Eula Biss has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 5 ratings. The most-rated is On Immunity.
On Immunity
Summary
Upon becoming a new mother, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear - fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what is in your child's air, food, mattress, medicine, and vaccines. She finds that you cannot immunize your child, or yourself, from the world. In this bold, fascinating book, Biss investigates the metaphors and myths surrounding our conception of immunity and its implications for the individual and the social body. As she hears more and more fears about vaccines, Biss researches what they mean for her own child, her immediate community, America, and the world, both historically and in the present moment. She extends a conversation with other mothers to meditations on Voltaire's Candide, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Susan Sontag's AIDS and Its Metaphors, and beyond. On Immunity is a moving account of how we are all interconnected - our bodies and our fates.
©2014 Eula Biss. (P)2014 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Having and Being Had
Summary
A New York Times Editors' Choice Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, NPR, InStyle, and Good Housekeeping “A sensational new book [that] tries to figure out whether it's possible to live an ethical life in a capitalist society.... The results are enthralling.” (Associated Press) A timely and arresting new look at affluence by the New York Times best-selling author. "My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts," Eula Biss writes, "the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after." Having just purchased her first home, the poet and essayist now embarks on a provocative exploration of the value system she has bought into. Through a series of engaging exchanges - in libraries and laundromats, over barstools and backyard fences - she examines our assumptions about class and property and the ways we internalize the demands of capitalism. Described by the New York Times as a writer who “advances from all sides, like a chess player”, Biss offers an uncommonly immersive and deeply revealing new portrait of work and luxury, of accumulation and consumption, of the value of time and how we spend it. Ranging from IKEA to Beyoncé to Pokemon, Biss asks, of both herself and her class, “In what have we invested?”
©2020 Eula Biss (P)2020 Penguin Audio
Of Woman Born
Summary
Adrienne Rich's influential and landmark investigation concerns both the experience and the institution of motherhood. The experience is her own - as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother - but it is an experience determined by the institution, imposed on all women everywhere. She draws on personal materials, history, research, and literature to create a document of universal importance.
©1995 Adrienne Rich and Eula Biss (P)2021 Random House Audio