1 month ago
by Jennifer Stevenson
Print Publisher: Small Beer Press
Narrator: Arielle Lipshaw
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“This just absolutely rocks. It’s lyrical, it’s weird and it’s sexy in a very funky way. Trash Sex Magic is full of people you would maybe be afraid to meet in real life, but once you’ve met them fictionally you are damn sorry you can’t at least have a beer with them.” - Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife
1 month ago
Joining Literate Housewife's The Silence of Trees Listen-A-Long «
For the record, we love this idea. Get in touch if you want to host your own listen-a-long…
I’ve seen narrator Xe Sands name come up on a few titles I’m interested in listening to (most recently The Vanishers) and along comes an audiobook listen-a-long for The Silence of Trees by Valya Dudycz Lupescu, narrated by Sands for Iambik:
And the “listen-a-long” includes a 20% discount code as well. So: join along!
via audiblesff
2 months ago
by Krista D. Ball
Print Publisher: Mundania Press
Narrator: Priscilla Holbrook
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“The characters are very likable and Captain Catherine Francis is a very memorable and strong protagonist. I like that she is strong and every bit a leader, yet very human and easy to relate to.
The plot is engaging and captivates the reader. As an avid reader I’m pretty picky about what I do and don’t like and I couldn’t find anything unlikable here. The book is a definite keeper.” — Goodreads
by Jarret Keene and TJ Pierce (Editors)
Print Publisher: Akashic Books
Narrator: Various Narrators
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“this anthology does a fine job of illuminating the dark underbelly of Sin City. — Publishers Weekly
Table of Contents
Part I: Sin City
“The Tik” by John O’Brien (Scotch 80s) — Narrator: Darla Middlebrook
“Pretty Little Parasite” by David Corbett (Fremont) — Narrator: Arielle Lipshaw
“Mitzhav” by Tod Goldberg (Summerlin) — Narrator: Mike Vendetti
“Babs” by Scott Phillips (Naked City) — Narrator: Charles Bice
“This or Any Desert” by Vu Tran (Chinatown) — Narrator: Mike Vendetti
Part II: Neon Grit
“Benny Rojas and the Rough Riders” by Pablo Medina (West Las Vegas) — Narrator: Mike Vendetti
“Bits and Pieces” by Christine McKellar (Green Valley) — Narrator: Lee Ann Howlett
“Crip” by Preston L. Allen (Nellis) — Narrator: Darla Middlebrook
“Three Times a Night, Every Other Night” by Lori Kozlowski (North Las Vegas) — Narrator: Arielle Lipshaw
“Disappear” by Jaq Greenspon (Sunset Park) — Narrator: Charles Bice
“All About Balls” by Jose Skinner (East Las Vegas) — Narrator: Mike Vendetti
Part III: Tales from the Outskirts
“Atomic City” by Nora Pierce (Test Site) — Narrator: Charles Bice
“Dirty Blood” by Celeste Starr (Pahrump) — Narrator: Darla Middlebrook
“Guns Don’t Kill People” by Bliss Esposito (Centennial Hills) — Narrator: Diane Havens
“Murder Is Academic” by Felicia Campbell (Mount Charleston) — Narrator: Denice Stradling
“The Road to Rachel” by Janet Berliner (Area 51) — Narrator: Kenneth Campbell
3 months ago
“Zeitgeist for everyone!” @paulgtremblay’s @largeheartedboy playlist for In the Mean Time
From the always brilliant LargeHearted Boy:
In his own words, here is Paul Tremblay’s Book Notes music playlist for his short story collection, In the Mean Time:
This collection of fifteen stories is loosely themed: each story is very much of our now and confronts many of our cultural fears and apocalyptic anxieties. Zeitgeist for everyone!
The book title comes directly from Helmet’s 1992 brilliant and menacing song “In the Meantime.”
Today only, get the audiobook of In The Mean Time for $3.49 by entering “love-your-ears” at checkout on Iambik.com. (This discount applies to all today’s orders, but we think there’s something sweet about a little horror.)
3 months ago
Horror from @robertjwiersema, @teresa_milbrodt, @chizinepub coming to audio
Horror fans, perk up your ears. We’re thrilled to announce that the following titles from our friends at ChiZine Publications are soon to become Iambik audiobooks:
Monstrous Affections by David Nickle
“David Nickle writes ‘em damned weird and damned good and damned dark. He is bourbon-rough, poetic and vivid. Don’t miss this one.”
–Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother
The World More Full of Weeping by Robert J. Wiersema
“(A) moving character study about grief and lost possibilities, and also a love song to the Canadian wilderness off British Columbia … The resolution is heartbreaking, without devolving into obvious horror cliches or offering easy solutions. Wiersema is a writer of great delicacy.”
–Tim Pratt, Locus Magazine
Bearded Women by Teresa Milbrodt
“The bizarre aspects of the characters in the stories of Bearded Women serve a particular function, to help us to look closely. Because the narrator in “Bianca’s Body” has a lower torso with sexual organs sticking out of her abdomen, we pay closer attention to the dilemma she faces. Consciously or not, we analyze much more deeply than we would if the narrator had nothing odd about her. In this way, Milbrodt is able to present us universal problems in a way that seems absolutely fresh and new.”
–PANK Magazine
Hair Wreath by Halli Villegas
“A touch of magical realism, a whiff of the dark. Great emotional intensity is wrought in only a few pages. Domestic skirmishes, open ended mysteries and always—in the midst of life—the delicate scent of corruption. Villegas’s fresh voice promises a great future in speculative literature.”
–Ellen Datlow
Cities of Night by Philip Nutman
“Philip Nutman has brought a fresh eye and deep enthusiasm to the business of horror. The genre is much enriched by his insight and creativity. He’s a vital and original talent.”
–Clive Barker, author of The Great and Secret Show and Mister B. Gone
Aaaand in the meantime, if you just can’t wait, check out our current fine offerings from ChiZine. These, and all Iambik titles, can be yours at a 30% discount by entering the code leap-ear at checkout (good through the end of February 2012). Happy horror!
4 months ago
Dorothea Tanning: Who am I but a sobriquet?
Sequestrienne
Source: Poetry (April 2002). Text copied from The Poetry Foundation
4 months ago
Public Domain Audiobook Crib Sheet:
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy.
— The Basics: Wiki. Read it online (Gutenberg).
— Why you’ll love it: Features illicit sex and a heroine that might make you yell at your audio player in disbelief.
— A nice quote from the text: “Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?”
— Hipster character names: Clym Yeobright, Eustacia Vye, Diggory Venn
— Punk Rock character names: Susan Nunsuch, Johnny Nunsuch
— Says the Book Addiction blog: Utopic fiction often starts from a small community that’s somehow able to evolve standards that suit themselves, that allow an escape from an oppressive larger social structure in order to move forward into a (relatively) stable private reality: that’s not at all what happens in The Return of the Native, where the private reality remains inexorably linked to the larger world even though the larger world remains invisible and seems to most characters scarcely imaginable.
—Another nice quote from the text: ”Intensity was more usually reached by way of the solemn than by way of the brilliant, and such a sort of intensity was often arrived at during winter darkness, tempests, and mists”
— Says Every Book and Cranny: It’s interesting that Eustacia, who longs to escape her surroundings, is also perhaps the most in harmony with the wildness of her environment. She embodies the irrational forces of human nature, the inherent and instinctive characteristics that refuse to conform to social normality. Her character demonstrates what happens when a nature dominated by instinct clashes with socially acceptable behavior.
— Says ProSe Review: Like a moth is drawn to a flame, the reader is inexorably drawn into the tale, and recognizes with a growing horror that a full release can only be attained through reaching and experiencing the novel’s shocking climax.
— Says D.H. Lawrence: This is the quality Hardy shares with the great writers…this setting behind the small action the terrific action of unfathomed nature.
—Say we: get the audiobook, as read by the incomparably lush-voiced Tadhg Hynes, at a 25% discount through Jan 31 by entering listen-more at checkout.
4 months ago
“He’s never been comfortable around other people. Until he starts to kill them.” Watch the trailer for People Live Still in Cashtown Corners by @tonyblue (pub @chizinepub)
4 months ago
It was the same of any one of my mornings, except for that nagging feeling it wasn’t. Here’s @stevehimmer’s The Bee-Loud Glade, in MOVING IMAGES. And here it is in audio.
