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
Length: 14 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
“A read so riveting, it's not hard to imagine watching it unfold on Sunday nights.” —The Associated Press
“An incisive account that is more than a rosy victory lap for one of TV’s most influential channels.” —Eric Deggans, NPR’s “Books We Love”
“It’s Not TV proves to be a lively companion to all these shows.” —Andrew O’Hagan, The New York Review... Read more
By Myself and Then Some - Abridged
By: Lauren Bacall
Narrated by: Lauren Bacall
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The epitome of grace, independence, and wit, Lauren Bacall continues to astound generations with her audacious spirit and on-screen excellence. Together with Humphrey Bogart, she produced some of the most electric scenes in movie history, and their romance on and off screen made them Hollywood's most celebrated couple.But when Bogart died of... Read more
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The Brutish Museums
By: Dan Hicks
Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
Length: 11 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020
'Essential' – Sunday Times
'Brilliantly enraged' - New York Review of Books
'A real game-changer'– Economist
Walk into any Western museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of... Read more
Directing Actors
By: Judith Weston
Narrated by: Judith Weston
Length: 12 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
In this essential guide to acting, internationally renowned directing coach Judith Weston demonstrates what constitutes a good performance, what actors want from a director, and what directors do wrong. She also goes over script analysis and preparation and how actors work, and she shares important and helpful insights into the director/actor... Read more
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Billy Collins Live
By: Billy Collins
Narrated by: Billy Collins
Length: 1 hour 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In this exclusive audio publishing event, Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate, shares an evening of his poetry in a benefit reading for WNYC, New York Public Radio. Often compared to Robert Frost, his poetry has been embraced by people of all ages and backgrounds, and his readings are most often standing room only.
Performed by the author... Read more