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David Sedaris: Live For Your Listening Pleasure
Review by Alice Gregory, eMusic
An uproarious live evening with America's most incisive humorist
The five uproarious pieces that comprise David Sedaris's newest audio recording, Live For Your Listening Pleasure, were recorded in various U.S. cities — Denver, New York City, Durham, Los Angeles and Atlanta — during his latest tour. Though always a delight to read, Sedaris is undeniably in top form when performing in front of an audience....
Say You're One of Them
Review by Scott Esposito, eMusic
Sharp African stories from a promising new voice
Given the weight of his compelling New Yorker short stories and the fact that he was shortlisted for the "African Booker," Uwem Akpan's first collection, Say You're One of Them, comes with high expectations. Akpan, a Jesuit priest turned writer, grandly delivers. His stories of an impoverished Africa are bracing without being heavy-handed, and the strong audio narration...
I Am the New Black
Review by Leah Friedman, eMusic
A disarmingly honest and touching — and, of course, hilarious — memoir
Yes, this audiobook has a fair chance of getting you pregnant. But, while that may be one of Tracey Morgan’s stock phrases, his I Am the New Black is so searingly earnest at times, the narrator himself would probably offer to take care of you for the rest of your life if that actually happened.
Indeed, Mr. Morgan paints an extremely sob...
The Greatest Show on Earth
Review by Scott Esposito, eMusic
The world's preeminent atheist lays out a case for evolution
On the 150th anniversary of The Origin of Species, Richard Dawkins has attempted to silence evolution's critics once and for all. Good luck with that. Though
Fresh off The God Delusion — which flam...
Official Book Club Selection
Review by Jami Attenberg, eMusic
No one's safe, not even Griffin herself, in this catty, chatty memoir of a D-lister
"This book is equal parts shit-talking about myself and others," says Kathy Griffin at the beginning of her memoir, Official Book Club Selection— and she lives up to that promise. No one's safe in this funny, revealing and sometimes shocking look at Kathy's rise to fame, from aspiring Midwestern actress to sitcom sidekick ("Sudd...
The Lost Symbol
Review by Leah Friedman, eMusic
Dan Brown's most Byzantine tale yet, set in its most sinister location — Washington, D.C.
"The secret is how to die. Since the beginning of time, the secret had always been how to die." So begins Dan Brown's third Robert Langdon adventure The Lost Symbol. Equal parts action and exposition, this latest entry manages to cram 133 chapters, a prologue and epilogue's worth of furiously paced puzzles into a plot that s...
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Holiday Blasphemy
As the days countdown to Christmas and we're collectively whipped into a peppermint froth of inflatable lawn Frosties, rehashed pop carols and desperate retail markdowns, even the atheists amongst us will happily mount a tree and indulge in abstract holiday cheer. But instead of blindly gulping down another glass of egg nog and pretending none of it really matters, maybe we should take a moment to think about what thi...
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The Best Audiobooks of 2009
The best books of 2009 are inspiring, hilarious and unabashedly strange. They're written by legends of the literary world, well-known comedians who aren't afraid to shock, and exciting debut voices from whom we surely haven't heard the last. The books below represent the most intelligent, most powerful and most engrossing reads of the past 12 months.
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