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Title: The Candy Men

Subtitle: The Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel Candy

Author: Nile Southern

Narrator: Richard Topol

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-07-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

In the spirit of VH1s Behind the Music comes this revealing behind-the-scenes look at the making, breaking, remaking, pirating, filming and legal wrangling of the 60s cult phenomenon Candy. An erotic satire vaguely inspired by Voltaires Candide and penned under the name Maxwell Kenton (the nom de plume of its ex-pat coauthors, Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg), Candy was first published in 1958 by the notorious French publisher Maurice Giordias. The book was immediately banned, then reissued under the title Lollipop, banned again, then reissued again, sanitized in England and eventually shipped stateside, where thanks to Putnam and a slew of publishing pirates, it leapt to bestsellerdom and was eventually crowned "the worlds most talked about book."

Southerns own son, Nile, has recounted the novels bumpy and adventurous journey in a magnificent epistolary style, reprinting the correspondence between Candys authors, its publisher and its increasingly complicated web of involved parties. The compilation perfectly captures the "growing misunderstandings, temper tantrums, paranoid fixations, jealousies, dreams and utter despair that each of these men went through as they tried to regain control over their book lost in a miasma of cloudy copyright." (Miasma is an apt term: by the second half of the book the legal fog is so thick that its nearly impossible to keep track of whos suing whom.)

Raucous and voyeuristic, this biography of a book offers valuable insight into the Beat scenes of Paris and New York, as well as into the publishing world during an era of shifting attitudes toward censorship. Perhaps most importantly, it also offers a window onto the lives and minds of two wildly creative literary characters: the authors Southern and Hoffenberg themselves.

Editorial Reviews:

Nile Southern's story chronicles the erotic novel Candy, which was banned on its initial publication in the 1950's. The original cult classic stars Candy Christian, a wide-eyed teenaged beauty, and her wild sexcapades. Southern's audiobook presents the controversial novel's history, incorporating quotes from the novel, conversations between the authors, and much more. Southern has a particular "in", his father being one of the original authors of Candy. Richard Topol's performance is top-notch; he is funny and warm. He keeps the pace varied and the listener entertained. The combination of exhaustive details and strong narration will please fans of Candy Christian or 1960's American culture.

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Titre: L'art contemporain en 1 heure

Sous-titre: Collection "Que sais-je?"

Auteur: Anne Cauquelin

Narrateur: Nathalie Richard

Format: Abridged

Durée: 50 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 01-16-13

Éditeur: Presses universitaires de France

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Une heure de promenade auditive en compagnie de Nathalie Richard pour changer son regard sur l'art contemporain à partir du texte d'Anne Cauquelin, telle est l'invitation de ce livre audio.

Désormais confronté à la dispersion des lieux de culture, à la diversité des œuvres présentées, à leur nombre croissant tout comme à celui des publications qui les concernent, le public paraît aujourd'hui déboussolé par l'irruption de l'art contemporain. Que penser en effet de ces chefs-d'œuvre qui n'en sont peut-être pas ? Ou plutôt : comment les penser ?

En abordant sans détour le travail artistique d'aujourd'hui dans toutes ses dimensions, Anne Cauquelin montre que, bon gré mal gré, notre société est bel et bien devenue une société culturelle, et qu'il en résulte, au niveau artistique comme aux yeux du public, des conséquences troublantes.

L'auteure

est philosophe. Elle a dirigé la Nouvelle revue d'esthétique. Auteure de nombreux ouvrages dont, dans la collection "Que sais-je ?",

, elle est également essayiste et peintre.

La narratrice

Comédienne sortie du Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique en 1986,

alterne les rôles au théâtre et au cinéma. Lauréate du prix Michel Simon pour La Bande des quatre, elle a notamment tourné plusieurs fois avec Jacques Rivette, Michael Haneke, Olivier Assayas ou encore Catherine Corsini.

©2012 PUF (P)1992 PUF

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Title: The Year of the Jouncer

Subtitle: The Smoking Diaries, Volume 2

Author: Simon Gray

Narrator: Simon Gray

Format: Abridged

Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-13-12

Publisher: Canongate Faber

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

A great many writers use their own lives as the raw material for their work but few have done it with the wit and courage of Simon Gray. Like his previous best-seller, The Smoking Diaries, The Year of the Jouncer has the rare ability to make you laugh aloud one moment and ponder the sad mysteries of mortality the next, and sometimes to do both at the same time.

Critic Reviews:

"Thrilling...I'm a besotted fan." (Lynn Barber, Observer)

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Title: Clark

Subtitle: The Autobiography of Clark Terry

Author: Clark Terry

Narrator: Bill Quinn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-01-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

Compelling from cover to cover, this is the story of one of the most recorded and beloved jazz trumpeters of all time. With unsparing honesty and a superb eye for detail, Clark Terry, born in 1920, takes us from his impoverished childhood in St. Louis, Missouri, where jazz could be heard everywhere, to the smoke-filled small clubs and carnivals across the Jim Crow South where he got his start, and on to worldwide acclaim. Terry takes us behind the scenes of jazz history as he introduces scores of legendary greats - Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Dinah Washington, Doc Severinsen, Ray Charles, Thelonious Monk, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Coleman Hawkins, Zoot Sims, and Dianne Reeves, among many others. Terry also reveals much about his own personal life, his experiences with racism, how he helped break the color barrier in 1960 when he joined the Tonight Show band on NBC, and why--at ninety years old - his students from around the world still call and visit him for lessons.

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Title: Joseph Anton

Author: Salman Rushdie

Narrator: Salman Rushdie, Sam Dastor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 27 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-18-12

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 25 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

On 14 February 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being "against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran".

So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. He was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. He thought of writers he loved and combinations of their names; then it came to him: Conrad and Chekhov - Joseph Anton.

How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for over nine years? How does he go on working? How does he fall in and out of love? How does despair shape his thoughts and actions, how and why does he stumble, how does he learn to fight back? In this remarkable memoir Rushdie tells that story for the first time; the story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech. He talks about the sometimes grim, sometimes comic realities of living with armed policemen, and of the close bonds he formed with his protectors; of his struggle for support and understanding from governments, intelligence chiefs, publishers, journalists, and fellow writers; and of how he regained his freedom.

It is a book of exceptional frankness and honesty, compelling, provocative, moving, and of vital importance. Because what happened to Salman Rushdie was the first act of a drama that is still unfolding somewhere in the world every day.

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Title: Paris

Subtitle: A Love Story; a Memoir

Author: Kati Marton

Narrator: Kathe Mazur

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-14-12

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 56 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

This is a memoir for anyone who has ever fallen in love in Paris, or with Paris - andfor anyone who has ever had their heart broken or their life upended.

In this remarkably honest memoir, award-winning journalist and distinguished author Kati Marton presents an impassioned and romantic story of love, loss, and life after loss. Paris is at the heart of this deeply moving account. At every stage of her life, Paris offers Marton beauty and excitement, and now, after the sudden death of her husband, Richard Holbrooke, it offers a chance for a fresh beginning.

With intimate and nuanced portraits of Peter Jennings, the man to whom she was married for 15 years and with whom she had two children, and Richard, with whom she found enduring love, Marton paints a vivid account of an adventuresome life in the stream of history. Inspirational and deeply human,Paris: A Love Storywill touch every generation.

Kati Marton is the author of several books, including Enemies of the People, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and the subject of an upcoming motion picture, and the New York Times best seller Hidden Power, among others. She is an award-winning former correspondent for NPR and ABC News. She lives in New York City.

Critic Reviews:

"A great read - the lightness of love, the drama of war and sudden death - with Paris in the background." (Diane von Furstenberg)

"I stayed up last night and read this book cover to cover. I cant remember the last time I did that. It is wonderful - touching, romantic, and honest - and oh, how it made me want to go to Paris!" (Barbara Walters)

"Kati Marton has written movingly about her love, loss, and the healing power of an elegant city. She takes readers on a journey, as she writes, to find a place where there is joy in remembered joy." (Diane Sawyer)

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Titre: Préjugés occidentaux sur l'art tribal

Auteur: Patrick Frémeaux

Narrateur: Patrick Frémeaux

Format: Original Recording

Durée: 1 hr and 59 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 07-24-12

Éditeur: Frémeaux & Associés

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Conférence de Patrick Frémeaux, galeriste, marchand d'art, éditeur de philosophie et d'archives sonores, en présence d'Olivier Le Bihan, directeur du Musée d'Art moderne de Troyes, et de Jean Luc Rio, directeur de la librairie Les Passeurs de textes.

A l'occasion de l'exposition "Collections croisées" (Collections nationales Pierre et Denise Levy et Collection Sargos).

©2012 Groupe Frémeaux Colombini SAS (P)2011 Musée d'Art Moderne de Troyes - Editions et Galerie Frémeaux & Associés

Revues par les critiques:

La presse en parle

"C'est un regard sensiblement différent qu'offrira Patrick Frémeaux. Grand voyageur, collectionneur et marchand d'art, l'homme est également éditeur sonore et, depuis près de vingt ans, éditeur d'archives ethnographiques, musiques et cérémonies rituelles. (...) Dans un propos liminaire, l'homme "posera les choses" et s'attachera plus particulièrement aux préjugés qui collent aux arts tribaux au XXe siècle. Abandonner les critères qui sont nos repères... Sans doute est-il difficile d'abandonner les critères à l'aune desquels nous jugeons l'art occidental. L'ancienneté de l'œuvre. Le (re)nom de l'artiste. La notion d'œuvre même. Le distinguo entre l'œuvre et l'objet... (...) Une acculturation qui joue dans les deux sens car le grand public ne soupçonne souvent pas à quel point les révolutions artistiques du XXe siècle puisent dans ces arts tribaux. C'est bien le sens qu'ont donné Pierre et Denise Lévy à la confrontation, au sein de leur collection, d'œuvres africaines avec celles des plus grands artistes du début du XXe siècle. Que seraient, finalement, l'Art nouveau sans le Japon et l'art moderne sans l'Afrique ?"

Jean-Michel Van-Houtte, L'Est Républicain

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Title: A Personal Record

Author: Joseph Conrad

Narrator: Greg Wagland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-02-12

Publisher: Magpie Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

A Personal Record is a "fragment of biography", an autobiographical work by Joseph Conrad, published in 1912. It is also a masterpiece of atmospheric writing and the main contemporary source to detail his early life. Conrad, Polish by birth, who goes on to become one of the greatest novelists of the English language, describes his childhood and adolescence, discusses his forebears, one of whom fought on the side of Napoleon and ate a Lithuanian dog, the exile of his parents, the death of his mother and his relationship with his Uncle Tadeusz.

He takes us to the Alps with his tutor, to Marseilles with the pilots, to the freezing fog-bound docks of Rouen with his battered manuscript of Almayers Folly. But Conrad has an overriding object: this memoir beautifully interweaves the tales of why he went to sea and how he came to be a writer. Its digressive structure is precisely what makes it a magical and timeless work about exile, destiny, and art. It is read by Greg Wagland.

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Title: The Paper Garden

Subtitle: An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72

Author: Molly Peacock

Narrator: Jill Tanner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-04-12

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 20 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

In The Paper Garden, celebrated poet Molly Peacock explores the remarkable life of 18th-century British gentlewoman-turned-artist Mary Delany. In the 1770s, at the age of 72, the twice-widowed and nearly broke Delany turned her interest in botany into beautiful paper mosaick flowers still revered today.

Critic Reviews:

"[N]ot only an introduction to a unique artist, but also a whole bouquet of thoughts and observations about the flow of life. (Washington Post)

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Title: Charles Dickens

Subtitle: A Life

Author: Claire Tomalin

Narrator: Alex Jennings

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-20-11

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Charles Dickens: A Life, the major new biography from the highly acclaimed Claire Tomalin, published for the 200th anniversary of his birth. Read by the actor Alex Jennings. Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonically hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the creator of characters who live immortally in the English imagination: the Artful Dodger, Mr Pickwick, Pip, David Copperfield, Little Nell, Lady Dedlock, and many more. At the age of twelve he was sent to work in a blacking factory by his affectionate but feckless parents. From these unpromising beginnings, he rose to scale all the social and literary heights, entirely through his own efforts. When he died, the world mourned, and he was buried - against his wishes - in Westminster Abbey.

Yet the brilliance concealed a divided character: a republican, he disliked America; sentimental about the family in his writings, he took up passionately with a young actress; usually generous, he cut off his impecunious children. Claire Tomalin, author of Whitbread Book of the Year Samuel Pepys, paints an unforgettable portrait of Dickens, capturing brilliantly the complex character of this great genius. Charles Dickens: A Life is the examination of Dickens we deserve. Alex Jennings is an associate actor with the RSC and has also worked with the Royal National Theatre. He was Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, for which he won the second of his Olivier Awards for Best Actor in a Musical. He played Charles, Prince of Wales in the film The Queen, and his TV appearances include The State Within, Inspector Morse and the title role in Ashenden.

He's a prolific reader of audiobooks, the most notable of which are The Horse and his Boy, Oliver Twist and Attention All Shipping.

Critic Reviews:

"Tomalin is the most empathetic of biographers - Craig Brown." (Mail on Sunday)

"The finest and most disinterested of biographers." (Hilary Mantel, New York Review of Books)

"A biographer who goes from strength to strength." (Melvyn Bragg, Guardian)

"Tomalin is one of our greatest biographers." (Wullschlager, Financial Times)

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