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Find your next great audiobook on our podcast, Behind the Mic with AudioFile Magazine. Every Monday through Friday, AudioFile Editors recommend the best in audiobook listening. All in 6 minutes or less. It’s short, sweet, and just what your ears need. Want more? Listen to our bonus episodes featuring conversations with the best voices in the audiobook industry.
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Interview with Author Lucy Strange
Author Lucy Strange joins host Michele Cobb for a conversation about Lucy’s award-winning audiobooks, which she narrates herself. Listen to their conversation to hear more about how Lucy’s background in acting and teaching influences her approach to storytelling, her experiences with narrating her own audiobooks and those by other authors, and what challenges and surprises her most about narrating. Her 2023 audiobook SISTERS OF THE LOST MARSH was an Earphones Award winner as well as a 2024 Odyssey Honor Audiobook, and it is a memorable listen.
Read the full review of the audiobook on AudioFile’s website. Published by Scholastic Audiobooks.
Discover thousands of audiobook reviews and more at AudioFile’s website. Today’s episode is sponsored by Scholastic Audiobooks.
Support for AudioFile’s Behind the Mic comes from Dreamscape Media, featuring their new audiobook Rifts and Refrains. Follow Amara Johnson's journey through music, mystery, and romance, available exclusively on Dreamscape First. Don't miss out on this captivating tale… please visit Dreamscape to learn more and start listening!
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THE UNWEDDING by Ally Condie, read by Christine Lakin
Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Michele Cobb discuss Ally Condie’s engaging mystery that’s just right for summer listening. Christine Lakin captures Ellery Wainwright’s unsteady state of mind so effectively that the tension in this mystery builds exponentially. Ellery finds herself alone at an exotic Big Sur resort after her husband leaves her. As she struggles through her major life change, she finds herself embroiled in a possible murder. Condie’s audiobook transports listeners to the perfect summer locale with exquisite twists. Throughout, Lakin’s authentic performance is layered and vulnerable, making Ellery’s plight even more frightening.
Read the full review of the audiobook on AudioFile’s website. Published by Hachette Audio.
Discover thousands of audiobook reviews and more at AudioFile’s website.
Support for AudioFile’s Behind the Mic comes from Dreamscape Media, featuring their new audiobook Rifts and Refrains. Follow Amara Johnson's journey through music, mystery, and romance, available exclusively on Dreamscape First. Don't miss out on this captivating tale… please visit Dreamscape to learn more and start listening!
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COMING HOME by Brittney Griner, Michelle Burford, read by Andia Winslow, Brittney Griner
Andia Winslow narrates WNBA basketball star Brittney Griner’s memoir, which has a strong focus on her imprisonment in Russia. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Michele Cobb discuss Griner’s harrowing tale. Winslow’s delivery is outstanding; she recounts the fear and frustration that Griner went through and deftly projects Griner’s emotions every step of the way. Griner is open about the perceptions of her sexuality and deftly weaves in recollections of her upbringing. Coupled with its honest account of what happened in Russia, this memoir is a fascinating listen.
Read the full review of the audiobook on AudioFile’s website. Published by Random House Audio.
Discover thousands of audiobook reviews and more at AudioFile’s website.
Support for AudioFile’s Behind the Mic comes from Dreamscape Media, featuring their new audiobook Rifts and Refrains. Follow Amara Johnson's journey through music, mystery, and romance, available exclusively on Dreamscape First. Don't miss out on this captivating tale… please visit Dreamscape to learn more and start listening!
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THE FRIDAY AFTERNOON CLUB by Griffin Dunne, read by Griffin Dunne
Griffin Dunne’s narration of his memoir pairs a tender conversational tone with occasional moments of drama that embrace his gifts as a writer and actor. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Michele Cobb discuss this engrossing listen chronicling Dunne’s life within an interesting family, sparing no details. Whether he’s telling stories of privileged, Hollywood familiars, political well-knowns, family members, or famed relatives like writers John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion, each vignette commands attention. Dunne stitches stories into a powerful arc that compels from beginning to end.
Read the full review of the audiobook on AudioFile’s website. https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/251186/
Published by Penguin Audio.
Discover thousands of audiobook reviews and more at AudioFile’s website https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/
Support for AudioFile’s Behind the Mic comes from Dreamscape Media, featuring their new audiobook Rifts and Refrains. Follow Amara Johnson's journey through music, mystery, and romance, available exclusively on Dreamscape First. Don't miss out on this captivating tale… please visit https://www.dreamscapepublishing.com/riftsandrefrains/ to learn more and start listening!
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THE QUEEN OF FOURTEENTH STREET by Barrie Kreinik, read by Barrie Kreinik, Orlagh Cassidy, Imani Jade Powers, Elisabeth Rodgers, James Fouhey
A talented cast of voice actors, including playwright Barrie Kreinik, dazzles in this audio original. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Michele Cobb discuss the story of Eva Le Gallienne, a queer actor and director who founded The Civic Repertory Theatre in 1926. Her work revolutionized theater, but she struggled to keep her creation going in the Depression. Kreinik is stunning as Eva, capturing her larger-than-life personality, while the remaining actors portray her various girlfriends, company actors, mentors, friends, and others. The production’s impeccable sound design brings 1930s New York to life. This is audio theater at its absolute best.
Read the full review of the audiobook on AudioFile’s website. Published by Hachette Audio.
Discover thousands of audiobook reviews and more at AudioFile’s website.
Support for AudioFile’s Behind the Mic comes from Dreamscape Media, featuring their new audiobook Rifts and Refrains. Follow Amara Johnson's journey through music, mystery, and romance, available exclusively on Dreamscape First. Don't miss out on this captivating tale… please visit Dreamscape to learn more and start listening!
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FIRE EXIT by Morgan Talty, read by Darrell Dennis
Darrell Dennis navigates this touching novel about a family in distress; it’s a gritty story about addiction, dementia, and obligations. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Alan Minskoff discuss this debut novel from the author of the short story collection NIGHT OF THE LIVING REZ. Charles Lamosway is a white man raised on Maine’s Penobscot reservation—an outsider. With the empathy created by Dennis, listeners will root for Charles as he deals with losing his mother and trying to connect with an estranged daughter. Talty’s debut novel is a virtuoso story of blood, heritage, beliefs, and the legacy of how we are indebted to others. Dennis’s youthful tone and empathy for these troubled characters make this listen triumphant and bittersweet.
Read the full review of the audiobook on AudioFile’s website. Published by Recorded Books.
Discover thousands of audiobook reviews and more at AudioFile’s website.
Support for AudioFile’s Behind the Mic comes from Dreamscape Media, featuring their new audiobook Rifts and Refrains. Follow Amara Johnson's journey through music, mystery, and romance, available exclusively on Dreamscape First. Don't miss out on this captivating tale… please visit Dreamscape to learn more and start listening!
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Customer Reviews
Fantastic!
Great way to find new books I might not read otherwise.
Make it part of your morning routine!
I’ve been listening to his show since it’s started. While I continue to enjoy it, I’m beginning to detect an air of elitism, particularly with the host. She will often dismiss non-professional narrators (often the authors themselves) as “annoying” or some variation of that. I think it’s important to embrace the human qualities of the diverse voices we hear before the publishers decide the only “perfect” performance is AI-generated.
Sound meter issues
Love the show, but the volume of the speakers is irratic. Not only do the different speakers seem to be set at different sound levels; the same speaker can fade from quiet to loud, as though the speaker is moving her head away from and toward the microphone. Given the title of the podcast, I find the sound production especially annoying.