Audible Launching Classic Books Series

Posted on August 19, 2009

Audible announced that it is coming out with a new line of audio books to be called "Audible Modern Vanguard." The line will feature unabridged audio classics, both fiction and nonfiction. The works will from 20th century authors such as Saul Bellow, Kurt Vonnegut, John Cheever, John Irving and Paul Auster.

The first books books published will be from Philip Roth, Lawrence Durrell, and Richard Yates. Author and publisher James Atlas will present a series of interview with the authors as companion pieces to the books. Some will be with the living authors, such as John Irving, Paul Auster and Bret Easton Ellis. Other interviews will feature guests discussing the deceased authors, such as Gay Talese on Kurt Vonnegut; Larry Kramer talking about Randy Shilts' groundbreaking history of AIDS, "And the Band Played On"; and Naomi Wolf assessing the radical impact of Betty Friedan's classic, "The Feminine Mystique," on American culture.

Audible has lined up some special narrators. For example, Parker Posey and Pablo Schreiber will both be reading books. Parker will narrate The Feminine Mystique, which is reason enough to buy it.