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Title: Cressida Cowell

Subtitle: Audible Sessions: FREE Exclusive Interview

Author: Robin Morgan

Narrator: Cressida Cowell

Format: Original Recording

Length: 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-25-16

Publisher: Audible Sessions

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 26 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

We welcome Cressida Cowell to the studios in an Audible exclusive, to talk about the 12th instalment of her hit series How to Train Your Dragon. Discussing how the series is rooted on a small Scottish island that she used to visit when she was young. We are treated to a look behind the scenes of the imagination, magic and creativity which goes into crafting each book.

Members Reviews:

Great interview

I enjoyed hearing a bit about the background of the How to Train Your Dragon series.

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Title: FREE: Audible Interview with Chris Cleave

Subtitle: Audible Sessions

Author: Chris Cleave, Audible

Narrator: Chris Cleave, Audible

Format: Original Recording

Length: 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 25 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

In this exclusive interview at Audible Studios in London, Chris Cleave provides an insight into how he as an author constructs his novels. He describes how he made Everyone Brave Is Forgiven as authentic as possible, the painstaking research and adding his own personal touches.

Members Reviews:

A Real Gem of a Novel!

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

The characters are so well drawn, real and sympathetic. You care what happens to them. And the story carries you along.

What other book might you compare Everyone Brave Is Forgiven to and why?

Cleve's way of writing and telling a story is so unique I can only think of his own Little Bee, although there are major differences in the characters and story.

Have you listened to any of Chris Cleave and Audible s other performances before? How does this one compare?

No

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

There were many, but when Mary returned after leaving Alastair alone at dinner you understood how deeply conflicted she was about being in love with him.

Any additional comments?

There are many, many bits of typically British witticisms used by Cleve's characters to defend against fear, pain and yes, even sincerity.

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Title: FREE: Audible Sessions with Matthew Blakstad

Subtitle: Exclusive interview

Author: Matthew Blakstad, Robin Morgan

Narrator: Matthew Blakstad, Robin Morgan

Format: Original Recording

Length: 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-05-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

You shared your life online. Now how will you get it back? We welcome Matthew Blakstad to the studios to discuss his debut novel Sockpuppet, which is a pacy novel that explores the impact that technology can have on our lives.

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Title: The Telegraph: 30 Minutes With Simon Schama

Author: The Telegraph

Narrator: Simon Schama

Format: Original Recording

Length: 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-14

Publisher: The Telegraph

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

In the first interview in the new monthly audio interview series presented by The Telegraph, Matthew Stadlen talks to British historian Simon Schama about his heritage, religious beliefs and views on Israeli policy. Schama also reflects on his childhood, his desires to become a historian and storyteller, and the importance of visual art in his field.

Simon Michael Schama, CBE (born 13 February 1945) is a British historian specialising in art history and French history. A professor at Columbia University, New York, he has published a number of books on a variety of historical topics and is perhaps best known in the United Kingdom for writing and hosting the BBC documentary series A History of Britain and The Story of the Jews.

Matthew Stadlen is a regular Telegraph contributor. The broadcaster produced and presented the BBCs "5 Minutes With" and the documentary series On The Road With. He has interviewed people from all walks of life, so make sure you keep an eye out for the next interview in The Telegraphs captivating 30 Minutes With download series.

Members Reviews:

fine and well balanced documentary

Enjoyed listening to Simons life and work. He soumds like and fun guy. Me being Jew myself connects our backrounds, even if we are worlds apart.

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Title: Savoring Sonoma Coast Chardonnays

Subtitle: Vine Talk Episode 112

Author: Vine Talk

Narrator: Stanley Tucci, Zachary Quinto, Danny Meyer, Beth Shak

Format: Original Recording

Length: 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-02-14

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

Stylish, trend-setting, and bold,

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Title: 92Y Video: Andy Borowitzs Countdown to Election 2012

Author: Andy Borowitz, Lewis Black, Hendrik Hertzberg, Calvin Trillin, Susie Essman

Narrator: uncredited

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-22-11

Publisher: The 92nd Street Y

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

Andy Borowitz was here last week with friends Susie Essman, Hendrik Hertzberg, Calvin Trillin and surprise guest Lewis Black, for his Countdown to Election 2012. Before the panel took the stage, Borowitz performed a monologue on stage that had the audience, and his panel guests, in stitches.

Editorial Reviews:

Award-winning satirical comedian Andy Borowitz assembles an A-list panel of journalists and comedians including Susie Essman, Hendrik Hertzberg, Calvin Trillin, and Lewis Black to offer their comments on the 2012 elections. Borowitz begins with a monologue filled with political zingers targeting President Obama and Governor Romney, as well as the increasingly absurd nature of cable news. After setting a humorous and sardonic tone to the proceedings, Borowitz turns over the discussion to the panelists, who offer their own funny and perceptive predictions and analyses.

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Title: Thalia Book Club: Emma Donoghue's 'Room'

Author: Emma Donoghue

Narrator: Michael Cunningham

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-03-11

Publisher: Symphony Space

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 45 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

Emma Donoghue discusses her extraordinary new novel with author Michael Cunningham (The Hours and By Nightfall). This wondrous book is told from the point of view of a five-year-old boy who lives with his mother in an 11-by-11 foot room. Performance playlist: Reading by Michal Friedman, a conversation between Emma Donoghue and Michael Cunningham, and a discussion with the audience.

Editorial Reviews:

In this episode of Symphony Spaces Thalia Book Club, best-selling author Michael Cunningham hosts an insightful and thought-provoking conversation with Emma Donoghue, author of the award-winning and much-acclaimed 2010 novel Room, which tells the story of a young boy and his mother being held together in captivity.

Cunningham is a sharp and funny interviewer, and his conversation with Donoghue is both illuminating and entertaining. Donoghue is open and extremely forthcoming, sharing insights into the process of her novels construction, and engaging in a lively dialogue with Cunningham about her authorial intentions. A must-listen for fans of Donoghues spellbinding book!

Members Reviews:

BE CAREFUL

Be careful when clicking on this product!! I thought that I was getting the audio book but got some sort of commentary/discussion instead. I wasted my money and don't even have the book to listen to ;0( So disappointed!!!

This is NOT the book

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

This is exactly why people get frustrated with this type of service. This is not the book but a discussion between the author and another author. I am sure the discussion is fine. I wanted the book read to me.

This is not the full book

Would you try another book from Emma Donoghue and/or Michael Cunningham?

This is not the audible book and should be renamed something that describes what it is exactly. I'll now go buy the Kindle book and read it. I thought I scored finding an audible book for less then the kindle book. I feel ripped off for what I paid.

What other book might you compare Thalia Book Club: Emma Donoghue's 'Room' to and why?

the real book

How did the narrator detract from the book?

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

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Any additional comments?

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Great Discussion

I must admit that I thought I was purchasing the actual book and was rather perturbed that it was a book discussion. Clearly, I was rushing and didn't read the details. My bad.

Coming from a position of disgust to thoroughly enjoying this book discussion is indicative of how great the presenters were. I am excited to purchase the actual book to read. And, I will have far more insight and understanding of what I'm listening to.

HIGHLY recommend this discussion either before or after you read the book, "Room."

Yes this is NOT the BOok!

This is a discussion of the book not the book itself. Well worth a couple of bucks more if you enjoyed the book. All of the idiots who didn't pay attention to what they were buying and posted one-star reviews should be disregarded.

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Title: Geraldine Brooks' People of the Book

Subtitle: Thalia Book Club

Author: Geraldine Brooks

Narrator: John Hockenberry

Format: Abridged

Length: 1 hr and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-15-09

Publisher: Symphony Space

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

Actress Rita Wolf will perform an excerpt.

Editorial Reviews:

Author Geraldine Brooks borrows from history to create the novel People of the Book. Australian book conservator Hannah Heath studies a Jewish prayer book that has survived politically turbulent eras. Heath finds tiny figments of the past in the books binding, and through them encounters the places and peoples that make the books provenance. The vignettes vivid characters speak alongside Heath, and their presence allows the past to reemerge and coexist with the present. Public radio host and journalist John Hockenberry interviews Brooks as she thoughtfully discusses the role of history in her fiction. Classically trained British-Indian actress Rita Wolf narrates an excerpt in her own English accent, but her passionate performance makes it easy to envision the setting and the characters.

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Title: Thalia Book Club: Edwidge Danticat's 'Brother, I'm Dying'

Author: Edwidge Danticat

Narrator: Jonathan Demme

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-08

Publisher: Symphony Space, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

Edwidge Danticat discusses her deeply personal new memoir, a National Book Award finalist for 2007, with her friend, director Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs).

Danticat, the acclaimed author of fiction, including Krik? Krak! and The Dew Breaker, wrote Brother, I'm Dying after a period of upheaval in her life, having lost her father and her uncle and given birth to her first child. She focuses her family story around her father and his brother Joseph, who took care of her in Haiti until she joined her parents in Brooklyn at age 12. It concludes with a well-researched account of Joseph Danticat's tragic death in the custody of U.S. immigration officials in 2004. The New York Times called Brother, I'm Dying "a memoir whose clear-eyed prose and unflinching adherence to the facts conceal an astringent undercurrent of melancholy, a mixture of homesickness and homelessness".

This special event was recorded live as part of the Thalia Book Club series at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City.

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Editorial Reviews:

In this funny and moving evening recorded live at Symphony Space in New York City, Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat discusses her memoir Brother, I'm Dying with her friend the director Jonathan Demme. Danticat reads from what she calls her "memoir-with-folktales," and then she and Demme share an engaging discussion about the book's subject matter, including Danticat's uncle's death in U.S. immigration detention. Along the way the pair discuss politics, the Haitian-American experience, the spare style of the book, and the idea of empathy as the basis for action.

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Title: The Da Vinci Code

Subtitle: Facts and Fallacies at the 92nd Street Y

Author: Dan Burstein, Bart D. Ehrman, Linda Ruf

Narrator: Phyllis Tickle

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-06

Publisher: 92nd Street Y

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 45 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

Never has this topic been more relevant than when a book like The Da Vinci Code is treated as fact rather than fiction. Panelists also touch on the early Christian church, the role of women in the early church, the objectives of organizations like Opus Dei and how the Christian church has changed through the ages.

Dan Burstein is an award-winning journalist, author, and venture capitalist, and is the editor of Secrets of the Code. Bart D. Ehrman chairs the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and wrote The Truth Behind The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know About Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine. Linda Ruf is a spokeswoman for the Catholic group Opus Dei and has been a member of the group for more than 20 years. Phyllis Tickle is the former religion editor at Publishers Weekly, the author of more than two dozen books and an expert in the field of religion and popular culture.

This event took place on February 27, 2005.

Editorial Reviews:

When Dan Browns The DaVinci Code hit bookshelves, a curious trend of conflating fact and fiction took hold of religious conversations. Spurred by this phenomenon, Dan Burstein, Bart D. Ehrman, and Linda Ruf convene at the 92nd Street Y for a night of lively debate on the issues found in Dan Browns book. With witty and engaging dialogue, the panelists cover topics ranging from the influence of pop culture in religious education to academic looks at the origin of the Christian church and how it has evolved over the ages.

Members Reviews:

myopic presentation of limited facts

Every speaker has pretty much the same bias:

Pro Christian fundamentalism

anti Dan Brown

They present their limited viewpoint as facts

They maintain that lack of proof means proof of lack - If there's no record of an event it never happened! IMVHO not worth hearing unless you have access to an alternate opinion.