Resultados Editorial "Audible Originals" en Arte y literatura

Stay Om! è nato per gioco e per scommessa nei giorni drammatici e complicati del lockdown, del distanziamento sociale e della quarantena di tutto il Paese. Gioco e scommessa non sono due concetti stonati nell'ora più buia, hanno senso se accogliamo una notizia fondamentale: quella che le nostre vite non sono sospese, che anche nello spazio chiuso delle mura casalinghe continuano, così come continua la necessità di confrontarsi e imparare, di pensare e applicare il pensiero laterale, quello che aggira ostacoli concreti.

Stay Om! è nato per gioco e per scommessa nei giorni drammatici e complicati del lockdown, del distanziamento sociale e della quarantena di tutto il Paese. Gioco e scommessa non sono due concetti stonati nell'ora più buia, hanno senso se accogliamo una notizia fondamentale: quella che le nostre vite non sono sospese, che anche nello spazio chiuso delle mura casalinghe continuano, così come continua la necessità di confrontarsi e imparare, di pensare e applicare il pensiero laterale, quello che aggira ostacoli concreti.

Stay Om! è nato per gioco e per scommessa nei giorni drammatici e complicati del lockdown, del distanziamento sociale e della quarantena di tutto il Paese. Gioco e scommessa non sono due concetti stonati nell'ora più buia, hanno senso se accogliamo una notizia fondamentale: quella che le nostre vite non sono sospese, che anche nello spazio chiuso delle mura casalinghe continuano, così come continua la necessità di confrontarsi e imparare, di pensare e applicare il pensiero laterale, quello che aggira ostacoli concreti.

Stay Om! è nato per gioco e per scommessa nei giorni drammatici e complicati del lockdown, del distanziamento sociale e della quarantena di tutto il Paese. Gioco e scommessa non sono due concetti stonati nell'ora più buia, hanno senso se accogliamo una notizia fondamentale: quella che le nostre vite non sono sospese, che anche nello spazio chiuso delle mura casalinghe continuano, così come continua la necessità di confrontarsi e imparare, di pensare e applicare il pensiero laterale, quello che aggira ostacoli concreti.

I racconti sono ovunque, ci avvolgono da ogni parte, basta accendere la tv, guardare lo smartphone, attraversare una stazione o passeggiare per le vie del centro. Ma a quale profonda necessità dell’essere umano risponde il bisogno di raccontare? Forse, come diceva Umberto Eco, è un tentativo di dare senso all’immensità delle cose che sono accadute e che accadranno domani.

Toni Morrison has touched an enormous swath of our national and global society through her writing. She has attained the highest heights in literature—including the Nobel Prize—and has earned her place in the literary canon, ranking among the most important American writers of all time. In Reading Toni Morrison, Professor A.J. Verdelle of Morgan State University will bring new insight and context to the work of an American literary master, one whose project was ultimately to write about Black people and their experiences through their own eyes.

In the six lectures of Who Was Jane Austen? Sorting Fact from Fiction, you’ll join literary scholar Stephanie Insley Hershinow to explore some of the most enduring myths surrounding Austen and her work. As you dive into the Regency period and the details of Austen’s life, you’ll hear her debunk many longstanding assumptions and misrepresentations that have shaped her image in the popular imagination.

A few days before Thanksgiving 1994, Jeffrey Eugenides’s father, Gus, was piloting a small plane when it crashed in Daytona Beach, Florida. The circumstances surrounding his death added to the mystery of a life that defied expectations, but left many questions unanswered. Now, more than 30 years later, Eugenides tells the story of how his father, a first-generation American, rose from Detroit’s east side to find financial success as a mortgage banker and real estate developer–only to lose it all.

In George Orwell: The Man and the Mind Behind 1984, Professor Michael Shelden will show you how 1984 presents a plausible reality of thought control and totalitarian power that feels contemporary even as it reflects its own time.

In C. S. Lewis: Writer, Scholar, Seeker, Dr. Sørina Higgins will take you on a fascinating expedition through the life and work of this influential author, examining the crucial events and relationships that shaped his personal, literary, and spiritual journeys.

From the best-selling author of The Fish That Ate the Whale, Sweet and Low, and Tough Jews comes Make Your Own Mistakes, a candid, short memoir that chronicles Rich Cohen’s transition to young adulthood in New York City and beyond. Both amusing and thoughtful, this is the story of Rich’s quest to lead a life outside the confines of his father’s dream for him.

Three years before she began writing her New York Times best-selling book I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying, Bassey Ikpi returned to her native Nigeria to try to piece together a life that had fallen apart. Her career had been cut short by a bipolar II diagnosis and hospitalization, and she longed to find her way back to it. Nigeria welcomed her with promise. That fall, she created BasseyWorld presents Naija Poetry Slam, Nigeria's first National Poetry Slam competition, and she started getting hopeful.

Artist. Public intellectual. Political activist. James Baldwin was all of these and more. Raised in the slums of Depression-era Harlem in New York City, Baldwin would become an author and activist of international renown—one whose legacy has continued long beyond his death in 1987. Who was James Baldwin? How did he become the master of multiple literary genres and a champion for some of the era’s most notable political and social causes? And how is his influence still being felt today?

In the six lectures of Margaret Atwood: A Modern Myth-Maker, Dr. Jennifer Cognard-Black will take you on a thorough exploration of Atwood’s most celebrated novel to examine the many ways this book has transcended its dystopian roots to become something more than a tale of, “What if?” Over the course of these lectures, you’ll examine the social, political, cultural, and spiritual impact of the novel—and of Atwood herself—as you dive deep into the text to unravel its themes and inspirations.

In the six lectures of The Great Gatsby at 100, you will join Sheila Liming of Champlain College to revisit the context and culture of the Roaring ‘20s, which inspired the story of the mysterious Jay Gatsby and his disastrous pursuit of Daisy Buchanan. As you’ll discover, while Gatsby is framed as a love story, it’s also a story of the American experience, revealing the unspoken rules of wealth and class and the false promises of self-made success in a world of Old Money privilege.