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Creative Types: and Other Stories by Tom Bissell

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419448 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419448] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Creative Types: and Other Stories Author: Tom Bissell Narrator: Kasey Mahaffy, Trisha Miller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 15 minutes Release date: December 14, 2021 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: From the best-selling coauthor of The Disaster Artist and “one of America's best and most interesting writers' (Stephen King), a new collection of stories that range from laugh-out-loud funny to disturbingly dark—unflinching portraits of women and men struggling to bridge the gap between art and life A young and ingratiating assistant to a movie star makes a blunder that puts his boss and a major studio at grave risk. A long-married couple hires an escort for a threesome in order to rejuvenate their relationship. An assistant at a prestigious literary journal reconnects with a middle school frenemy and finds that his carefully constructed world of refinement cannot protect him from his past. A Bush administration lawyer wakes up on an abandoned airplane, trapped in a nightmare of his own making.   In these and other stories, Tom Bissell vividly renders the complex worlds of characters on the brink of artistic and personal crises—writers, video-game developers, actors, and other creative types who see things slightly differently from the rest of us. With its surreal, poignant, and sometimes squirm-inducing stories, Creative Types is a brilliant new offering from one the most versatile and talented writers working in America today.

Nobody, Somebody, Anybody: A Novel by Kelly Mcclorey

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419418 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419418] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nobody, Somebody, Anybody: A Novel Author: Kelly Mcclorey Narrator: Sarah Naughton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: July 6, 2021 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: “It's My Year of Rest and Relaxation, but with fewer pills and more boats.” —Entertainment Weekly A moving and darkly comic debut novel about an anxious young woman who administers a self-made “placebo” treatment in a last-ditch attempt to rebuild her life Amy Hanley has a job as a maid for the summer, but on August 25, she will take the exam to become an EMT (third time’s the charm!) and finally move on with her life. In the meantime, she doesn’t mind scrubbing toilets immaculately clean or tucking the sheet corners just so. In fact, she tells herself that her work is a noble act of service to the rich guests at the yacht club. Amy’s profound isolation colors everything: her job, her aspirations, even her interactions with the woman at the deli counter. And as the date for the EMT exam comes closer, Amy’s anxiety ratchets up in a way that is both familiar and troubling. In desperation, she concocts a “placebo” program—a self-prescribed regimen for her confidence, devised to trick herself into succeeding. When her landlord, Gary, starts to invite her over for dinner—to practice his cooking skills as he awaits approval of his Ukrainian fiancé’s visa—Amy makes her first friend since her mother’s passing. Alongside this unexpected connection comes a surge of hopeful obsession that Amy knows she must reckon with before the summer’s end. Tender and laugh-out-loud funny, Nobody, Somebody, Anybody explores the shadowy corners of a young woman’s inner world of grief, delusion, and self-loathing, revealing the creeping loneliness of modern life and our endless search for connection. Amy is the ultimate manic pixie dream girl. Kelly McClorey captures the hilarity, weirdness and heartbreak of American ambition.

The Cave Dwellers by Christina Mcdowell

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/420838 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/420838] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cave Dwellers Author: Christina Mcdowell Narrator: Madeleine Maby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 16 minutes Release date: May 25, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: This “delicious take on the one percent in our nation’s capital” (Town & Country) and clever combination of The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Nest explores what Washington, DC’s high society members do behind the closed doors of their stately homes. They are the families considered worthy of a listing in the exclusive Green Book—a discriminative diary created by the niece of Edith Roosevelt’s social secretary. Their aristocratic bloodlines are woven into the very fabric of Washington—generation after generation. Their old money and manner lurk through the cobblestone streets of Georgetown, Kalorama, and Capitol Hill. They only socialize within their inner circle, turning a blind eye to those who come and go on the political merry-go-round. These parents and their children live in gilded existences of power and privilege. But what they have failed to understand is that the world is changing. And when the family of one of their own is held hostage and brutally murdered, everything about their legacy is called into question in this unputdownable novel that “combines social satire with moral outrage to offer a masterfully crafted, absorbing read that can simply entertain on one level and provoke reasoned discourse on another” (Booklist, starred review).

The Secret Talker: A Novel by Geling Yan

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/417794 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/417794] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Talker: A Novel Author: Geling Yan Narrator: Angela Lin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 54 minutes Release date: May 4, 2021 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: ''The Secret Talker is a profound meditation on love, the difficulties of communication and the agonizing joy and brutality of commitment.'' -- THE NEW YORK TIMES A NEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLER OF 2021 AND ''GLOBETROTTING'' PICK! A woman reclaims her own story in this taut and wholly original literary tale from one of China’s literary superstars. Hongmei is the perfect Chinese wife: beautiful, diligent, passive. Glen is the perfect American husband: intelligent, caring, well-off. From the outside, Hongmei and Glen's life in the San Francisco Bay Area seems perfect. But at home, their marriage is falling apart. Post-its left on the fridge are their primary form of communication.   When Hongmei receives a beguiling email from a secret admirer, naturally she’s intrigued. But what starts out as harmless flirting with an internet stranger quickly turns into an all-consuming emotional affair. As Hongmei spills more and more about her dark past as a military intelligence officer-in-training in China, she falls deeper and deeper into a tense cat-and-mouse game. Desperate and self-destructive, she embarks on an investigation into her emailer’s secret history…one that may tear her life and marriage apart forever. A psychological story at its core, The Secret Talker elegantly examines how repressed desire and simmering silence can upend even the most idyllic marriage. As Hongmei pursues her stalker, her identity and agency come into question, and the chase curveballs into a captivating journey of self-actualization. Yan Geling pierces the human psyche to reveal devastating and emotional truths – and an ending that will leave readers speechless. Translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang

Hit or Myth by Robert Asprin

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424906 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424906] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hit or Myth Series: #4 of Myth Adventures Author: Robert Asprin Narrator: Noah Michael Levine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 20 minutes Release date: March 30, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: When the king decides to go on vacation, he orders Skeeve, a bumbling apprentice sorcerer, to take his place, marry his homicidal fiancée, and deal with the Mob's fairy godfather.