Is essayist Eula Biss Joan Didion’s heiress apparent?
"Notes From No Man's Land" traverses the American culture and landscape to confront a long history of racism
Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment The Listener, audible, Audiobooks
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The psychopath’s lament
The narrator of Lydia Cooper's "My Second Death" has antisocial personality disorder. But how crazy is she, really?
Thursday, Jan 24, 2013 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment The Listener, Audiobooks
Julie Klausner dated horrible men so that you don’t have to
A darkly comic memoir by the hilarious writer/podcaster reflects on her pursuit of love in all the wrong places
Thursday, Jan 17, 2013 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment Books, Audiobooks, The Listener
My New Year’s resolution: To read Proust
Long daunted by the French master's seven-book masterpiece, I vow to finish it this year on audio
Thursday, Jan 10, 2013 5:04 PM UTCEntertainment Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
Tim O’Brien tries to make sense of wartime chaos
Before writing "The Things They Carried," O'Brien offered this profound memoir of his year fighting in Vietnam
Thursday, Jan 3, 2013 7:00 PM UTCEntertainment Books, tim o'brien, Fiction
Journalists behaving badly
In a new recording of Evelyn Waugh's wickedly funny satire "Scoop," the press descends on an African backwater
Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 4:00 PM UTCEntertainment Books, Fiction, Audiobooks
John Hodgman’s guide to the apocalypse
The humorist's new book of fake trivia offers a deranged millionaire's tips on surviving the end of the world
Thursday, Dec 20, 2012 5:22 PM UTCEntertainment John Hodgman, Mayan calendar
How Christopher Hitchens proved that nothing is sacred
The late author's now-classic "The Missionary Position," a takedown of Mother Teresa, resonates even louder today
Friday, Dec 14, 2012 3:25 PM UTC 12Entertainment The Listener, Audiobooks, audible
Getting extremely loud, incredibly close with Hunter Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson's wild ride of a book, "Screwjack," offers a blueprint to the writer's entire career
Thursday, Dec 6, 2012 8:30 PM UTCEntertainment The Listener
Ben Fountain messes with Texas
In "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk," a reluctant hero examines the hypocrisy and tragedy of the Iraq War
Thursday, Nov 29, 2012 5:49 PM UTCEntertainment Ben Fountain, The Listener
Why “don’t ask, don’t tell” matters
In a new military memoir, a gay veteran explains how damaging it was to hide his real self while serving
Thursday, Nov 22, 2012 5:00 PM UTCEntertainment Books, The Listener, Audio Books
“The Devil in Silver”: The haunted madhouse
Author Victor LaValle brings the voice of Queens to this tale of a demon stalking a mental ward
Thursday, Nov 15, 2012 7:00 PM UTCEntertainment Fiction, Audiobooks
“There Was a Country,” Chinua Achebe’s long-awaited memoir of Biafra
Nigerian poet Chinua Achebe was once Biafra's cultural ambassador. With this memoir, he is its defining historian
Thursday, Nov 8, 2012 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment colonialism, Chinua Ache
“The Twelve”: Life in a vampire nation
The sequel to Justin Cronin's post-apocalyptic "The Passage" makes ideal listening in the aftermath of Sandy
Monday, Nov 5, 2012 5:05 PM UTCEntertainment The Twelve, Justin Cronin
“Create Dangerously”: Edwidge Danticat’s profound meditation on art in exile
The Haitian-American writer's well-researched, resonant work discovers how art can enable us to reclaim power
Thursday, Oct 25, 2012 7:15 PM UTCEntertainment Papa Doc, Francois Duvalier
“The Hobbit” uncut, at last
Rob Inglis' delightfully avuncular unabridged reading of Tolkien's classic is finally available in the U.S.
Thursday, Oct 18, 2012 2:53 PM UTCEntertainment The Listener, Fantasy, The Hobbit
“The Adventures of Cancer Bitch”: Memoir of a sassy survivor
S.L. Wisenberg's virtuosic, poignant book documents her battle with cancer and the malignant culture of dishonesty
Friday, Oct 12, 2012 2:22 PM UTCEntertainment Audio Books, The Listener, Memoir
“The Diviners”: A Jazz Age thriller for teens
Libba Bray's sprawling supernatural epic sets a flapper on the hunt for a serial killer
Thursday, Oct 4, 2012 6:12 PM UTCEntertainment Libba Bray, The Listener
Joan Didion, Diane Keaton bring ’60s alive
The actress narrates an essential new audiobook of "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," which has only deepened with time
Thursday, Sep 27, 2012 7:53 PM UTCEntertainment Books, The Listener, Audio Books
“Beautiful Ruins”: 2012′s best audiobook narration
Edoardo Ballerini shines narrating Jess Walter's novel, set during the filming of "Cleopatra"
Thursday, Sep 20, 2012 7:31 PM UTCEntertainment Books, Fiction, Audiobooks
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