Since 1997, Bold Type has served as an online forum for authors and readers to meet head-on, and has featured original material from literary luminaries, film directors, mountain climbers, and Nobel laureates. Bold Type is packed with authors, including Margaret Atwood, Ha Jin, Robert Lowell, John Updike, Nathan Englander, Elizabeth McCracken, Jonathon Lethem, Richard Price and Jon Krakauer. Salon Audio is pleased to partner with Bold Type to bring you more of the best literary audio on the web.

"Bold Type is a labor of love produced by a handful of Random House employees, who have the luxury of drawing on their sponsor's stable of writers without the encumbrance of the usual click-here/buy-now hype... The talent on display is of a consistently high quality, and the authors speak in vibrant and immediate voices." --The New Yorker

Vikram Seth
Listen to Vikram Seth read about rekindling passion in the midst of London traffic in "An Equal Music."

Jonathan Ames
Germ Mania! Jonathan Ames discovers the tip of a rubber glove in his salad as he reads his short story "Free Meals" from his book "What's Not to Love?"

Michael Paterniti
Ride along with journalist Michael Paterniti, who has Einstein's brain in the trunk, as he reads from "Driving Mr. Albert"

Matthew Klam
Matthew Klam takes a hilarious look at modern love in his recent collection of stories, "Sam the Cat." Listen to him read "Issues I Dealt With in Therapy."

Myla Goldberg
Queen bee: Myla Goldberg reads from her debut novel "Bee Season," and introduces us to the mysterious and nefarious world of spelling bees.

Nathan Englander
How Do You Spell Relief? A rabbi grants a Hasidic man permission to see a prostitute in Nathan Englander's "For the Relief of Unbearable Urges."

Aimee Bender
Bender's writing luxuriates equally in the mundane and the miraculous. Hear her read The Rememberer from "The Girl in the Flammable Skirt," her recent collection of inventive stories.

Matthew Sharpe
Listen to Matthew Sharpe's "Nothing is Terrible," where New York is a carnival paradise populated by druggie prodigies, philosopher-supermodels, and urban survivalists.