Resultados Editorial "Audible Originals" en Literatura y ficción

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Hal Beekman is exhausted. With all of his energy devoted to his real estate developments, he doesn’t have the bandwidth to figure out why his wife is sad. As for Stacey Beekman, a transplanted Midwesterner with divorce-whisperer friends, the only solution for a husband who doesn’t desire her is to find a second husband who does. But with Stacey left alone in a new house to parent her tech-addicted children and Hank isolated in a Greenwich McMansion that neither of them ever loved, COVID-19 has surprises in store for the Beekmans.

On the eve of the global lockdown, Don Barlow opens the door of his old beachside cottage to find a pretty girl with pink-tipped hair, claiming to have nowhere to go. He allows her entry, and so begins a mystery set in unprecedented times: with the virus raging outside their home, the girl cannot be asked to leave, but what does he risk by having her stay?

One girl’s funny and honest account of losing her mum to a cult. Susan Wokoma performs in this teen-spirited and gangsta-rap-fuelled survival guide to growing up with an actual twat as a mum. 

This wasn’t the plan. Judge Herman Calvert, 88, never thought he’d outlive his beloved wife, Marie. Yet now he finds himself alone, a grieving widower, desperate for escape from the home they built together, where every turn brings a painful reminder of his late wife. So the judge retreats to his lake cabin in rural Wisconsin, a place where an old man can find peace and solitude. A place where nature can take its course. But something new has moved in.

In his provocative new show, Bad Faith, celebrated solo artist Mike Daisey sinks his teeth into a harsh reality: Bad faith is becoming more rampant in today’s culture. From the president and our politics to climate and corporate rule, Daisey unpacks how bad faith - a twisted kind of deception - spreads, why people choose bad faith over goodwill, and how this growing epidemic impacts our lives. 

In this riveting drama by acclaimed playwright Lucy Thurber, two gifted young men from the South Bronx - one Black and one Latino - compete for a life-changing scholarship at an elite university. Refusing to be defined by their circumstance, each man must find his own way out of his difficult past.

On the first day of her new job, Harris is called to the scene of a brutal murder at the heart of Surrey society. A shocking crime, with a meticulous killer: the victim’s eyes have been removed and the body drained of blood, with no forensic evidence left at the scene. Her boss insists it must be the return of a killer who escaped justice several years ago, leaving a trail of bloody ritualistic killings. Harris isn’t so sure: both sets of victims have had their eyes removed, but other details are significantly different.

Arthur MacDonald, 85, is having an end-of-life crisis. His beloved, dying wife of over 60 years no longer knows who he is. His older brother still has all his hair and a wife almost half his age. The man his middle-aged daughter is dating has a ponytail. His teenaged grandson wants to cook desserts for a living. And his daughter wants him to move into Silvermine retirement home. Then Arthur meets the gorgeous, radical, 80-something-year-old Robbie and learns that nobody is ever too old to fall in love all over again.

Thousands of years ago Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote these meditations as a guide for his own self-improvement, and they're still relevant today. Bedtime stories are narrated by the world’s most celebrated voices and written with no beginning, middle, or end so you don’t stay up to hear what happens next. They're interesting enough to give your mind something to focus on, but delivered in a way that encourages sleep.

Two giants of the theater, five-time Tony Award® winner Angela Lansbury and three-time Tony Award winner James Earl Jones, star in 1988’s Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama. Driving Miss Daisy is Alfred Uhry’s tale that follows the complicated friendship between a feisty Jewish widow and her Black chauffeur in mid-century Atlanta over the course of 20 years.

I podcast di BeReady Letteratura, a cura di Frame, sono pensati per gli studenti dell'ultimo anno delle superiori che possono utilizzarli per ripassare e fissare i concetti chiave della letteratura italiana in vista dell'interrogazione, di una verifica, dell'esame di Stato. La piacevolezza dell'ascolto li rende potenzialmente interessanti anche a un pubblico generico che abbia voglia di rispolverare conoscenze scolastiche assopite.

Four-time Tony Award® winner Harvey Fierstein takes on New York City’s very own political firebrand, Bella Abzug, in his new raucous, heart-rending, and absurdly humorous solo show. Set in 1976, on the eve of her bid to become New York State’s first female senator, Bella Bella finds this larger-than-life, truth-slinging, groundbreaking, hat-wearing icon squirreled away in the bathroom of a midtown hotel awaiting that night’s election results while a coterie of family and celebs await her entrance. Directing is Kimberly Senior (The Niceties). 

Inspired by extensive interviews following the 2014 shooting of Black teenager Michael Brown by white Police Officer Darren Wilson, Orlandersmith gives equal voice and embodies the many faces of a community haunted by injustice, in a country yearning for change. Until The Flood is a tour de force solo performance that explores the dark forces of American history, race, and politics that exploded in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, and sent shock waves across the nation. 

Three offbeat stories of crime and conundrum, set in the present moment, from the New York Times best-selling, Edgar Award-winning author of Underground Airlines and The Last Policeman.

Della poesia, da sola, o in forma di canzone, non possiamo fare a meno. Anche dopo che i poeti se ne sono andati, le loro poesie continuano a vivere e corrono per le strade. Poeti laureati, cantautori, poeti del web, adolescenti che scrivono sul proprio diario, writer. L'urgenza comunicativa che la poesia esprime non ammette limiti o costrizioni. Accetta lo sbaglio, la storpiatura, il funambolismo. La poesia è come il circo: bello e disturbante, fatto di ballerine luccicanti e di orridi pagliacci, animali in cattività e funamboli.

When a violent attack on his girlfriend tears Tom’s life apart, escape makes perfect sense. He takes a job with an oil company, providing therapy to staff cooped up in a camp in Southern Iraq. Nice pay packet, if you don’t mind being stuck in the desert surrounded by unexploded mines and cluster bombs. On his arrival, an explosion outside the camp leaves four men dead. Something about it doesn’t make sense, and Tom starts to ask questions. His curiosity begins to get him into trouble - especially with the former soldiers who work there as security contractors. 

Una buona ragione per leggere un romanzo? Il piacere. Leggere i romanzi è come il buon cibo e il buon vino: se ti piace bene, se non ti piace, puoi passare ad altro. La lettura di un romanzo non è un'esperienza passiva, devi metterci del tuo. Lo scrittore fa solo metà del lavoro, l'altra metà tocca a te. Lui ti dà delle indicazioni più o meno precise, ma poi sta a te farle fruttare.

Gianni Rodari non è stato semplicemente uno scrittore per bambini. È stato un filosofo che aveva molto chiaro un fatto: se si vuole cambiare il mondo, bisogna farlo insieme ai bambini. E il suo "Favole al Telefono" è la testimonianza dell'impegno di una vita passata a stimolare la creatività e la meraviglia dell’essere umano. Ne parliamo in questa puntata dell’Audible Club.

Il percorso di ricerca di Calvino e di Sereni attraversa tutto il secondo Novecento rispettivamente nella prosa e nella poesia: Calvino, conosciuto e tradotto in tutto il mondo, compie una costante ricerca che lo conduce a una scrittura "mentale"; Sereni, formatosi nel clima ermetico, si avvicina al mondo reale conservando la speranza di una rivelazione, possibile attraverso la poesia.