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Title: Thalia Book Club

Subtitle: Lisey's Story by Stephen King

Author: Stephen King

Narrator: John Connolly, Maria Tucci

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-27-06

Publisher: Symphony Space, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 49 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

In this special event, recorded live at Symphony Space in New York City, King is interviewed by Irish novelist John Connolly. Maria Tucci reads a selection from Lisey's Story.

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Editorial Reviews:

Stephen King, the beloved grandmaster of American horror fiction and a thoughtful pop culture critic and writing theorist to boot, stars in this episode of Symphony Spaces Thalia Book Club series, specifically discussing his 2006 release Liseys Story. Author and journalist John Connolly leads an illuminating question-and-answer session with King, who, having written over 40 published novels, is a well-practiced and easy speaker on the subject of writing, and brings a droll, dark humor to this audio event which will appeal even to the least horrifically-minded listener. Actress Maria Tucci also reads an excerpt from Liseys Story, which King himself considers to be the best of all his books.

Members Reviews:

Dissapointment

I admire and am amazed at Stephen King's talents.

He has long been one of my very favorites and I have read over half of the books he has written.

Sadly...to me...NO MORE. What gives a famous personality the right to completely go off the subject of his book to intentionally insult the president of the USA in an effort to influence others towards his political views? I am gravely dissapointed and will no longer read or listen to Mr. King. I know he will not be affected by this...My son served in Irag while Mr. King was tucked safely in his tower typing away.

His books are not political ...so why interject insults.... Sorry Mr. King.....Carolann Moore

Not what I thought

I thought this was going to be a BOOK. its just a review of the book.. wasnt what i thought.. glad i didnt pay for it or id be upset.

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Title: Thalia Book Club: Specimen Days with author Michael Cunningham

Author: Michael Cunningham

Narrator: Stacey D'Erasmo

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-02-06

Publisher: Symphony Space, Inc.

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

Michael Cunningham discusses the novel with his friend, novelist Stacey D'Erasmo.

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Editorial Reviews:

Michael Cunningham, best-selling author of The Hours takes the stage in this episode of Symphony Spaces Thalia Book Club series, talking specifically about his more recent novel Specimen Days, a work composed essentially of three distinct stories with a plethora of shared details and themes.

Fellow American author Stacey DErasmo, who has written such works as Tea and A Seahorse Year, interviews Cunningham following a brief representative reading of his work. She and Cunningham delve into the deep history of his writing life, discussing everything from significant literary influences to what is unsayable in literature. As always, a question-and-answer session with the audience proves especially illuminating, taking this thoughtful conversation in new and interesting directions at the events end.

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Title: Thalia Book Club: The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster with Author Kaye Gibbons

Author: Kaye Gibbons

Narrator: Elissa Schappell, Andrea Marcovicci

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-12-06

Publisher: Symphony Space, Inc.

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

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Editorial Reviews:

In this wide-ranging interview for the Thalia Book Club, writer Elissa Schappell interviews author Kaye Gibbons for the release of her book The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster. After a dramatic reading from the book by actress Andrea Marcovicci, Gibbons discusses why she returned to the beloved Ellen Foster, her delight in writing the character, her writing process and rituals, and her own troubled family history. The evening also includes a series of edifying questions from the audience about Oprahs involvement with Ellen Foster and more.

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Title: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish at the 92nd Street Y

Author: Jason Alexander, Leonard Nimoy, Kyra Sedgwick

Narrator: Abigail Pogrebin

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-02-06

Publisher: 92nd Street Y

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 48 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

This event took place on November 16, 2005.

Editorial Reviews:

Abigail Pogrebin begins with a fitting introduction: "Were going to jump around because I think thats what Jewish identity is about." Indeed, each of these famous Jews has a unique story to tell. To self-deprecating laughter, Seinfeld's Jason Alexander opines an early-life mandate from his mother, "You will go to Hebrew School to learn what it is to be a Jew - to suffer!" Conversely, Kyra Sedgwick didnt practice Judaism as a child: It was not until she acted in Fiddler on the Roof, then visited Auschwitz, that she began to take interest in her heritage. Meanwhile, Leonard Nimoy reminisces over his childhood in a Yiddish speaking community, recalling how he learned his signature "live long and propsper" salute from the elderly patrons of his temple.

Members Reviews:

I was blown away

This discussion was so personal, honest, and thought provoking. The candid and sincere attitude that these people had in discussing faith was refreshing and inspiring. I am not a Jew, and I was able to learn and understand some things, get a good range of understanding, and connect with these people as individuals and as a Jewish community. I really appreciate this production. Thank you so much.

Really fun and touching

Loved listening to the people on the panel, especially Leonard Nimoy and Jason Alexander...thoughtful, articulate, funny, touching. How lovely that someone in the audience knew Nimoy's barber dad. I liked hearng Kyra Sedgewick, also. Very different upbringing and perceptions than the guys. Only thing I didn't like: one of the women had a maniacal giggle, which invaded the discussion.

Provoking Discussion

I enjoyed the subject matter, the participants and the setting. The sound quality was superb.

Diappointing

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

This was a very shallow piece with little incite

What do you think your next listen will be?

i read many books on Jewish history and identity

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Abigail Pogrebin?

Abigail was very dry - perhaps somebody less in awe of the speakers would have been better

You didnt love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

There were a few interesting thoughts about Star Trek

Any additional comments?

There are better books on audable for you to download

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Title: The New Yorker College Tour

Subtitle: University of Iowa, Iowa City: Everyone's a Critic

Author: Nancy Franklin, Sasha Frere-Jones, Alex Ross

Narrator: Don McLeese

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-05

Publisher: The New Yorker

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

Sasha Frere-Jones is the pop-music critic for The New Yorker. From 1991 to 2003, he was a member of the band Ui, whose albums include Answers, Lifelike, and Sidelong. In 1998, he released Standing Upright on a Curve, a solo guitar album. He is currently finishing an album of loud rock songs with his band, the Sands.

Alex Ross has been writing for The New Yorker since 1993 and became the magazine's music critic in 1996. He covers classical music and events and trends in music at large. His recent articles include a Profile of the Icelandic singer Bjork and an Onward and Upward with the Arts on Doctor Atomic, the new opera by John Adams and Peter Sellars, based on the Manhattan Project. He is completing his first book, a cultural history of twentieth-century music.

Don McLeese is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. He is the former pop-music critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Austin American-Statesman, and his work has appeared in many music and general-interest magazines. He is a senior editor of No Depressions. His book Kick Out the Jams was recently published as part of Continuum's 33 and 1/3 series.

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Title: The New Yorker College Tour

Subtitle: University of Iowa, Iowa City: Fiction and Poetry

Author: Lorrie Moore, Vijay Seshadri

Narrator: Cressida Leyshon

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-05

Publisher: The New Yorker

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

Vijay Seshadri is a poet and essayist, and the author of the poetry collections Wild Kingdom and The Long Meadow, which won the 2003 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. He has also received The Paris Review's Bernard F. Conners Long Poem Prize and the MacDowell Colony's Fellowship for Distinguished Poetic Achievement. He was born in Bangalore, India, and immigrated to America at the age of five. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker since 1991, and he currently teaches poetry and nonfiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College.

Cressida Leyshon is the deputy fiction editor of The New Yorker.

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Title: The New Yorker Festival - William Finnegan and Raymond R. Kelly

Subtitle: Defending New York City

Author: William Finnegan, Raymond R. Kelly

Narrator: William Finnegan, Raymond R. Kelly

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-05

Publisher: The New Yorker

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

William Finnegan has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1987. His books include Dateline Soweto, A Complicated War, and Cold New World, all of which grew out of articles for the magazine. In his July 25th New Yorker piece, "The Terrorism Beat", he wrote about how the N.Y.P.D., under Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, is working to prevent terrorist attacks.

Raymond W. Kelly is the Police Commissioner of New York City. He first held this post from 1992 to 1994, and was reappointed in 2002. In the interim, he commanded the multinational police force in Haiti in 1994, and served as Under-Secretary of the United States Treasury and as U.S. Customs Commissioner. He has 31 years of experience in the New York Police Department.

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Title: The New Yorker Festival - Seymour M. Hersh talks with David Remnick

Author: Seymour M. Hersh, David Remnick

Narrator: Seymour M. Hersh, David Remnick

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-16-05

Publisher: The New Yorker

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

Seymour M. Hersh has been writing about American politics and foreign policy for The New Yorker since 1971. His books include The Dark Side of Camelot; The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Award for biography in 1983; My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath; and Cover-Up, about the Army's secret investigation of My Lai 4, which first appeared in The New Yorker. He received the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1970 for his exclusive disclosure of the My Lai tragedy. His most recent book, Chain of Command, about the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, much of which was first published in The New Yorker, came out in September. Three of his New Yorker Annals of National Security articles won the National Magazine Award for public-interest journalism this year.

David Remnick is the editor of The New Yorker.

Members Reviews:

Find the facts that support your opnions

This conversation is of interest only to see how someone as insightful as Hersh can adjust reality to a preconceived set of ideas. He takes everyone else to task for blindly believing in their ideas i.e. that democracy will solve the Middle East problem. While blindly ignoring any facts that support that position or support some other "solution". I find his "analysis" of the Iraq war as convincing as the far rights "analysis of evolution in each case they ignore the facts that disagree with their position and claim everyone who holds a different position just doesn?t understand.

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Title: The New Yorker Festival - John Lahr and Sir Richard Eyre

Author: John Lahr, Sir Richard Eyre

Narrator: John Lahr, Sir Richard Eyre

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-16-05

Publisher: The New Yorker

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

Sir Richard Eyre was the artistic director of the Royal National Theatre in London from 1988 to 1997. He produced more than a hundred plays, including Guys & Dolls, Futurists, The Invention of Love, Richard III, and King Lear, and won numerous awards for his work. Several of his London productions also had Broadway runs, including Skylight, The Crucible, Vincent in Brixton, and Amy's View. He was knighted in 1997 and received the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for outstanding achievement that year as well. His feature films include Iris and Stage Beauty. He is directing the musical stage adaptation of Mary Poppins for London's West End, which will open in December.

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Title: The New Yorker Festival - Edwidge Danticat and Chang-rae Lee

Author: Edwidge Danticat, Chang-rae Lee

Narrator: Edwidge Danticat, Chang-rae Lee

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-16-05

Publisher: The New Yorker

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

Chang-rae Lee is the author of the novels Native Speaker, which won a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a first book of fiction and an American Book Award; A Gesture Life; and Aloft, which came out in March 2004. A contributor to The New Yorker since 1995, his story "Daisy", part of Aloft, appeared in the January 12, 2004 issue.