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Jump into Pride with Tan France (Queer Eye), Nikki Levy, and seven fabulous storytellers as they share true tales of exploring, embracing, and celebrating queer identity. You Do You, produced especially for Pride Month, brings Audible Members a collection of uplifting, raw, and hilarious stories from queer actors, comedians, and personalities. Co-hosted by French-tuck aficionado and super-stylist Tan France, and storytelling maven Nikki Levy, You Do You is a fierce, unfiltered celebration of LGBTQIA+ realness.

Moving stories about married couples' powerful and complicated loves, read by actors Frances Sternhagen, Robert Sean Leonard, Keir Dullea, Joanna Gleason, Harold Gould and Joanne Woodward. A native couple's rocky college love affair lasts a lifetime in Do You Know Where I Am by Sherman Alexie. In Karen E. Bender's Eternal Love, a mother nervously chaperones her retarded daughter's honeymoon.

Julia Sweeney says she was a "happy Catholic girl" when, one day, she walked into church and signed up for a Bible-study course. "What an eye opener that was!" she says. Equally comedic and insightful, Letting Go of God is Sweeney's brilliant one-woman show about her struggle with her faith.

Bloomsday on Broadway celebrates June 16, 1904, the most famous fictional date in literature, when Leopold Bloom walked around Dublin in the pages of James Joyce's Ulysses. Since 1981, hundreds of acclaimed actors have joined avid Joyceans, writers, critics, and scholars on stage at Symphony Space to read selections from the book that heralded the birth of modern literature.

This collection from husband-wife team Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg includes five audio programs - over six hours of audio entertainment!

John Riggi tries to get lucky in the lottery. He is a writer and co-executive producer on 30 Rock. He was also a writer and co-exec on The Comeback, Will & Grace, The Bernie Mac Show and The Larry Sanders Show.

A deeply funny story by Jay Kogen about the things we do for love, including taking a honeymoon to Hawaii. JAY KOGEN is an Emmy-winning writer for The Simpsons, Frasier, and Malcolm in the Middle.

John Riggi takes us to the old country and back in this funny, poignant tale of place and family.

Jon Kinnally's deep, beautiful piece goes shallow and deep as he explores feline and human love.

Julia Sweeney confronts a Nanny and single-motherhood when she adopts a Chinese baby girl!

Patton Oswalt falls in love. This is a classic Un-Cabaret performance, in which Beth's questions push the performer to go deeper and find all kinds of funny.

Here are the original performances of Julia Sweeney's stories about adopting a baby from China, which later became In the Family Way.

JULIA SWEENEY launched her career by playing Pat on Saturday Night Live. She has gone on to write and star in acclaimed one-person shows, including God Said Ha!, In the Family Way, and Letting Go of God, all developed at the Un-Cabaret.

Here are the original performances of Julia Sweeney's stories about adopting a baby from China, which later become In the Family Way. JULIA SWEENEY launched her career by playing Pat on Saturday Night Live. She has gone on to write and star in acclaimed one-person shows, including God Said Ha!, In the Family Way, and Letting Go of God, all developed at the Un-Cabaret.

Here are the original performances of Julia Sweeney's stories about adopting a baby from China, which later become In the Family Way. JULIA SWEENEY launched her career by playing Pat on Saturday Night Live. She has gone on to write and star in acclaimed one-person shows, including God Said Ha!, In the Family Way, and Letting Go of God, all developed at the Un-Cabaret.

A Jimmy Durante Festival is a collection of tributes, parodies, and rarities of "The Great Schnozzola" entertainer with the gruff voice - written, produced, and performed by Joe Bev. Bonus tracks feature remastered audio from classic radio, TV, and cartoons.

An Edward G. Robinson Festival is a collection of tributes, parodies, and rarities of the great film actor-written, produced, and performed by Joe Bevilacqua. Bonus tracks feature remastered classic radio dramas. This set includes "If We All Talked Like Allen Jenkins", "Murder is a Merry-Go-Round", "The Reflection", "Hobo Hawk", "Willaby Meets the Godfather", "The Man who Wanted to be Edward G. Robinson", "The Trap", and "Key Largo".

Selected Shorts is an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors. The readings are recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City. The Selected Shorts radio series is a co-production of Symphony Space and WNYC, New York Public Radio, and is heard on public radio stations nationwide.

Selected Shorts: Falling in Love presents a collection of stirring tales of love and longing. Selected Shorts is an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors. The Selected Shorts radio series is a co-production of Symphony Space and WNYC, New York Public Radio, and is heard on public radio stations nationwide.

The acclaimed British novelist and short story master who "recruits admires with each book" (Hilary Mantel) discusses her latest novel with fellow author Colm Tóibín (House of Names). Ingeniously moving between past and present, Late in the Day exposes how infinite alternate configurations lie beneath the seemingly dependable arrangements we make for our lives. With a reading by Rita Wolf (An Ordinary Muslim).

A mind-blowing collection of drug stories, illegal-substance-related rants and raves by a psychedelic posse of progressive performers. Proceeds benefit the Drug Policy Alliance, an awesome group of freedom fighters who believe that you shouldn't be punished for what you put in your own body.