Art audiobooks

Making Faces

By: Kevin McDonald

Narrated by: Kevin McDonald

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Kevin McDonald, Canadian comedian, actor, and voice artist, most well-known as a member of The Kids in the Hall, is Making Faces on his latest album. There's one bit where he makes faces while an announcer describes the faces he's making in addition to multiple other hilarious sketches. Read more

A Carlin Home Companion

By: Kelly Carlin

Narrated by: Kelly Carlin

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From the daughter of the iconoclastic comedic performer, Kelly Carlin’s memoir A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George “is written in the DNA of a Carlin, honest, biting, savage, funny, sad, dark, and profound…Hold on; like George Carlin, this book gives you a hell of a ride” (New York Times bestselling author and multi-award-winning... Read more

Tea

By: Velina Hasu Houston

Narrated by: Shuko Akune, June Angela, Takayo Fischer & Lily...

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Velina Hasu Houston’s Tea uses history and poetic writing to weave a drama
about Japanese “war brides” living in Kansas.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Shuko Akune, June Angela, Takayo Fischer, Lily Mariye and Diana Tanaka. Read more

Dear Elizabeth

By: Sarah Ruhl

Narrated by: Julian Sands & JoBeth Williams

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The complicated relationship between the poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell is revealed in nearly thirty years’ worth of correspondence. Taken from their exchange of letters, Dear Elizabeth is a study in friendship, intimacy, and the power of words.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production starring JoBeth Williams and Julian Sands, with... Read more

Solid State University - Abridged

By: Jerry Stearns

Narrated by: Jerry Stearns, Dan Coffey, Dave Moore, Sarah ...

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A full-cast comedy production by the Great Northern Audio TheatreWhat if computers ran colleges and nobody came to class? This 1993 mockumentry was so far ahead of its time, it has already happened. The droll documentary style would make Christopher Guest proud. Read more

SpaceGirl - Abridged

By: Brian Price & Jerry Stearns

Narrated by: a full cast, David Ossman, Richard Fish, Melind...

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A full-cast comedy production from the Great Northern Audio TheatreLinda Kim Shelmerdine discovered her considerable powers during her hormonal years (the Sun was having similar problems then). But she read the superheroes’ guide books, and her years in 4-H helped too.Now fifty-nine, SpaceGirl is somewhat disillusioned with the way superheroism... Read more

Tumbleweed Roundup - Abridged

By: Brian Price & Jerry Stearns

Narrated by: Jerry Stearns, Damiian Mariio Lang, Thea Alexa...

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A full-cast comedy production by the Great Northern Audio TheatreMack Brown remembers all those old Tumbleweed Roundup movies he saw as a kid and wonders what happened to them; they don’t show up on late-night television or in video stores anymore. Driven by nostalgia, he begins to search for the missing films.As he hunts down this elusive piece... Read more

Permafrost, MN - Abridged

By: Brian Price & Jerry Stearns

Narrated by: Irene Ruderman, Donna Alexander & a full cast

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Permafrost is an unincorporated (and entirely concocted) town on the logging road, off the gravel road, off the county road from Big Falls, in Koochiching County, Minnesota. It went into the unusually hard winter of 1887–88 and never came out. Oh, it isn’t frozen in time, it’s just frozen.There is what is called a “microclimate” around... Read more

The Great Northern Audio Theatre Collection - Abridged

By: Jerry Stearns & Brian Price

Narrated by: David Ossman, Phil Proctor & a full cast

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Great Northern Audio Theatre creates its own unique brand of lighthearted, whimsical, and comic original stories that evoke the inventiveness of Firesign Theatre and the sophistication of golden-age radio producer, Norman Corwin. This ultimate collection features eighteen stand-alone satires and comedies, many of which were performed before... Read more

Adam Wade: The Human Comedy

By: Adam Wade

Narrated by: Adam Wade

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Storyteller Adam Wade has won the Moth's GrandSLAM a staggering 20 times, so you know he can tell a good story. He spit his best of the best when he recorded his debut storytelling/comedy album, The Human Comedy, at The Bell House in Brooklyn. Read more

Trumbo

By: Bruce Cook

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 14 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate, essential biography of the man who broke the Hollywood blacklist.



A central figure in the Hollywood Ten and one of the most successful screenwriters in Hollywood history, two of Trumbo's screenplays earned Oscars (Roman Holiday and The Brave Ones) while he was blacklisted and unable to receive public credit for his work. Trumbo was... Read more

In ‘Purity,’ Jonathan Franzen Dismantles the Deception of Idealism

By: Jonathan Franzen

Narrated by: Jonathan Franzen & Jeffrey Brown

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Jonathan Franzen's latest novel unfolds between multiple characters across time and geography, connected by a theme named in its title: Purity. Jeffrey Brown visits the author on the California coast to discuss the book's inspiration and why he gets into heated public debates. Read more

Ivory Vikings

By: Nancy Marie Brown

Narrated by: Tony Ward

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Harry played Wizard's Chess with them in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's... Read more

The Life of Riley, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: William Bendix & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Created by Irving Brecher, The Life of Riley starred William Bendix as Brooklyn-born Chester A. Riley, a family man who worked as a wing riveter at the fictional Cunningham Aircraft plant in California. The stories were usually set at home, where Riley would cheerfully disrupt life with his malapropisms and ill-timed intervention into minor... Read more

The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Sydney Greenstreet & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Created in 1934 by American mystery author Rex Stout, Nero Wolfe is one of the most iconic private investigators in crime fiction. As Watson did for Holmes, Archie Goodwin, Wolfe’s confidential assistant, narrates the cases of the detective genius. Wolfe was an armchair detective who rarely left his luxurious brownstone in New York, so Archie... Read more

The Ultimate Fallout Guide: A History Of The Wasteland And An In-Depth Look At What Makes The Series So Special

By: Trevor Clinger

Narrated by: Bill Georato

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This unofficial guide delves into the remarkable history of the Fallout game series, analyzing each game and highlighting its most memorable moments. It explores what sets Fallout apart from other open-world role-playing games and examines the influences that make its world so unforgettable. Additionally, the guide provides an in-depth look at... Read more

The Orpheus Clock

By: Simon Goodman

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Simon Goodman's grandparents came from German-Jewish banking dynasties and perished in concentration camps. His father rarely spoke of their family history or heritage. But when he passed away, and Simon received his father's old papers, a story began to emerge. The Gutmanns, as they were known then, rose from a small Bohemian hamlet to become... Read more

OYAKOSHINJU

By: Sachi Oyama

Narrated by: Shuko Akune, Jusak Bernhard, Takayo Fischer, Ro...

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A young divorcee named Keiko moves from Hiroshima to America to start a new life with her ambitious husband. But when he takes a mistress and leaves her, Keiko takes drastic and irreversible actions to preserve her dignity and that of her children.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording featuring: Shuko Akune, Jusak Bernhard, Takayo Fischer,... Read more

I Was Really Very Hungry

By: M.F.K. Fisher

Narrated by: Anne Archer, Kurt Ehrmann, Jennifer Friedmann &...

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A portrait of one of the greatest American food writers of the 20th century, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, whose writing transcended recipes and reviews to probe our deep-seated relationship to our appetites. Assembled from diaries, journalism, and short stories, Kelly Nespor's play creates a vivid tableau of the life of this preeminent and... Read more

Rudy Rush: Late To The Party

By: Rudy Rush

Narrated by: Rudy Rush

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A veteran of the professional comedy circuit, Rudy Rush has experienced a wide spectrum of the entertainment business, from touring colleges and clubs to becoming the youngest host of the longest-running African-American syndicated show, Showtime at the Apollo. Rudy parlayed his Apollo notoriety into major projects with Dave Chappelle and Martin... Read more

Can I Be Me?

By: Jay Pharoah

Narrated by: Jay Pharoah

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Jay Pharoah, Saturday Night Live cast member for four years and counting, brings you his latest and greatest special, Can I Be Me. This special includes some of Pharoah’s greatest celebrity impressions including Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Bernie Mac, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Katt Williams, Barack Obama, and many more! Read more

NPR The Best of Pop Culture Happy Hour

By: author

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

An energetic, fun-filled round table from NPR exploring the many ways entertainment intersects with day-to-day life.

NPR's popular podcast features spirited roundtable discussions covering a wild and unpredictable landscape of pop culture subject matter, from the phenomenon of the fiasco (the result of ambition that exceeds competency) to “Pop... Read more

Escape, Vol. 2

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: various performers

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From 1947 to 1954, CBS's Escape was radio's leading high-adventure anthology series. The show's famous opening, delivered by Paul Frees and William Conrad, asked: "Tired of the everyday grind? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you … Escape!" This was followed by another announcer adding, "Escape!... Read more

Crime Classics, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Lou Merrill & others

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Crime Classics was a true-crime radio docudrama that aired on CBS from June 1953 to June 1954. Created, produced, and directed by Elliott Lewis, the program examined crimes and murders throughout history. Founded in Lewis' own personal interest in famous murder cases, the program meticulously recreated the facts, atmosphere, and personages of... Read more