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1 month ago | 
audible.com | Yvonne Durant
The renowned historian found both pain and pride when she explored her ancestors’ journey from slavery to freedom. Note: Text has been lightly edited for clarity and does not match audio exactly. Yvonne Durant: Listeners, this is Editor Yvonne Durant at Audible. Today, we're with the historian, legal scholar, professor of history at Johns Hopkins, and author of several books, Martha S. Jones. We're going to talk about her memoir, The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
audible.com | Yvonne Durant |Maika Moulite |Maritza Moulite |Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat’s book Krik? Krak! introduced the literary world to the term used for the call-and-response style of Haitian storytelling. The storyteller begins by saying “Krik,” and listeners respond with “Krak.” It sounds like child’s play, but Danticat’s award-winning collection of short stories was anything but as story after story deals with the pains and challenges of what Haitian women have faced through the years.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
audible.com | Yvonne Durant
Note: Text has been edited and does not match audio exactly. Yvonne Durant: Hi, listeners. I'm Audible Editor Yvonne Durant. Today I'm speaking to a very important woman who possesses a talent of capturing our minds and attentions, and our hearts, with her exquisite words and stellar storytelling in Colored Television. Kukajawani, Danzy Senna. Danzy Senna: [Laughs].
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
audible.com | Yvonne Durant
Who sends a letter to publishers demanding they respond to her manuscript on Raggedy Ann stationery? Sarah Pekkanen did when she was in grade school. Now a bestselling author, she won’t be needing any stationery to state her case. She’s busy writing great thrillers that send chills up the spines of her loyal fans. I’m one of them and was delighted when she took the time to answer a few questions. Yvonne Durant: In House of Glass, the family is rich—they have that golden glow.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
audible.com | Yvonne Durant |James Baldwin |Roxane Gay
Born in Harlem, James Arthur Baldwin would become one of the most important writers of the 20th century. No one wrote more beautifully, more poignantly, on the issues of the day, issues that remain relevant to this day—race, class, justice, LGBQTIA+ identity. He wrote it like it was, and spoke it too.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
audible.com | Yvonne Durant
We know from our listeners that "there's more to imagine when you listen." They told us that audiobooks have changed their lives by bringing more flavor to how they see things. This also holds true for our own team. They, too, after listening to a book have seen things differently, or discovered a new way to look at an old issue. Or listened to great fiction that transported them to another place and time that felt as familiar as home. No doubt, there's more to the story, when one listens.
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May 13, 2024 | 
audible.com | Yvonne Durant
When Michael Connelly's The Safe Manwas first published, no one really knew who wrote it. It wasn’t the kind of work Connelly was known for: The location was different from his usual California, and there was no detective involved. Interestingly, the story was based on a truth in his life and a concern he had about a particular safe—one in his own home.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
audible.com | Yvonne Durant
Note: Text has been edited and dos not match audio exactlyYvonne Durant: Hello, listeners. Editor Yvonne Durant here. Today, I'm going to speak to a very special person, the Deesha Dyer, about her very special memoir, Undiplomatic: How My Attitude Created the Best Kind of Trouble. Hey, Deesha. It's been a moment. Deesha Dyer: Hey, how are you? YD: I'm well. DD: So good to talk to you. YD: Very well. By the way, listeners, I met Deesha when she was working at the Ford Foundation.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
audible.com | Yvonne Durant
There is nothing desperate about the team that breathes fresh air and tons of wit and nerve into our favorite no-nonsense widows. Now, they’re at it again in Desperate Deadly Widows. Just like the widows, creators Vanessa Lillie, Kimberly Belle, Cate Holahan, and Layne Fargo have a fair amount of pluck, grit, and glamour themselves. That they do what they do so well in a team of four is impressive. We recently asked them how four minds come together and become a sisters-in-crime relationship.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
audible.com | Yvonne Durant
Fourteen years ago, the journalist Michele Norris began a project by leaving randomly placed cards with these words: “Race. Your thoughts. 6 words. Please send.” As it turns out, more than 500,000 people—most of them white—wanted to talk about race, a subject many prefer to avoid. To shine a light on intersectionality, we asked members of Audible’s Pride and Women impact groups to share their six words on the subject.
