![]() This happened to me once with a Jonathan Franzen novel. I do it when something I’m reading on the page moves me for reasons I can’t explain. I do it when I run across prose that makes me want to hear it beautifully read. I do it when a writer who has meant something to me dies. So from time to time, I check up on how some author or piece of writing has fared at the hands of the audiobook industry. As a child, I had trouble falling asleep after we moved to an apartment where I no longer shared a room with my sister, and letting me drift off listening to spoken-arts records was my mother’s solution. I like to keep tabs on this sort of thing, probably because I grew up listening to written-word recordings. I had gone online to see whether there were any decent recordings of Didion’s work. Rereading Didion’s essays and reporting after her death, I had thought, That right there is what female authority sounds like - by which I meant the dry, detached, unsentimental, sly but muted, deadpan voice that characterizes not only Didion’s literary style but those of Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, and Mary McCarthy before her as well as the voices of such contemporaries of Didion’s as Renata Adler and Janet Malcolm.īut listening to the five-minute Audible sample of Keaton reading from the first essay in Slouching Towards Bethlehem, I had to admit, “Whatever female authority sounds like, it isn’t that.” I thought about it a lot when Joan Didion died late last year, and I thought about it even more trying to listen to a recording of Diane Keaton reading from Didion’s work around that time. I have thought about that column and headline many times since the fall of 2019. It was how she sounded to us, a listening public without the aural reference library to assess female authority, trustworthiness, and power. “Her voice, after all, did not sound like Walter Cronkite’s.” Yet, Hesse noted, no “adoring comparisons to any deceased icons” had followed. The following day, testimony from Taylor’s equally if not more impressive predecessor, Marie Yovanovitch, prompted a standing ovation in the committee room. Afterward, Hesse noticed the name Walter Cronkite trending on Twitter. Taylor Jr., a rather ordinary, if genial, middle-aged man. Plus hardly anybody buys CDs anymore anyway.During the first days of the 2019 impeachment hearings, the headline of an essay by the Washington Post columnist Monica Hesse floated the question “What does female authority sound like?” One of the earliest witnesses had been the acting ambassador to Ukraine, William B. It’s not coming out on CD though because that would be like 12 CDs or some shit and that’s just too many. If you’ve ever read and enjoyed the book “Behind The Paint,” now you can check it out again, this time with additional flavor added to it! And check this out, you ain’t even gotta read it! You can just lean your big ass head back and close your eyes and hear it all as its TOLD TO YOU because finally, after more than 10 fuckin’ years, it’s coming out in audiobook form! That’s right, you can listen to the entire story of our childhoods all the way up to the release of the first 6 Joker’s Cards including the previously untold story of “Hell’s Pit” as told by me, Violent J myself, when this bad boy is released at Gathering 17! What better way to spend the long ass car ride back home than to sit and listen to the entire story of ICP being told straight outta the horse’s motherfuckin big ass mouth! This special audiobook will be released on USB as well as through download. Now we got some NEW flavor to tell you about. This news was spread in the Hatchet Herald by Violent J: ![]()
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