The Best American Short Stories 2023 by Min Jin Lee, Heidi Pitlor

A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays by Pedro Lemebel

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669352 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669352] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays Author: Pedro Lemebel Narrator: Gwendolyn Harper, Vico Ortiz, Idra Novey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: “Intoxicating . . . Sexy, political and deeply humane . . . We all owe Penguin Classics a round of shots for A Last Supper of Queer Apostles.” —The Washington Post A galvanizing look at life on the margins of society by a crowning figure of Latin America's queer counterculture who celebrated “melodrama, kitsch, extravagance, and vulgarity of all kinds” (Garth Greenwell) in playful, performative, linguistically inventive essays, now available in English for the first time A Penguin Classic “I speak from my difference,” wrote Pedro Lemebel, an openly queer writer and artist living through Chile’s AIDS epidemic and the collapse of the Pinochet dictatorship. In brilliantly innovative essays—known as crónicas—that combine memoir, reportage, fiction, history, and poetry, he brought visibility and dignity to sexual minorities, the poor, and the powerless. Touching on everything from Che Guevara to Elizabeth Taylor, from the aftermath of authoritarian rule to the daily lives of Chile’s locas—a slur for trans women and effeminate gay men that he boldly reclaims—his writing infuses political urgency with playfulness, realism with absurdism, and resistance with camp, and his AIDS crónicas immortalize a generation of Chileans doubly “disappeared” by casting each loca, as she falls sick, in the starring role of her own private tragedy. This volume brings together the best of his work, introducing readers of English to the subversive genius of a literary activist and queer icon whose acrobatic explorations of the Santiago demimonde reverberate around the world. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti (Updated) by Edwidge Danticat

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/670459 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/670459] to listen full audiobooks. Title: After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti (Updated) Author: Edwidge Danticat Narrator: Edwidge Danticat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 41 minutes Release date: November 21, 2023 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: In After the Dance, one of Haiti’s most renowned daughters returns to her homeland, taking readers on a stunning, exquisitely rendered journey beyond the hedonistic surface of Carnival and into its deep heart. Edwidge Danticat had long been scared off from Carnival by a loved one, who spun tales of people dislocating hips from gyrating with too much abandon, losing their voices from singing too loudly, going deaf from the clamor of immense speakers, and being punched, stabbed, pummeled, or fondled by other lustful revelers. Now an adult, she resolves to return and exorcise her Carnival demons. She spends the week before Carnival in the area around Jacmel, exploring the rolling hills and lush forests and meeting the people who live and die in them. During her journeys she traces the heroic and tragic history of the island, from French colonists and Haitian revolutionaries to American invaders and home-grown dictators. Danticat also introduces us to many of the performers, artists, and organizers who re-create the myths and legends that bring the Carnival festivities to life. When Carnival arrives, we watch as she goes from observer to participant and finally loses herself in the overwhelming embrace of the crowd. Part travelogue, part memoir, this is a lyrical narrative of a writer rediscovering her country along with a part of herself. It’s also a wonderful introduction to Haiti’s southern coast and to the true beauty of Carnival.

Why Mummy Drinks at Christmas by Gill Sims

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/668690 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/668690] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Mummy Drinks at Christmas Author: Gill Sims Narrator: Gabrielle Glaister Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 51 minutes Release date: October 26, 2023 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: ‘I romped through ‘Why Mummy Drinks at Christmas’, and I absolutely adored it’ – Jilly Cooper Tis’ the season to get trollied! Mummy has always loved Christmas. Sure, the kids turn into demons, the dinner gets burnt to a crisp and Aunt Louisa’s general staggering inappropriateness sends Mummy reaching for the nearest maximum-strength festive tipple, but nevertheless, for her, Christmas is always special. This year, she wants nothing more than to perfectly fig up the pudding and sit by the fire reading aloud from A Christmas Carol to a rapt, rosy-cheeked audience. But, just like all Mummy’s best-laid plans, this year’s Festive Vision is in danger of being totally derailed by her chaotic family. There’s not much chance of any action under the mistletoe, and the kids are just not playing ball. Can Mummy find her silver lining after all and bring the whole family together for one moment of harmony, so they can finally proclaim ‘Verily You Are the Queen of Christmas’? Or should she get stuck into the festive spirits and just let it all go?

The Best American Food Writing 2023 by Silvia Killingsworth, Mark Bittman

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657103 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657103] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Best American Food Writing 2023 Series: Part of Best American Author: Silvia Killingsworth, Mark Bittman Narrator: Elyse Dinh, Justin Chien, Carolina Hoyos, Johnny Rey Diaz, Terrence Kidd, Chanté Mccormick, Nikki Massoud, Will Tulin, Dylan Moore, Anthony Rey Perez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 5 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: ''Excellent....Taken as a whole, the volume moves beyond food’s sensory pleasures to investigate it as a cultural vessel, a symbol of inequality, and more. It’s a standout addition to the series.'' —Publisher's Weekly (starred review) A collection of the year’s top food writing, selected by prolific food writer and author of How to Cook Everything Mark Bittman. ''In almost any culture, at any time, you can find food writing,” writes guest editor Mark Bittman in his introduction. “Food means growing and hardship, and health and medicine, and work and holiday. In its abundance it is a gift and a joy, and in its absence a curse and a tragedy. If a culture has writing, that culture has food writing.” The stories in this year’s Best American Food Writing are brilliant, eye-opening windows into the heart of our country’s culture. From the link between salt and sex, to Syrian refugees transforming ancient Turkish food traditions, to the FDA’s crusade on alternative non-dairy milk options, to Black farmers in Arkansas seeking justice, the scope of these essays spans nearly every aspect of our society. This anthology offers an entertaining and poignant look at how food shapes our lives and how food writing shapes our culture.  THE BEST AMERICAN FOOD WRITING 2023 INCLUDES JAYA SAXENA • LIGAYA MISHAN • MARION NESTLE TOM PHILPOTT • WESLEY BROWN • ALICIA KENNEDY CAROLINE HATCHETT • AMY LOEFFLER and others

The Best American Short Stories 2023 by Min Jin Lee, Heidi Pitlor

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657093 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657093] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Best American Short Stories 2023 Series: Part of Best American Author: Min Jin Lee, Heidi Pitlor Narrator: Thabang Makhubelak, Elyse Dinh, Mirai, Elena Rey, Em Grosland, Johnny Rey Diaz, Katharine Chin, Micky Shiloah, Jeena Yi, Nikki Massoud, Will Tulin, Dylan Moore, Pascale Armand, Laura Copland, Korey Jackson, Yelena Shmulenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 59 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor. “Without stories, we cannot live well,” shares guest editor Min Jin Lee, describing how storytelling affects and nurtures readers. The Best American Short Stories 2023 features twenty pieces of short fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but also wondrous hope. A lifelong friendship may become a casualty of the Russia-Ukraine war. Rejected by his lover, a man seeks to reconcile with his family. Twitter users miraculously muster enough empathy to help a lost cat find a forever home. Enlightening, poignant, and undeniably human, the stories in this anthology bravely confront societal darkness and offer, in Lee’s words, “our emotional truths, restoring our sanity and providing comfort for the days ahead.” The Best American Short Stories 2023 includes Cherline Bazile • Maya Binyam • Tom Bissell • Taryn Bowe • Da-Lin • Benjamin Ehrlich• Sara Freeman • Lauren Groff • Nathan Harris • Jared Jackson • Sana Krasikov • Danica Li • Ling Ma • Manuel Muñoz • Joanna Pearson • Souvankham Thammavongsa • Kosiso Ugwueze • Corinna Vallianatos • Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi • Esther Yi