Philip Roth
61) Even More Laughs
From silly chuckles to rueful ironic glee to deep cosmic laughter, this new volume of humorous tales samples the best of recent seasons of the popular public radio series Selected Shorts.
T. Coraghessan Boyle's's
The Lie
performed by Stephen Colbert
Jonathan Lethem'ss
The Spray
performed by Robert Sean Leonard
Miranda July's
The Swim Team
performed by Parker Posey
Saki'
The
...These five recordings of twentieth-century American authors interpreting their own works were highly praised when first released in the 1960s. Today the cultural and historical value of these recordings makes them an essential part of our literary heritage.
This volume contains readings by James Baldwin from Giovanni's Room and Another Country, exploring the challenges of being black and gay in mid-twentieth century America. William Styron reads
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