Listen to musical book reviews and author readings.

Roth's love child

Albert’s fictional love letter to Philip Roth. Here are parts one and two.

Little Isaac's Nozzle of Love

Steve Almond reads a humorous tale of, um, circumcision.

Funkdafied Scum
I. B. Singer's novel Scum gets the funk treatment. Click here to get down.

Living in the Past
Click to hear Philip Schultz describe the displaced persons of his imagination.

The Cindarella Blues
When's the last time you heard a blues song about a kids' book? Well, there's a first time for everything.

A Million Ways to Skin a Seder
The Penny Arcade Players sound off, Gilbert-and-Sullivan-style, on a book called Make Your Own Passover Seder.

Honigmann's Heroes
A singing book review of Barbara Honigmann's A Love Made Out of Nothing and Zohara's Journey.

How to Comfort the Sick and the Dying
Listen to Joan Leegant read from An Hour in Paradise.

The German Money
In an "emotional thriller," Lev Raphael explores the legacy left to children of Holocaust survivors. Listen to him read from the first chapter.

The Ascent of Eli Israel and Other Stories
Jon Papernick, author of The Ascent of Eli Israel and Other Stories, reads from a haunting story, "An Unwelcome Guest."

More Audio

Jane Austen in Boca

The New Rabbi

A Palestine Affair

Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned

In The Image

Passover: The Family Guide to Spiritual Celebration

The Terrorist Next Door

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