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    • By: E. B. White
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-16
    • Language: English
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    • Legendary author and essayist E. B. White writes, "The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about is of general interest....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Robin Yocum
    • Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-13
    • Language: English
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    • Jimmy Lee Hickam grew up along Red Dog Road, a dead-end strip of gravel and mud buried deep in the bowels of Appalachian Ohio....

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    • Essays
    • By: Kiese Laymon
    • Narrated by: Kevin Free
    • Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 01-13-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 222 ratings
    • How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is a collection of Laymon's essays, touching on subjects ranging from family, race, violence, and celebrity....

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    • Essays on Excess
    • By: Emily Mester
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-26-24
    • Language: English
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    • What if we explored our relationship to consumption with the same depth and feeling we use to tell stories of great loves and losses?

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    • Crossing Press Feminist Series, Book 1
    • By: Audre Lorde
    • Narrated by: Robin Eller
    • Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-16
    • Language: English
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    • Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in 20th-century literature....

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    • Essays
    • By: Elissa Washuta
    • Narrated by: Kyla García
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-21
    • Language: English
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    • Throughout her life, Elissa Washuta has been surrounded by cheap facsimiles of Native spiritual tools and occult trends, "starter witch kits" of sage, rose quartz, and tarot cards packaged together in paper and plastic....

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    • An American Lyric
    • By: Claudia Rankine
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-15
    • Language: English
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    • Claudia Rankine's bold new audiobook recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in 21st-century daily life and in the media....

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    • Racial Myths and Our American Narratives
    • By: David Mura
    • Narrated by: David Lee Huynh
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • The police murders of two Black men, Philando Castile and George Floyd, frame this searing exploration of the historical and fictional narratives that white America tells itself to justify and maintain white supremacy.

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    • Essays
    • By: Ross Gay
    • Narrated by: Ross Gay
    • Series: Essays Series
    • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
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    • Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying collection of essays that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives....

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    • By: George Orwell
    • Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
    • Length: 25 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
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    • With great originality and wit, Orwell unfolds his views on subjects ranging from a revaluation of Charles Dickens to the nature of Socialism, from a comic yet profound discussion of naughty seaside postcards to a spirited defense of English cooking....

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    • American Crises (and Essays)
    • By: Rebecca Solnit
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
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    • In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, Rebecca Solnit turns her attention to the war at home....

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    • Essays on an American Legacy
    • By: Tre Johnson
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 07-29-25
    • Language: English
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    • A powerful listen which redefines the meaning of genius while illuminating forgotten historical figures and the ways in which Black Americans have found various ways to thrive despite insurmountable obstacles.

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    • Essays
    • By: Wesley Yang
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
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    • One of the most acclaimed essayists of his generation, Wesley Yang writes about race and sex without the jargon, formulas, and polite lies that bore us all....

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    • By: Matthew Arnold
    • Narrated by: Michael Maloney
    • Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-13
    • Language: English
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    • Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869....

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    • By: Jonathan Swift
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-11
    • Language: English
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    • A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729....

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