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David Rakoff's Half Empty and Sloane Crosley's How Did You Get This Number
By: David Rakoff & Sloane Crosby
Narrated by: Ira Glass
Length: 1 hour 24 minutes
Abridged: No
The whip-smart and funny authors of the essay collections Don't Get Too Comfortable (Rakoff) and I Was Told There'd Be Cake (Crosley) join up to examine our contemporary culture and the many ways life can go awry in New York City, as presented in their new books. Ira Glass (This American Life) will introduce the authors. Read more
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The Heroine’s Bookshelf
By: Erin Blakemore
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 4 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The literary canon is filled with intelligent, feisty, never-say-die heroines, and legendary female authors. Like today’s women, they too placed a premium on personality, spirituality, career, sisterhood, and family. When their backs were against the wall, characters like Scarlett O’Hara, Jo March, Jane Eyre, and Elizabeth Bennet fought... Read more
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Thalia Book Club: Sara Pennypacker and Marla Frazee's Clementine series
By: Sara Pennypacker & Marla Frazee
Narrated by: Sara Pennypacker & Marla Frazee
Length: 1 hour 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Author Sara Pennypacker and illustrator Marla Frazee discuss and read from their Clementine series of children's books. Read more
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Musen, Nymphen und Sirenen
By: Friedrich Kittler & Klaus Sander
Narrated by: Friedrich Kittler
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
"Zwei Münder vereinigen sich zu einer schönen Sangstimme. Weil sie alles wissen und weil sie alle Lust versprechen,die möglich ist, soll Odysseus das Schiff anlegen, an der Insel. Das sind die beiden Sirenen,die in der späteren ikonographischen Tradition auf den Vasen immer drei sind und immer schreckliche Mischwesen: oben Jungfrauen mit Busen,... Read more
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Thalia Book Club: Pseudonymous Bosch's This Isn't What It Looks Like
By: Pseudonymous Bosch
Narrated by: Pseudonymous Bosch & Matthew Cody
Length: 1 hour 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Pseudonymous Bosch sits down with Matthew Cody to discuss and read from his children's book, This Isn't What It Looks Like. Read more
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Thalia Book Club: Zombies vs. Unicorns
By: Holly Black, Naomi Novik, Alaya Dawn Johnson, L...
Narrated by: Justine Larbalestier
Length: 1 hour 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Justine Larbelustier moderates an all-star panel (Holly Black, Naomi Novik, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Maureen Johnson, Scott Westerfeld, and Libba Bray) to celebrate the book that decides the ultimate battle: Zombies vs. Unicorns. Read more
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Ruin the Sacred Truths
By: Harold Bloom
Narrated by: Mort Crim
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Harold Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or "J") writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jonah, the Illiad, the Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, the Henry IV plays, Paradise Lost, Blake's Milton, Wordsworth's Prelude, and works by... Read more
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Desperate Measures
By: William Logan
Narrated by: Walter Dixon
Length: 12 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
William Logan has been called "the most hated man in American poetry" and the most dangerous poetry critic since Randall Jarrell. Desperate Measures continues the critical fevers of Reputations of the Tongue (UPF, 1999), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award in criticism. Beginning with an exploration of some of Robert Frost's... Read more
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The Enchanted Places
By: Christopher Milne
Narrated by: Peter Dennis
Length: 5 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
This is Christopher Milne’s first autobiography, which was followed by Part 2—The Path through the Trees. From his much publicized childhood on Cotchford Farm to his war experiences, his marriage, and his proprietorship of a successful bookshop in a small English town, the life of the famous author’s son was one of much joy and some pain. It was... Read more
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William Power: Hamlet's Blackberry
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 7 minutes
Abridged: No
William Power, author of Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age talks about how he and his family disconnected from their communication devices in order to reconnect with life. Read more
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Leaves of Grass
By: Walt Whitman
Narrated by: Mel Foster
Length: 15 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." And Ralph Waldo Emerson found Leaves of Grass "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed," calling it a "combination of the Bhagavad Gita and the New York Herald." Published at the author's own... Read more
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Detective Fiction
By: M. Lee Alexander
Narrated by: M. Lee Alexander
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
From mysterious origins, through the Victorian sleuths and the "Golden Age" of the genre (the 1920s through the 1940s), and to the present day, detective fiction, mysteries, and spy thrillers have consistently topped best-seller lists around the world. Professor M. Lee Alexander provides listeners with a lively discussion of groundbreaking... Read more
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Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry
By: Robert Pinsky
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 1 hour 47 minutes
Abridged: No
The place of poetry in modern democracy is no place, according to conventional wisdom. The poet, we hear, is a casualty of mass entertainment and prosaic public culture, banished to the artistic sidelines to compose variations on insipid themes for a dwindling audience. Robert Pinsky, however, argues that this gloomy diagnosis is as wrongheaded... Read more
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10 Books Every Conservative Must Read
By: Benjamin Wiker
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Offering a “CliffsNotes guide” to some of the most important literary works of our time, Wiker, author of 10 Books That Screwed Up the World, turns his discerning eye from the great texts that have done damage to Western civilization to the great texts that could help rebuild it. This book features a range of works, from classics such as... Read more
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Thalia Book Club: Aimee Bender's The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
By: Aimee Bender
Narrated by: Heidi Julavits & Lillo Wei
Length: 1 hour 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Aimee Bender sits down with Heidi Julavits to discuss her book, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. Lillo Wei reads an excerpt from the book. Read more
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Wes Moore: The Other Wes moore
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Judy Woodruff talks to Baltimore native Wes Moore about his new book, The Other Wes Moore which explores the stories of two inner-city young men who share the same name, but lead very different lives. Read more
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Thalia Book Club: Rick Riordan's The Kane Chronicles
By: Rick Riordan
Narrated by: Rick Riordan, Matthew Cody & Sonia Manzano
Length: 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson and the Olympians) sits down with Matthew Cody to discuss his novel The Kane Chronicles. Sonia Manzano reads an excerpt. Read more
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Tim O'Brien
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Thirty five years after the conclusion of the Vietnam War, Tim O'Brien's collection of stories about an American platoon, The Things They Carried, is being reissued as it celebrates its own 20th anniversary. Jeffrey Brown talks to the author about the experiences that led him to write the book. Read more
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Thalia Book Club: Pam Muñoz Ryan's The Dreamer
By: Pam Munoz Ryan
Narrated by: Pam Munoz Ryan, Madeline Cohen & Rita Wolf
Length: 1 hour 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Pam Munoz Ryan sits down with Madeline Cohen to discuss her book, The Dreamer. Rita Wolf reads an excerpt. Read more
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Thalia Book Club: Rereading Middlemarch with Jennifer Egan, Siri Hustvedt and Margot Livesey
By: George Eliot
Narrated by: Jennifer Egan, Siri Hustvedt, Hope Davis & Marg...
Length: 1 hour 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Jennifer Egan, Siri Hustvedt, and Margot Livesey once again convene to discuss George Eliot's classic novel, Middlemarch. Hope Davis reads an excerpt from the book. Read more
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Thalia Book Club: David Levithan and John Green's Will Grayson, Will Grayson
By: David Levithan & John Green
Narrated by: David Levithan & John Green
Length: 1 hour 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Green (An Abundance of Katherines) and Levithan (Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Executive Editorial Director at Scholastic) discuss their collaborative novel with teens ages 14 and up. In the book, they alternate chapters, each lending his own unique voice to two teens named Will Grayson, one of them gay and one of them straight. The event... Read more
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Giants of French Literature: Balzac, Flaubert, Proust, and Camus
By: Katherine Elkins
Narrated by: Katherine Elkins
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
In this series of lectures, Professor Katherine Elkins details the lives and works of the premier French writers of the last two centuries. With keen insight into her subject material, Professor Elkins discusses the attributes that made classics of such works as Balzac's Human Comedy, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Proust's In Search of Lost Time,... Read more
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Contested Will
By: James Shapiro
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 11 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
For nearly two centuries, the authorship of William Shakespeare's plays has been challenged by writers and artists as diverse as Sigmund Freud, Mark Twain, Henry James, Helen Keller, Orson Welles, Malcolm X, and Sir Derek Jacobi. How could a young man from rural Warwickshire, lacking a university education, write some of the greatest works in... Read more
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Talking about Detective Fiction
By: P. D. James
Narrated by: Diana Bishop
Length: 4 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
To judge by the worldwide success of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's Poirot, it is not only the Anglo-Saxons who have an appetite for mystery and mayhem. Talking about the craft of detective writing and sharing her personal thoughts and observations on one of the most popular and enduring forms of literature, P. D.... Read more
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