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A Shimmering, Serrated Monster!: The Mark Leyner Reader by Mark Leyner

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733878 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733878] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Shimmering, Serrated Monster!: The Mark Leyner Reader Author: Mark Leyner Narrator: Gary Bennett, Marni Penning, Seth Podowitz, Mark Leyner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 48 minutes Release date: December 3, 2024 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: An all-access ticket to the celebrated and wholly original mind of Mark Leyner, “one of the smartest and funniest humans since Aristophanes” (Jay McInerney) Praised as “chaotic and vibrant” (Charles Yu), “visionary” (Sam Lipsyte), and “supremely original” (John Cusack), the work of Mark Leyner has inspired a generation of contemporary novelists and has long deserved its place of recognition among the literary superstars of the seismic postmodernism-influenced movement of the early 21st century. A Shimmering, Serrated Monster!: The Mark Leyner Reader samples the staggering highlights from Leyner’s extraordinary career in all of its bizarre and infatuating glory, with excerpts spanning from his groundbreaking early novels My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist (1990) and Et Tu, Babe (1992) to his modern masterpieces The Sugar-Frosted Nutsack (2012) and The Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit (2021). Appreciations from modern masters introduce each novel and the book includes original pieces in Leyner’s irrepressible voice, including a timeline (“The Story So Far”) and a new Afterword (“The Highlighted Passages”). This comprehensive volume is the perfect entry point for readers attracted to mind-expanding prose, and a bouquet of delights for those who have loved any of his past works.

The Voice that Thunders by Alan Garner

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705961 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705961] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Voice that Thunders Author: Alan Garner Narrator: Robert Powell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 28 minutes Release date: November 21, 2024 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: A collection of writings by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker 'His work has a symphonic quality unique in fiction' THE TIMES ‘The autobiography of one of the most distinct and profound writers we have’ GUARDIAN In this rich collection of writings, spanning more than twenty years, Alan Garner, the Booker shortlisted author of Treacle Walker, explores his interest in a dazzling range of subjects; from archaeology, myth and language, to education, literature, film, music and philosophy, as well as mental health and our most profound quest for the spiritual. The Voice That Thunders serves as an early poetic autobiography of one of England's best-loved but least public writers. These essays chart how, after hearing himself declared dead at the age of six, he went on to become the writer he is today: one drawing on the deep well of a rural working-class childhood and one inspired by a family of craftsmen who instilled in him the passion for excellence and innovation and humour that guides him to this day. Candid and illuminating, The Voice That Thunders is an enchanting collection from one of Britain’s greatest living writers. ‘A brilliant collection of essays’ INDEPENDENT

Of the Flesh: 17 Stories of Modern Horror by et al, Lucy Rose, Adorah Nworah, Emilia Hart, Ainslie Hogarth, J K Chukwu, Francine Toon, Bridget Collins, Susan Barker, Louisa Young, Robert Lautner, James Smythe, Lavie Tidhar, Michel Faber, Evie Wyld

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/730176 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/730176] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Of the Flesh: 17 Stories of Modern Horror Author: et al, Lucy Rose, Adorah Nworah, Emilia Hart, Ainslie Hogarth, J K Chukwu, Francine Toon, Bridget Collins, Susan Barker, Louisa Young, Robert Lautner, James Smythe, Lavie Tidhar, Michel Faber, Evie Wyld Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 31 minutes Release date: October 10, 2024 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: 'Outstandingly weird and memorable' GUARDIAN 'Deliciously creepy' NEW SCIENTIST Fear never dies… These stories from seventeen masters of the craft will curdle your blood, haunt your dreams and redefine terror. An exploited child worker in the silver mines of Bolivia finds an ally – but at what cost? A young woman's workplace affair has terrifying repercussions when her lover's wife dies. A sailor's wife takes her communion with Nature a little too far… From a hungry young woman who is not what she seems, to a boy who has taken his mother's advice a touch too seriously; from disfigured girls willing to pay any price to fit in, to an immigrant who cannot escape his tormentor; from a new home with a sinister secret, to the discovery that a long-dead parent’s corpse is perfectly preserved decades later; this collection plumbs the depths of the psyche and dredges up some very modern horrors. Featuring stories by: Susan Barker, J K Chukwu, Bridget Collins, Mariana Enríquez, Michel Faber, Emilia Hart, Ainslie Hogarth, Robert Lautner, Adorah Nworah, Irenosen Okojie, Lucy Rose, Lionel Shriver, James Smythe, Lavie Tidhar, Francine Toon, Evie Wyld and Louisa Young.

The Last Dream by Pedro Almodóvar

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733915 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733915] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Dream Author: Pedro Almodóvar Narrator: Juan Diego Botto, Michael Cera, Taylour Paige, Frank Wynne, Colman Domingo, Norbert Leo Butz, Edoardo Ballerini, Rachel Weisz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 57 minutes Release date: September 26, 2024 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A mischievous and genre-spanning story collection from legendary film director Pedro Almodóvar The Last Dream brings together for the first time twelve unpublished stories from Almodóvar’s personal archive, written between the late sixties and the present day. Delivering a tantalising glimpse into Almodóvar’s world, this wildly inventive collection reflects his most intimate obsessions, as well as his daring evolution as an artist. Ranging from ‘The Last Dream’ - a beautiful chronicle of the death of Almodóvar’s mother - to a love story between Jesus and Barabbas;, a cult film director out in search of painkillers on a bank holiday weekend, the original story behind the film Bad Education, and a gothic tale of a repentant vampire, these stories delight and surprise. The Last Dream is a celebration of the relationship between life and art, fiction and reality from an artist unafraid to write about our most intimate moments. It explores desire, mortality and the pain and glory of artistic creation, laced with playful humour and a deep love of literature and culture. Translated by Frank Wynne ©2024 Pedro Almodóvar (P)2024 Penguin Audio

A Pair of Wings: A Novel by Carole Hopson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/723315 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/723315] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Pair of Wings: A Novel Author: Carole Hopson Narrator: Alaska Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 33 minutes Release date: August 20, 2024 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: An airline captain crafts a riveting, adventurous novel inspired by the remarkable true life of pioneer aviatrix Bessie Coleman, a Black woman who learned to fly at the dawn of aviation and found freedom in the air A few years after the Wright brothers’ first flight, Bessie was working the Texas cotton fields with her family when an airplane flew over their heads. It buzzed so low she thought she could catch it in her hands. Bessie was fearless. She knew there was freedom in those wings. The daughter of a woman born into slavery, Bessie answers the call of the Great Migration. She moves to Chicago, where she wins the backing of two wealthy, powerful Black men—Robert Abbott, creator and publisher of the Chicago Defender, and Jesse Binga, the founder of Chicago’s first Black bank. Abbott becomes her mentor, while Binga becomes her lover. Her true first love, though, remains flying. But in 1920, no one in the United States will train a Black woman to fly. So, twenty-eight-year-old Bessie learns to speak French and sets off for Europe. Two years ahead of Amelia Earhart, Bessie earns her pilot's license, and later she learns death-defying stunts from French and German dogfighting combat pilots. While she finds no prejudice in the air, Bessie wrestles with other challenges on the ground. A plane crash nearly kills her, her brothers seem to be crumbling under the weight of Jim Crow, and, while grappling with tough truths about Binga, Bessie begins to wonder if the freedom she finds in the sky means she must otherwise fly solo. With tenderness and mastery, Carole Hopson imagines the breathtaking moxie Bessie Coleman harnessed in order to lift herself out of poverty and become known as “Queen Bess.” A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.