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  • Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Hear Parker Posey read an early Fitzgerald story, "Benediction." Subscribe to Salon Premium and get the complete nine-hour audiobook for free.
    April 25, 2001

  • "All the Pretty Horses"

    Brad Pitt reads from Cormac McCarthy's award-winning novel
    April 17, 2001

  • Opening Day

    Mark Jupiter reads from Les Standiford's newly released e-book novella about baseball's Negro Leagues.
    By Les Standiford April 2, 2001

  • F*** the world

    Or at least a rock star. In Elizabeth Wurtzel's story "Alex," a lonely rock critic gets it on with a well-hung, tattooed hottie.
    Read by Elizabeth Wurtzel March 29, 2001

  • Tattooed ghosts

    Sia Figiel reads from her novel "They Who Do Not Grieve," about an unfinished tattoo ritual that causes pain and suffering for three generations of Samoan women.
    March 26, 2001

  • "1st to Die"

    In James Patterson's new novel, four women band together to stop a killer in San Francisco.
    Read by Melissa Leo and Dylan Baker March 9, 2001

  • Body and soul

    Don DeLillo's "The Body Artist" focuses on the inner life of an artist after she suffers the loss of her husband.
    Read by Laurie Anderson March 5, 2001

  • "In Harry's Bar in Venice"

    Listen to an archival recording of Ernest Hemingway reading his short story.
    February 23, 2001

  • "Protect and Defend"

    In his latest novel, Richard North Patterson combines the election of a new president and the appointment of a controversial chief justice with a heated battle over reproductive rights.
    Read by Patricia Kalember February 21, 2001

  • Close encounters of the Vonnegut kind

    Billy Pilgrim meets the inhabitants of a flying saucer in Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s "Slaughterhouse Five."
    Read by Kurt Vonnegut February 20, 2001

  • Unlikely lovers

    Barry Yourgrau reads his unusual love stories "Snot" and "Domestic Farce."
    Read by Barry Yourgrau February 14, 2001

  • House Herbert

    Frank Herbert published "Dune" in 1965. With "Dune: House Harkonnen," his son Brian keeps the story line alive and adds another chapter to the sci-fi saga.
    Read by Tim Curry February 1, 2001

  • Stuttering and uncovering

    Steve Buscemi is Tourettic detective Lionel Essrog in Jonathan Lethem's novel "Motherless Brooklyn."
    January 18, 2001

  • Ménage à trois with the Crone

    A foulmouthed, love-sick boyfriend of a sex-crazed woman named Jody finds himself in bed with her older lover.
    Read by Maggie Estep January 9, 2001

  • "A Child's Christmas in Wales"

    Dylan Thomas' classic lyrical tale recalls the cats, uncles and useless presents of Welsh Christmases past.
    Read by Dylan Thomas December 22, 2000

  • "The Collapsible World"

    In this debut novel, a young mapmaker and her stripper sister lose their way after their wayward mother and junkie father split.
    Read by Anne N. Marino December 20, 2000

  • Magic surrealism

    In two innovative and fantastical short stories, Barry Yourgrau expresses a palette of powerful emotions.
    Read by Barry Yourgrau December 14, 2000

  • "Luck"

    In Eric Martin's first novel, a young man, his baseball bat and a mailbox make for a deadly combination.
    Read by Eric Martin November 21, 2000

  • "Orpheus Emerged"

    Jack Kerouac's lost 1945 novella has been rediscovered and given new life as an e-book.
    Read by Erik Jensen November 13, 2000

  • "Kamikaze Lust"

    Journalist Lauren Sanders' first novel taps into an urban world of sex, pornography and death.
    Read by Lauren Sanders November 13, 2000

  • "Joe College"

    In Tom Perrotta's novel, a Yale freshman and son of a New Jersey lunch-truck driver tells of a run-in with Mark "Psycho Midget" Barnhouse.
    Read by Tom Perrotta October 27, 2000

  • Glove story

    Steve Martin's first novella, "Shopgirl," revolves around a lonely wallflower glove-counter attendant.
    Read by Steve Martin October 26, 2000

  • Ghostwriter

    Nine stories and lives from across the globe intertwine in David Mitchell's debut novel, "Ghostwritten."
    Read by David Mitchell October 18, 2000

  • No puppy-dog tails

    Karl Soehnlein's first novel, "The World of Normal Boys," calls into question traditional ideas of boyhood.
    Read by Karl Soehnlein October 16, 2000

  • She's got mail

    In Jane Hamilton's new novel, "Disobedience," a teenager reads his mother's e-mail and discovers she's having an affair.
    Read by Robert Sean Leonard October 16, 2000
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