As all audiobook lovers know, we don’t need a designated month to extoll the special attributes and benefits of a good audiobook, but June is Audiobook Month, when the publishing industry celebrates one of the fastest-growing segments of the book world. This gives us the perfect opportunity to reflect on some of our favorite audiobooks […]
Memoirs whose author-narrators will make you laugh, cry, and marvel at the power of hard-fought resilience. Music that will encourage you to reminisce and sing along. History that gives voice to a newly revealed chapter of a story of historic proportions that must not be forgotten. And fiction with audio performances that will immerse you […]
Human connection, learning from other people, and delving deeply into people’s stories are all part of what helps us grow, change, and empathize. For people who embrace this with their entire being, our ten best biographies and memoirs of 2022 are certainly ones they won’t want to miss. From celebrities to people facing injustices in […]
We have a very, very cool lineup of episodes this month, including our 100th, featuring Jennifer Egan and The Candy House, her incandescent “sibling novel” to A Visit From the Goon Squad, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Emily St. John Mandel (Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel) returns with an elegant and surprising new novel, […]
“Now, this is a story all about how <insert celebrity>’s life got flipped-turned upside down.” Like the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’s story, the past few years have gifted us, for better or for worse, with the raw insight into the lives of some of our favorite celebrities as social media became an outlet and a […]