Tag: Essays

Free Download The Deadline: Essays (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CBNG8S2N | 2023 | 22 hours and 30 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 643 MB
Author: Jill Lepore
Narrator: Jill Lepore
A book to be enjoyed and kept for posterity, The Deadline is the art of the essay at its best. Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style, brought a transporting freshness and a literary vivacity to everything from profiles of long-dead writers to urgent constitutional analysis to an unsparing scrutiny of the woeful affairs of the nation itself. The astonishing essays collected in The Deadline offer a prismatic portrait of Americans’ techno-utopianism, frantic fractiousness, and unprecedented-but armed-aimlessness. From lockdowns and race commissions to Bratz dolls and bicycles, to the losses that haunt Lepore’s life, these essays again and again cross what she calls the deadline, the "river of time that divides the quick from the dead." Echoing Gore Vidal’s United States in its massive intellectual erudition, The Deadline, with its remarkable juxtaposition of the political and the personal, challenges the very nature of the essay-and of history-itself.

Free Download Survival of the Thickest: Essays (Audiobook)
English | December 08, 2020 | ASIN: B07Z8BTYSB | MP3@64 kbps | 6h 34m | 178.95 MB
Author: Michelle Buteau
Narrator: Michelle Buteau
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Free Download Thin Skin: Essays (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BP5CW65W | 2023 | 9 hours and 8 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 264 MB
Author: Jenn Shapland
Narrator: Jenn Shapland
For Jenn Shapland, the barrier between herself and the world is porous; she was even diagnosed with extreme dermatologic sensitivity-thin skin. Recognizing how deeply vulnerable we all are to our surroundings, she becomes aware of the impacts our tiniest choices have on people, places, and species far away. She can’t stop seeing the ways we are enmeshed and entangled with everyone else on the planet. Despite our attempts to cordon ourselves off from risk, our boundaries are permeable. Weaving together historical research, interviews, and her everyday life in New Mexico, Shapland probes the lines between self and work, human and animal, need and desire.

Free Download Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BR8LY9QY | 2023 | 9 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 284 MB
Author: Jen Soriano
Narrator: Jensen Olaya
Activist Jen Soriano brings to light the lingering impacts of transgenerational trauma and uses science, history, and family stories to flow toward transformation in this powerful collection that brings together the lyric storytelling, cultural exploration, and thoughtful analysis of The Argonauts, The Woman Warrior, What the Bones Know, and Minor Feelings. The power of quiet can haunt us over generations, crystallizing in pain that Jen Soriano views as a form of embodied history. In this searing memoir in essays, Soriano, the daughter of a neurosurgeon, journeys to understand the origins of her chronic pain and mental health struggles. By the end, she finds both the source and the delta of what bodies impacted by trauma might need to thrive.

Free Download Healing the Adult Children of Narcissists: Essays on the Invisible War Zone and Exercises for Recovery and Reflection (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CD2RQTXM | 2023 | 12 hours and 1 minute | M4B@64 kbps | 321 MB
Author: Shahida Arabi
Narrator: Soneela Nankani
Those who have had a narcissistic parent can testify to how damaging it can be to one’s psyche. Narcissistic parents lack empathy, show a severe sense of entitlement to micromanage the lives of their children, and often subject their children to neglect, as well as emotional, psychological, and physical abuse. From the unique challenges daughters of narcissistic fathers face to the ways in which adverse childhood experiences affect our brains, Shahida Arabi’s insightful essays resonate deeply with those who have been raised by narcissistic parents. In this new essay collection, Arabi explores how narcissistic abuse in childhood can set us up for trauma repetition in adulthood, affecting how we navigate relationships, the self, and the world. She pinpoints the toxic traits and behaviors of narcissistic mothers and fathers, exposing how covert abuse insidiously plays out in these specific dynamics. She offers the essential tools, skill sets, and healing modalities for survivors who have undergone a lifetime’s worth of abuse, helping them to break the cycle once and for all for future generations.

Free Download Congratulations, the Best Is Over!: Essays (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BP5GYDC5 | 2023 | 6 hours and 40 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 371 MB
Author: R. Eric Thomas
Narrator: R. Eric Thomas
The beloved bestselling author returns with an all-new collection of heartening, deeply relatable, and laugh-out-loud essays about what happens after happily ever after. After going viral "reading" the chaotic political news, having one-too-many awkward social encounters, and coming to terms with his intersecting identities, R. Eric Thomas finally knew who he was and where he was going. He was living his best life. But then everything changed. In this collection of insightful and hilarious essays, Thomas moves back to his perpetually misunderstood hometown of Baltimore (a place he never wanted to return, even to be buried) and behaving completely out of character.