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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...
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 Drink for a Reason
Review by Claire Zulkey, eMusic
David Cross disdains you for being too lazy to read the print version — would you have it any other way?
Stand-up comic, writer, sketch artist ("Mr. Show") and comic actor ("Arrested Development") David Cross' sojourn into writing translates well into audiobook form; at times, it feels as much a comic album as it does a book. The text itself is a hodgepodge of first- person rants, sensational satirical fiction ...
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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eMusic Audiobooks Q&A: Ellen Ruppel Shell
How many of us have stopped in at Old Navy or Target on the way home from a tough day at work (or school, or a run-in with an ex) for a quickie cheapo present to ourselves? You know, a little something like a cute pair of $3.99 gloves, or a $12.99 tote bag? Or, what about when we're at the "healthy" supermarket, making what we think are responsible food choices, and we somehow end up with $100 of food that only take...
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eMusic Audiobooks Q&A: A.J. Jacobs
AJ Jacobs blames his love of participatory journalism on his parents. They were normal. "My dad, he wasn't a carnie, he wasn't a drunk, he wasn't a drug addict, he wasn‘t a spy or a trapeze artist. He was just a nice, regular dad. I have nothing to write about my childhood," Jacobs says with a chuckle, on the phone from his New York City apartment. "So, to find interesting things to write about, I kinda have to put mys...
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