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Love's Executioner
- By: Irvin D. Yalom
- Narrated by: C.M. Carlson
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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The collection of 10 absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter....
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Challenging Convention
- By Nicky Webber on 26-08-2017
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Growing up Aboriginal in Australia
- By: Anita Heiss
- Narrated by: Gregory J Fryer, Hunter Page-Lochard, Lisa Maza, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question....
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Great honest storytelling
- By Anonymous User on 29-11-2018
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Fraud
- By: David Rakoff
- Narrated by: David Rakoff
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
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Wherever he is, David Rakoff is a fish out of water. Whether impersonating Sigmund Freud in a department store window during the holidays, climbing an icy mountain in cheap loafers...
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Beautiful writing wonderfully performed
- By Anonymous User on 28-12-2021
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Cultural Amnesia
- Notes in the Margin of My Time
- By: Clive James
- Narrated by: Clive James
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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An almanac combining a survey of modern culture with an index of who-was-who and what-was-what, Cultural Amnesia is a unique take on the places and faces that shaped the 20th century....
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Absolutely excellent
- By Richard on 12-12-2019
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The Empathy Exams
- Essays
- By: Leslie Jamison
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions....
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Depth and richness
- By William on 19-03-2018
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On the Origin of Species
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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A literally world-changing book, Darwin put forward the anti-religious and scientific idea that humans in fact evolved over millions of generations from animals....
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Darwin and Dawkins, what’s not to love?
- By Anonymous User on 23-03-2018
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Love's Executioner
- By: Irvin D. Yalom
- Narrated by: C.M. Carlson
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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The collection of 10 absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter....
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Challenging Convention
- By Nicky Webber on 26-08-2017
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Growing up Aboriginal in Australia
- By: Anita Heiss
- Narrated by: Gregory J Fryer, Hunter Page-Lochard, Lisa Maza, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question....
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Great honest storytelling
- By Anonymous User on 29-11-2018
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Fraud
- By: David Rakoff
- Narrated by: David Rakoff
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
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Wherever he is, David Rakoff is a fish out of water. Whether impersonating Sigmund Freud in a department store window during the holidays, climbing an icy mountain in cheap loafers...
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Beautiful writing wonderfully performed
- By Anonymous User on 28-12-2021
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Cultural Amnesia
- Notes in the Margin of My Time
- By: Clive James
- Narrated by: Clive James
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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An almanac combining a survey of modern culture with an index of who-was-who and what-was-what, Cultural Amnesia is a unique take on the places and faces that shaped the 20th century....
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Absolutely excellent
- By Richard on 12-12-2019
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The Empathy Exams
- Essays
- By: Leslie Jamison
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions....
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Depth and richness
- By William on 19-03-2018
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On the Origin of Species
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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A literally world-changing book, Darwin put forward the anti-religious and scientific idea that humans in fact evolved over millions of generations from animals....
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Darwin and Dawkins, what’s not to love?
- By Anonymous User on 23-03-2018
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Essential
- Essays by the Minimalists
- By: Joshua Fields Millburn, Ryan Nicodemus
- Narrated by: Justin Malik
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
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This book by Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus collects the most relevant essays - some short, some long - from their popular website, TheMinimalists.com....
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Loved the collection of Minimalist articles
- By Taikozfan on 24-03-2017
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Life's Amazing Secrets
- How to Find Balance and Purpose in Your Life
- By: Gaur Gopal Das
- Narrated by: Gaur Gopal Das
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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While navigating their way through Mumbai's horrendous traffic, Gaur Gopal Das and his wealthy young friend, Harry, get talking, delving into concepts ranging from the human condition to finding one's purpose in life and the key to lasting happiness....
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Marvellous
- By Anonymous User on 03-03-2022
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What My Mother and I Don't Talk About
- Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
- By: Michele Filgate
- Narrated by: Michele Filgate, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Roger Casey, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize that she was actually trying to write about how this affected her relationship with her mother....
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On Drinking
- By: Charles Bukowski
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
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A powerful testament to the pleasures and miseries of a life in drink, and a window into the soul of one of our most beloved and enduring writers, On Drinking is the definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol....
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On Doubt
- Little Books on Big Ideas
- By: Leigh Sales
- Narrated by: Louise Crawford
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
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When society seems to demand confidence and certainty, how much courage does it take to admit doubt, especially self-doubt? In this personal essay, one of Australia's most respected journalists argues in favour of a doubtful mind....
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Wish the author narrated
- By Anonymous User on 11-01-2021
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On Meditation
- By: Sri M.
- Narrated by: Rajiv Dadia
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
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In today's challenging and busy world, don't you wish you knew how to quiet your mind and focus on yourself? In On Meditation, renowned spiritual leader, Sri M, answers all your questions on the practice and benefits of meditation....
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Great content but audio file badly needs editing!
- By Amazon Customer on 17-08-2020
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On Quiet
- Little Books on Big Ideas
- By: Nikki Gemmell
- Narrated by: Nikki Gemmell
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
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Quiet comes as a shock in these troubled times....
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In Praise of Shadows
- By: Junichiro Tanizaki
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
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In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics....
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Japanese aesthetics
- By Caroline Esbenshade on 11-05-2024
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It's Not About the Burqa
- Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race
- By: Mariam Khan
- Narrated by: Mariam Khan, Amna Saleem, Afshan D'souza-Lodhi, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
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What does it mean, exactly, to be a Muslim woman in the West today? According to the media, it’s all about the burqa. Here’s what it’s really about....
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Amazing read for Muslim and non Muslim listeners
- By Anonymous User on 04-12-2019
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Democracy in America
- By: Alexis de Tocqueville
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 34 hrs and 4 mins
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In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through the eastern United States....
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On the Genealogy of Morals
- A Polemic
- By: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Duncan Steen
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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In On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche furthers his pursuit of a clarity that is less tainted by imposed prejudices....
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Love this book
- By Daniel Schuller on 03-11-2022
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Alan Bennett: Untold Stories
- Read by Alan Bennett
- By: Alan Bennett
- Narrated by: Alan Bennett
- Length: 10 hrs
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Funny, thoughtful, and fascinating, this wonderful series of essays and stories read by the author offers an extraordinary journey into an exceptional career of an award-winning writer....
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Insomniac City
- New York, Oliver, and Me
- By: Bill Hayes
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by....
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enjoyed every precious moment
- By Patrick on 11-03-2018
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How to Be Alone
- If You Want to, and Even If You Don't
- By: Lane Moore
- Narrated by: Lane Moore
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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How to Be Alone is a must-listen for anyone whose childhood still feels unresolved, who spends more time pretending to have friends online than feeling close to anyone in real life, who tries to have genuine, deep conversations in a roomful of people who'd rather you not....
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Doesn’t teach you anything
- By Aleisha lommerse on 22-05-2022
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Orwell: The Essays
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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A wide-ranging selection of George Orwell's essays, written in the clear-eyed, passionate and uncompromising style that has earned him a reputation as one of Britain's greatest writers....
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Secret Societies and Subversive Movements
- By: Nesta Helen Webster
- Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
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Sound interesting? Listen to Secret Societies and Subversive Movements and learn about the author's views on politics, history, and the occult....
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The Perils of Being Moderately Famous
- By: Soha Ali Khan
- Narrated by: Mary Joseph
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
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Actor Soha Ali Khan's debut audiobook is at heart a brilliant collection of personal essays where she recounts with self-deprecating humor what it was like growing up in one of the most illustrious families of the country....
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Growing Up African in Australia
- By: Maxine Beneba Clarke
- Narrated by: Ahmed Yussuf, Candy Bowers, Faustina Agolley, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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Compiled by award-winning author Maxine Beneba Clarke, with curatorial assistance from writers Ahmed Yussuf and Magan Magan, this anthology brings together the regions of Africa, and the African diaspora, from the Caribbean to the Americas....
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Generally good book but sometimes hard to listen
- By Sally on 18-09-2021
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300 Arguments: Essays
- By: Sarah Manguso
- Narrated by: Sarah Manguso
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
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A brilliant and exhilarating sequence of aphorisms from one of our greatest essayists....
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I Wear the Black Hat
- Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)
- By: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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From best-selling author Chuck Klosterman comes a new book of all original pieces. I Wear the Black Hat is the rare example of serious criticism that's instantly accessible and really, really funny....
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How to Ruin Everything
- Essays
- By: George Watsky
- Narrated by: George Watsky
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
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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....
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Great Story
- By Sam on 06-09-2022
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Under the Duvet
- By: Marian Keyes
- Narrated by: Marian Keyes
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
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Many think that Marian leads a glitzy life of limos, television, and showbiz parties - but she would argue that she spends the majority of her life writing alone, wearing her PJs....
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Interesting and funny insights
- By Anonymous User on 30-04-2024
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The Periodic Table
- By: Primo Levi
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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The Periodic Table by Primo Levi is an impassioned response to the Holocaust: Consisting of 21 short stories, each possessing the name of a chemical element....
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Astoundingly beautiful
- By Anonymous User on 26-07-2017
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In Gratitude
- By: Jenny Diski
- Narrated by: Kim Hicks
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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In August 2014 Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given 'two or three years' to live. She didn't know how to react. All responses felt scripted, laden with cliché....
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The Art of Dying
- Writings, 2019-2022
- By: Peter Schjeldahl, Steve Martin - foreword by, Jarrett Earnest - introduction by
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
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When Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker’s art critic and the leading art writer of his generation, published his eye-opening autobiographical essay, “The Art of Dying,” in December 2019, he reported that he had lung cancer and had been given six months of life. Fortunately, his treatment was showing some improvement, and so, he wrote, “These extra months are a luxury that I hope to have put to good use.”
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Magical/Realism
- Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
- 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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A Black Girl in the Middle
- Essays on (Allegedly) Figuring It All Out
- By: Shenequa Golding
- Narrated by: Aure Nash
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In A Black Girl in the Middle, a timely, compelling, and blazingly honest essay collection, Shenequa Golding holds up her magnifying glass to both her own experiences and those of young Black women everywhere. With her trademark wit and originality, Shenequa covers identity-searching themes of white supremacy, feminism, misogyny, love, sex and heartbreak. But this isn't just a book about Black women's trauma, it is also a book that embraces and celebrates the things that make Black women different.
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Metamorphoses
- In Search of Franz Kafka
- By: Karolina Watroba
- Narrated by: Deborah Balm
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2024, exactly one hundred years after his death at the age of 40, readers and listeners all over the world will reach for the works of Franz Kafka. Many of them will want to learn more about the enigmatic man behind the classic books filled with mysterious courts and monstrous insects. Who, exactly, was Franz Kafka? Karolina Watroba, the first Germanist ever elected as a Fellow of Oxford's All Souls College, will tell Kafka's story beyond the boundaries of language, time and space, travelling from the Prague of Kafka's birth through the work of contemporary writers in East Asia.
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Small Victories
- Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace
- By: Anne Lamott
- Narrated by: Anne Lamott
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Excitable Boy
- Essays on Risk
- By: Dominic Gordon
- Narrated by: Dominic Gordon, Kyle Walmsley
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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What happens to the adolescent spirit when all vestiges of innocence about the world are foregone, replaced within the grinding sounds of concrete and metal of the CBD of Melbourne? A place where train tunnels become nesting sites, carpark stairwells spots to refuel on methamphetamine and hide from predators; where agility leads you across nightclub rooftops, yielding cash in tight spaces with a quick reflex. For a rest, why not ride on the back of a train as it speeds through the night? The dangers of a decades-long exploration of risk in the streets of his city is exhilarating.
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The Art of Dying
- Writings, 2019-2022
- By: Peter Schjeldahl, Steve Martin - foreword by, Jarrett Earnest - introduction by
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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When Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker’s art critic and the leading art writer of his generation, published his eye-opening autobiographical essay, “The Art of Dying,” in December 2019, he reported that he had lung cancer and had been given six months of life. Fortunately, his treatment was showing some improvement, and so, he wrote, “These extra months are a luxury that I hope to have put to good use.”
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Magical/Realism
- Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
- By: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
- Narrated by: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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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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A Black Girl in the Middle
- Essays on (Allegedly) Figuring It All Out
- By: Shenequa Golding
- Narrated by: Aure Nash
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In A Black Girl in the Middle, a timely, compelling, and blazingly honest essay collection, Shenequa Golding holds up her magnifying glass to both her own experiences and those of young Black women everywhere. With her trademark wit and originality, Shenequa covers identity-searching themes of white supremacy, feminism, misogyny, love, sex and heartbreak. But this isn't just a book about Black women's trauma, it is also a book that embraces and celebrates the things that make Black women different.
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Metamorphoses
- In Search of Franz Kafka
- By: Karolina Watroba
- Narrated by: Deborah Balm
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2024, exactly one hundred years after his death at the age of 40, readers and listeners all over the world will reach for the works of Franz Kafka. Many of them will want to learn more about the enigmatic man behind the classic books filled with mysterious courts and monstrous insects. Who, exactly, was Franz Kafka? Karolina Watroba, the first Germanist ever elected as a Fellow of Oxford's All Souls College, will tell Kafka's story beyond the boundaries of language, time and space, travelling from the Prague of Kafka's birth through the work of contemporary writers in East Asia.
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Small Victories
- Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace
- By: Anne Lamott
- Narrated by: Anne Lamott
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Excitable Boy
- Essays on Risk
- By: Dominic Gordon
- Narrated by: Dominic Gordon, Kyle Walmsley
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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What happens to the adolescent spirit when all vestiges of innocence about the world are foregone, replaced within the grinding sounds of concrete and metal of the CBD of Melbourne? A place where train tunnels become nesting sites, carpark stairwells spots to refuel on methamphetamine and hide from predators; where agility leads you across nightclub rooftops, yielding cash in tight spaces with a quick reflex. For a rest, why not ride on the back of a train as it speeds through the night? The dangers of a decades-long exploration of risk in the streets of his city is exhilarating.
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Bite by Bite
- Nourishments and Jamborees
- By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Narrated by: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
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In Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the way food and drink evoke our associations and remembrances—a subtext or layering, a flavor tinged with joy, shame, exuberance, grief, desire, or nostalgia. Nezhukmatathil restores our astonishment and wonder about food through her encounters with a range of foods and food traditions. From shave ice to lumpia, mangoes to pecans, rambutan to vanilla, she investigates how food marks our experiences and identities and explores the boundaries between heritage and memory.
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Mean Boys
- A Personal History
- By: Geoffrey Mak
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Mak
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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In this pyrotechnic memoir-in-essays, Mak ranges widely over our landscape of paranoia, crisis, and frenetic, clickable consumption. He grants listeners an inside pass to the spaces where culture was made and unmade over the past decade, from the antiseptic glare of white-walled galleries to the darkest corners of Berlin techno clubs. As the gay son of an evangelical minister, Mak fled to those spaces, hoping to join a global, influential elite. But when calamity struck, it forced Mak to confront the costs of mistaking status for belonging.
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Dispersals
- On Plants, Borders and Belonging
- By: Jessica J. Lee
- Narrated by: Jessica J. Lee
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
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Born in Canada to a Taiwanese mother and a Welsh father, steeped in both literary and scientific traditions, Jessica J. Lee is a perfectly placed observer of our world in motion. In this vibrant book of linked essays she explores the entanglements of the plant and human worlds, and the echoes and counterpoints she detects in the migration of plants and people - and the language we use to describe them.
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Familiarity Breeds Content
- New and Selected Essays
- By: Joseph Epstein
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 14 hrs
- Unabridged
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America’s greatest living essayist writes about life and aging and being all too nicely out of it. In these personal pieces, he takes on topics as varied as grieving for a dead son, learning Latin late in life, and the pleasures of living with cats. Epstein gives us a “bonfire of his own vanities,” his thoughts about why watching sports is so impossibly seductive, what it is like to be short, and why he misses smoking even decades as a health-obsessed non-smoker.
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Notes of a Native Son
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
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James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher father and his experiences of Paris, they capture the complexity of black life at the dawn of the civil rights movement with effervescent wit and prophetic wisdom.
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Ghost Dogs
- On Killers and Kin
- By: Andre Dubus III
- Narrated by: Andre Dubus III
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In Ghost Dogs, Dubus’s nonfiction prowess is on full display in his retelling of his own successes, failures, triumphs, and pain. In his longest essay, “If I Owned a Gun,” Dubus reflects on the empowerment and shame he felt in keeping a gun, and his decision, ultimately, to give it up. Elsewhere, he writes of a violent youth and of settled domesticity and fatherhood, about the omnipresent expectations and contradictions of masculinity, about the things writers remember and those they forget.