The Bright List

Bill Ayers: Anatomy of a Witch Hunt

Public Enemy: Memoirs of an American Dissident, by Bill Ayers

Bill Ayers got caught in the crossfire of the 2008 presidential election during a Clinton--Obama primary debate. While he and his graduate students watched from his living room, moderator George Stephanopoulos all but accused Obama of conspiring with domestic terrorists—him. 

Ayers describes the night of the debate in his introduction as having the “sudden sense that this cartoon character, Bill Ayers, who looked exactly like me and shared my name, address, and social security number, was about to become a punching bag in a presidential campaign.”

The Right took that baton and ran with it, making a public enemy out of a college professor and community activist, “The Weather Underground, suspended in amber all these years, was reborn out of the blue, not only active and breathing fire, but all of a sudden, more menacing and dangerous—and far, far better known—than it had ever been before.”

In Public Enemy, Ayers picks up where he left off in Fugitive Days, with he and his partner, Weather Underground leader Bernardine Dohrn, emerging from hiding to become educators, advocates for the disenfranchised, and parents. 

Ayers explores the state of the left today and what it’s like when all the money and power of the Right turns its ugly glare on you.

Narrated by Jeff Woodman, who also read Ayers's Fugitive Days.

--Willow Pennell

The Dyke's Great Gatsby: Michelle Tea's Valencia, on Audio

Valencia, by Michelle Tea

"I can't think of anyone who has done a better job telling the story of the dark, but enticing queer-addict world. This is one of those books I would be willing to read several times. It's the diamond on my shelf."

--Rhiannon "nobodysgrrl" 

This rent girl memoir is dangerous.  Unrepentantly sexy. If Scott Fitzgerald was a dyke and lived in the Mission before Google ate its soul.

Michelle Tea has been a part of the San Francisco writing bohemia, sex worker activism, and queer scene for years, one of the founders of Sister Spit.

She has some stories to tell. Blood-spattered love affairs, corporate shit-heads behind closed doors, and friends who stick with her through it all.

Narrated with searing bravado by Bright List favorite Abby Craden.

--Willow Pennell

Sherlock's Niece, and Bram Stoker's Sister Solve The Clockwork Scarab

A Clockwork Scarab: A Stoker and Holmes Novel, Book 1, by Colleen Gleason

Strong young-women heroines, friendship, bravery, mystery-solving, and romance in Steampunk Victorian England? Yes, please! 

Colleen Gleason takes several well-established tropes and blends them together to get something fresh and kick-ass.

Sherlock Holmes's niece, Mina and the Bram Stoker’s sister, Eveline are brought together to solve a mystery involving a steam-punk Egyptian mechanized scarab. Holmes has the logic, Stoker has the passion. They must overcome their rivalry and learn to trust each other to save the day. 

The set up is genious, but it's the friendship at the heart of this story, as dynamic as any love affair, that keeps you listening.

Colleen Gleason is the NEW YORK TIMES and USA Today bestselling author of the Gardella Vampire Chronicles. I'm so glad she turned her imagination to Steampunk.

Narrated By Jayne Entwhistle with whom I could happily spend hours. I love her zesty characterizations of Mina and Eveline. 

--Willow Pennell

Chain Saw Confidential—Leatherface Speaks

Chain Saw Confidential: How We Made the World's Most Notorious Horror Movie, by Gunnar Hansen

The urban legends that swirl around the film Texas Chainsaw Massacre, that it was based on real events; that there were violent, drug-fueled orgies on set; that it was a “snuff” film; are far nuttier than the real deal. And yet—even the most outlandish rumors have kernels of truth in them. 

Gunnar Hansen sets out to give us the real dope—and an eye-opening lesson in film-making along the way.

It’s just as juicy and pop-cult-crazed as it sounds—the heightened tension on the set, the unending brutal heat, blown takes, and the pot brownies, everyone just barely holding it together—it gets a little visceral.

Not to mention the horrific truth about  the radical financial and physical exploitation of the cast and crew.

Chain Saw Confidential, is a remarkable film history document, that covers everything from scene-to-scene breakdowns, to the philosophical and aesthetic debates over  the nature of horror itself.

 

Anyone aspiring to work in the film industry could learn a thing or two from Gunnar.

Narrated from the backwoods of Maine by Gunnar Hansen himself.

--Susie Bright and Willow Pennell

The Testosterone Files—Max Valerio's Tour de Force on Audio

The Testosterone Files, by Max W. Valerio

Max Wolf Valerio gives a poetic, explosive reading of his own female-to-male gender-transition memoir.

His story comes across as a thing of wonder. 

With an adventurer's spirit, Max writes of actually living out his childhood fantasies, of going covertly behind enemy lines, of donating his body to science. Not a tale of feeling lost and in the wrong body, but of being a revolutionary and an explorer finding alternative ways of being.

This is a book for  all independent spirits and lovers of powerful, poetic writing. 

Highly recommended.

Narrated by the author.

--Willow Pennell

Ladies and Gentlemen—Ellora's Cave

Ellora's Cave Romantica Publishing

Cancel your plans, drop the kids off at grandma's, stock up on bon-bons, and draw the curtains. Ellora's Cave is here!

THE name in erotic romance, Ellora's Cave has hit Audible with sonic-BOOM. 

Ellora's Cave was started by Tina Engler, a single mother who was working on her college degree and liked to relax with a Romance novel. She found the "broad ellipses" in mainstream lit's sex scenes frustrating... and she set out to write her own. The cautious Romance publishing industry found her work too overt, but she didn't blink. Engler started her own publishing house and innovated the entire ebook connection with fans, long before "Kindle" was a twinkle in Mr. Bezos' eye.

Audible has pulled out all the stops to deliver the sound of EC to their highly-discriminating fans, starting by producing some of their best-loved authors and series:

Lora Leigh is one of the best, and most prolific erotic romance writers. She's known for her Breeds series about geneticly manipulated human-animal hybrids learning to control, and to use their instincts and animal urges, and for her over-the-top Men of August series about a group of brothers and the women they share.

 

Laurann Dohner writes Sci-Fi tinged Romantica. Her Zorn Warriors series is  about alien sex and romance, and her New Species series describes a pharmaceutical company and the sexy abominations they've prodiced with the tag line "But loving Fury is one thing... taming him is another" how can you go wrong?

 

Jaid Black wrote the Trek Mi Q’an series about Alpha-male alien warriors who capture some alpha-career women and take them to their hedonist home planet. It's Moonlighting meets Billy Pilgrim. 

 

Desiree Holt's Phoenix Agency books explore extrasensory, telepathic powers and their influence on the action filled sex lives of those who have them. Navy SEALS, jungle missions, and the kind of sexual connections you can only imagine.

 

Joey W. Hill is known for her Nature of Desire series featuring S/M doms and subs getting deep into their roles and surprised by love along the way. 

That's just a start... There is so much more to Ellora's Cave, touching on every genre you can think of, so get out there,  and start exploring and steaming up your lens.

 

And the Nominees Are– Susie's Pix for Best New Audiobook Memoir, Mystery, Romance, Sci Fi

In this third installment of my best work I'm submitting for the Audies, (the audio "Oscars") I look back at the Fiction, Memoirs, Young Adult, Sci Fi, Mystery, and Erotica I acquired and produced over the past year.

All are books I acquired and exec-produced for Audible's studios— but out of 600+ on my list, these are the ones I submitted to the Audie judges and my peers. You have to keep your standards high!

The judges get "Best Of" suggestion lists for dozens of producers, all of which are peer reviewed, and then listened to, in full.

I'm in it to win it... LOL... but seriously, I couldn't be prouder of these works. Superb writing, outstanding production, over-the-top narrators.  

 

The judges will announce the 2014 Audie nominations next spring. See you there, right?

Susie

 

LITERARY FICTION:

His Own Where, by June Jordan. Narrated by Sapphire.

Sapphire, the author of Precious, asked us if she could read this book, the only novel ever written by her mentor, the revered African American poet, June Jordan. 

This is June’s story of growing up in New York in the 60s; it is transcendent. 

As soon as Sapphire begins the first line, you realize you’re in the presence of magic, of something that is going to rip your soul out of your chest. Extraordinary.

 

FICTION:

Mermaids, by Patty Dann. Narrated by Elizabeth Evans.

The novel that turned into the classic film, that made a star out of Winona Ryder, Christina Ricci, and not for the first time, Cher. 

Elizabeth Evans knocks it out of the park, she is better than the movie.

 

Union Dues, by John Sayles. Narrated by Eduardo Ballerini.

How can there be a NOVEL by legendary filmmaker John Sayles, narrated by our beloved Eduardo, that hardly anyone knows about?

Well this is it, and you will be as enthralled by this tale as any that Sayles has ever told, brought to life in complete mastery by Ballerini.

 

TEENS:

Mermaids, by Patty Dann. Narrated by Elizabeth Evans.

See Above.

 

Cold Hands, Warm Heart, by Jill Wolfson. Narrated by Luci Christian Bell, andEvan Greenberg.

This is the story of a young gymnast who gave up her heart on the operating table— and gifted it to another, who was going to die without it.

An amazing story of the organ transplant process, as seen through the eyes of two teenagers, one who lost a sister, and the other who gained a chance at life, written beautifully for the YA audience. 

Luci and Evan are like Romeo and Juliet, so beautifully matched here. If there was an award for “duet,” I’d nominate them.

 

SCIENCE FICTION:

Butcher Bird: A Novel of the Dominion, by Richard Kadrey. Narrated by Jonathan Davis.

Bringing back Kadrey’s backlist, as he has become an “overnight success,” was a dream of mine. He’s a genius, and Jonathan Davis made this one for the ages.

I bet we have quite a few masterful science fiction candidates, but “Butcher Bird” is right up there with the elite, to be sure.

 

MYSTERY:

The Affair of the Porcelain Dog, by Jess Faraday. Narrated by Philip Battley.

“Oh how Philip Battley narrated the heck out of this book! 

“He took Jess Faraday's amazing story, (of a rent boy turned detective!) and put such an incredible performance behind his reading. 

“Every accent and every tone just burst with verisimilitude. It kills me that the search on his name over on audible only showed one other audiobook. I sincerely hope there's more from him.”

-- Audible Customer review

I couldn’t say it better!

 

EROTICA:

Bending, by Greta Christina. Narrated by the Author.

People may not know it now, but this will be the most influential erotica book of the decade... not for its commercial effect on romance, like 50 Shades, but rather its political and aesthetic effect on how we are going to talk about the truth of sex and desire. 

Yes, it’s avant-garde, but only in its daring. Its narrative and Greta’s performance are spellbinding, like any good story. It’s scary. It’s sexy. It’s enraging. It makes you want to shut the door and be all by yourself. That’s. really. good.

 

Carrie’s Story, by Molly Weatherfield. Narrated by Shana Savage.

This is actually a Romance classic. It changed the genre from R to X. It brought “Story of O” to romance, with open, thrilled arms. People who say, “Why is SoO so bad?"–find their home here. Molly Weatherfield is the most brilliant psychologist and historian in erotic romance. She knows how to play every stroke. 

Shana just took the script and fulfilled it, beautifully. This is probably the most requested backlist title I ever produced, and I was thrilled we did it so perfectly.

 

ROMANCE

Carrie’s Story, by Molly Weatherfield. Narrated by Shana Savage.

See above.

 

Retirement Plan, by Martha Miller. Narrated by Bernadette Dunn. 

A sleeper to be sure, but such a delight. People are just eating it up. Martha Miller and Bernadette Dunn take on a most unlikely middle aged lesbian couple, and make you fall completely in love. 

And I don't care what your “sexual preference” is, it’s just good.

I published Martha many years ago, in BAE, and thought, “she is one of those Mid-West treasures, I wonder what’s going to happen with her career.” And lo and behold, she’s a Romance wunderkind. I'm so happy for her.

 

--Susie Bright

And the Nominees Are– Susie Top New Audio Pix for History, Rare Classics, Humor, and Econ!

The Audie Awards are the audiobook "Oscars." The top productions are celebrated each spring in New York, during the Book Expo festivities.

This week, I'm sharing my personal "best of" list of titles, ones I've produced for Audible Studios this past year.

Every six months, Audible sends our top productions to the Audie Judges, so they have plenty of time to listen and make their finally determinations. They have VERY HIGH standards!

I've produced over 600 titles for audio, so narrowing it down to even a dozen is hard for me. I look to my fellow producers and editors, to see if they are impressed, as well.

These are the titles where not only was the original story fantastic, but the editors, actors, and production team OUTDID themselves. These performances are undoubtedly a high point in these actors' careers— something beyond anything they'll do on stage or screen. 

Listen and tell me what you think! This group is Classic Literature, History, Humor, Economics, and Short Stories.

 

CLASSIC:

Memoirs of Vidocq: Master of Crime, by Francis Eugene Vidocq, Edwin Gile (translator). Narrated by John Mawson.

Vidocq was the flesh and blood inspiration for Sherlock Holmes. 

In addition to Alfred Conan Doyle, Vidocq directly inspired Honore de Balzac, Victor Hugo, and Edgar Allen Poe. He founded the French Sûreté Nationale, which in turn prompted the English to create Scotland Yard. He was the first master thief who to be recruited by his own government to foil their nemeses. 

We asked actor John Mawson to bring a 17th century eccentric’s personal journals to life, and he did so with absolute aplomb. This book will be studied and enjoyed for all time.

You Can't Win, by Jack Black, introduction by William Burroughs. Narrated by Bernard Setaro Clark.

“Jack Black calls his book, ‘You Can’t Win.’ Well, who can? Winner take nothing.

“Would he have been better off having spent his life at some full-time job? I don’t think so. 

“He has recorded a chapter of specifically American life that is now gone forever. Where are the hobo jungles, the hop joints, the rod-riding yeggs, where is Salt Chunk Mary? Where is the Johnson Family? 

“As another thief, Francois Villon, said, ‘Where are the snows of yesteryear?’

“In the words of poets and writers, in the pictures of painters.”

-- William Burroughs, who said this was the best book he ever read. 

A Depression chronicle like no other, even more brutal that Steinbeck. 

Bernard, our narrator, reads it like he stepped out of a time machine. Just incredible.

Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, by Mungo Park, edited by Kate Ferguson Marsters. Narrated by Steven Brand.

I had a tall order for this narrator: A Scotsman who can realistically inhabit the mind of a an 18th century explorer who is virtually the first “white man” to explore interior Africa, on foot and canoe with only a couple of companions, and soon, alone, encountering the roots of the slave trade— and its moral consequences. He also barely survived.

I am in awe of Steven Brand’s performance and interpretation, as well as the tremendous care he took with all the African languages and antiquated English he was given in the text.

Travels inspired the imaginations of audiences since its first publication in 1799 . Writers like Wordsworth, Melville, Conrad, Hemingway, and T. Coreghessan Boyle have all acknowledged the influence of Park’s diary on their work.

 

HISTORY:

Up and Down California in 1860-1864: The Journal of William H. Brewer, by William H. Brewer. Narrated by Tom Stechschulte.

There is no history book like a primary document: These are the letters of the first surveyor sent to cover the entire state of California, top to bottom, before the Anglo and Spanish settlers would change this paradise forever.  

Brewer was a young grief-stricken widower who literally flew his East coast native home to embark on one of the greatest adventures ever taken in North America. Anthropologists, geologists, botanists, historians of every kind have pored over his fantastically detailled memories.  I’m so glad we found Tom Stechschulte to make it come alive for generations to come. 

 

BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS

The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance, by Russell D. Roberts. Narrated by Kirby Heyborne.

Ask an economics professor-- or better yet, Milton Friedman: This is their sentimental favorite. It’s a rom-com narrative to illustrate two completely opposed economic viewpoints as espoused by brilliantly argumentative lovers. 

A must for every student of capitalism and Cupid!

 

HUMOR:

The Killer Wore Leather, by Laura Antoniou. Narrated by Lauren Fortgang.

Yes, Humor! Howl to this satire--- of erotica, of kinky hipsters, of feminism, of fan conventions, of the politically correct. This author should be on Stephen Colbert. Lauren had SO much fun with it, I wish I had been in the studio with her!

Lauren Fortgang lands all the comic punches with the aplomb of an aural Muhammed Ali.

 

SHORT STORIES/COLLECTIONS

Dahlia Season, by Myriam Gurba. Narrated by Marisol Ramirez.

I have never heard an audiobook whose heroine is an East LA Chicana. She happens to write like a modern day Californian Tennessee Williams. 

Marisol’s narration is spell-binding,  she had me in the palm of her hand. 

If there was an award for “expanding audio consciousness,” the electricity of diversity, this would be IT.

Florida Gothic Stories, by Vicki Hendricks. Narrated by Christina Thurmond.

Florida + hair-raising storytelling + a narrator who puts her foot to the floor and won’t let up = pure heaven.

 

--Susie Bright

And the Nominees Are—Susie's Pix for The Best Actors in Audio

Every year, the Audio Publisher's Association presents the Audie Awards for outstanding recorded books. It’s the industry’s “Oscars.” Dozens of judges listen to hundreds of hours of the best of the best producers. The competition is... fierce. 

As an editor and producer at Audible Studios, I submit my "best work" two times, once in August and again at the end of the year. 

This is an elite group. We don't dare submit anything that is not legendary. If a judge thinks you're messing with them, forget it!

While I fall in love with each title I produce, when I look back at the past year, THESE are the titles that stuck with me. I listen to them more than once, not because of my "job," but because they transported me. 

For Best Actors (VO's, we call them) in Audiobooks This Year, from the Bright List, may I suggest: 

MULTI-VOICED PERFORMANCE:

The Marines of Montford Point: America’s First Black Marines, by Melton A. MacLauren. Narrated by Adam Lazzare White, JD Jackson, Karole Foreman, William Harper, Daxton Edwards, and David Carpenter.

The Montford Point Marines were the first black Marines unit, much like the Tuskeegee Airmen. Our VOs who voice the American black experience made this one for the history books, that’s for sure, it’s SUPERB. 

I’ll tell you how good it is-- we got requests from the Afghanistan FRONT, actual soldiers there, to send them physical copies, and Brilliance is producing them. I’ve sent it to two sons of MP Marines, who told me it brought their entire family together in a way they’d never shared before.

This title, darn it,  won't meet the technical criteria for this performing nomination, bc the stories are not read "all in the same room"--- we recorded different VO's, in different settings. But I just have to list it here so you can find it! 

 

Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations, by Aaron Glantz. Narrated by Brian Sutherland, Julia Farhat,Edoardo Ballerini, Suzanne Toren, Peter Ganim, Stephen Bel Davies, Matthew Dudley,Jonathan Davis, Lameece Issaq, Anthony Haden Salerno, Karen Chilton, Gabra Zackman, Lauren Fortgang, Anthony Bowden,Ira Rosenberg, and David Ledoux. 

This collection is a love letter, an homage to our veterans, from Audible studios, it really is. Every performance is fantastic. This is the kind of book that changes people’s lives.

 

SOLO NARRATION FEMALE:

When Marina Abramovic Dies, by James Westcott. Narrated by Kathleen Gati.

I am listening to this book for the third time, entirely out of my own fascination and enchantment.  If there was a Sleeper category, this would win hands down.

James Westcott wrote a contemporary fine art biography that broke every rule, starting with the fact that you can’t put it down. — I’m serious, he’s been criticized among the academic crowd for writing an artist biography that is TOO interesting. 

I never would’ve guessed that a starkly visual artist’s narrative would make an outstanding audio script, but Westcott intuitively writes for aural transmission— it you never SAW Abramovic in person, you would still experience her, entirely, in this story. And she is a force of nature 

Narrator Kathleen Gati; I want to  kiss her feet. What a talent. She inhabits a host of radical and conservative Serbian characters, the Soviet establishment, and then the entire European and New York art world. Mind-blowing.

 

Jesus Land: A Memoir, by Julia Scheeres. Narrated by Elizabeth Evans.

This is the story of children, a daughter in particular, whose Indiana family took them off on a Christian Mission in the Dominican Republic that nearly kills them all, because of their father’s insanity and sadism. 

Sound a little familiar? Well, Julia wrote it first, this is the template that blew everyone’s mind and inspired dozens of others.

Elizabeth Evans is one of Audible's newer VO actors, and she is a marvel. As young as she is, she has delivered one of the most mature and riveting performances of the year.

 

SOLO NARRATION MALE:

Double Life: A Love Story from Broadway to Hollywood, by Alan Shayne and Norman Sunshine. Narrated by Ethan Sawyer.

As a book, this is for the Broadway crowd, an insider group to be sure. And it is considered a hallmark of gay literature in that it is about the mature relationship of two older gay men—no one writes about this!

But Evan was so, so good. I couldn't *believe* there was only one narrator. He inhabited the two different narrators without resorting to doing voices, and he *sang.* You want to write him a love letter afterward.

 

NARRATION BY THE AUTHOR

All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, by Michael MacDonald. Narrated by the Author

Michael re-lived his life story as he read his memoir—he was reluctant to take the assignment, and I can see why; he is present in every moment, no matter how poignant or raw. He IS Southie.

This was a bestseller and it’s an essential reading of the Irish-American experience, a Boston touchstone to be sure.

 

Navajos Wear Nikes: A Reservation Life, by Jim Kristofic. Narrated by the Author.

Alienated teenager code-switching in the middle of an Indian Boy Scout Troup on the rez? “Fast Times at Navajo High,” you could call it.

We were so lucky to get author Jim Kristofic to read his memoir, because NO ONE could’ve done this unique book except him and his boyhood friends who lived it. He is fantastic, and his Audible editor/producer understood exactly what we were getting here, a real jewel.

A really special book, another one of my candidates for “Diversity To Blow the Audio Mind.”

 

Secrets and Wives: The Hidden World of Mormon Polygamy, by Sanjiv Bhattacharya. Narrated by the author.

A London EastEnder, fresh off the boat with an Esquire magazine press pass,  goes to Utah to get up close and personal with Mormon polygamists. They proceed to take him into their homes like he’s the first person they ever felt like talking to.

I’ll never know exactly how Sanjiv charmed or talked the fundamentalists into it, but his narration of his exposé gives you a clue: he is a born natural, a charismatic, a comic, and a raconteur like few others. 

Sanjiv has asked me if he could continue working as a VO, and I know it’s because he fell in love with it, he was BORN to do this, truly.

 

MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY:

When Marina Abramovic Dies, by James Westcott. Narrated by Kathleen Gati.

See above.

 

Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counterculture, by Paul Krassner. Narrated by David Letwin.

My absolute favorite opening lines— and male-narrator performance of the year.

Authors are often flattered by their narrator’s expertise, but this was special. Paul wrote a special note to us about DL’s performance. He said that his wife and he both cried, numerous times, because David “got every note” even beyond what he thought his writing conveyed. 

This was a fateful connection. Letwin and I were both high school underground journalists in the early 70s who worshipped Krassner, the leading radical publisher of our youth, with his magazine, “The Realist.” He was our favorite entry on Nixon’s Enemies List.

Decades later, I discovered that Letwin was an actor and drama professor at Rutgers. Krassner then came back into my life as a visiting author in Santa Cruz. I went to hear him read and suggested we create an audiobook out of his title. “I have the PERFECT actor for you,” I told him. I had just started working at Audible. The timing was extraordinary and so was the result!

 

All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, by Michael MacDonald. Narrated by the Author

See Above.

 

Navajos Wear Nikes: A Reservation Life, by Jim Kristofic. Narrated by the Author.

See above.

 

NONFICTION:

Jesus Land: A Memoir, by Julia Scheeres. Narrated by Elizabeth Evans.

See above.

 

Secrets and Wives: The Hidden World of Mormon Polygamy, by Sanjiv Bhattacharya. Narrated by the author.

See above.

 

--Susie Bright

Jessica Valenti Brings the Purity Wars to Audio!

Jessica Valenti is one of the founders of Feministing, a blog that changed the entire conversation about sexual politics on the Web.

Since attending her first Women’s Studies class at Rutgers University that “opened my eyes,” she says tongue-in-cheekily, she’s been hell-bent on raising the younger generation’s awareness of feminism as something important and awesome in their lives RIGHT NOW. 

Full Frontal Feminism

In this Feminism 101 primer, Valenti’s voice is the manifesto you need to have in your backpack at all times. 

 

 

Narrated by a pitch-perfect Julie McKay who read Swallow the Ocean so beautifully.

 

The Purity Myth

Virginity cults are for the birds.

This book is a cry for sanity. Valenti asks, why not teach girls they are valued for qualities like honesty, kindness and intelligence-- rather than an intact hymen?

Switching between anecdotal accounts of slut shaming, purity balls, and factual analysis, this powerful book is a must-read for any parent.

Narrated By Bright List favorite Abby Craden who recently read Michelle Tea's Valencia.

 

He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut and 49 Other Double Satndards Every Woman Should Know

If you’ve ever felt like you were going crazy while the world turns a blind eye to the sexism that is RIGH IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE, this book is your new best friend. 

Valenti wants you to think of this as “A quick reference for everyday sexism. Only funnier.” This book lets you know you are not alone, and you can laugh away the pain, while giving all the points you need to argue feminism with your drunk uncle.

Narrated by Julie McKay

--Willow Pennell and Aretha Bright