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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616791 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Earth to Moon: A Memoir Author: Moon Unit Zappa Narrator: Moon Unit Zappa Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes Release date: August 20, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 6 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From Moon Unit Zappa, the daughter of musical visionary Frank Zappa, comes a memoir of growing up in her unconventional household in 1970s Los Angeles, coming of age in the Hollywood Hills in the 1980s as the “Valley Girl,” gaining momentum as an accidental VJ on a new network called MTV, and finding herself after losing her father, then her mother, and the testing of her most important relationships. How can you navigate life as the “normal” child of an extraordinary creative? What is it like to live in a hothouse of individuality that on one hand fosters freedom of expression, and on the other tamps down the basic desires of a child for boundaries and affection? Should you call your parents Frank and Gail from birth? For Moon Unit Zappa, processing a life so punctuated by the whims of genius, the tastes of popular culture, the calculus of celebrity, and the nature of love, was at times eviscerating, at times illuminating—but mostly deeply confusing. Yes, this is a book about growing up in the shadow of Frank Zappa. Moon and her family were a source of constant curiosity, for their unique names and for their father’s reputation as a musical savant and fierce protector of the First Amendment, even though he was never a commercial success. Searching for her own path, first as her father’s inadvertent musical collaborator and public sidekick with their surprise mega radio hit, then as an actress, an artist, a spiritual person, a wife and mother, Moon Unit calculates ever-changing equations of fame, family, death and ultimately legacy when dealt the shocking news that Gail’s will established an unequal distribution among the remaining, tight-knit Zappas, catalyzing a quest for meaning and redemption. With love, humor, and humility, Earth to Moon reminds us that every family is faced with problems that are unique to their particular makeup, but the journey to growing into yourself with grace is as universal as it gets.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621197 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spid the Spider Gets Spooked at Halloween Author: John Eaton Narrator: Angus Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 10, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: It is Halloween. Spid is reading a book about The Legend of Wookey Hollow. There are lots of spooky goings-on … and the pumpkins are not what they seem … This audiobook features two songs: 'Wookey Whoo!' and 'The Gang'. You can also find music videos of the songs at https://spidthespider.com and https://www.youtube.com/spidthespider. Spid is a lowly spider, who wants to better himself, write songs, and marry his girlfriend Bid, though he is prone to hilarious mishaps mostly of his own making. He is hard-working, cool, and a role model for young children. As well as encouraging children to read and love books, Spid's adventures also teach valuable life lessons, including determination and what psychologists call a 'growth mindset' (desire to better oneself and succeed), the importance of friendship, and sustainability. With very creative prose, Spid's adventures are fun for parents, and teachers to read to, and with, their children. They present lots of opportunities to invest dramatic licence thus helping adults and children interact and engage. The humour works at multiple levels from silly and slapstick to more sophisticated wordplay and concepts. Thus, children will discover more and enjoy reading the stories multiple times. For more resources to entertain and help children learn to read, grow and succeed in life, go to https://spidthespider.com/fun-childrens-activities/

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618166 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story Author: Sam Wasson Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 11 minutes Release date: November 28, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: “Sam Wasson’s supremely entertaining book tracks the ups and downs, ins and outs, of a remarkable career. . . . A marvel of unshowy reportage.”—New York Times The New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. and The Big Goodbye returns with the definitive account of Academy Award–winning director Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-long dream to reinvent American filmmaking, if not the entire world, through his production company, American Zoetrope. Francis Ford Coppola is one of the great American dreamers, and his most magnificent dream is American Zoetrope, the production company he founded in San Francisco years before his gargantuan success, when he was only thirty. Through Zoetrope’s experimental, communal utopia, Coppola attempted to reimagine the entire pursuit of moviemaking. Now, more than fifty years later, despite myriad setbacks, the visionary filmmaker’s dream persists, most notably in the production of his decades-in-the-making film and the culmination of his utopian ideals, Megalopolis. As Wasson makes clear, the story of Zoetrope is also the story of Coppola’s wife, Eleanor Coppola, and their children, and of personal lives inseparable from artistic passion. It is a story that charts the divergent paths of Coppola and his cofounder and onetime apprentice, George Lucas, and of their very different visions of art and commerce. And it is a story inextricably bound up in the making of one of the greatest quixotic masterpieces ever attempted, Apocalypse Now, and in what Coppola found in the jungles of the Philippines when he walked the razor’s edge. That story, already the stuff of legend, has never fully been told, until this extraordinary book.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604517 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bogie & Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood’s Greatest Love Affair Author: William J. Mann Narrator: Todd Mclaren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 27 hours 34 minutes Release date: July 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From the noted Hollywood biographer and author of The Contender comes this celebration of the great American love story—the romance between Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart—capturing its complexity, contradictions, and challenges as never before. In Bogie & Bacall, William Mann offers a deep and comprehensive look at Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, and the unlikely love they shared. Mann details their early years—Bogart’s effete upbringing in New York City; Bacall’s rise as a model and actress. He paints a vivid portrait of their courtship and twelve-year marriage: the fights, the reconciliations, the children, the affairs, Bogie’s illness and Bacall’s steadfastness until his death. He offers a sympathetic yet clear-eyed portrait of Bacall’s life after Bogie, exploring her relationships with Frank Sinatra and Jason Robards, who would become her second husband, and the identity crisis she faced. Surpassing previous biographies, Mann digs deep into the celebrities’ personal lives and considers their relationship from surprising angles. Bacall was just nineteen when she started dating the thrice-married forty-five-year-old Bogart. How might that age gap have influenced their relationship? In addition to what she gained, what might Bacall have lost by marrying a Hollywood superstar more than twice her age? How did Bogart, a man of average looks, become one of the greatest movie stars of all time? Throughout, Mann explains the unparalleled successes of their individual careers as well as the extraordinary love between them and the legend that has endured. Filled with entertaining details and thoughtful insights based on newly available records and correspondence, Bogie & Bacall offers a fresh look at this famous couple, their remarkable relationship, and their legacy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625071 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Under the Ivy: The Life and Music of Kate Bush Author: Graeme Thomson Narrator: Mia Hutchinson-Shaw Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 26 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In this updated edition of Graeme Thomson’s critically acclaimed biography, a near-exhaustive survey of Kate Bush’s life surveys everything from her upbringing in South London to her stunning return to live performance in August 2014. The original edition of Under the Ivy was called one of the best music biographies ever, and this updated edition adds a wealth of new research to include the complete scope of Bush’s oeuvre. With over seventy new interviews and in-depth analysis of her triumphant return to the stage after thirty-five years, this is the most complete Kate Bush biography and a must for any fan. Detailing everything from her upbringing to her early exposition of talent to her subsequent evolution into one of the most stunningly creative and fascinating visual and musical artists alive today, Under the Ivy truly is the story of one woman’s life. This is in no way a superficial rumor-mill, however, as Thomson writes with great detail, accuracy, and above all admiration for her work, this is in equal parts a biography and an analysis of Kate Bush’s art. Focusing on her unique working methods, her studio techniques, her timeless albums, and inescapable influence, Under the Ivy is a true exploration of one of the world’s most underappreciated yet gifted artists. Eminently readable, this book will be an eye-opening journey of discovery for somebody unfamiliar with Bush but will also reward a long-term fan with new insights and fresh analysis

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620409 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage Author: Nick De Semlyen Narrator: Bronson Pinchot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved films that made them stars, including Die Hard, First Blood, The Terminator, and more. “Entertaining . . . This is a book that makes you ache for the days when the movie screen belonged not to men who dress in superhero capes but to those who lift weights.”—Washington Examiner A NEWSWEEK BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR The Last Action Heroes opens in May 1990 in Cannes, with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone waltzing together, cheered on by a crowd of famous faces. After years of bitter combat—Stallone once threw a bowl of flowers at Schwarzenegger’s head, and the body count in Schwarzenegger’s Commando was increased so the film would “have a bigger dick than Rambo”—the world’s biggest action stars have at last made peace. In this wildly entertaining account of the golden age of the action movie, Nick de Semlyen charts Stallone and Schwarzenegger’s carnage-packed journey from enmity to friendship against the backdrop of Reagan’s America and the Cold War. He also reveals fascinating untold stories of the colorful characters who ascended in their wake: high-kickers Chuck Norris and Jackie Chan, glowering tough guys Dolph Lundgren and Steven Seagal, and quipping troublemakers Jean-Claude Van Damme and Bruce Willis. But as time rolled on, the era of the invincible action hero who used muscle, martial arts, or the perfect weapon to save the day began to fade. When Jurassic Park trounced Schwarzenegger’s Last Action Hero in 1993, the glory days of these macho men—and the vision of masculinity they celebrated—were officially over. Drawing on candid interviews with the action stars themselves, plus their collaborators, friends, and foes, The Last Action Heroes is a no-holds-barred account of a period in Hollywood history when there were no limits to the heights of fame these men achieved, or to the mayhem they wrought, on-screen and off.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611464 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reach: Hard Lessons and Learned Truths from a Lifetime in Television Author: Arthur Smith Narrator: Arthur Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: “An immediate must-read.” — Forbes One of the most daring, creative, and influential minds in nonfiction television, Arthur Smith draws on the most exciting moments of his pioneering career as a producer to show how far you can go when you reach for your dreams. Arthur Smith is famous for his innovation and audacity, and as the man behind some of the longest-running unscripted series in television history. His groundbreaking hit Hell’s Kitchen forged the modern food competition reality genre, while his Emmy-nominated American Ninja Warrior has spawned a cultural movement, with Ninja-inspired gyms in every major American city. In Reach, Smith shares adventures, triumphs, and hard-won lessons from his astonishing career, beginning with his unprecedented ascension from the ranks of sports production to become the youngest-ever head of CBC Sports. Never one to rest on his laurels, Smith moved from Canada to the United States to produce a wide variety of entertainment programming with his mentor, television icon Dick Clark. Years later, he spearheaded an entirely new approach to sports television at FOX Sports Net, helping to grow the fledgling business into a true industry powerhouse. In 2000, Smith made the biggest reach of his career with the launch of A. Smith & Co. Productions, which has produced over two hundred television shows on more than fifty networks. Across genres, formats, and platforms, Smith and his A. Smith & Co. team have earned a reputation for original, emotional, buzz-worthy, and deeply personal storytelling. In these pages, Smith takes us behind-the-scenes of dozens of pivotal moments in sports and television history, ranging from the high-intensity control room at the Olympics to the development of The Titan Games with Dwayne (“The Rock”) Johnson. We learn about a show that never was with Donald Trump, as well as a super-far-fetched idea that became the bizarro-classic genre-buster I Survived a Japanese Game Show. Through winning anecdotes involving a disparate cast of famous characters, including Marlon Brando, Gordon Ramsay, Magic Johnson, Little Richard, Wayne Gretzky, Simon Cowell, and Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, Smith illustrates just how far you can go when you work hard, take risks, and reach for your dreams.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623815 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend Author: Graham Russell Gao Hodges Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Anna May Wong remains one of Hollywood’s best-known Chinese American actors. Between 1919 and 1960, Anna May Wong starred in over fifty movies, sharing billing with stars such as Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Ramon Novarro, and Warner Oland. Her life, though, is the prototypical story of an immigrant’s difficult path through the prejudices of American culture. Born in Los Angeles in 1905, she was the second daughter of seven children born to a laundryman and his wife. Childhood experience fueled her fascination with Hollywood. By 1919 she secured a small part in her first film, The Red Lantern, and she continued to act up until her death. Her most famous film roles were in The Toll of the Sea, Peter Pan, The Thief of Baghdad, Old San Francisco, and Shanghai Express. But discrimination against Asiana, in both in the film industry and society, was commonplace, and when it came time to make a film version of Pearl Buck’s The Good Earth, she was passed over for the Chinese female lead role, which was ultimately given to the white actor Luise Rainer. In a narrative that recalls the pathos of life in Los Angeles’s Chinese neighborhoods and the glamour of Hollywood’s pleasure palaces, Graham Russell Gao Hodges recovers the life of a Hollywood legend.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Uncle of the Year: & Other Debatable Triumphs Author: Andrew Rannells Narrator: Andrew Rannells Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 50 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: From the star of Broadway’s The Book of Mormon and Tony–nominated Gutenberg! The Musical!, candid, hilarious essays on anxiety, ambition, and the uncertain path to adulthood that ask: How will we know when we get there? “This is the funny, honest, cozy hang with Andrew Rannells that you’ve been creepily dreaming of. . . . A delight.”—Tina Fey In Uncle of the Year, Andrew Rannells wonders: If he, now in his forties, has everything he’s supposed to need to be an adult—a career, property, a well-tailored suit—why does he still feel like an anxious twenty-year-old climbing his way toward solid ground? Is it because he hasn’t won a Tony, or found a husband, or had a child? And what if he doesn’t want those things? (A husband and a child, that is. He wants a Tony.)   In deeply personal essays drawn from his life as well as his career on Broadway and in Hollywood, Rannells argues that we all pretend—for friends, partners, parents, and others—that we are constantly succeeding in the process known as “adulting.” But if this acting is leaving us unfulfilled, then we need new markers of time, new milestones, new expectations of what adulthood is and can be.   Along the way, Rannells navigates dating, aging, mental health, bad jobs, and much more. In his essay “Uncle of the Year,” he explores the role that children play in his life, as a man who never thought having kids was necessary or even possible—until his siblings have kids and he falls in love with a man with two of his own. In “Always Sit Next to Mark Ruffalo,” he reveals the thrills and absurdities of the awards circuit, and the desire to be recognized for one’s work. And in “Horses, Not Zebras,” he shares the piece of wisdom that helped him finally come to terms with his anxiety and perfectionism.   Filled with honest insights and a sharp wit, Uncle of the Year challenges us to take a long look at who we’re pretending to be, who we know we are, and who we want to become.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616280 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse Author: Howard Fishman Narrator: Howard Fishman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 7 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Shortlisted for the Plutarch Award for best biography The mysterious true story of Connie Converse—a mid-century New York City songwriter, singer, and composer whose haunting music never found broad recognition—and one writer’s quest to understand her life This is the mesmerizing story of an enigmatic life. When musician and New Yorker contributor Howard Fishman first heard Connie Converse’s voice on a recording, he was convinced she could not be real. Her recordings were too good not to know, and too out of place for the 1950s to make sense—a singer who seemed to bridge the gap between traditional Americana (country, blues, folk, jazz, and gospel), the Great American Songbook, and the singer-songwriter movement that exploded a decade later with Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell.   And then there was the bizarre legend about Connie Converse that had become the prevailing narrative of her life: that in 1974, at the age of fifty, she simply drove off one day and was never heard from again. Could this have been true? Who was Connie Converse, really?   Supported by a dozen years of research, travel to everywhere she lived, and hundreds of extensive interviews, Fishman approaches Converse’s story as both a fan and a journalist, and expertly weaves a narrative of her life and music, and of how it has come to speak to him as both an artist and a person. Ultimately, he places her in the canon as a significant outsider artist, a missing link between a now old-fashioned kind of American music and the reflective, complex, arresting music that transformed the 1960s and music forever.     But this is also a story of deeply secretive New England traditions, of a woman who fiercely strove for independence and success when the odds were against her; a story that includes suicide, mental illness, statistics, siblings, oil paintings, acoustic guitars, cross-country road trips, 1950s Greenwich Village, an America marching into the Cold War, questions about sexuality, and visionary, forward thinking about race, class, and conflict. It’s a story and subject that is by turn hopeful, inspiring, melancholy, and chilling.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614339 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chita: A Memoir Author: Chita Rivera Narrator: Chita Rivera Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 25, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Read by the author The long-awaited and wildly entertaining memoir of the star of stage and screen, the legendary Chita Rivera—three-time Tony Award–winner, Kennedy Centers honoree, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero—until the entertainment world renamed her. But Dolores—the irreverent side of the sensual, dark and ferocious Chita—was always present center stage, and was influential in creating some of Broadway most iconic and acclaimed roles, including Anita in West Side Story‚ the part that made her a star—Rosie in Bye Bye, Birdie, Velma in Chicago, and Aurora in Kiss of the Spider Woman. Written in gratitude to her longstanding fans and with the hope that new generations may learn from her extraordinary experience, Chita takes us behind the curtain to reveal the highs and lows of one extraordinary showbusiness career—the creative fermentation, the ego clashes, the miraculous discoveries, the exhilaration when it all went right, and the disappointment when it all went wrong. Chita invites us into workrooms and rehearsal studies, on stage and on set as she works with some of the greatest talents of the age, including Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim, Bob Fosse, Jerome Robbins, Hal Prince, Liza Minnelli, Sammy Davis Jr, Gwen Verdon, Shirley MacLaine, and many others. We also learn deeply moving, revelatory details about her upbringing and her heritage, and how they indelibly shaped her work and career. This colorful and entertaining memoir—as vital and captivating as Chita herself—is the unforgettable and engrossing personal story of a performer who blazed her own trail and inspired countless performers to forge their own unique path to success.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614329 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV Author: Ben Shapiro Narrator: Chris Abell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 25, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: “Vitally important, devastatingly thorough, and shockingly revealing…. After reading Primetime Propaganda, you’ll never watch TV the same way again.” — Mark Levin Movie critic Michael Medved calls Ben Shapiro, “One of our most refreshing and insightful voices on the popular culture, as well as a conscience for his much-maligned generation.” With Primetime Propaganda, the syndicated columnist and bestselling author of Brainwashed, Porn Generation, and Project President tells the shocking true story of how the most powerful medium of mass communication in human history became a vehicle for spreading the radical agenda of the left side of the political spectrum. Similar to what Bernard Goldberg’s Bias and A Slobbering Love Affair did for the liberal news machine, Shapiro’s Primetime Propaganda is an essential exposé of corrupting media bias, pulling back the curtain on widespread and unrepentant abuses of the Hollywood entertainment industry.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617685 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma Author: Claire Dederer Narrator: Claire Dederer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 25, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A timely, passionate, provocative, blisteringly smart interrogation of how we make and experience art in the age of cancel culture, and of the link between genius and monstrosity. Can we love the work of controversial classic and contemporary artists but dislike the artist? 'A lively, personal exploration of how one might think about the art of those who do bad things' —Vanity Fair • '[Dederer] breaks new ground, making a complex cultural conversation feel brand new.' —Ada Calhoun, author of Also a Poet   From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, Monsters is “part memoir, part treatise, and all treat” (The New York Times). This unflinching, deeply personal book expands on Claire Dederer’s instantly viral Paris Review essay, 'What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?'    Can we love the work of artists such as Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Miles Davis, Polanski, or Picasso? Should we? Dederer explores the audience's relationship with artists from Michael Jackson to Virginia Woolf, asking: How do we balance our undeniable sense of moral outrage with our equally undeniable love of the work? Is male monstrosity the same as female monstrosity? And if an artist is also a mother, does one identity inexorably, and fatally, interrupt the other? In a more troubling vein, she wonders if an artist needs to be a monster in order to create something great. Does genius deserve special dispensation? Does art have a mandate to depict the darker elements of the psyche? And what happens if the artist stares too long into the abyss?    Highly topical, morally wise, honest to the core, Monsters is certain to incite a conversation about whether and how we can separate artists from their art. “Monsters leaves us with Dederer’s passionate commitment to the artists whose work most matters to her, and a framework to address these questions about the artists who matter most to us.' —The Washington Post A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, NPR, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Vulture, Elle, Esquire, Kirkus

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617673 to listen full audiobooks. Title: True West: Sam Shepard's Life, Work, and Times Author: Robert Greenfield Narrator: Jon Lindstrom Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 57 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A revelatory biography of the world-famous playwright and actor Sam Shepard, whose work was matched by his equally dramatic life, including collaborations with the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan as well as tumultuous relationships with Patti Smith, Joni Mitchell, and Jessica Lange “What [True West] achieves in its finest pages is placing the artist in his time. . . . I was filled with excitement, envy and reverence for the New York City that embraced the young Shepard in the 1960s and early ’70s.”—Ethan Hawke, The Washington Post True West: Sam Shepard’s Life, Work, and Times is the story of an American icon, a lasting portrait of Sam Shepard as he really was, revealed by those who knew him best. This sweeping biography charts Shepard’s long and complicated journey from a small town in Southern California to become an internationally known playwright and movie star. The only son of an alcoholic father, Shepard crafted a public persona as an authentic American archetype: the loner, the cowboy, the drifter, the stranger in a strange land. Despite his great critical and financial success, he seemed, like so many of his characters, to remain perpetually dispossessed. Much like Robert Greenfield’s biographies of Jerry Garcia and Timothy Leary, this book delves deeply into Shepard’s life as well as the ways in which his work illuminates it. True West takes readers through the world of downtown theater in Lower Manhattan in the early sixties; the jazz scene at New York’s Village Gate; fringe theater in London in the seventies; Bob Dylan’s legendary Rolling Thunder tour; the making of classic films like Zabriskie Point, Days of Heaven, and The Right Stuff; and Broadway productions of Buried Child, True West, and Fool for Love. For this definitive biography, Greenfield interviewed dozens of people who knew Shepard well, many of whom had never before spoken on the record about him. While exploring his relationships with Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Jessica Lange across the long arc of his brilliant career, Greenfield makes the case for Shepard as not just a great American writer but a unique figure who first brought the sensibility of rock ’n’ roll to theater.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612941 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag Author: Sasha Velour Narrator: Sasha Velour Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: “Drag embodies the queer possibility that exists within each of us—the infinite ways in which gender, good taste, and art can be lived.” –Sasha Velour This book is a quilt, piecing together memoir, history, and theory into a living portrait of an artist and an art. Sasha Velour illuminates drag as a unique form of expression with a rich history and a revolutionary spirit. Each chapter strips off a new layer, removing one tantalizing glove and then another, to reveal all the twists and turns in the life of a queen. As Sasha recalls her own journey, from the women who raised her, to learning the craft of an artist, to success, disaster, and more, she also uncovers the history of queer life around the world that made it all possible. From shamans to “fairies balls,” empresses to RuPaul’s Drag Race (and beyond), The Big Reveal chronicles and celebrates our shared queer pasts. “If we want to be seen as legendary,” writes Sasha, “we have to weave ourselves into history.” From an iconoclastic drag queen comes an equally singular, thought-provoking manifesto that brings necessary and sparkling substance to our understanding of drag, queerness, beauty, and liberation! Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612385 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo Author: Hayden Herrera Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 3 minutes Release date: March 21, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: ''Through her art, Herrera writes, Kahlo made of herself both performer and icon. Through this long overdue biography, Kahlo has also, finally, been made fully human.'' — San Francisco Chronicle Hailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences: her childhood near Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution; a devastating accident at age eighteen that left her crippled and unable to bear children; her tempestuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera and intermittent love affairs with men as diverse as Isamu Noguchi and Leon Trotsky; her association with the Communist Party; her absorption in Mexican folklore and culture; and her dramatic love of spectacle. Here is the tumultuous life of an extraordinary twentieth-century woman.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624476 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Norman Rockwell's Models: In and Out of the Studio Author: S.T. Haggerty Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release date: March 15, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In 1940, America’s favorite illustrator Norman Rockwell, his wife Mary, and their three sons moved to the picturesque rural village of West Arlington, Vermont. The artist discovered a treasure trove of models. Norman Rockwell’s Models: In and out of the Studio is the first to detail these models’ lives, friendships with the artist, and experiences in his studio. Dressed in quaint work clothing, the models were dairy farmers, carpenters, country doctors, soldiers, and mechanics. Norman Rockwell’s Models features nonfiction narratives telling the story of these folks during an era when they helped the war effort, farmed with horses, and received home visits from doctors. The book also describes the challenges the models faced in their own lives and how these affected their expressions in the paintings. For example, in several 1945 masterpieces, the jubilance Americans felt after the close of the second word war is revealed in their faces. Upon meeting people, young or old, the artist would say, “Call Me Norman.” Rockwell learned the models’ roles in the community and their personalities, which fostered genuine paintings. He strove, for example, to find real-life soldiers to model as WWII heroes and spirited boys and girls for lively paintings. In the studio, Norman was charming and polite but painstaking. He demonstrated poses and did whatever was necessary to evoke his trademark expressions, including telling stories of his own life, sometimes laughing or crying. Spending entire summers at his family’s farmhouse near West Arlington, Vermont, the author, S. T. Haggerty, grew up knowing many models, including those who posed for such iconic works as Freedom of Speech, Breaking Home Ties, and Girl at the Mirror. Along with models and their families, the author hayed the scenic fields in the Batten Kill River Valley and swam under the red covered bridge on the Village Green. This experiences give him a unique perspective for telling this story.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605347 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time's Journey Through Rock & Roll History Author: Bill Janovitz Narrator: Bill Janovitz, Jason Culp Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 4 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The definitive biography of legendary musician, composer, and performer Leon Russell, a profound influence on countless artists, including George Harrison, the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Willie Nelson, Tom Petty, and the world of music as a whole. Leon Russell is an icon, but somehow is still an underappreciated artist. He is spoken of in tones reserved not just for the most talented musicians, but also for the most complex and fascinating. His career is like a roadmap of music history, often intersecting with rock royalty like Bob Dylan, the Stones, and the Beatles. He started in the Fifties as a teenager touring with Jerry Lee Lewis, going on to play piano on records by such giants as Frank Sinatra, The Beach Boys, and Phil Spector, and on hundreds of classic songs with major recording artists. Leon was Elton John’s idol, and Elton inducted him into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. Leon also gets credit for altering Willie Nelson’s career, giving us the long-haired, pot-friendly Willie we all know and love today. In his prime, Leon filled stadiums on solo tours, and was an organizer/performer on both Joe Cocker’s revolutionary Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour and George Harrison’s Concert for Bangladesh. Leon also founded Shelter Records in 1969 with producer Denny Cordell, discovering and releasing the debut albums of Tom Petty, the Gap Band, Phoebe Snow, and J.J. Cale. Leon always assembled wildly diverse bands and performances, fostering creative and free atmospheres for musicians to live and work together. He brazenly challenged musical and social barriers. However, Russell also struggled with his demons, including substance abuse, severe depression, and a crippling stage fright that wreaked havoc on his psyche over the long haul and at times seemed to will himself into obscurity. Now, acclaimed author and founding member of Buffalo Tom, Bill Janovitz shines the spotlight on one of the most important music makers of the twentieth century.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626395 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jennifer Juniper Author: Jenny Boyd Narrator: Jenny Boyd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Release date: February 23, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Jenny Boyd's extraordinary life is the stuff of movies and novels, a story of incredible people and places experienced at a pivotal time in the 20th century. As an up-and-coming young model, Jenny found herself at the heart of Carnaby Street in London, immersed in the fashion and pop culture of the Swinging 60s. With boyfriend Mick Fleetwood, sister Pattie, George Harrison and the rest of the Beatles, she lived the London scene. But as a natural Flower Child, Jenny soon became part of the counter-culture in San Francisco during the Flower Power era, witnessing the Summer of Love; she was the inspiration for Donovan's famous song, Jennifer Juniper, and her photograph was featured inside the box set of his eponymous album A Gift from a Flower to a Garden. After working in The Beatles shop, Apple, the first of its kind, Jenny attended Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram in India to study meditation with her sister and the Beatles, witnessing their creativity and the genesis of songs that would later appear on the White Album. Despite being attuned to the spiritual bloom and innocence of the 60s, Jenny also experienced first-hand the turmoil and decadence of the 70s and 80s. Her two marriages to Mick Fleetwood, founder member of Fleetwood Mac, brought her to the forefront of the world of rock and roll - and its fame, money, drugs and heartache. Struggling in the darkness to find and develop her own voice and identity, Jenny went to college, achieving a Masters in Counseling Psychology and a PhD in Humanities - her dissertation on musicians and creativity became the critically-acclaimed book Musicians in Tune. Jenny has spent her life in the company of some of the greatest musical and cultural influencers of the last 50 years - and the journey she takes to finding her own sense of self and creative ability makes Jennifer Juniper a truly captivating and inspiring story. “The beautifully poignant story of a partner, mother, friend, and truly inspirational woman.” MICK FLEETWOOD, FLEETWOOD MAC

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604234 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy Author: Rachel Abrams, James B. Stewart Narrator: Robert Petkoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 23 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 8 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The instant New York Times bestseller  • A New York Times Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist • Nominated for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award 'Addicted to Succession? Well, here's the real thing.' - The Hollywood Reporter “Jaw-dropping . . . an epic tale of toxic wealth and greed populated by connivers and manipulators.” —The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice The shocking inside story of the struggle for power and control at Paramount Global, the multibillion-dollar entertainment empire controlled by the Redstone family, and the dysfunction, misconduct, and deceit that threatened the future of the company, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists who first broke the news In 2016, the fate of Paramount Global’s entertainment empire hung precariously in the balance. Its founder and head, ninety-three-year-old Sumner M. Redstone, was facing a very public lawsuit brought by a former romantic companion, Manuela Herzer, which placed Sumner’s deteriorating health and questionable judgment under a harsh light. As an all-powerful media mogul, Sumner had been a demanding boss, and an even more demanding father. When his daughter, Shari, took control of the business, she faced the hostility of boards who for years had heard Sumner disparage her. Les Moonves, the CEO of CBS, schemed with his allies on the board to strip Shari of power. But while he publicly battled Shari, news began to leak of Moonves’s involvement in multiple instances of sexual misconduct, and he began working behind the scenes to try to make the stories disappear. Unscripted is an explosive and unvarnished look at the usually secret inner workings of two public companies, their boards of directors, and a wealthy, dysfunctional family in the throes of seismic changes. From the Pulitzer Prize– winning journalists James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams, Unscripted lays bare the battle for power at any price—and the carnage that ensued.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623832 to listen full audiobooks. Title: More to Say: Essays & Appreciations Author: Ann Beattie Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: As deeply rewarding as her fiction, More to Say presents a selection of Ann Beattie’s essays, chosen and introduced by the author. From appreciations of writers, photographers, and other artists, to notes on the craft of writing itself, this is a wide-ranging, and always penetrating collection of writing never before published in book form. Ann Beattie, a master storyteller, has been delighting readers since the publication of her short stories in the 1970s and her first novel, Chilly Scenes of Winter. But as her literary acclaim grew and she was hailed “the voice of her generation,” Beattie was also moonlighting as a nonfiction writer. These penetrating essays are stories unto themselves, closely observed appreciations of life and art. The listener travels with Beattie to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to learn about the legacy of the painter Grant Wood and his iconic painting American Gothic; to the famed University of Virginia campus with her husband, the painter Lincoln Perry; to Key West, Florida, for New Years with writer and translator Harry Mathews; to a roadside near Boston in a broken-down car with the wheelchair-bound writer André Dubus. There are explorations of novels, short stories, paintings, and photographs by artists ranging from Alice Munro to Elmore Leonard, from Sally Mann to John Loengard. Whatever the subject, Ms. Beattie brings penetrating insight into literature and art that’s both familiar and unfamiliar. Ann Beattie’s nonfiction is a new way to enjoy one of the great writers of her generation. Listeners will find much to love in this journey with a curious and fascinating mind.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604289 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Acting Naturally: The Magic in Great Performances Author: David Thomson Narrator: David Thomson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 58 minutes Release date: February 7, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From the celebrated film critic and author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, a fascinating look at some of the cinema’s finest actors and how they approach their craft 'Open to any page and you’ll become enthralled by the...tales of forgotten film lore, childhood memories, sexy gossip.”—Philip Kaufman, director Meryl Streep, Marlon Brando, Anthony Hopkins, Carey Mulligan. When we watch these remarkable actors in a performance, we see only Sophie, Stanley Kowalski, Hannibal Lecter, or Cassie from Promising Young Woman. How are they able to transform our world in this way? How and why do they do what they do? In Acting Naturally, David Thomson sheds light on the actors who have shaped the film industry. He shrewdly analyzes these stars—among them, James Dean, Nicole Kidman, Denzel Washington, Louise Brooks, Riz Ahmed, Sir Laurence Olivier, Viola Davis, and Jean Seberg—revealing how a sly smile, an extra-long pause, even a small gesture of the hand can draw in an audience. And he takes us behind the scenes to examine casting and all the other moments leading up to “Action!” Through intimate anecdote, humor, and the insight born of a lifetime watching and analyzing film, Thomson explores the real reasons why we go to the movies and looks at how they influence our lives. This book is not only necessary reading for an insider’s view of the industry but also a surprising investigation of the relationship between acting and living.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626767 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Action: The Art of Excitement for Screen, Page, and Game Author: Bassim El-Wakil, Robert McKee Narrator: Robert McKee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 54 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From the master of Story, Dialogue, and Character, ACTION offers writers the keys to propulsive storytelling.   ACTION explores the ways that a modern-day writer can successfully tell an action story that not only stands apart, but wins the war on clichés. Teaming up with the former co-host of The Story Toolkit, Bassim El-Wakil, legendary story lecturer Robert McKee guides writers to award-winning originality by deconstructing the action genre, illuminating the challenges, and, more importantly, demonstrating how to master the demands of plot with surprising beats of innovation and ingenuity. Topics include:  - Understanding the Four Core Elements of Action - Creating the Action Cast - Hook, Hold, Pay Off: Design in Action - The Action Macguffin - Action Set Pieces - The Sixteen Action Subgenres A must-add to the McKee storytelling library, ACTION illustrates the principles of narrative drive with precision and clarity by referencing the most popular action movies of our time including: Die Hard, The Star Wars Saga, Dark Knight, The Matrix, and Avengers: Endgame.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615899 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Little History of Art Series: Part of Little Histories Author: Charlotte Mullins Narrator: Rachael Beresford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 35 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Charlotte Mullins brings art to life through the stories of those who created it and, importantly, reframes who is included in the narrative to create a more diverse and exciting landscape of art. She shows how art can help us see the world differently and understand our place in it, how it helps us express ourselves, fuels our creativity, and contributes to our overall wellbeing and positive mental health. Why did our ancestors make art? What did art mean to them and what does their art mean for us today? Why is art even important at all? Mullins introduces listeners to the Terracotta Army and Nok sculptures, Renaissance artists such as Giotto and Michelangelo, trailblazers including Käthe Kollwitz, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, and contemporary artists who create art as resistance, such as Ai Weiwei and Shirin Neshat. She also restores forgotten artists such as Sofonisba Anguissola, Guan Daosheng, and Jacob Lawrence, and travels to the Niger valley, Peru, Java, Rapa Nui, and Australia, to broaden our understanding of what art is and should be. This extraordinary journey through 100,000 years celebrates art's crucial place in understanding our collective culture and history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622557 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life Author: Roxana Robinson Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 29 hours 13 minutes Release date: December 20, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the greatest and most admired artists of the twentieth century, Georgia O’Keeffe led a life rich in intense relationships—with family, friends, and especially with fellow artist Alfred Stieglitz. Her extraordinary accomplishments, such as the often eroticized flowers, bones, stones, skulls, and pelvises that she painted with such command, are all the more remarkable when seen in the context of the struggle she waged between the rigorous demands of love and work. When Roxana Robinson’s definitive biography of O’Keeffe was first published in 1989, it received rave reviews and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. This new edition features a new foreword by the author, setting O’Keefe in an artistic context over the last thirty years since the book was first published, as well as previously unpublished letters of the young O’Keeffe to her lover, Arthur MacMahon. This book also relates the story of Robinson’s own encounter with the artist. As interest in O’Keeffe continues to grow among museum-goers and scholars alike, this book remains indispensable for understanding her life and art.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615585 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lawrence Sweeney Mix: A BBC Radio 4 Improv Comedy Show Author: Jim Sweeney, Josie Lawrence Narrator: Jim Sweeney, Josie Lawrence Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 43 minutes Release date: December 8, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Improv masters Josie Lawrence and Jim Sweeney perform hilarious off-the-cuff sketches based entirely on audience suggestions No script, no props and living by their wit - in this side-splitting series, two of the funniest stars of The Comedy Store Players and Whose Line Is It Anyway? join together to create sketches from ideas shouted out by a live studio audience. Making it up as they go along, Josie Lawrence and Jim Sweeney riff on topics ranging from a room full of kittens to something you might find beneath the sofa; from an unexpected moon expedition to a mishap involving a Portaloo; and from an unusual gathering with the neighbours to a meet-cute involving electrolysis. Best friends and longtime collaborators, the duo keep the laughter flowing with their quickfire quips and affectionate banter, as they bounce off each other, throw one another curveballs - and try to catch each other out... Chaotic, inventive and full of crazy characters and surreal skits, The Lawrence Sweeney Mix is sure to have you in stitches. Production credits Starring Josie Lawrence and Jim Sweeney Produced by Dawn Ellis First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on the following dates: 27 February - 20 March 2007 (Series 1) 29 January - 19 February 2008 (Series 2) © 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614117 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance Author: Joseph Luzzi Narrator: Keith Szarabajka Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54 minutes Release date: November 22, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A true historical “detective story” full of insight about how we look at art―and the artists and eras that produced it Some five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created work of unearthly beauty. An intimate associate of Florence’s unofficial rulers, the Medici, he was commissioned by a member of their family to execute a near-impossible project: to illustrate all one hundred cantos of The Divine Comedy by the city’s greatest poet, Dante Alighieri. A powerful encounter between poet and artist, sacred and secular, earthly and evanescent, these drawings produced a wealth of stunning images but were never finished. Botticelli declined into poverty and obscurity, and his illustrations went missing for four hundred years. The nineteenth-century rediscovery of Botticelli’s Dante drawings brought scholars to their knees: this work embodied everything the Renaissance had come to mean. Today, Botticelli’s Primavera adorns household objects of every kind. This book is essential to explain not only how and why this artist became iconic but why we still need his work―and the spirit of the Renaissance―today.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625939 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth Author: Nigel Jones Narrator: John Sackville Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 46 minutes Release date: November 22, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A revised edition of the candid, sometimes shocking, biography of Rupert Brooke revealing the very different reality behind the golden-boy façade of an English literary icon Paragon of youthful beauty, romantic symbol of a lost England, and precociously gifted poet, Rupert Chawner Brooke died in a hospital ship off the Aegean island of Skyros in April 1915, aged just 27. All England mourned his passing. But behind the glow of myth lies a darker reality. At the height of his promise a disappointment in love triggered a mental and physical collapse that brought his inner complexities to the surface. Letters reveal a man who was bisexual, misogynistic, anti-Semitic – and sometimes alarmingly unstable. This revised edition of Nigel Jones's admired biography, including an account of a previously unknown affair of Brooke's, reveals a more conflicted and troubled individual than the gilded Adonis of English literary myth. - Nigel Jones is an author, a former editor at History Today and BBC history magazines, and has been a TV and radio broadcaster. He is the author of several histories and biographies, including 'The War Walk: A Journey along the Western Front', 'Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth' and 'Sir Oswald Mosley'.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625382 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die Philosophie des modernen Songs Author: Bob Dylan Narrator: Wolfgang Niedecken Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: November 2, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: 'Blowin' in the wind', 'All along the watchtower', 'Knockin' on heaven's door' – seine Songs besitzen eine poetische Kraft, für die er mit dem Nobelpreis für Literatur geehrt wurde. Nun legt Bob Dylan ein Buch vor, in dem er nicht auf sein eigenes Werk zurückblickt, sondern auf mehr als 60 Songs, die ihn beeindruckt und geprägt haben. Mysteriös und magisch, präzise und profund, oft auch sehr witzig legt er die Substanz jedes Songs frei und meditiert dabei in unnachahmlich dylanesker Diktion über das menschliche Leben und den fragwürdigen Zustand unserer Welt. 'Die Philosophie des modernen Songs' bietet einzigartige Einsichten in die Kunst des Songwritings, die uns von Little Richard zu Frank Sinatra, von Elvis Presley zu The Clash, von Nina Simone zu Elvis Costello führen – hier beeindruckend vorgetragen von einem der besten deutschen Dylan-Kenner, der selbst ein großartiger Musiker und Songwriter ist: BAP-Chef Wolfgang Niedecken.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620801 to listen full audiobooks. Title: With Great Power: How Spider-Man Conquered Hollywood during the Golden Age of Comic Book Blockbusters Author: Sean O'connell Narrator: Matt Weisgerber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 29 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: If Hollywood had a superhero throne, Spider-Man would be perched upon it. As the most popular superhero in the world, the web-slinger plays a pivotal role in three of the six highest-grossing film franchises in history: the Marvel Cinematic Universe; the Avengers quadrilogy; and the Spider-Man movies themselves. Spidey has come a long way since Marvel guru Stan Lee first concocted him in 1962, but until now his cinematic journey has not been fully documented. The wall-crawler's history in Hollywood is a saga filled with failed attempts, behind-the-scenes squabbles, franchise reboots, corporate intrigue, and a host of A-list names—including, of course, stars Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, and Tom Holland. With Great Power is a lively and memorable account of the character's rise to box-office supremacy, revealing how his movies continue to influence the comic-book adaptations being made today. Drawing on exclusive access to and extensive interviews with directors, actors, producers, and screenwriters, veteran film reporter and author Sean O'Connell here gives the inside scoop on how Spider-Man clambered his way to the top of Hollywood's superhero heap.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619130 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Secret Lives of Great Artists: What Your Teachers Never Told You About Master Painters and Sculptors Series: #5 of Secret Lives Author: Elizabeth Lunday Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 25 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Take a tour through the wilder side of art history and discover true tales of murder, forgery, trickery, and great art—featuring jaw-dropping profiles of Da Vinci, Dali, and more With outrageous anecdotes about everyone from Leonardo Da Vinci to Caravaggio to Edward Hopper, Secret Lives of Great Artists recounts the seamy, steamy, and gritty history behind the great masters of international art. You'll learn that Michelangelo's body odor was so bad, his assistants couldn't stand working for him; that Vincent van Gogh sometimes ate paint directly from the tube; and Georgia O'Keeffe loved to paint in the nude. This is one art history lesson you'll never forget!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625105 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Good Morning, Olive: Haunted Theatres of Broadway and Beyond Author: Robert Viagas Narrator: Roman Howell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Hamlet calls death 'that undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.' But he's wrong. Some do return. Each night after the applause dies, the curtain falls, the audience vanishes, the cleaners dust, and the lights are killed, great theatres become dark and silent places. But not always quite empty. That's when the theatre ghosts make their entrance and strut and fret their hour upon the shadowed boards, illuminated only by the ghost light, the solitary lamp that is required to burn through the night on every Broadway stage. Many of Broadway's busiest theatres continue to be just as busily haunted by spirits, some with well-known names and histories. Good Morning, Olive (named for one of the most beautiful and temperamental of Broadway's ghosts) is about the ghosts that haunt theatres in New York and around the world. Broadway is the playground of stars, so it's probably not surprising to learn that even its ghosts are stars. Meet some of Broadway's best known—and most active—celebrity ghosts. Don't worry: like Casper, they tend to be friendly. For the most part.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624437 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miracle of The Music Man: The Classic American Story of Meredith Willson Author: Mark Cabaniss Narrator: Mark Cabaniss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The Music Man stands as one of the greatest achievements in American musical theatre, but few know about its rocky beginnings and the against-all-odds success story of its creator, Meredith Willson. Mark Cabaniss steps back into the Golden Age of Broadway and brings to life the origins of this classic show, the music behind it, and the unlikely story of its creator. Interweaving behind-the-scenes accounts of people who worked with Willson, Cabaniss looks at his long and unusual career as a composer, conductor, radio personality, and flutist, which reached its pinnacle in The Music Man. No one initially believed in Willson’s “Valentine to Iowa,” seeing it as nothing but a corny flop or, worse, a recipe for disaster. But when the curtain fell on opening night, a star called The Music Man was born. Over sixty-five years later, that star is still marching right to this day, endeared by millions around the world. To understand Willson, his career, and his music is to understand how the Music Man came to be: he was truly the only person who could have ever written this show due to his unique background, talent, incredible persistence, and belief. The show’s ultimate success and longevity was anything but inevitable—rather, it was truly a miracle.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613865 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don Rickles: The Merchant of Venom Author: Michael Seth Starr Narrator: Johnny Heller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Riding a wave of success that lasted more than sixty years, Don Rickles is best known as the 'insult' comic who skewered presidents, royalty, celebrities, and friends and fans alike. But there was more to 'Mr. Warmth' than a devilish ear-to-ear grin and lightning-fast put-downs. Rickles was a loving husband, an adoring father who suffered a devastating loss, and a loyal friend to the likes of Bob Newhart and Frank Sinatra. Sex, race, religion, nationality, physical appearance, political leanings—nothing and no one was safe from the 'Planned Parenthood Poster Boy,' as Johnny Carson referred to him. The Merchant of Venom traces Don Rickles's career from his rise in the 1950s to a late-in-life resurgence thanks to the Toy Story franchise, his role in Martin Scorsese's Casino, and scores of TV appearances from Carson to Seth Meyers. In the intervening decades, Rickles conquered every medium he worked in, including film, television, and on stage. He was idolized by a generation of younger comedians including Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, and Jay Leno, and performed in the shadow of a shocking open secret: he was the nicest man in town. An in-depth portrait of the personal and singular professional life of Don Rickles, The Merchant of Venom delivers a hilarious, moving, and long-overdue look at the real man behind the sting.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615732 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Strat in the Attic: Thrilling Stories of Guitar Archaeology Author: Deke Dickerson Narrator: Deke Dickerson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 19 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Guitar sleuth and music-history detective Deke Dickerson tells the true tales behind 48 rare-guitar and amplifier finds that will make any player or collector green with envy. Finding that holy grail of a guitar stashed away beneath a bed, in a closet, in the dusty corner of a guitar shop, or up in an attic is something that all guitar aficionados dream of. Strat in the Attic shares some of those real-life stories, related in spine-tingling detail by the author. Savor these and more believe-it-or-not stories of guitarchaeology: - A hoarder’s attic stuffed with nearly 600 vintage guitars still in their boxes. - A mint 1954 Fender Telecaster tucked under a bed in a family friend’s house. - Jazz legend Charlie Christian’s Gibson ES-250, spotted in a magazine ad. - A rare-as-hen’s-teeth Shoreline Gold ’56 Fender Stratocaster hidden in attic for 30 years! For guitar collectors, players, and admirers alike, these stories provide a satisfying way to scratch that rare guitar itch.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619183 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Lives of Royal Women: Fascinating Biographies of Queens, Princesses, Duchesses, and other Regal Women Author: Marlene Wagman-Geller Narrator: Kristina Rothe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Royal family secrets revealed! Have you ever wondered what royals go through? Have you ever thought about what the intimate lives of phenomenal women look like? The Secret Lives of Royal Women features the intimate and historically accurate details of some of history's most privileged women. Learn from the life stories of Meghan Duchess of Sussex, Princess Diana, Maharani Gayatri Devi, Queen Narriman, and many others. Fall in love with these phenomenal women! Dive into the fascinating history of Hawaii's only ever Queen: Liliuokalani, learn the story of Lady Jane Grey who was dethroned by Mary Queen of Scots, and learn more about Queen Elizabeth who Adolf Hitler called 'the most dangerous woman in Europe.' Every single one of these women will enrapture you and leave you wanting to find out more. Inside, you'll find: the inside scoop to the secret lives of phenomenal women; potentially life-changing lessons from these royal vignettes; and a book on royals packed with new and empowering historical stories. If you enjoy reading autobiographies, motivational books for women, or historical nonfiction books like Vanderbilt or Women of Means, you'll love The Secret Lives of Royal Women.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619187 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Music and Technology: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition Author: Mark Katz Narrator: Chris Abernathy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 41 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: This Very Short Introduction takes an expansive and inclusive approach meant to broaden and challenge traditional views of music and technology. In its most common use, 'music technology' tends to evoke images of twentieth and twenty-first century electronic devices: synthesizers, recording equipment, music notation software, and the like. This volume, however, treats all tools used to create, store, reproduce, and transmit music—new or old, electronic or not—as technologies worthy of investigation. In this broad view, technology in music encompasses instruments, whether acoustic, electric or electronic; engraving and printing; sound recording and playback; broadcasting; software; and much more. Mark Katz challenges the view that technology is unnatural, something external to music. It was sometimes said in the early twentieth century that so-called mechanical music (especially player pianos and phonographs) was a menace to 'real' music; alternatively, technology can be freighted with utopian hopes and desires, as happens today with music streaming platforms like Spotify. Positive or negative, these views assume that technology is something that acts upon music; by contrast, this volume characterizes technology as an integral part of all musical activity and portrays traditional instruments and electronic machines as equally technological.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620798 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mirror in the Sky: The Life and Music of Stevie Nicks Author: Simon Morrison Narrator: Rebecca Lam Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A stunning musical biography of Stevie Nicks that paints a portrait of an artist, not a caricature of a superstar. Reflective and expansive, Mirror in the Sky situates Stevie Nicks as one of the finest songwriters of the twentieth century. This biography from distinguished music historian Simon Morrison examines Nicks as a singer and songwriter before and beyond her career with Fleetwood Mac, from the Arizona landscape of her childhood to the strobe-lit Night of 1000 Stevies celebrations. The book uniquely: ● Analyzes Nicks's craft—the grain of her voice, the poetry of her lyrics, the melodic and harmonic syntax of her songs. ● Identifies the American folk and country influences on her musical imagination that place her within a distinctly American tradition of women songwriters. ● Draws from oral histories and surprising archival discoveries to connect Nicks's story to those of California's above- and underground music industries, innovations in recording technology, and gendered restrictions.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619027 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Piano by Ear: New and Traditional Classical Box Set 1: Includes Beautiful Dreamer, Sonata in C, and More Series: Part of The Piano by Ear Series Author: Bill Brown Narrator: Bill Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The lines are starting to blur between traditional and new classical, which is sometimes called “New Age,” “Meditative,” and “Focus Music.” It is easy to hear the influence of the great composers like Chopin, Mozart, and Beethoven in the modern genre, and in this box set you’ll get to play in both worlds. This box set is loaded with Yiruma as well as Einaudi and Satie, whom most argue was the first of this genre. There is also the COMPLETE Sonata in C (all three movements) by Mozart (K545). This is over thirteen hours of high-quality piano instruction by a world-class teacher, taught entirely “By Ear!” Lessons include: “Beautiful Dreamer”“Sonata in C” (Allegro)“Sonata in C” (Andante)“Sonata in C” (Rondo)“Do You?” (Yiruma)“Gymnopédie 1”“Gymnopédie 2”“Gymnopédie 3”“Una Mattina” (Einaudi)“Wait There” (Yiruma)“Kiss the Rain” (Yiruma)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620451 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mark Steel’s In Town: Series 11 & 12: A BBC Radio 4 comedy series Author: Mark Steel Narrator: Mark Steel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 50 minutes Release date: October 20, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The complete Series 11 and 12 of Mark Steel's comedy travel show 'Consistently the funniest programme on the radio' The Independent Mark Steel is back with two more series of his award-winning show, in which he explores nine weird and wonderful places around the UK and beyond. After thoroughly researching each town's history, people and idiosyncrasies, he goes on to write and perform a tailor-made evening of stand-up for the residents. Series 11 takes him to the former mining town of Blyth, Northumberland, where he finds a fascinating industrial legacy, a posh pub, and a very nice beach; Walthamstow, where he's joined by local MP Stella Creasey for a discussion about the controversial 'mini-Holland' cycling scheme; and Whitby; where he dodges the seagulls to present his findings on the Dracula origin story, chip shops and the resort's whaling history. In Series 12, Mark tours the contrarian city of Nottingham to learn about local legends Robin Hood and Frank the xylophone player; and travels to Tring's Natural History Museum to take in the exhibit of fleas dressed as Mexicans. He also sets out to the Isles of Scilly, Salisbury and Newport, and pops over to Paris, where he performs two versions of his show: one in English and one in French... With just the right blend of affection and rudeness, he celebrates the curious stories, quirky characters and regional eccentricities that make these areas unique. Whether you're a local or an out-of-towner, his hilarious observations will have you roaring with laughter. Written by and starring Mark Steel Additional material by Pete Sinclair Produced by Julia McKenzie and Carl Cooper Production co-ordinators: Beverly Tagg, Sarah Sharpe and Katie Baum Sound Manager: Jerry Peal First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 1-15 December 2021 (Series 11), 22 August-26 September 2022 (Series 12) ©2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624332 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cary Grant: Taking the Lead Author: Gene Popa Narrator: Adam Hanin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 18, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In 1937, it seemed as if Cary Grant had it all: the fame and fortune of being a leading man for one of Hollywood’s biggest studios, with a life of luxury that was a world away from the hardship and misery he knew growing up in Bristol, England. But all that glitters is not gold. Grant felt that he had no say in the development of his own career, and he was seeing signs that the studio was losing interest in him—other than to just be a handsome face. He yearned for better roles to prove himself as an actor. And so, he did the inconceivable. He left the safety of his studio and struck out on his own as a freelance actor. Over the next four years, against tremendous odds and formidable opposition, he guided his own destiny. As amazing as the story of Archie Leach forging a new life for himself as Cary Grant is, the tale of these four crucible years, 1937 to 1940, is equally as important. For it was during these years that Cary Grant became more than a movie star. He became a timeless icon.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623752 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Italian] - Rigoletto Author: Francesco Maria Piave Narrator: Simone Bacci Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 16 minutes Release date: October 15, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Opera libretto interpreted and read without singing. This audio is suitable for lovers of theatrical literature, for opera singers and for students of the Italian language.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619022 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Piano by Ear: Pop and Standards Box Set 6: Includes Legends of the Fall, Once Upon a December, and More Series: Part of The Piano by Ear Series Author: Bill Brown Narrator: Bill Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 9 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Movies, Star Trek, Clone Wars, and Willie Nelson! This mash-up set gives you movie themes, old standards, and a Singer Pro version of “Easy” by The Commodores, where you’ll learn the actual piano part from the original hit recording. There is also modern pop by Adele and Josh Groban. This set contains over twelve hours of high-quality piano instruction by a world-class teacher, taught entirely “By Ear!” Lessons include: “Legends of the Fall”“Once Upon a December” (Solo)“You Raise Me Up”“Easy on Me” (Solo)“Star Trek Medley”“Crazy” (Intermediate Solo)“Across the Stars”“Easy” (Singer Pro Version)“My Funny Valentine”“Corpse Bride Duet”“Unforgettable”

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624284 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Glory Guitars: Memoir of a '90s Teenage Punk Rock Grrrl Author: Gogo Germaine Narrator: Carrington Macduffie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 1 minute Release date: October 11, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Ensconced in the black hole between childhood and adulthood, a glorious degenerate-grade freedom endures. A rebellion from respectability. An anathema to normalcy. It is the type of defiance that’s hopeful―hurt by the world but looking to reconcile it. Enter Gogo Germaine and her girl gang of delinquents. As manic teens in the ’90s punk scene, they engage in a vivid spectrum of misbehavior―from truancy to tattoos to trespassing. Here, in the underbelly of adolescence, music is God and the rest is a rush of nihilism. Gogo and her friends stumble through sound and fury into questionable firsts at varying degrees of sobriety. Many of us blunder through that black hole. It is a point of universal convergence, manifested by divergent experiences. Gogo’s rebellion may look different from yours, but the soaring highs and visceral lows will be familiar.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627448 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La vida secreta del rock argentino: Los héroes anónimos de la escena Author: Marcelo Fernández Bitar Narrator: Alen Baldi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 55 minutes Release date: October 10, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Este audiolibro rescata el trabajo de los héroes anónimos que ayudaron a consolidar la carrera de figuras como Spinetta, Charly García y Soda Stereo. Un aspecto poco conocido en la historia del rock nacional es el vertiginoso avance técnico que ocurrió durante la década del 80 a la par del alcance masivo de las canciones más emblemáticas, la exportación de artistas hacia otros rincones de Latinoamérica y la llegada al país de figuras internacionales de primera línea. Detrás de escena hubo un puñado de actores que acompañaron el crecimiento del rock local con pasión, entusiasmo desbordante, amor por su profesión y ganas de trascender las fronteras. Marcelo Fernández Bitar rescata el trabajo de estos héroes anónimos que rodean los éxitos de la época de oro de figuras como Spinetta, Charly García y Soda Stereo. Figuras que, contra viento y marea, sorteando las crisis económicas, lograron que la escena musical creciera y sentara las bases para el fenómeno actual del rock en la Argentina.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613638 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Jason Byrne Show: The Complete Series 1-3: BBC Radio Stand-Up Comedy Author: Jason Byrne Narrator: Jason Byrne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 6, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The complete Sony Radio Academy Gold Award-winning BBC Radio series from acclaimed Irish stand-up comedian Jason Byrne In three series of fast-paced comedy, packed with brilliant banter and quickfire improvisation, Jason Byrne shares his experiences of education, relationships, sport, food, money, ageing, work and much, much more. From going on a first date to the birth of his children, from poo in the school playground and 'When Mediums Have Sex' to getting in trouble with the police, Jason probes a new theme with each new episode. As first heard on BBC Radio 2, there's top-notch stand-up, madcap sketches, plus special guests. Also featuring Ivan Brackenbury, Laurence Howarth, Anna Bengo, Daisy Haggard and Margaret Cabourn-Smith. All human life is here, wittily and wonderfully observed by a comic genius. Produced by Julia McKenzie © 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (p) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624664 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Authentic Actor: The Art and Business of Being Yourself Author: Michael Laskin Narrator: Michael Laskin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 6 minutes Release date: October 5, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: “The Authentic Actor – the Art and Business of Being Yourself” illuminates for today’s actors the skills, strategies, and mental approach to navigating the intersection of art and commerce. It’s the culmination of Michael Laskin’s over forty years in the profession, and thousands of hours of classroom work and private coaching. Today’s “Authentic Actor” is someone who has successfully merged their highly developed talent with their fully examined identity. Unfortunately, being talented is no longer enough. Talent is just the “price of admission” in a marketplace where, at the professional level, nearly everyone is talented. Defining, refining, and understanding your indelibility as an actor, your “blink-of-an-eye” factor is key. Marrying that with highly developed traditional skills is the portal to success and artistry. It's not just show business....it's human business.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611827 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Seeing Like an Artist: What Artists Perceive in the Art of Others Author: Lincoln Perry Narrator: Dan Woren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Learn to see art as an artist does. As the mysteries of techniques and styles are revealed, viewing paintings and sculptures becomes a more powerfully enriching experience that will stay in your mind long after you’ve left a museum. A visit to a museum can be overwhelming, exhausting, and unrewarding. Lincoln Perry wants to change that. In eleven essays—each framed around a specific theme—he provides new ways of seeing and appreciating art. Perry is a disarmingly charming tour guide to museums large or small. He makes even all art approachable and accessible. Along the way, he weaves in personal stories, from his own artistic journey as a painter to the days when he could sleep in his beaten-up VW Bus in the Louvre’s parking lot. Drawing heavily on examples from the European tradition of art, the author aims to overturn your assumptions and cause you to re-think artistic prejudices while rebuilding new preferences. Included are essays on how artists “read” paintings and guides to the great museums and churches of Europe. This is for any art-lover and museum-goer who wants to gain a deeper experience as a viewer of art.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613933 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror Author: Joe Vallese Narrator: Tori Barron, Krystal Hammond, André Santana, Aven Shore, Em Grosland, Aida Reluzco, Mark Sanderlin, Hope Newhouse, Lindsey Dorcus, Daniel Henning, Joel Froomkin, Graham Halstead, Mike Cooper, Ron Butler, Vikas Adam Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Through the lens of horror—from Halloween to Hereditary—queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences. Horror movies hold a complicated space in the hearts of the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo- and transphobic, the genre has also been inadvertently feminist and open to subversive readings. Common tropes—such as the circumspect and resilient “final girl,” body possession, costumed villains, secret identities, and things that lurk in the closet—spark moments of eerie familiarity and affective connection. Still, viewers often remain tasked with reading themselves into beloved films, seeking out characters and set pieces that speak to, mirror, and parallel the unique ways queerness encounters the world. It Came from the Closet features twenty-five original essays by writers speaking to this relationship, through connections both empowering and oppressive. From Carmen Maria Machado on Jennifer’s Body, Jude Ellison S. Doyle on In My Skin, Addie Tsai on Dead Ringers, and many more, these conversations convey the rich reciprocity between queerness and horror.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626806 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen Author: David J. Skal Narrator: David J. Skal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 4 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. It's recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus. Most of us can recite without prompting the salient characteristics of the vampire: sleeping by day in its coffin, rising at dusk to feed on the blood of the living; the ability to shapeshift into a bat, wolf, or mist; a mortal vulnerability to a wooden stake through the heart or a shaft of sunlight. In this critically acclaimed excursion through the life of a cultural icon, David Skal maps out the archetypal vampire's relentless trajectory from Victorian literary oddity to movie idol to cultural commodity, digging through the populist veneer to reveal what the prince of darkness says about us all.