Arts & Entertainment

Feuding Fan Dancers

by Leslie Zemeckis; read by Christa Lewis

Leslie Zemeckis continues to discover the forgotten feminist histories of the golden age of entertainment, turning her sights on the lost stories of Sally Rand and Faith Bacon—icons who each claimed to be the inventor of the notorious fan dance.
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Fantasy Expert

by Ron Shandler; read by BJ Harrison

An entertaining and incisive chronicle from one of the foremost authorities in fantasy baseball. Learn More

Fantasies of Nina Simone

by Jordan Alexander Stein; read by Janina Edwards

F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available June

Since her death in 2003, Nina Simone has been the subject of an astonishing number of rereleased, remastered, and remixed albums and compilations as well as biographies, films, viral memes, samples, and soundtracks. In Fantasies of Nina Simone, Jordan Alexander Stein examines the space between our collective and individual fantasies about Simone the performer, civil rights activist, and icon, and her own fantasies about herself. Learn More

A Family Christmas

Selected and Introduced by Caroline Kennedy; read by Caroline Kennedy and an ensemble cast

Just in time for the holidays: a collection of beloved Christmas stories and writings that every family will cherish. Learn More

Falstaff

by Harold Bloom; read by Simon Vance

From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time comes "a timely reminder of the power and possibility of words [and] the last love letter to the shaping spirit of Bloom's imagination" (front page, The New York Times Book Review) and an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Falstaff—one of Shakespeare's greatest enduring and most complex comedic characters. Learn More

The Exorcist Legacy

by Nat Segaloff; read by Joe Hempel

Since 1973, The Exorcist and its progeny have scared and inspired half a century of filmgoers. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of the original movie release, this is the definitive, fascinating story of the scariest movie ever made and its lasting impact as one of the most shocking, influential, and successful adventures in the history of film. Written by Nat Segaloff, an original publicist for the movie and the acclaimed biographer of its director, with a foreword from John Russo, author and cowriter of the seminal horror film Night of the Living Dead. Learn More

Everybody's Doin' It

by Dale Cockrell; read by Jonathan Todd Ross

Everybody's Doin' It is the eye-opening story of popular music's seventy-year rise in the brothels, dance halls, and dives of New York City. Learn More

Escalante's Dream

by David Roberts; read by Robert Fass

Famed adventure writer David Roberts retraces the route of the legendary Domínguez-Escalante expedition. Learn More

Elizabeth and Monty

by Charles Casillo; read by Paul Heitsch

Violet-eyed siren Elizabeth Taylor and classically handsome Montgomery Clift were the most gorgeous screen couple of their time. Over two decades of friendship they made, separately and together, some of the era's defining movies. Yet the relationship between these two figures has never truly been explored until now. Learn More

Driven to Write

edited by Ellen Pinsky and Michael Slevin; read by Tanya Eby

F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available November

Driven to Write provides fresh, practical, and imaginative approaches to literary art for aspiring and established writers alike. Learn More

Driven

by martin popoff; read by Michael Butler Murry

In this conclusion to his trilogy of authoritative books on Canada's most beloved and successful rock band, Martin Popoff takes us through three decades of "life at the top" for Rush's Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart. Learn More

Dreams to Remember

Mark Ribowsky; read by Dan John Miller

A soul icon and the Southern music he helped popularize come to life in this moving requiem. Learn More

Doomed to Fail

by J.J. Anselmi; foreword by Cat Jones; read by Adam Lofbomm

Doomed to Fail explores the heaviest music the world has ever heard, tracing doom, sludge, and post-metal as their own distinct (and incredibly loud) traditions. Learn More

Don't Let Me Be Lonely

by Claudia Rankine; read by Janina Edwards

The award-winning poet Claudia Rankine, well known for her experimental multigenre writing, fuses the lyric and the essay in this politically and morally fierce examination of solitude in the rapacious and media-driven assault on selfhood that is contemporary America. Learn More

Don't Call Us Dead

by Danez Smith; read by Danez Smith

Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection

Don't Call Us Dead is an astonishing and ambitious collection, one that confronts, praises, and rebukes America—"Dear White America"—where every day is too often a funeral and not often enough a miracle. Learn More

Doctor Who Psychology

Edited by Travis Langley, Foreword by Katy Manning; read by Esther Wane and Matthew Lloyd Davies

With a foreword by Third Doctor Companion Katy Manning and interviews with actors who played Doctors new and old, Doctor Who Psychology travels through the how and why of Who. It's all timey-wimey. Learn More

The Devil Is in It

by John Stubbings; read by Gareth Richards

F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available January

The rich history of the acoustic guitar and its impact on the music world. Learn More

Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda

by F. Scott Fitzgerald & Zelda Fitzgerald; Edited by Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks; read by Mike Chamberlain & Amy Landon

Through his alcoholism and her mental illness, his career lows and her institutional confinement, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's devotion to each other endured for over twenty-two years. Now, for the first time, we have the story of their love in the couple's own letters. Learn More

Dark Carnivals

by W. Scott Poole; read by Enrique McGavin

The panoramic story of how the horror genre transformed into one of the most incisive critiques of unchecked American imperial power. Learn More

The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman

by Niko Stratis; read by Niko Stratis

A memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us. Learn More

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