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Pity the Reader

by Suzanne McConnell & Kurt Vonnegut; read by Karen White

The art and craft of writing by one of the few grandmasters of American literature, a bonanza for writers and readers written by Kurt Vonnegut's former student. Learn More

Piece By Piece

Calvin Trillin; read by the author

This original recording—his first—features Trillin at his most uproarious, reading from his own articles and books. Learn More

Picasso's War sheds light on the conflict that was an ominous prelude to WWII and delivers an unforgettable portrait of a genius whose visionary statement about horror and terrible wounds of war still resonates today. Learn More

The Physics of Superheroes

by James Kakalios; Foreword by Lawrence M. Krauss; read by Kevin T. Collins

A complete update to the hit book on the real physics at work in comic books, featuring more heroes, more villains, and more science. Learn More

Pessoa

by Richard Zenith; read by Hannibal Hills

Like Richard Ellmann's James Joyce, Richard Zenith's Pessoa immortalizes the life of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Learn More

Permanent Damage

by Mercy Fontenot, Lyndsey Parker; read by Natasha Soudek

Mercy Fontenot was a Zelig who grew up in the San Francisco Haight-Ashbury scene, where she crossed paths with Charles Manson, went to the first Acid Test, and was friends with Jimi Hendrix (she was later in his movie Rainbow Bridge). Written just prior to her death in 2020, Permanent Damage shows us the world of the 1960s and 1970s music scene through Mercy's eyes. Learn More

The Perfume Burned His Eyes

by Michael Imperioli; read by Michael Imperioli

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Screenwriter and Emmy Award–winning actor Michael Imperioli presents a must-listen coming-of-age story set in New York City. Learn More

Paris to the Moon

Adam Gopnik; read by Adam Gopnik

Weaving the magical with the mundane, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik offers a wholly delightful, often hilarious look at what it was to be an American family man in Paris at the end of the twentieth century. Learn More

Overcome

by Amber van de Bunt; read by Amber van de Bunt

With humor, alacrity, and profound insight, Amber van de Bunt reveals her deepest, darkest secrets and pulls no punches—least of all with herself. Learn More

Opening Wednesday at a Theater Or Drive-In Near You

by Charles Taylor; read by A.T. Chandler

Revisiting the films that don't make the Academy Award montages, Charles Taylor finds a treasury many of us have forgotten, movies that in fact "unlock the secrets of the times." Learn More

Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

by Alexandra Petri; read by Rebecca Gibel

These impossibly cheerful essays on the routine horrors of the present era explain everything from the resurgence of measles to the fiasco of the presidency. Learn More

Norco '80

by Peter Houlahan; read by Joe Barrett

One of NPR's Best Books of the Year
Hammett Prize Finalist

In the spirit of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Onion Field, Norco '80 is a gripping true crime account of one of the most violent bank heists in U.S. history. Learn More

No Encore!

by Drew Fortune; read by Peter Berkrot

Featuring never-before-told stories, No Encore! takes you on tour with over sixty iconic musicians as they relive their weirdest, wildest, most embarrassing gigs. Learn More

Necessary Death

by Chris Grosso and Preston Fassel; read by Joe Hempel

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Based on very real and practical commentary, life experience, and occasionally, tongue-in-cheek-misfortunes of horror legends, Necessary Death explores how the horror genre, its motifs and characters, offer individuals a unique opportunity for insight and understanding of their own lives. Learn More

My West Side Story

by George Chakiris, Lindsay Harrison, Rita Moreno; read by George Chakiris, George Newbern

George Chakiris presents his must-listen memoir, My West Side Story. Learn More

My Baby First Birthday

by Jenny Zhang; read by Jenny Zhang

A New York Public Library Best Book of 2020
A Best Read of 2020 at Ms. Magazine

Radiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday is a collection that examines innocence, asking us who gets to be loved and who has to deplete themselves just to survive. Learn More

Mutations

by Sam McPheeters & Tobi Vail; read by Sam McPheeters

In this collection of essays, profiles, criticism, and personal history, Sam McPheeters examines the diverse realms of punk he intersected—New York hardcore, Riot Grrrl, Gilman street, the hidden enclaves of Olympia, New England, and downtown Los Angeles—and the forces of mental illness and creative inspiration that drove him, and others, in the first place. Learn More

Music for Prime Time

by Jon Burlingame; read by Paul Woodson

The first serious, journalistic history of music for American television, Music for Prime Time only tells the backstory of every great TV theme but also examines the many neglected and frequently underrated orchestral and jazz compositions for television dating back to the late 1940s. Learn More

Mr. B

by Jennifer Homans; read by Cassandra Campbell

Pulitzer Prize Finalist

Based on a decade of unprecedented research, the first major biography of George Balanchine, a broad-canvas portrait set against the backdrop of the tumultuous century that shaped the man the New York Times called "the Shakespeare of dancing"—from the bestselling author of Apollo's Angels. Learn More

The Man of the Crowd

by Scott Peeples & Michelle Van Parys; read by Daniel Henning

The Man of the Crowd challenges the popular conception of Edgar Allan Poe as an isolated artist living in a world of his own imagination, detached from his physical surroundings. Learn More

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