REPUBLIC OF DETOURS by Scott Borchert, read by Jonathan Yen

Behind the Mic with AudioFile Magazine

The talented Jonathan Yen brings warmth, intelligence, and a storytelling style to his narration of Scott Borchert’s fine cultural history of the 1930s Federal Writers Project (FWP). Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Alan Minskoff discuss how this well researched and well narrated audiobook pulls listeners into the 1930s. His folksy voice and well-paced delivery suit this focused appraisal of the people and program designed to give work to broke writers—the work of writing state guides. A well-crafted journey into our past. Read the full review of the audiobook on AudioFile’s website. Published by Tantor Media.

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Support for Behind the Mic comes from Naxos AudioBooks. Wilkie Collins’ Man and Wife, read by Nicholas Boulton: Published 10 years after Collins’s most popular novel The Woman in White, Man and Wife centers on the confused and inequitable marriage laws of 19th-century Britain, reflecting the author’s own antipathy towards the institution. Collins shows himself to be a masterly storyteller, seamlessly moving the action from a country house to a suburb of London, and into a world of deceit and murder.

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