The Way Cities Feel To Us Now
Bad luck follows travelers through the desert, Mormon missionaries contemplate the bodily implications of the internal combustion engine, and minimum wage workers look for a sense of meaning in...
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The Capacity to Be Alone
We were lucky enough to produce the audiobook of Eleanor Or The Rejection of the Progress of Love by Anna Moschavokis (original print from our pals at Coffee House Press). Anna Wrote an essay addressing the writing and publishing of...
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Please Buy This Book So I Can Feel Validated & (Finally) Love Myself
A reading by Homeless, from his new book Please Buy This Book So I Can Feel Validated & (Finally) Love Myself, out now from House of Vlad. Listen, read and buy the book! The Corpse of the Child You...
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Road Warrior Hawk: Poems about Depression, Anxiety and Pop Culture
Brian Alan Ellis has a new book called Road Warrior Hawk: Poems about Depression, Anxiety and Pop Culture. It's a collection of poems about Guns N’ Roses tattoos, Hulk Hogan, punk rock, Brie Larson, love, Channing Tatum, The Golden Girls,...
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Juliet The Maniac
A reading from Juliet The Maniac by Juliet Escoria. Go get it now from Melville House. Thanks, Juliet. Ambitious, talented fourteen-year-old honors student Juliet is poised for success at her Southern California high school. However, she soon finds...
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Mixedbloods
New on The Talking Book Podcast. Joseph Rathgeber reads an excerpt from his new book Mixedbloods. Get it now from Fomite Press. The Ramapough Lenape, a destabilized people—origins uncertain, debated and mythologized—are struggling to survive in the...
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5 Poems by Mikaela Grantham
Please enjoy these 5 poems by Mikaela Grantham, and her reading below. Thank you. Love you. The End of the World is by the river if you live here you may have taken a walk there Sorry mary gaitskill was totally lost i watched...
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The Great American Suction (Excerpt)
Below is a reading from The Great American Suction by David Nutt. You can get this book right now at Tyrant Books, so do yourself a favor and go order right now. Thanks. Enjoy!
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Caca Dolce (excerpt)
Out now in audio from Talking Book: Caca Dolce by Chelsea Martin and narrated by the great Sarah Rouse. Thanks to Soft Skull Press and all who made it possible. You...
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Yes, God heard, I know He heard.
We have something special for you today. “Yes, God heard, I know He heard.” is a word and sound project inspired by the life and work of North Carolinian visionary artist, Annie Hooper. At the time of her death,...
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A new reading by Sophie Jennis. She is a twenty-two year old writer from the Hudson Valley of New York. Listen and read. Thanks Sophie. You rock. <3 You bring a blade to your beard but your eyes in the mirror...
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Delta 7
A reading from the upcoming collection Scatterplot (Omnidawn, 2020) by David Koehn. You can find more about the author here. Thanks for the reading, David. <3
DELTA 7: WALKING OVER HERE TODAY...
Disappearing, Inc.
Asheville's own Brandon Amico recorded some poems from his new debut collection Disappearing, Inc. from GOLD WAKE PRESS. Thanks Brandon! "Brandon Amico's debut collection orbits a dark star that burns with questions of money, value, worth. The gravity of consequence...
How To Survive a Fire
Please enjoy this reading by Rachel Ann Brickner. The essay is awesome and the audio production is so rad our heads exploded. Thanks, Rachel. You're cool.
When I was a girl, I had nightmares about fire. I’d wake up in...
College Novel by Blake Middleton
College Novel by Blake Middleton is coming soon from Apocalypse Party. Here's the author reading you an excerpt. Thanks, Blake. Party on.Excerpt from ‘College Novel’ Later that day Jordan read The Shock Doctrine...
Excerpt of Temporal By Troy James Weaver
Below is an excerpt of Temporal by Troy James Weaver. Troy recorded this from his home in Kansas and it sounds awesome. One day we're going to release the whole book. For now listen to this and have...
#23 The First Voice Actor Episode w/ Kasi Hollowell
We were lucky to work with Kasi Hollowell on Animals Eat Each Other. Now she's on the podcast talking about being a voice actor for books, anime and other stuff. Check it out. Thanks, Kasi! Feel free to subscribe to...
My Dad Has Sleep Apnea and Keeps a Loaded Gun on His Nightstand
Enjoy the first of several poems from the incredible J. Bailey Hutchinson. Thanks so much for these lovely readings. We hope everyone is having a great holiday season for real. Love. <3 My Dad Has Sleep Apnea and Keeps a Loaded...
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