American Literary Criticism

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    • On Blackness and Being
    • By: Christina Sharpe
    • Narrated by: Melanie Nicholls-King
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake"....

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    • By: Matthew Arnold
    • Narrated by: Michael Maloney
    • Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • 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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    • (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction
    • By: Sami Schalk
    • Narrated by: Renee Reed
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how Black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds - the intertwinement of the mental and the physical - in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability....

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    • Writing as an Other
    • By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
    • Narrated by: Viet Thanh Nguyen
    • Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer (now an HBO series) comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive political solidarity.

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    • A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry
    • By: Soyica Diggs Colbert
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In this first scholarly biography of Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965), the author of A Raisin in the Sun, theater professor Soyica Diggs Colbert considers the playwright's life at the intersection of art and politics....

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    • By: Patti Smith
    • Narrated by: Patti Smith
    • Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 447 ratings
    • Riveting, elegant, and humorous, New York Times best seller Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times....

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    • The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years
    • By: Christopher Benfey
    • Narrated by: Joshua Kane
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • A unique exploration of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling in Gilded Age America, from a celebrated scholar of American literature....

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    • How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
    • By: Dan Sinykin
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-24
    • Language: English
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    • Dan Sinykin explores how changes in the publishing industry have affected fiction, literary form, and what it means to be an author.

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    • By: Claudia Tate - editor
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The book highlights the practices and critical linkages between the work and lived experiences of Black women writers whose work laid the foundation for many who have come after....

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    • Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby
    • By: Greil Marcus
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A deep dive into how F. Scott Fitzgerald's vision of the American Dream has been understood, portrayed, distorted, misused, and kept alive....

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    • Essays
    • By: Colm Toibin
    • Narrated by: Colm Toibin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a collection of essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature....

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    • Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
    • By: Toni Morrison
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 191 ratings
    • Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection - a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades....

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    • How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story
    • By: Evan I. Schwartz
    • Narrated by: Will Tulin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A narrative that sweeps across late nineteenth-century America, Finding Oz ultimately reveals how failure and heartbreak can sometimes lead to redemption and bliss, and how one individual can ignite the imagination of the entire world.

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    • Explore America's 100 Best-Loved Novels
    • By: PBS
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series....

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    • By: N. Scott Momaday
    • Narrated by: Christopher Salazar
    • Length: 2 hrs
    • Release date: 03-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In In the Bear's House, Momaday passionately explores themes of loneliness, sacredness, and aggression through his depiction of Bear, the one animal that has both inspired and haunted him throughout his lifetime....

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    • Scott, Zelda, and the Betrayal that Shaped an American Classic
    • By: Kendall Taylor
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Both a literary study and a probing look at an iconic couple's psychological makeup, The Gatsby Affair offers listeners a bold interpretation of how one of America's greatest novels was influenced....

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    • A Speculative History
    • By: Christopher Tomlins
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In 1831 Virginia, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed 55 whites, mostly women and children....

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    • By: Miriam Burbano
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-25
    • Language: Spanish
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Pepita Brown no esta segura a quien pedirle el milagro pero ha escuchado que el Niño Jesús y Santa Claus traen regalos en navidad. Pepita es una ...

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    • A Life
    • By: Mary Wisniewski
    • Narrated by: Gary Houston, Mary Wisniewski
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Award-winning reporter Mary Wisniewski offers a deeper portrait of Nelson Algren, one of the most celebrated writers of the 20th century, and a tireless champion of the downtrodden.

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