SOMETHING TO DO WITH SELF-HATE
Below is an excerpt from SOMETHING TO DO WITH SELF-HATE by Brian Alan Ellis. It just came out. Buy the book here, and get the audiobook
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The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan
On Tuesday July 11th, The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan came out. Scott narrated the whole darn thing in our studio and it sounds really good. It sounds like a recorded book should sound. I guess you could say it's...
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Are You Fucking Kidding Me?
Here are some of our favorite writers & Talking Book contributors talking about these United States of America. Mira Gonzalez: "I hate America. Fuck this awful country. I have never felt proud of being from here. I do love blowing shit up with...
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Politics: A Comic
This has been a very important comic from Michael Seymour Blake.
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The Talking Book Podcast- #1 (The Sarah Book w/ Scott McClanahan)
The Talking Book Podcast is the official podcast of the weirdo audiobook publisher Talking Book. Every episode we talk to an author, and hear an excerpt from their audiobook.Episode 1 features the great and powerful Scott McClanahan. His new...
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How I Get Over My Life & Last Sext
The recording of LAST SEXT is here and ready to be inside your ears. The author's insanely effective reading of her own poems is literally perfect, not to mention powerful as hell. Check out the excerpt entitled: HOW I GET OVER MY LIFE by...
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Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine
"I hear the words spoken aloud when I write my stories -- how he, she, they or I -- how we are saying them. I am delighted to be able to share this sound of my book -- Fine,...
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Voice Intimacy
Making an audio version of The Gift seemed like the obvious thing to do: after all, it’s a book about the intimacy of the recorded voice, whether that voice is singing or speaking. In the book,...
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Watershed: Excerpt
Our past contributor Colin Dodds has a new novel coming out tomorrow called WATERSHED. It looks pretty damn cool so we thought we'd publish a little excerpt. You can get Colin's new book here on Amazon
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Poem (Feat T-Pain)
*I’m sending you a snap in the office bathroom No filter Here’s 3 seconds My blotchy face A sliver of my bare thigh on the toilet seatThings you don’t see: The bathroom lights turning off Because I’ve been sitting still for way too long My...
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What A Pretty Note This Is
two new poems by Olivia Grayson for your viewing pleasure... Memories, Like The Crusty Surface Of My MindThe silly lies we told to defend our dignity, the Trinkets that meant everything—painted wooden Dolls, one hidden inside the other.The scabs you compulsively...
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The Deranged Artist: Géza Csáth
Géza Csáth was a Hungarian writer, playwright, musician, music critic, psychiatrist and physician.
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Csáth paused the stars, retreating through entropy itself toward an aggregate needlepoint, and shot that feeling up his arm. Meals...
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Hypothetical #12 / Hypothetical #12.5
Hypothetical #12
What does this mean?
There is a house you live in at the top of a hill. I climb the hill everyday, once in the morning where I request from you a long...
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NEW RELEASE: Sophia by Michael Bible
Today we're releasing the long awaited recording of Michael Bible's SOPHIA. Producing this book was truly an experience. Much thanks to the author Michael Bible and the print publisher Melville House for helping us make it happen....
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Goblin Stories
We're putting together a recording of Selected Selected Tweets by Mira Gonzalez and Tao Lin, which will be narrated by Brad Listi and Natasha Lipson. We decided it would be fun to select some of our own and record them in honor...
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Writers On Tour: Maya Martinez
Recently, some pretty cool poets visited our city of Asheville, NC from Baltimore, Knoxville and Oakland. We convinced them to stop by the studio on their way out of town and record some stuff. Here is number five in...
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SUGAR FREE
It’s Friday after a long week at work, and I’m on the “A” Train.
The woman sitting across from me has words tattooed in Chinese on her neck. I’m holding a disposable Instant Freeze ice pack against the left side of my face. I’ve put off...
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Karate Heartbreak Poems
We're putting together a recording of Selected Selected Tweets by Mira Gonzalez and Tao Lin, which will be narrated by Brad Listi and Natasha Lipson. We decided it would be fun to select some of our own and record them in honor...
