Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1581/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Music from The True Vine Subtitle: Mike Seeger's Life and Musical Journey Author: Bill C. Malone Narrator: Joe Geoffrey Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins Language: English Release date: 08-20-12 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: A musician, documentarian, scholar, and one of the founding members of the influential folk revival group New Lost City Ramblers, Mike Seeger (1933-2009) spent more than fifty years collecting, performing, and commemorating the culture and folk music of white and black southerners, which he called "music from the true vine." In this fascinating biography, Bill Malone explores the life and musical contributions of folk artist Seeger, son of musicologists Charles and Ruth Crawford Seeger and brother of folksingers Pete and Peggy Seeger. Malone argues that Seeger, while not as well known as his brother, may be more important to the history of American music through his work in identifying and giving voice to the people from whom the folk revival borrowed its songs. Seeger recorded and produced over forty albums, including the work of artists such as Libba Cotton, Tommy Jarrell, Dock Boggs, and Maybelle Carter. In 1958, with an ambition to recreate the southern string bands of the twenties, he formed the New Lost City Ramblers, helping to inspire the urban folk revival of the sixties. Music from the True Vine presents Seeger as a gatekeeper of American roots music and culture, showing why generations of musicians and fans of traditional music regard him as a mentor and an inspiration.
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1581/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: John Lennon vs. the USA Subtitle: The Inside Story of the Most Bitterly Contested and Influential Deportation Case in United States History Author: Leon Wildes Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins Language: English Release date: 08-07-16 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 6 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: At a time when the hottest issue in US immigration law is the proposed action by President Obama to protect from deportation as many as five million illegals in the United States, the John Lennon case takes on special relevance, notwithstanding the passage of 40 years since he was placed in deportation proceedings. This is John and Yoko's incredible story, as told by the lawyer who fought in the front lines. In 1972 President Richard M. Nixon learned that John Lennon was visiting the United States. Nixon was told that Lennon's continued presence here could be catastrophic to his plan for reelection. Lennon, who had just made an appearance before an audience of 15,000 young fans at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, was rumored to be planning to join Jerry Rubin to lead a series of rock music rallies to "Dump Nixon" in anticipation of the 1972 Republican National Convention. The special significance of the 1972 convention was the fact that this would be the first national election in which the voting age was reduced from 21 to 18, adding 5 to 10 million new prospective voters. Nixon was not popular with this young group. Lennon was. Indeed, Senator Strom Thurmond had just written a Dear John letter to Nixon's attorney general, John Mitchell, suggesting that deporting Lennon quickly would be an "appropriate countermeasure". John Mitchell was the head of CREEP, the Committee to Reelect the President; his day job was as attorney general, in charge of deporting illegal aliens. Following the Watergate-style advice of his legal counsel, John Dean, Nixon decided to "use the available political machinery to screw our political enemies" and proceeded in earnest to deport Lennon and his artist wife, Yoko Ono. Lennon and Ono consulted Leon Wildes, an expert in the field of immigration law, about the reason for their visit: their efforts to locate and secure custody of Kyoko, Yoko's American eight-year-old child by a prior marriage. American courts had granted Lennon and Ono custody, and Ono's prior husband violated the order to produce the child in court, as ordered. Notwithstanding the Lennons' humanitarian requests, extensions of stay as visitors were denied, the Lennons were placed in strict deportation proceedings, and the US commissioner of immigration instructed the Immigrant and Naturalization Service (INS) not to adjudicate the "outstanding artists" applications filed for Lennon and Ono by Wildes until after the Lennons were deported. Wildes kept the Lennons here for five years, despite the efforts of the government to deport them. During all that time, the Nixon administration invariably claimed that the Lennons were being treated like all other aliens and that it had no authority to make exceptions to their strict enforcement and removal of deportable aliens.
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1581/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Tips for Actors Author: Fergus Craig Narrator: Fergus Craig Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins Language: English Release date: 10-01-16 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: In the most important theatrical audiobook of this or any other decade, twitter sensation @tips4actors gives you all the advice you need to take your acting to the next level. How to upstage your fellow cast members, what to wear on the first day of rehearsals, where to go for a poo in London's glamorous West End - it's all covered in here! Includes advice such as...'Never read the script. Would your character read it? No, of course not. For them the script doesn't exist' and 'When having sex with a casting director, show off your acting by faking an orgasm'. With bonus content made especially for the audiobook such as a full vocal warm up and advice on accents and radio acting, this is a hilarious parody which demands to be heard. Critic Reviews: "This book will replace Stanislavski's An Actor Prepares." (Jeff Daniels) "A very, very funny book." (Chris ODowd)
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1581/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Advertisements for Myself Author: Norman Mailer Narrator: Christopher Lane Format: Unabridged Length: 20 hrs and 41 mins Language: English Release date: 12-21-16 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Originally published in 1959, Advertisements for Myself is an inventive collection of stories, essays, polemic, meditations, and interviews. It is Mailer at his brilliant, provocative, outrageous best. Emerging at the height of "hip", Advertisements is at once a chronicle of a crucial era in the formation of modern American culture and an important contribution to the great autobiographical tradition in American letters.
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1581/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: J. D. Salinger Subtitle: The Escape Artist Author: Thomas Beller Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins Language: English Release date: 06-03-14 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 7 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: A spirited, deeply personal inquiry into the near-mythic life and canonical work of J. D. Salinger by a writer known for his sensitivity to the Manhattan culture that was Salinger's great theme. Three years after his death at 91, J.D. Salinger remains our most mythic writer. The Catcher in the Rye (1951) became an American classic, and he was for a long time the writer for The New Yorker. Franny and Zooey and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters introduced, by way of the Glass family, a new type in contemporary literature: the introspective, voluble cast of characters whose stage is the Upper East Side of New York. But fame proved a burden, and in 1953 Salinger fled to New Hampshire, spending the next half century in isolation. Beller has followed his subjects trail, from his Park Avenue childhood to his final refuge, barnstorming across New England to visit various Salinger shrines, interviewing just about everyone alive who ever knew Salinger. The result is a quest biography in the tradition of Geoff Dyers Out of Sheer Rage, an audiobook as much about the biographer as about the subject - two vivid, entertaining stories in one.
Escuche este audio libro completo gratis en https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1581/ Título: Autobiografía [Autobiography] Autor: Luis Enrique Narrador: Miguel Borda Formato: Unabridged Duración: 5 hrs and 10 mins Idioma: Español Fecha de publicación: 11-07-17 Editor: Zondervan Categorías: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Resumen del editor: En una historia reveladora y secreta, el cantante salsero Luis Enrique comparte los momentos que dieron forma a su vida, originada en las entrañas de Nicaragua en estado de hervor, en un pueblo llamado Somoto del que salió muy joven con rumbo a Estados Unidos con una maleta llena de sueños. Llegó a la urbe estadounidense solo e indocumentado a enfrentarse a una cultura distinta, a una lengua que no conocía y a las penurias de cualquier inmigrante recién llegado. Indocumentado por años, y ejerciendo trabajos varios, su sueño de ser cantante, se veía muy lejano... casi imposible, ni siquiera existía la posibilidad de llegar a pensar lo logrado hoy en día, con reconocimientos hasta en la Casa Blanca. Luis Enrique relata cómo experimentó por primera vez el miedo, el sufrimiento, el alejamiento de sus seres queridos, el amor y el desamor y el llegar a la cima gracias a al éxito que alguna vez pareció un espejismo.Cada golpe, cada herida llevó a Luis Enrique a fortalecer sus ganas de luchar, cada caída cicatrizaba en enseñanzas que se convirtieron en el arma más importante de su lucha. Sus ángeles y demonios quedan a la intemperie en un relato en el que se desnuda con la palabra y se desahoga con el alma. Momentos también salpicados por el éxito, por la risa, por el estado de shock que produce la fama. Una memoria que hilvana momentos y experiencias de dolor, amor e intensidad extrema nunca antes compartidas, inéditas para quienes hoy lo reconocen como una figura máxima de la música tropical. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1581/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Summary, Analysis, and Review of Ed Catmull's 'Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration' Author: Start Publishing Notes Narrator: Michael Gilboe Format: Unabridged Length: 26 mins Language: English Release date: 10-18-17 Publisher: Start Publishing Notes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Please Note: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Ed Catmull's Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed "About the Author" section. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull (with Amy Wallace) takes a close look at the special culture that the author helped establish at Pixar, the computer-generated animation studio that he co-founded. Reflecting on his personal career, his management philosophy and the highs and lows of Pixar's history as a company, Catmull discusses strategies for nurturing creativity and diagnoses common problems faced by creative professionals. In the 1970s, as a graduate student studying computer-generated animation, Catmull was establishing and defining his field even as he studied it. Pursuing computer science had been a second choice, as he felt he lacked the talent to animate by hand. After he received his PhD in 1974, no one wanted to hire him because he was so fixated on the idea of making a computer-generated film a format that did not then exist.
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1581/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Logical Family Subtitle: A Memoir Author: Armistead Maupin Narrator: Armistead Maupin Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins Language: English Release date: 10-05-17 Publisher: Random House Audiobooks Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the audiobook edition of Logical Family: A Memoir, written and read by Armistead Maupin. Includes a 30-minute interview between Neil Gaiman and the author. Born in the mid-twentieth century and raised in the heart of conservative North Carolina, Armistead Maupin lost his virginity to another man "on the very spot where the first shots of the Civil War were fired." Realising that the South was too small for him, this son of a traditional lawyer packed his earthly belongings into his Opel GT (including a beloved portrait of a Confederate ancestor) and took to the road in search of adventure. It was a journey that would lead him from a homoerotic Navy initiation ceremony in the jungles of Vietnam to that strangest of strange lands: San Francisco in the early 1970s. Reflecting on the profound impact those closest to him have had on his life, Maupin shares his candid search for his "logical family", he people he could call his own. "Sooner or later, we have to venture beyond our biological family to find our logical one, the one that actually makes sense for us," he writes. "We have to, if we are to live without squandering our lives." From his loving relationship with his palm-reading Grannie who insisted Maupin was the reincarnation of her artistic bachelor cousin, Curtis, to an awkward conversation about girls with President Richard Nixon in the Oval Office, Maupin tells of the extraordinary individuals and situations that shaped him into one of the most influential writers of the last century. Maupin recalls his losses and life-changing experiences with humour and unflinching honesty, and brings to life flesh-and-blood characters as endearing and unforgettable as the vivid, fraught men and women who populate his enchanting novels. What emerges is an illuminating portrait of the man who depicted the liberation and evolution of America's queer community over the last four decades with honesty and compassionand inspired millions to claim their own lives.
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1581/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Summary, Analysis, and Review of Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant's Option B Subtitle: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy Author: Start Publishing Notes Narrator: Michael Gilboe Format: Unabridged Length: 26 mins Language: English Release date: 08-23-17 Publisher: Start Publishing Notes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Please note: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the audiobook and not the original book. Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant's Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy includes a summary of the audiobook, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed "About the Author" section. Preview: Part memoir and part pop psychology presentation, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant is about the struggles that Sandberg faced after her 47-year-old husband's unexpected death in 2015. Option A - the life that Sandberg always thought she would have - was to grow old with her husband. Option B was to figure out how to live her best life without him. Sandberg and her husband Dave Goldberg, were on vacation, celebrating a friend's birthday in Mexico when he died. They'd been married 11 years and had two young children. At the time of his death, the kids were staying back with Sandberg's parents in California. After Dave was missing for a few hours, Sandberg and two other people found him unresponsive. He couldn't be resuscitated, and it was a 30-minute ambulance ride to the nearest hospital. Dave died instantaneously, as it turns out, from a massive cardiac event - but Sandberg wouldn't learn that until later.
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1581/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Travels with Penny Subtitle: True Travel Tales of a Gay Guy and His Mom Author: David Alan Morrison Narrator: David Alan Morrison Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins Language: English Release date: 08-03-17 Publisher: David Alan Morrison Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Two things flashed through my mind when I opened the door to the sex shop to find my mother standing in front of the display case, talking to a tall salesman wearing a leather harness, jock strap and a dog collar. The first was, "Oh, crap!" The second was, "I hate it when Dad's right." Thus begins David Alan Morrison's hilarious memoir about the evolution of family dynamics. Following the sudden death of his father, a single, middle-aged gay guy struggles with his own mortality by reminiscing about the travels with his gregarious mother. Travels with Penny is a look at the transformation of the baffling, complex relationship between children and their parents.
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1581/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Unbelievable Happiness and Final Sorrow Subtitle: The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Marriage Author: Ruth A. Hawkins Narrator: Talmadge Ragan Format: Unabridged Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins Language: English Release date: 05-18-17 Publisher: University Press Audiobooks Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: It was the glittering intellectual world of 1920s Paris expatriates in which Pauline Pfeiffer, a writer for Vogue, met Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley among a circle of friends that included Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, and Dorothy Parker. Pauline grew close to Hadley but eventually forged a stronger bond with Hemingway himself; with her stylish looks and dedication to Hemingway's writing, Pauline became the source of "unbelievable happiness" for Hemingway and, by 1927, his second wife. Pauline was her husband's best editor and critic, and her wealthy family provided moral and financial support, including the conversion of an old barn to a dedicated writing studio at the family home in Piggott, Arkansas. The marriage lasted 13 years, some of Hemingway's most productive, and the couple had two children. But the "unbelievable happiness" met with "final sorrow", as Hemingway wrote, and Pauline would be the second of Hemingway's four wives. Unbelievable Happiness and Final Sorrow paints a full picture of Pauline and the role she played in Ernest Hemingway's becoming one of our greatest literary figures. The book is published by The University of Arkansas Press. Critic Reviews: "A major scholarly accomplishment - authoritative, thoroughly researched, pioneering, and ably written...a must for Hemingway scholars, teachers, and aficionados." (Anne Marie Candido in Arkansas Historical Quarterly) "A significant contribution to setting the record straight" (Publishers Weekly) "A riveting portrait of a marriage, and a fascinating biography of Pauline Pfeiffer...introduces us to a new heroine in the Hemingway saga." (Mary Dearborn, author of Mailer: A Biography)
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1581/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Frank Lloyd Wright Subtitle: The Life and Buildings of America's Most Famous Architect Author: Charles River Editors Narrator: Kenneth Ray Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 22 mins Language: English Release date: 05-06-17 Publisher: Charles River Editors Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Perhaps America's most innovative and prolific architect, the works of Frank Lloyd Wright are almost too vast and diverse to list. Recognized for designing unique churches and distinctive commercial buildings, and admired for his geometric style house designs, Wright has been widely imitated, and his work continues to influence architecture not only in the United States but around the world. Laymen often think they know the definition of "a Frank Lloyd Wright", but they probably don't fully understand the brilliant mind of the man, nor the intricacies of his Prairie Style. Yet it endures because he has made it so. In many ways, Wright's architectural career has overshadowed other aspects of his life. In the course of creating innovative kinds of offices, churches, schools, skyscrapers, hotels, and museums, not to mention furniture and stained glass decorations, Wright wrote over a dozen books and toured America and Europe at large, often giving widely acclaimed speeches. Despite a somewhat hardscrabble start to life in the Midwest, Wright became known for his flamboyant and entertaining lifestyle, which included multiple marriages and scandals like the murders at his Taliesin studio in 1914. But through it all, Wright continued working nearly up until his death, and in 1991 the American Institute of Architects recognized him as "the greatest American architect of all time".
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1581/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Mockingbird Songs Subtitle: My Friendship with Harper Lee Author: Wayne Flynt Narrator: Rosemary Benson, Mike Ortego Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins Language: English Release date: 05-02-17 Publisher: HarperAudio Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 9 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: An indelible portrait of one of the most famous and beloved authors in the canon of American literature - a collection of letters between Harper Lee and one of her closest friends that reveals the famously private writer as never before, in her own words. The violent racism of the American South drove Wayne Flynt away from his home state of Alabama, but the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee's classic novel about courage, community, and equality, inspired him to return in the early 1960s and craft a career documenting and teaching Alabama history. His writing resonated with many Alabamians, in particular three sisters: Louise, Alice, and Nelle Harper Lee. Beginning with their first meeting in 1983, a mutual respect and affection for the state's history and literature matured into a deep friendship between two families, who can trace their roots there back more than five generations. Flynt and Nelle Harper Lee began writing to one other while she was living in New York - heartfelt, insightful, and humorous letters in which they swapped stories, information, and opinions on topics both personal and professional: their families, books, Alabama history and social values, health concerns, and even their fears and accomplishments. Though their earliest missives began formally - "Dear Dr. Flynt" - as the years passed and their mutual admiration grew, their exchanges became more intimate and emotional, opening with "Dear Friend" and closing with "I love you, Nelle". Through their enduring correspondence, the Lees and the Flynts became completely immersed in each other's lives. Beautifully written, intelligent, and telling, this remarkable compendium of their letters - a correspondence that lasted for a quarter century, from 1992 until Harper Lee's death in February 2016 - offers an incisive and compelling look into the mind, heart, and work of one of the most beloved authors in modern literary history.
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1581/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Summary: Born to Run: By Bruce Springsteen Author: Billionaire Mind Publishing Narrator: David Angell Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 22 mins Language: English Release date: 04-13-17 Publisher: Billionaire Mind Publishing Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Please note: This is a summary of Born to Run and not the original book. Ever heard of the phrase, "Never give up on your dreams?" If you've heard it before, I am also sure that you know of people who give up on their dreams and decide to live an average life. Bruce Springsteen is one of the most inspirational musicians and singers. Bruce Springsteen is known for his work with his E Street Band, his distinctive voice, and his lengthy and energetic stage performances. Born to Run was originally the name of one of Bruce Springsteen's most successful songs. It was a song which showcased the daily struggles of a daily American life. Having sold more than 120 million records worldwide, Bruce Springsteen remains one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. "More than rich, more than famous, more than happy, I wanted to be great." (Bruce Springsteen) Born to Run is wayyyyyyyyyy more than just a biography. It is a story of a legend. A story of dreams, courage, and greatness. Born to Run is a book for anyone who wants to live beyond their current state. Get your cup of tea or coffee ready as you indulge yourself in the adventures of a legendary rock star's memoir. P.S. If you wish to indulge yourself in the journey of a legendary rock star and get inspired, this book is for you!
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1581/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The English Daughter Author: Maggie Wadey Narrator: Maureen O'Brien Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins Language: English Release date: 02-24-17 Publisher: Oakhill Publishing Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: As a child, writer Maggie Wadey was aware her mother was different from her father and his family, and that the difference was do with her Irishness, but she knew nothing of her Tipperary background. Then, before she died, Agnes Kavanagh began to talk about the past. Gradually, Maggie began to piece together her mothers early life. But it was only after Agnes's death that she discovered another story - a life and a secret hidden in layers of silence. Critic Reviews: "A luminous act of love and memory". (Marina Warner) "So perceptively drawn we are taken immediately into the vivid reality of their lives." (Edward Fox) "A historical memoir that unfolds like a mystery -personal, universal and beautifully told." (Sadie Jones)
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1581/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Roman Polanski & Sharon Tate Subtitle: The Controversial Life of the Director and Notorious Death of the Actress Author: Charles River Editors Narrator: Dan Gallagher Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins Language: English Release date: 02-22-17 Publisher: Charles River Editors Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Few figures in Hollywood's history have been as acclaimed and controversial as director Roman Polanski, whose legendary films would stand out if not for the fact that they're often eclipsed by the turbulent life he's led. The son of Polish parents, Polanski survived World War II despite having both parents transferred to concentration camps during the Holocaust, but his mother was killed at Auschwitz. Despite the terrible ordeal and the loss of his mother, Polanski would grow up to become one of Europe's best directors, and over the course of a career spanning about 50 years, his films have been nominated for too many awards to count. Given that background, Polanski would represent one of Hollywood's greatest success stories, but far from having a fairytale ending, more hardships would endure. In 1969, things were looking up for one of Hollywood's most marketable actresses. After appearing as a model in fashion magazines and having bit parts on shows during the early part of the decade, Sharon Tate was a star in the making. That summer, she was pregnant with her first child by director Roman Polanski, who had just recently become her husband, and a few months earlier, she had just finished filming The Thirteen Chairs, co-starring Orson Welles. Tragically, superstardom would never come.
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1581/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: How I Became a Writer Author: Gloria Steinem Narrator: Marianne Fraulo Format: Unabridged Length: 18 mins Language: English Release date: 01-30-17 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: "My one writerly habit was describing everything I did, no matter how absorbing or how trivial, as if I were standing outside myself and watching. That is, I would get up in the morning and look out the window, all the time thinking, 'She slid from the rumpled bed, yawned, and looked out at the pale...no, thin winter light. It was going to be another one of those days....' That kind of thing; very corny." Every writer's origin story is different. In How I Became a Writer, Gloria Steinem charts her unlikely journey from restless teen in Toledo, Ohio, to professional magazine writer in Manhattan - with sage advice and "random directives" for getting started. How I Became a Writer was originally published in Glamour, October 1965.
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1581/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Feud Subtitle: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship Author: Alex Beam Narrator: Douglas Pullar Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins Language: English Release date: 12-06-16 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: In 1940 Edmund Wilson was the undisputed big dog of American letters. Vladimir Nabokov was a near-penniless Russian exile seeking asylum in the States. Wilson became a mentor to Nabokov, introducing him to every editor of note, assigning to him book reviews for the New Republic, engineering a Guggenheim. Their intimate friendship blossomed over a shared interest in all things Russian, ruffled a bit by political disagreements. But then came Lolita, and suddenly Nabokov was the big (and very rich) dog. Finally the feud erupted in full when Nabokov published his hugely footnoted and virtually unreadable literal translation of Pushkin's famously untranslatable verse novel Eugene Onegin. Wilson attacked his friend's translation with hammer and tong in The New York Review of Books. Nabokov counterattacked in the same publication. Back and forth the increasingly aggressive letters volleyed until their friendship was reduced to ashes by the narcissism of small differences. Critic Reviews: "A fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse, full of anecdotal ephemera, of how Wilson and Nabokov interacted and why." (Publishers Weekly)
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1581/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: I Am Brian Wilson Subtitle: The genius behind the Beach Boys Author: Brian Wilson, Ben Greenman - contributor Narrator: Fred Berman Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins Language: English Release date: 11-11-16 Publisher: Coronet Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: They say there are no second acts in American lives, and third acts are almost unheard of. That's part of what makes Brian Wilson's story so astonishing. As cofounder of the Beach Boys in the 1960s, Wilson created some of the most groundbreaking and timeless popular music ever recorded. With intricate harmonies, symphonic structures, and wide-eyed lyrics that explored life's most transcendent joys and deepest sorrows, songs like 'In My Room', 'God Only Knows' and 'Good Vibrations' forever expanded the possibilities of pop songwriting. Derailed in the 1970s by mental illness, drug use, and the shifting fortunes of the band, Wilson came back again and again over the next few decades, surviving and - finally - thriving. Now, for the first time, he weighs in on the sources of his creative inspiration and on his struggles, the exhilarating highs and the debilitating lows. I Am Brian Wilson reveals as never before the man who fought his way back to stability and creative relevance, who became a mesmerizing live artist, who forced himself to reckon with his own complex legacy and completed 'Smile', the legendary unfinished Beach Boys record that had become synonymous with both his genius and its destabilization. Today Brian Wilson is older, calmer, filled with perspective and forgiveness. Whether he's talking about his childhood, his bandmates, or his own inner demons, Wilson's story, told in his own voice and in his own way, unforgettably illuminates the man behind the music, working through the turbulence and discord to achieve, at last, a new harmony.
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1581/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Walk Through Walls Subtitle: A Memoir Author: Marina Abramovic Narrator: Marina Abramovic Format: Unabridged Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins Language: English Release date: 10-27-16 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 10 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Walk Through Walls, written and read by Marina Abramovic. This memoir spans Marina Abramovic's five-decade career and tells a life story that is almost as exhilarating and extraordinary as her groundbreaking performance art. Taking us from her early life in communist ex-Yugoslavia to her time as an a young art student in Belgrade in the 1970s, where she first made her mark with a series of pieces that used the body as a canvas, the audiobook also describes her relationship with the West German performance artist named Ulay who was her lover and sole collaborator for 12 years. Abramovic has collaborated with stars from Lady Gaga to Jay-Z, James Franco and Willem Dafoe and is best known for her recent pieces 'The Artist Is Present' and '512 Hours'. This audiobook is a fascinating insight into the life of one of the most important artists working today and the woman who has been described as 'the grandmother of performance art'.