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Censorship Now!!
- By: Ian F. Svenonius
- Narrated by: Ian F. Svenonius
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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Ian F. Svenonius’s new collection of sixteen essays and stories, entitled Censorship Now!!, is reorganizing people’s ideas about censorship, Ikea, documentary film-making, the Berlin Wall, the film Heathers, the twist, the frug, the mashed potato, shaving one’s body, Apple, Inc., Nordic functionalism, the supposed benevolence of the Wikipedia, hoarding, college rock, the origins of the Internet, and more. It’s an underground smash which has been met with horrified gasps in all respectable quarters and gog-eyed enthusiasm in artist garrets the world over.
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Censorship Now!!
- Narrated by: Ian F. Svenonius
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 11-02-2020
- Language: English
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Other Colours
- By: Orhan Pamuk
- Narrated by: John Lee, Maureen Freely
- Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
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Other Colours is a collection of immediate relevance and timeless value, ranging from lyrical autobiography to criticism of literature and culture, from humour to political analysis, from delicate evocations of his friendship with his daughter Ruya to provocative discussions of Eastern and Western art. It also covers Pamuk's recent, high profile, court case.
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Other Colours
- Narrated by: John Lee, Maureen Freely
- Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 06-09-2018
- Language: English
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Awakening Bharat Mata
- By: Swapan Dasgupta
- Narrated by: Vikrant Chaturvedi
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
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This collection is an attempt to showcase the phenomenon of Hindu nationalism in terms of how it perceives itself. Many of the concerns that drive the Indian Right are located in the country's nationalist culture. In trying to locate some of the ideas, attitudes, and beliefs that define the Indian Right, Awakening Bharat Mata also seeks to identify the nature of Indian conservatism and identify its similarities and differences with political thought in the West.
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Awakening Bharat Mata
- Narrated by: Vikrant Chaturvedi
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 15-04-2020
- Language: English
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Politics of the Womb
- The Perils of IVF, Surrogacy and Modified Babies
- By: Pinki Virani
- Narrated by: Monisha Narang
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
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Politics of the Womb proves that there can be broken babies and breaking mothers; it rips away the romanticism around uterus transplants, warns of genetic theft and "designer babies", and points to the human element being sacrificed, as artificial reproduction uses, reuses, and recycles the woman. Pinki Virani combines investigation with analysis to question those who lead the worldwide onslaught on the woman’s womb in the name of babies, and squarely confronts what has become the business of baby-making by a chain of suppliers that manufactures on demand.
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Politics of the Womb
- The Perils of IVF, Surrogacy and Modified Babies
- Narrated by: Monisha Narang
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 02-01-2019
- Language: English
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Visions for the 21st Century
- At the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations
- By: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: Carl Sagan
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
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This recording features the highlights of this historic 1995 event sponsored by the Temple of Understanding and includes a talk by the late cosmologist Carl Sagan. Visions for the 21st Century was a powerful forum for religious leaders, diplomats, nongovernmental organizations, and educators to present their visions for the next century.
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Visions for the 21st Century
- At the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations
- Narrated by: Carl Sagan
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 08-07-2021
- Language: English
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Wild Ducks Flying Backward
- The Short Writings of Tom Robbins
- By: Tom Robbins
- Narrated by: Tom Robbins
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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Known for his meaty seriocomic novels–expansive works that are simultaneously lowbrow and highbrow–Tom Robbins has also published over the years a number of short pieces, predominantly nonfiction. His travel articles, essays, and tributes to actors, musicians, sex kittens, and thinkers have appeared in publications ranging from Esquire to Harper’s, from Playboy to the New York Times, High Times, and Life.
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Wild Ducks Flying Backward
- The Short Writings of Tom Robbins
- Narrated by: Tom Robbins
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 29-08-2005
- Language: English
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The Memory Palace
- True Short Stories of the Past
- By: Nate DiMeo
- Length: 10 hrs
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The Memory Palace is a collection of tiny, crystalline historical tales that come across like luminous short fiction, and, like Nate DiMeo’s acclaimed podcast of the same name, conjure lost moments and forgotten figures who are calling out across time to be remembered.
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The Memory Palace
- True Short Stories of the Past
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 19-11-2024
- Language: English
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The Pied Piper
- Bloodlands collection
- By: Harold Schechter
- Narrated by: Steven Weber
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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With makeup and an affected Elvis pout, Tucson’s Charlie Schmid was a crude parody of a bad-boy heartthrob. In 1964, he still had a hold on girls who’d follow him anywhere. He murdered three of them. It was the dawn of the free-love movement - perfect for a magnetic madman who’d also foreshadow its end a few years later in the malignant charisma of Charles Manson. The inspiration for a classic story by Joyce Carol Oates, Schmid, the most bizarre serial killer of any era, was the epitome of a narcissist flattered into believing he could get away with murder.
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The Pied Piper
- Bloodlands collection
- Narrated by: Steven Weber
- Series: Bloodlands Collection
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Release date: 28-06-2018
- Language: English
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Curry
- Eating, Reading, and Race
- By: Naben Ruthnum
- Narrated by: Naben Ruthnum
- Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
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Curry is a dish that doesn't quite exist, but, as this wildly funny and sharp essay points out, a dish that doesn't properly exist can have infinite, equally authentic variations. By grappling with novels, recipes, travelogues, pop culture, and his own upbringing, Naben Ruthnum depicts how the distinctive taste of curry has often become maladroit shorthand for brown identity. Ruthnum sinks his teeth into the story of how the beloved flavor calcified into an aesthetic genre that limits the imaginations of writers, readers, and eaters.
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Curry
- Eating, Reading, and Race
- Narrated by: Naben Ruthnum
- Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 12-03-2019
- Language: English
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Dead Girls
- Essays on Surviving an American Obsession
- By: Alice Bolin
- Narrated by: Em Eldridge
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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In this poignant collection, Alice Bolin examines iconic American works from the essays of Joan Didion and James Baldwin to Twin Peaks, Britney Spears, and Serial, illuminating the widespread obsession with women who are abused, killed, and disenfranchised, and whose bodies (dead and alive) are used as props to bolster men’s stories. Smart and accessible, thoughtful and heartfelt, Bolin investigates the implications of our cultural fixations, and her own role as a consumer and creator.
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Dead Girls
- Essays on Surviving an American Obsession
- Narrated by: Em Eldridge
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 26-06-2018
- Language: English
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Essays and Lectures
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Bryan Godwin
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
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'Essays and Lectures' is a collection of essays and lectures by Oscar Wilde. 'Essays and Lectures' contains "The Rise of Historical Criticism", "The English Renaissance of Art", "House Decoration", "Art and the Handicraftsman", "Lecture to Art Students", "London Models" and "Poems in Prose".
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Essays and Lectures
- Narrated by: Bryan Godwin
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 26-05-2023
- Language: English
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We Can Do Better Than This
- An urgent manifesto for how we can shape a better world for LGBTQ+ people
- By: Amelia Abraham - editor
- Narrated by: Amelia Abraham, Owen Jones, Peppermint, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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We talk about achieving 'LGBTQ+ equality', but around the world, LGBTQ+ people are still suffering discrimination and extreme violence. How do we solve this urgent problem, allowing queer people everywhere the opportunity to thrive? In We Can Do Better Than This, 35 voices explore this question. Through deeply moving stories and provocative new arguments on safety and visibility, dating and gender, care and community, they map new global frontiers in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights.
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We Can Do Better Than This
- An urgent manifesto for how we can shape a better world for LGBTQ+ people
- Narrated by: Amelia Abraham, Owen Jones, Peppermint, Amrou Al-Kadhi, Yasmin Benoit, Wolfgang Tillmans, Naoise Dolan, Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, Travis Alabanza
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 03-06-2021
- Language: English
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Stand Out & Succeed
- Discover Your Passion, Accelerate Your Career and Become Recession-Proof
- By: Christy Frank
- Narrated by: Christy Frank
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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Do you want advice on how to stand out in a crowded marketplace? Do you want to take your career to the next level and beyond? In Stand Out & Succeed, career and business strategist Christy Frank explains how the job market really works, and shows you the strategies, psychology and tactics you need to know to get a lucrative, recession-proof career you love. The biggest problem with finding a job today is that we actually have two job markets, and 95% of people don't know how to perform well in either.
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Stand Out & Succeed
- Discover Your Passion, Accelerate Your Career and Become Recession-Proof
- Narrated by: Christy Frank
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 26-08-2015
- Language: English
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Frantumaglia
- A Writer’s Journey
- By: Elena Ferrante
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
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Consisting of over 20 years of letters, essays, reflections, and interviews, Frantumaglia is a unique depiction of an author who embodies a consummate passion for writing. Ferrante answers many of her listeners’ questions. She addresses her choice to stand aside and let her books live autonomous lives.
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Frantumaglia
- A Writer’s Journey
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 03-01-2022
- Language: English
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Map Reading
- The Nobel Lecture and Other Writings
- By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 58 mins
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Generous, funny and wise, this collection is the perfect introduction to the storyteller described as ‘one of Africa’s most important living writers’; whose work, now spanning four decades, continues to spin wonder and magic while offering penetrating insight into exile, migration and homecoming.
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Map Reading
- The Nobel Lecture and Other Writings
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 58 mins
- Release date: 24-11-2022
- Language: English
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The Lives of the Saints
- The Laureate Lectures
- By: Sebastian Barry
- Narrated by: Sebastian Barry
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
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Sebastian Barry's writing career has been as long and varied as it has extraordinary. Intimate, revealing and generous of heart, these three lectures—written and delivered as part of his three-year tenure as the laureate for Irish fiction—reflect on his life and career so far, and some of the formative moments and people he's met along the way.
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The Lives of the Saints
- The Laureate Lectures
- Narrated by: Sebastian Barry
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 07-04-2022
- Language: English
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Interior States
- Essays
- By: Meghan O'Gieblyn
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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The critic and essayist Meghan O'Gieblyn was born into an evangelical family, attended the famed Moody Bible Institute in Chicago for a time before she had a crisis of belief, and still lives in the Midwest, aka "Flyover Country". She writes of her "existential dizziness, a sense that the rest of the world is moving while you remain still", and that rich sense of ambivalence and internal division inform the 15 superbly thoughtful and ironic essays in this collection.
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Interior States
- Essays
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 09-10-2018
- Language: English
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Orthodoxy
- By: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: Fred Williams
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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G. K. Chesterton was a journalist, playwright, poet, biographer, novelist, essayist, literary commentator, editor, orator, artist, and theologian. Orthodoxy is his great apologia for the Christian faith, which was prompted by a serious attack in 1903 against Christianity by well-known newspaper editor Robert Blatchford.
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Orthodoxy
- Narrated by: Fred Williams
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 14-12-2006
- Language: English
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The Best American Short Stories 2022
- Best American
- By: Andrew Sean Greer - editor, Heidi Pitlor - series editor
- Narrated by: Andrew Sean Greer, Reynaldo Piniella, Shawn K. Jain, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
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A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor.
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The Best American Short Stories 2022
- Best American
- Narrated by: Andrew Sean Greer, Reynaldo Piniella, Shawn K. Jain, Carolina Hoyos, Cherise Boothe, Cindy Kay
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 01-11-2022
- Language: English
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長生きにこだわらない 最後の日まで幸福に生きたいあなたへ
- Narrated by: 釣谷 伸樹
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 18-09-2020
- Language: Japanese
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