The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the Nature of First Acts by Nicholas Delbanco

Flashback - An Actor's Life by David S. Barry

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196762 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196762] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flashback - An Actor's Life Author: David S. Barry Narrator: David S. Barry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 39 minutes Release date: February 5, 2014 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: David Barry’s autobiography spans almost five decades of theatre, film and television experience. As a 14-year-old he toured Europe with Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, in one of the most prestigious post-war theatre tours. Vivien Leigh took a shine to him and he saw both sides of her complex character first hand. One minute she was sweetness and light, and the next she became a screaming harridan as she publicly berated Sir Laurence. In his early twenties, he starred as Frankie Abbott in Please, Sir! and Fenn Street Gang, and those days are recounted with great humour. Hilarious events unfold as he describes working with dodgy producers and argumentative actors. His is a story that covers everything from the pitfalls of working in live television to performing with hard drinking actors.

No Experience Necessary: The Culinary Odyssey of Chef Norman Van Aken by Norman Van Aken

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202776 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202776] to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Experience Necessary: The Culinary Odyssey of Chef Norman Van Aken Author: Norman Van Aken Narrator: Norman Van Aken Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 37 minutes Release date: December 7, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: No Experience Necessary is Chef Norman Van Aken' s joyride of a memoir. In it he spans twenty-plus years and nearly as many jobs-- including the fateful job advertisement in the local paper for a short-order cook with ' no experience necessary.' Long considered a culinary renegade and a pioneering chef, Van Aken is an American original who chopped and charred, sweated and seared his way to cooking stardom with no formal training, but with extra helpings of energy, creativity, and faith. After landing on the deceptively breezy shores of Key West, Van Aken faced hurricanes, economic downturns, and mercurial moneymen during the decades when a restaurant could open and close faster than you can type haute cuisine. From a graveyard shift grunt at an all-night barbeque joint to a James Beard- award finalist for best restaurant in America, Van Aken put his trusting heart, poetic soul, natural talent, and ever-expanding experience into every venture-- and helped transform the American culinary landscape along the way. In the irreverent tradition of Anthony Bourdain' s Kitchen Confidential, and populated by a rogues' gallery of colorful characters-- including movie stars, legendary musicians, and culinary giants Julia Child, Emeril Lagasse, and Charlie Trotter-- No Experience Necessary offers a uniquely personal, highly-entertaining under-the-tablecloth view of the high-stakes world of American cuisine told with wit, insight, and great affection by a natural storyteller.

One Chance: A Memoir by Paul Potts

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201574 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201574] to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Chance: A Memoir Author: Paul Potts Narrator: Matt Addis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 46 minutes Release date: November 29, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The inspirational memoir by international classical music star Paul Potts, winner of Britain' s GotTalent-- now a major motion picture from The Weinstein Company One Chance is the remarkable true story of Paul Potts, cell phone salesman by day, amateur singer by night, who stepped onto the stage in the premiere season of Britain' s Got Talent, and changed his life. When he opened his mouth to sing Puccini' s ' Nessun Dorma,' judge Simon Cowell and millions of viewers were stunned. Paul went on to win the show' s competition and become a YouTube sensation and multiplatinum artist virtually overnight. Filled with personal recollections not featured in the film, this is the wonderful story of the shy, bullied Welsh store manager who seized his biggest dreams and won audiences around the world. The film One Chance, starring James Corden, Tony-winning star of One Man, Two Guvnors, and Julie Walters, star of Mamma Mia! and Billy Elliot, was directed by David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada) and written by Justin Zackham (The Bucket List), and will be released in fall 2013.

A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York by Anjelica Huston

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201129 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201129] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York Author: Anjelica Huston Narrator: Anjelica Huston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 29 minutes Release date: November 19, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Anjelica Huston’s “gorgeously written” (O, The Oprah Magazine) memoir is “an elegant, funny, and frequently haunting reminiscence of the first two decades of her life…A classic” (Vanity Fair). In her first, dazzling memoir, Anjelica Huston shares the story of her deeply unconventional early life—her enchanted childhood in Ireland, living with her glamorous and artistic mother, educated by tutors and nuns, intrepid on a horse. Huston was raised on an Irish estate to which—between movies—her father, director John Huston, brought his array of extraordinary friends, from Carson McCullers and John Steinbeck to Peter O’Toole and Marlon Brando. In London, where she lived with her mother and brother in the early sixties when her parents separated, Huston encountered the Rolling Stones and Fleetwood Mac. She understudied Marianne Faithfull in Hamlet. Seventeen, striking, precocious, but still young and vulnerable, she was devastated when her mother died in a car crash. Months later she moved to New York, fell in love with the much older, brilliant but disturbed photographer, Bob Richardson, and became a model. Living in the Chelsea Hotel, working with Richard Avedon and other photographers, she navigated a volatile relationship and the dynamic cultural epicenter of New York in the seventies. A Story Lately Told is an “evocative” (The New York Times), “magically beautiful” (The Boston Globe) memoir. Huston’s second memoir, Watch Me, will be published in November 2014.

The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the Nature of First Acts by Nicholas Delbanco

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201416 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201416] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the Nature of First Acts Author: Nicholas Delbanco Narrator: Jeff Crawford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 14 minutes Release date: November 19, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The Art of Youth is a moving inquiry into the nature of artistic prodigies who did their major work at an early age. Renowned novelist Nicholas Delbanco gives us a triptych of indelible portraits: the American writer Stephen Crane (immortalized by The Red Badge of Courage); British artist Dora Carrington (called “the most neglected serious painter of her time”); and the legendary composer George Gershwin (Rhapsody in Blue, Porgy and Bess). All three lived colorful, productive lives before dying early, at an average age of thirty-five. In this learned and elegant book, Delbanco discovers what it is we mourn in authors who pass away so young, and muses on his own life—one marked by both early success and longevity.