Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/560169 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Will You Read This, Please? Author: Joanna Cannon Narrator: Mofetoluwa Akande, Catrin Walker-Booth, Cecilia Appiah, Harrison Knights, Elliot Chapman, Eilidh Beaton, Joe Jameson, Lucy Price-Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 1 minute Release date: May 11, 2023 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: ‘Moving and vital’ i NEWS ‘A beautiful book’ EVENING STANDARD ‘Deserves to be read by as wide an audience as possible’ DAILY MIRROR How do we give a voice to those who so often remain unheard? Will You Read This, Please? is a frank and impactful collection of twelve stories written in conjunction with our best British writers, including Tracy Chevalier and Clare Mackintosh, based on the lived experience of people who have faced mental illness in the UK. Edited by Sunday Times bestselling author Joanna Cannon, the stories told here are powerful, resonant and heart-breaking. This is a ground-breaking and unforgettable collection, shining a light on the stigma and isolation of living with mental illness, while also showing the strength and resilience of the human spirit.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551257 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Somewhere We Are Human Donde somos humanos (Spanish edition): Historias genuinas sobre migración, sobrevivencia y renaceres Author: Sonia Guiñansaca, Reyna Grande Narrator: Alejandra Corman, Diana Pou, Avi Roque, Christian Barillas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Una colección de 35 ensayos y poemas audaces, importantes e innovadores de inmigrantes, refugiados y soñadores, incluidos escritores, artistas y activistas galardonados, que iluminan la experiencia de vivir sin documentos. Durante este tiempo de inestabilidad política e incertidumbre, esta colección de ensayos, poesía y arte tiene como objetivo cambiar el imaginario colectivo de la nación sobre los migrantes y refugiados hacia uno arraigado en la humanidad y la justicia. Los escritores de esta antología cambiarán la percepción de sí mismos y de sus comunidades a través de la narración y el arte, para declarar en voz alta y con orgullo que, aquí y en todas partes, son humanos a pesar de la militarización fronteriza, la detención masiva y la legislación antiinmigrante draconiana. Aquí, hablan de su experiencia, no solo lidiando con su estado migratorio actual, sino en un reflejo matizado de su propia existencia antes de la migración y su hambre colectiva por un futuro sin fronteras. Estas historias llevarán al lector a un viaje a través de los recuerdos de la infancia, las anécdotas familiares y los sueños de reunirse con los padres del otro lado. Otras historias capturarán lo que a menudo no se discute, como el momento en que uno decide dejar los EE. UU. para buscar una nueva vida en otro lugar, después de décadas de vivir como inmigrante indocumentado en los Estados Unidos, ser procesado en un centro de detención como transmigrante, y luto por patrias imaginadas. Algunas historias tendrán las complejidades en capas de ser negro y migrante, o reflejarán la angustia de envejecer fuera de DACA, pero todas las historias convergerán en las intersecciones de raza, clase, género, nacionalidad, sexualidad, creencias políticas y derechos reproductivos. Como semillas de diente de león, estas historias germinarán un sentido de urgencia, alegría, esperanza, luto y perseverancia, echando raíces en el suelo más duro, demostrando lo que puede florecer a pesar de las condiciones adversas. El PDF de jemora suplementario acompana al audiolibro.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/563079 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 3): 1943-57 Author: Chips Channon Narrator: Tom Ward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 48 hours 17 minutes Release date: November 24, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. This third and final volume of the unexpurgated diaries of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon begins as the Second World War is turning in the Allies' favour. It ends with a prematurely aged Chips descending into poor health but still socially active and able to turn a pointed phrase about the political events that swirl around him and the great and the good with whom he mingles. Throughout these final fourteen years Chips assiduously describes events in and around Westminster, gossiping about individual MPs' ambitions and indiscretions, but also rising powerfully to the occasion to capture the mood of the House on VE Day or the ceremony of George VI's funeral. His energies, though, are increasingly absorbed by a private life that at times reaches Byzantine levels of complexity. Separated and then divorced from his wife Honor, he conducts passionate relationships with a young officer on Wavell's staff and with the playwright Terence Rattigan, while being serially unfaithful to both. The one constant in his life is his son, Paul, whom he adores. Through Chips's friendship with Rattigan we encounter the London of the theatre and the cinema, peopled by such figures as John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. At the same time we continue to experience vicariously a seemingly endless social round of grand parties and receptions at which Chips might well rub shoulders with Lady Diana Cooper, or Cecil Beaton, or the Mountbattens, or any number of dethroned European monarchs. Those unfortunate enough to die while the pen is in Chips's hand are frequently captured in less than flattering epigrammatic obituaries. The Archbishop of Canterbury was a 'fat fool of 63'. Lloyd George was a 'wicked unscrupulous rogue of charm'. George Bernard Shaw 'died as he lived - very selfishly'. But Chips's gift for friendship and his frequent kindness shine through, too. He has been described as 'The greatest British diarist of the 20th century'. This final volume fully justifies that accolade. © Chips Channon 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/558665 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La madre de todas las preguntas Author: Rebecca Solnit, Lucía Barahona (translator) Narrator: Marta Martín Jorcano Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 50 minutes Release date: November 23, 2022 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Un nuevo libro de la autora de Los hombres me explican cosas y Wanderlust, que ilumina, entre otras cosas, la manera en que se entretejen la historia del silencio y la historia de las mujeres. 'Hay una nueva revolución feminista en marcha, y Rebecca Solnit es una de sus voces más poderosas y cautivadoras.'—Barbara Ehrenreich 'No esperen un libro incendiario, pero sí provocador. Este audaz texto provoca el pensamiento, la reflexión, promueve el debate, 'incendia' una conversación, enriquece los puntos de vista y no da nada por sentado.'—Zenda Solnit nos ofrece un nuevo e indispensable repertorio de ensayos que analizan diferentes cuestiones, como por qué la historia del silencio está indisolublemente ligada a la historia de la mujer, o por qué a los niños de cinco años no les justan los juguetes de color rosa. También escribe sobre hombres que son feministas y hombres que son violadores, rehuyendo el estereotipo. En esta nueva colección de textos, Solnit continúa su exploración de las relaciones de género actuales con su habitual astucia y humor. La madre de todas las preguntas es un libro importante y alentador desde la perspectiva decididamente feminista de la autora de Los hombres me explican cosas, sobre y para todos los que cuestionan las identidades de género y abogan por un mundo más libre. Sus escritos, cargados de inteligencia y fuerza, hablan del derecho a no responder lo que no queremos, del silencio impuesto a las mujeres durante siglos, de las mujeres que se niegan a ser silenciadas, de las violaciones y la violencia misógina, o incluso de los referentes masculinos en el canon literario occidental, desde una perspectiva de género. 'La madre de todas las preguntas pretende alejarse de los tribunales populares tan habituales en las redes sociales para ahondar en las raíces del pensamiento estereotipado sobre el género.'—Zenda 'Sus libros nos reconcilian con lo mejor de nosotros mismos y, al mismo tiempo, nos acerca a esa nueva forma de pensar más tolerante, abierta, feminista y solidaria que debería imperar en nuestra sociedad.'—Diario 16

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/558652 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Canción Author: Eduardo Halfon Narrator: Diego Ruiz Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 41 minutes Release date: November 16, 2022 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: 'Halfon es uno de los mejores escritores de su generación y, probablemente, de alguna otra, pasada o futura.'—Manuel Hidalgo, El Cultural 'A Halfon le bastan cien páginas para conmovernos. Una proeza al alcance de pocos escritores.'—Sergio Del Molino, Mercurio Una helada mañana de enero de 1967, en plena guerra civil guatemalteca, un comerciante judío y libanés es secuestrado en un callejón sin salida de la capital. ¿Por qué? ¿Cómo? ¿Por quién o quiénes? Un narrador llamado Eduardo Halfon tendrá que viajar a Japón, y volver a su infancia en la violenta Guatemala de los años setenta, y acudir a un misterioso encuentro en un bar de mala muerte ubicado en la esquina de un edificio redondo, para finalmente dilucidar los detalles que rodean la vida y el secuestro de aquel hombre que también se llamaba Eduardo Halfon, y que era su abuelo. 'Una preciosa, incipiente, esbozada y elíptica historia de amor... en que se unen melancólicamente dos países, dos abuelos, dos tragedias, Eros y Tánatos. Gran final.'—Manuel Hidalgo, El Cultural 'Eduardo Halfon está escribiendo, sin que importe que sus libros se publiquen por etapas, la gran novela de su vida.'—Süddeutsche Zeitung

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/566808 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022 Author: Steph Cha, Jess Walter Narrator: Max Meyers, Christopher Salazar, Chanté Mccormick, Lindsey Dorcus, Desean Terry, Frankie Corzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 52 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: A collection of the year’s best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by #1 New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Jess Walter and series editor Steph Cha.  New York Times bestselling author and “superb storyteller” (Boston Globe), Jess Walter flexes his genre chops and selects twenty short stories that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567319 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Best American Food Writing 2022 Series: Part of Best American Author: Silvia Killingsworth, Sohla El-Waylly Narrator: Jacob Patalive, Pun Bandhu, Ashley Bryant, Quyen Ngo, Amir Abdullah, Dani Martineck Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 47 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: A collection of the year’s top food writing, selected by guest editor Sohla El-Waylly and series editor Silvia Killingsworth.  Culinary creator, writer and community advocate, Sohla El-Waylly selects the best twenty articles published in 2021 that celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwatering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of our country. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/566325 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Marmee: A Novel Author: Sarah Miller Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 18 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: From the author of Caroline, a revealing retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved Little Women, from the perspective of Margaret “Marmee” March, about the larger real-world challenges behind the cozy domestic concerns cherished by generations of readers. In 1861, war is raging in the South, but in Concord, Massachusetts, Margaret March has her own battles to fight. With her husband serving as an army chaplain, the comfort and security of Margaret’s four daughters— Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—now rest on her shoulders alone. Money is tight and every month, her husband sends less and less of his salary with no explanation. Worst of all, Margaret harbors the secret that these financial hardships are largely her fault, thanks to a disastrous mistake made over a decade ago which wiped out her family’s fortune and snatched away her daughters’ chances for the education they deserve.  Yet even with all that weighs upon her, Margaret longs to do more—for the war effort, for the poor, for the cause of abolition, and most of all, for her daughters. Living by her watchwords, “Hope and keep busy,” she fills her days with humdrum charity work to keep her worries at bay. All of that is interrupted when Margaret receives a telegram from the War Department, summoning her to her husband’s bedside in Washington, D.C. While she is away, her daughter Beth falls dangerously ill, forcing Margaret to confront the possibility that the price of her own generosity toward others may be her daughter’s life. A stunning portrait of the paragon of virtue known as Marmee, a wife left behind, a mother pushed to the brink, a woman with secrets. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567322 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Essential Dick Gregory Author: Dick Gregory Narrator: Afrika K. Kenjyatta, Andre Gaines, Christian Gregory, Joe Morton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 1 minute Release date: October 11, 2022 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Narrated by Audie, Emmy, and NAACP® Image Award-winning actor, Joe Morton, and joined by Christian Gregory and Afrika K. Kenjyatta.  A soulful, generation-defining collection of thought-provoking, agitating, and liberating works from Dick Gregory, the activist and author of sixteen books, including the classic bestseller Nigger: An Autobiography and the 2017 NAACP Image Award Winner, Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies. A true renaissance man, Richard Claxton “Dick” Gregory was one of the pioneering satirists of his generation, a reformer and brilliant spokesperson for the downtrodden and forgotten who dedicated his life to speaking unadulterated truth—and to improving ordinary lives. A revered human rights and environmental activist, fearsome and uncompromising social critic, lauded bestselling author, and beloved nutrition guru, Gregory aimed not only to educate souls, but to liberate them. His words shaped a generation and remain vital for our own turbulent times, offering wisdom to enlighten and inspire a new activist age. This carefully curated anthology of selected writings reflects and celebrates Dick Gregory’s wisdom and his vision. Divided into three sections—Body, Mind, and Spirit—it includes previously unavailable transcriptions and excerpts taken from his sixteen books, fifteen albums and audio compilations, and more than 1,200 hours of archival video, including lectures, interviews, and comedic performances. It is a breathtaking tour through the life of one of America’s most prophetic and relevant cultural icons. The Essential Dick Gregory is a pointillistic portrait of a man who gave up a lucrative entertainment career to fight injustice on the front line of battle—leading protests and hunger strikes to end the Vietnam War and apartheid in South Africa; supporting civil rights, feminism, and Native Americans,; and addressing hunger, poverty, and police brutality. This compelling volume will challenge your beliefs, allow you to see life in unexpected ways, and dare you to make the world a better place. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564559 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Abominations: Selected Essays from a Career of Courting Self-Destruction Author: Lionel Shriver Narrator: Lionel Shriver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 36 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: “A rare voice, someone who challenges orthodoxies in the way that many journalists and public intellectuals claim to do but don’t. It is bracing to spend time in the company of such a smart, plain-spoken and unpredictable person.”—Wall Street Journal A striking collection of essays from the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Should We Stay or Should We Go, So Much for That, and The Post-Birthday World. Novelist, cultural observer, and social satirist Lionel Shriver is among the sharpest talents of our age. A writer who embraces “under-expressed, unpopular or downright dangerous” points of view, she filets cherished shibboleths and the conformity of thought and attitude that has overtaken us. Bringing together thirty-five works curated from her many columns, features, essays, and op-eds for the likes of the Spectator, the Guardian, the New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, speeches and reviews, and some unpublished pieces, Abominations reveals Shriver at her most iconoclastic and personal. Relentlessly skeptical, cutting, and contrarian, this collection showcases Shriver’s piquant opinions on a wide range of topics, including religion, politics, illness, mortality, family and friends, tennis, gender, immigration, consumerism, health care, and taxes. In her characteristically frank manner, Shriver shrewdly skewers the concept of language “crimes,” while chafing at arbitrary limitations on speech and literature that crimp artistic expression and threaten intellectual freedom. Many an essay in Abominations reflects sentiments that have “brought hell and damnation down on my head,” as she cheerfully explains, and have threatened her with “cancellation” more than once. Throughout, Shriver offers insights on her novels and explores the perks and pitfalls of becoming a successful artist. In revisiting old pieces and rejected essays, Shriver updates and expands her thinking. “Enlightened” progressive readers will find plenty to challenge here. But they may find, to their surprise, insights with which they agree. A timely synthesis of Shriver's expansive work, Abominations reveals this provocative, talented writer at her most assured.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552947 to listen full audiobooks. Title: WARHOLCAPOTE: A Non-Fiction Invention Author: Rob Roth Narrator: Rob Roth, Dan Butler, Stephen Spinella, Dennis Boutsikaris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 22 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: An enthralling play based on lost tapes between two cultural giants and friends—Andy Warhol and Truman Capote—read by the stars of the acclaimed original stage production, Stephen Spinella and Dan Butler. In 1978 Andy Warhol and Truman Capote decided to write a Broadway play. Andy suggested that he record their private conversations over the period of a few months, and that these tapes would be the source material for the play. The tapes were then filed away and forgotten. Their play was never completed. Now, award-winning director Rob Roth brings their vision to life after a years-long search to unearth the eighty hours of tapes between two of the most daring artists of postwar America. WARHOLCAPOTE, based on words actually spoken by the two men, is set in the ’70s and ’80s, toward the end of their close connection and not too long before their untimely deaths. Their special, complex friendship is captured by Roth with bracing intimacy as they discuss life, love, and art and everything in between. Every word in the play comes directly from these two 20th century geniuses. The structure of the conversations springs from Roth’s imagination. The audiobook edition of WARHOLCAPOTE reunites the cast of the play’s 2017 world premiere stage production, featuring Stephen Spinella as Andy Warhol and Dan Butler as Truman Capote.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564555 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Days Author: Paul Bowles Narrator: Richard Trinder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 9 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Between 1987 and 1989, Paul Bowles, at the suggestion of a friend, kept a journal to record the daily events of his life. What emerges is not only just a record of the meals, conversations, and health concerns of the author of The Sheltering Sky but also a fascinating look at an artist at work in a new medium. Characterized by a refreshing informality, clear-sightedness, and passages of exquisite prose, these pages record with equal fascination the behavior of an itinerant spider, a brutal episode of violence in a Tangier marketplace, and the pageantry and excess of Malcolm Forbes's seventieth birthday party. In Days, a master observer of the foreign and obscure turns his attentions toward his own daily existence, giving us a startlingly candid portrait of his life in late twentieth-century Tangier.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564548 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue Author: Paul Bowles Narrator: Tom Zahner, Mike Ortego, Raphael Corkhill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 22 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: An engaging collection of travel essays by the author of The Sheltering Sky Their Heads are Green, Their Hands are Blue deals largely with places in the world that few Westerners have ever heard of, much less seen—places as yet unencumbered by the trappings, luxuries, and corruptions of modern civilization. Bowles is a sympathetic and discerning observer of these alien cultures, and his eyes and ears are especially alert both to what is bizarre and what is wise in the civilizations in which he settles. Above all, Bowles is a superb and observant traveler—a born wanderer who finds pleasure in the inaccessible and who cheerfully endures the concomitant hardships with resourcefulness, insight, and humor.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564556 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Too Far from Home Author: Paul Bowles Narrator: Tom Zahner, Cheryl Smith, Mike Ortego, Graham Halstead, Raphael Corkhill, Abby Craden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 40 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: A striking collection of stories, poems, letters, travel essays, journal entries, excerpts from three novels, and more—including the complete text of The Sheltering Sky—from one of the most revered authors of the twentieth century

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564549 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Travels Author: Paul Bowles Narrator: Tom Zahner, Mike Ortego, Raphael Corkhill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 40 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: “Bowles is at his best when writing about places. He can evoke a place with a few sure strokes.” —New York Times “His work is art. At his best, Bowles has no peer.” —Time Travels is a thrilling anthology of the travel writings of Paul Bowles, author of the era-defining post-war novel The Sheltering Sky. The acclaimed essays in Travel—never before collected in a single volume—span more than sixty years and range from Bowles’s early days in Paris to his time spent in Ceylon, Thailand, Kenya, and his expatriate life in Morocco. Insightful, exciting, and evocative, Travels is a stunning collection of rarely seen shorter works—a showcase of the literary artistry of one of the truly great American writers of the twentieth century. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Touch: The Letters of Paul Bowles Author: Paul Bowles Narrator: Tom Zahner, Timothy Andrés Pabon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 28 hours 54 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: This extraordinary collection of correspondence by Paul Bowles spans eight decades and provides an evolving portrait of an artist renowned for his privacy. From his earliest extant letter, written at the age of four, to his precocious effusions to Aaron Copeland and to Gertrude Stein; from his meditations on mescaline as relayed to Ned Rorem, to his intensely moving letters to Jane Bowles during her illness, In Touch fills in the lacunae left by previous biographers and offers a rare look at the many aspects of Bowles's brilliant career—as composer, novelist, short-story master, travel writer, translator, ethnographer, and literary critic. Here is Bowles on the genesis of his first novel, The Sheltering Sky; on his distaste for Western melodies and his dogged attempts to record indigenous Moroccan music; on the Beats, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Tennessee Williams; on the nature and craft of writing; on Bernardo Bertolucci, David Byrne, and Sting; on the decline of American and the challenges of living in North Africa. Gossipy, reflective, enlightening, and always entertaining, In Touch stands as an epistolary autobiography of one of the legendary writers of our time, and a unique chronicle of the twentieth-century avant-garde. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564547 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Stories of Paul Bowles Author: Paul Bowles Narrator: Mike Ortego, Raphael Corkhill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 28 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: “Bowles’s tales are at once austere, witty, violent, and sensuous. They move with the inevitability of myth. His language has a purity of line, a poise and authority entirely its own.” —Tobias Wolff An American cult figure, Paul Bowles has fascinated such disparate talents as Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs, Gore Vidal, and Tobias Wolff. From “The Delicate Prey” to “Too Far from Home,” this definitive collection celebrates the Bowles’s masterful artistry in short fiction.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/558686 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions that Grew Me Up Author: Remica Bingham-Risher Narrator: Delva Roline Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 58 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Examines firsthand the lives of legendary Black writers who made a way out of no way to illuminate a road map for budding creators desiring to follow in their footsteps Acclaimed Cave Canem poet and essayist Remica Bingham-Risher interweaves personal essays and interviews she conducted over a decade with 10 distinguished Black poets, such as Lucille Clifton, Sonia Sanchez, and Patricia Smith, to explore the impact of identity, joy, love, and history on the artistic process. Each essay is thematically inspired, centered on one of her interviews, and uses quotes drawn from her talks to showcase their philosophies. Each essay also delves into how her own life and work are influenced by these elders. Essays included are these: · “blk/wooomen revolution” · “Girls Loving Beyoncé and Their Names” · “The Terror of Being Destroyed” · “Standing in the Shadows of Love” · “Revision as Labyrinth” Noting the frustrating tendency for Black artists to be pigeonholed into the confines of various frameworks and ideologies—Black studies, women’s studies, LGBTQIA+ studies, and so on—Bingham-Risher reveals the multitudes contained within Black poets, both past and present. By capturing the radical love ethic of Blackness amid incessant fear, she has amassed not only a wealth of knowledge about contemporary Black poetry and poetry movements but also brings to life the historical record of Black poetry from the latter half of the 20th century to the early decades of the 21st. Examining cultural traditions, myths, and music from the Four Tops to Beyoncé, Bingham-Risher reflects on the enduring gifts of art and community. If you’ve ever felt alone on your journey into the writing world, the words of these poets are for you.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551302 to listen full audiobooks. Title: She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good Author: Mia Mercado Narrator: Natalie Naudus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 6 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: AN NPR BOOK-OF-THE-DAY • A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY STAFF PICK • A NYLON MUST-READ • A FORTUNE NEW BOOK TO READ IN AUGUST “And, at the center of it all, am I actually nice or am I just performing a role I think I’m expected to play?” Mia Mercado is a razor-sharp cultural critic and essayist known for her witty and hilarious dissections of the uncomfortable truths that rule our lives. In this thought-provoking collection of new essays, Mercado examines what it means to be “polite,” “agreeable,” and “nice.” She covers topics from the subtleties of the “Bad Bitch” and why women dominate the ASMR market, to what makes her dog an adorable little freak and how you know if you’re shy. This is a book about the unspoken trick mirror of our “good” intentions: the inherent performance of the social media apology, celebrating men when they do the bare minimum, and why we trust a Midwesterner to watch our stuff when we go pee. Throughout, she ponders her identity as an Asian woman and asks what “nice” even means—and why anyone would want to be it. With writing that is as precise as it is profound, and cultural references that range from trash reality television to the New York Times Sunday-morning crossword puzzle, Mercado uncovers weird, long-overdue truths about our frailties and failings. In the end, she sees them not as a source of shame but as a cause for celebration. Filled with revelations that range from the silly to the serious, She’s Nice Though offers a mind-bending glimpse into the illusions and delusions of contemporary life—and reveals who we *really* are when no one is watching.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/559073 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Ocean Apart: Historical Fiction Inspired by Real Life Stories of the Windrush Generation Author: Sarah Lee Narrator: Debra Michaels Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 1 minute Release date: August 18, 2022 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Inspired by real life stories of the Windrush Generation and her mother’s own experiences as a nurse coming to Britain from the Caribbean, Sarah Lee’s debut novel An Ocean Apart is a must for fans of Call the Midwife. It’s 1954 and, in Barbados, Ruby Haynes spots an advertisement for young women to train as nurses for the new National Health Service in Great Britain. Her sister, Connie, takes some persuading, but soon the sisters are on their way to a new country – and a whole new world of experiences. As they start their training in Hertfordshire, they discover England isn’t quite the promised land; for every door that’s opened to them, the sisters find many slammed in their faces. And though the girls find friendships with their fellow nurses, Connie struggles with being so far from home, and keeping secret the daughter she has left behind in search of a better life for the both of them . . .