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Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before. The audiobook of Interesting Times is read by Colin Morgan (Merlin; Testament of Youth; Belfast). BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning...

'A foot on the neck is nine points of the law' There are many who say that the art of diplomacy is an intricate and complex dance between two informed partners, determined by an elaborate set of elegant and unwritten rules. There are others who maintain that it's merely a matter of who carries...

“Remarkable . . . With this book [Wolitzer] has surpassed herself.”—The New York Times Book Review "A victory . . . The Interestings secures Wolitzer's place among the best novelists of her generation. . . . She's every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. But the very human moments in...

From growing up in Los Angeles with movie star neighbors, bearing witness to the music scene in the 1960s and seeing the rise of comedy in the early 70s, to studying mime in Paris under the tutelage of Marcel Marceau to becoming a founding member of the seminal comedy troupe The Groundlings, it's no wonder that Lorne Michaels offered Laraine Newman a spot in the original cast of Saturday Night Live. There, Laraine was part of the show that changed TV - and comedy - forever.

Interesting Times with Bek Lover, is a daily news commentary podcast. Bek Lover, a viral motivational speaker, and New York Socialite, gathers the most interesting headlines and breaking news around the world, and adds his serious and at times hilarious commentary. Bek Lover, also brings on great co-hosts to discuss today's News, trending topics and discussions, and much more! Make sure to subscribe and check out his famous, The Bek Lover Podcast, where he interviews the most amazing people in the world!

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Nicholas Khan, best known for their role in Transformers. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Malcolm Heath, read by Roy McMillan. One of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western...

2020 was a disaster. Here, for the record, is what the Quad Cities survived.Listen to these moving and eloquent essays and poems, stories and artwork, read by the writers as they report on the disasters of 2020. We saw our careers change or disappear. Everything went online. We watched loved ones pass away and saw babies born that we couldn’t hold. We tried to school children, care for clients, and launch books. We watched public deaths, protests, and attacks. We contemplated murder hornets and eclipses. We cleaned up after a flood and then a derecho. For some of us, isolation was a chance ...

In which our intrepid correspondent tries to figure out whether all this brew ha ha about the sky falling is serious enough to call for a hat.

This collection contains: Twelve Years a Slave, Up from Slavery, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, The Life of an American Slave (Fifty Years in Chains), The Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, From Log Cabin to the Pulpit, and many more.

Discussing a variety of topics with Interesting People dealing with life in these Extraordinary Times

"Dos Equis Makes Its Case for Its New 'Most Interesting Man'" is from the September 11, 2016 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Sapna Maheshwari and narrated by Kristi Burns.

A series exploring how digital spaces affect the lives and work of our most interesting online friends. Each week we highlight one person and ask them about social media, internet culture, anything to do with the fast-changing digital world and how they navigate it as artists, activists, and people.

Two Zero Q - 20 Questions With Interesting People, the show that tells the 'Origin Stories' of everyday superheroes in the lgbtqia+ community and friends. #twozeroq“What’s most valuable isn’t what’s exceptional, curated, or performative, but rather what’s common, authentic, and directly experienced.” (JA Westenberg)Please 'like' and subscribe to my show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.