Stuart Dybek has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 11 narrators. The most-rated is Selected Shorts.
Verb
Summary
Fiction, poetry, and music come together to create something new: Verb. Original stories and poems you won't find anywhere else, by the best writers in the country, brought to you in an innovative format. Verb is the ancient oral tradition and the venerable literary magazine combined into a fresh new package: the audioquarterly.This issue contains the following pieces:"Places, Please" by Ed FalcoWhat makes smart teenagers do really stupid things? Alice and Carl find out when the clothes start coming off.Two Poems by Chris Forhan, the Samuel French Morse poetry Prize winner."Bomblight Prayer Vigil" by Peter CaseA six-part cycle of "spoken songs" from Americana and blues-rock great Peter Case. He calls this his own "form of jazz"."Blight" by Stuart DybekRuin, unrequited love, and winos are on display as Ziggy, Pepper, Deejo, and David take a walking tour through their Chicago as the White Sox win the 1959 pennant.Two Poems by Elise Paschen, the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize Award Winner."Shirts and Skins" by George SingletonFlannery O'Connor once said that the reason Southern writers wrote about freaks is because they could still recognize them. To make it easier for the rest of us, George Singleton groups them all onto one church league basketball team.Four Poems by Kurt Brown from Sincerest Flatteries: A Little Book of Imitations.All pieces are read or performed by their respective authors and artists.
©2005 Verb Productions, LLC
Selected Shorts
Summary
A lot can happen on the way from one place to another, especially when an overnight flight makes for an unexpected romantic encounter between strangers seated together; a trucker finds life beyond the ranch where he grew up; and a bored Midwestern housewife tries to escape Kansas City. This anthology of tales about people in transit features Stuart Dybek's "Pet Milk", read by Keith Szarabajka; Martha Gellhorn's "Miami-New York", read by Joanna Gleason; Edward P. Jones' "An Orange Line Train to Ballston", read by Sonia Manzano; Annie Proulx's "The Trickle-Down Effect", read by James Naughton; Dorothy Thomas' "The Getaway", read by Mia Dillon; James Thurber's "A Ride with Olympy", read by David Rakoff; and Eudora Welty's "No Place for You, My Love", read by Andrea Marcovicci.
©2008 Symphony Space, Inc. (P)2008 Symphony Space, Inc.