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I'm not proud
of that spiteful little shadow that perches on my shoulder and whispers petty comments in my ear, but it is what it is. When our babysitter cancelled on me the other day because she was laid up with a broken foot, all I could think about was how annoyed I was that she went on that stupid rock climbing trip in the first place. (But don’t worry, I showed up with a plate of her favorite Greek pastries the next day, I’m not a monster!)On the flip side, I’m always dying to know everyone else’s secret thoughts. Enter Lori Gottlieb, the therapist whose new memoir Maybe You Should Talk to Someone reveals what your shrink is really thinking about when you’re on the couch. As a former TV writer (she worked on ER and Friends! She knew George Clooney and Jennifer Aniston before they were famous!!), Gottlieb has an amazing instinct for storytelling, and her memoir is my everything right now. It’s like a cozy blanket I can wrap around me and my little inner demon while we enjoy a story together.
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Notes from a Young Black Chef
- A Memoir
- By: Kwame Onwuachi, Joshua David Stein
- Narrated by: Kwame Onwuachi
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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By the time he was 27 years old, Kwame Onwuachi had opened - and closed - one of the most talked-about restaurants in America. He had launched his own catering company with $20,000 that he made from selling candy on the subway, yet he’d been told he would never make it on television because his cooking wasn’t “Southern” enough. In this inspiring memoir about the intersection of race, fame, and food, he shares the remarkable story of his culinary coming-of-age.
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DC should be proud to have Chef Kwame
- By Jesse Wetzel on 04-26-19
"Maggi" like the Simpson
One of my favorite things about being an Audible editor is that I get to talk to some of the world’s most interesting people. Most recently that included Chef Kwame Onwauchi, author of the new food memoir, Notes from a Young Black Chef. We talked about Maggi Cube, a Nigerian seasoning that Chef Onwauchi explained is pronounced Maggie, like Maggie Simpson,
and about how narrating a memoir is a little like developing the flavor profile of an exquisite meal. Bon appetit!
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Yes, Chef
- A Memoir
- By: Marcus Samuelsson
- Narrated by: Marcus Samuelsson
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his grandmother’s house and helps her prepare a roast chicken for dinner. The grandmother is Swedish, a retired domestic. The boy is Ethiopian and adopted, and he will grow up to become the world-renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson. This book is his love letter to food and family in all its manifestations.
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A fun and inspiring civics lesson
- By loix on 06-27-12
All of the flavor, none of the calories
As I chatted with Chef Onwauchi, we touched on the rich tradition of food memoirs that have come before. And while it’s bittersweet to hear someone describe a delicious dish that you’re left to imagine without tasting, food writing is still such an evocative art form. Equal parts visceral and cerebral, it’s a perfect marriage of storytelling. Here are some of our Social Media Editor Robyn's favorite food memoirs!
Find Your Flavor
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Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
- A Memoir
- By: T Kira Madden
- Narrated by: T Kira Madden
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden's raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer, biracial teenager amidst the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida, a place where she found cultlike privilege, shocking racial disparities, rampant white-collar crime, and powerfully destructive standards of beauty hiding in plain sight.
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Interesting POV, Not a literary memoir.
- By Margaret on 04-13-20
A memoir fit for a magician
T Kira Madden is a certifiable badass who grew up in the sun-scorched land of 'gator infestations and amusement parks, i.e. Florida, and her new memoir is hands-down one of my favorites of the year so far. She’s a magician (literally—she does amateur magic tricks!) who’s created a mesmerizing book about absent parents, irresistibly kissable women, the casual cruelty of prep school kids, and the dark side of privilege. This one is a keeper.
Abracadabra
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Time to Go
- By: Guy Kennaway
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Patience Tomlinson
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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In 2017 Susie Kennaway asked her son Guy to kill her. 88 years old, with an older and infirm husband, Susie wanted to avoid sliding into infantilised catatonia. Her son immediately started taking notes and Time to Go is the result. In turns a manual for those considering the benefits of assisted dying, a portrait of a mother - son relationship, and a sympathetic description of old age, this audiobook is a route map through the moral, legal, emotional, intellectual and practical maze that is the biggest issue facing the senior generations today: leaving life on their own terms.
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Super funny, thoughtful and worthwhile book
- By Susan K. on 05-22-19
Tough topic, effortless listen
The past few years have brought us more than a handful of poignant memoirs tackling end-of-life issues, and Time to Go is the latest satisfying entry in this genre. Even if you don’t typically listen to stories about end-of-life themes, you might find yourself enjoying author Guy Kennaway’s fresh perspective on the ethics of assisted dying, which he handles with surprising hilarity. Just trust me…it works!
Permission to Laugh
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What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker
- A Memoir in Essays
- By: Damon Young
- Narrated by: Damon Young
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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For Damon Young, existing while Black is an extreme sport. The act of possessing Black skin while searching for space to breathe in America is enough to induce a ceaseless state of angst where questions such as “How should I react here, as a professional black person?” and “Will this white person’s potato salad kill me?” are forever relevant. What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker chronicles Young’s efforts to survive while battling and making sense of the various neuroses his country has given him.
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Reviewed by a B![c# @$$ White Boy
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Serving the Servant
- Remembering Kurt Cobain
- By: Danny Goldberg
- Narrated by: Danny Goldberg
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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Danny Goldberg explores what it is about Kurt Cobain that still resonates today, even with a generation who wasn’t alive until after Kurt’s death. In the process, he provides a portrait of an icon unlike any that has come before.
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Good Perspective Danny but you left some stuff out
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- Narrated by: Mary Laura Philpott
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Acclaimed essayist and bookseller Mary Laura Philpott presents a charmingly relatable and wise memoir in essays about what happened after she checked off all the boxes on her successful life’s to-do list and realized she might need to reinvent the list - and herself.
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Good for 30 somethings
- By beach lover on 07-30-19
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Life Will Be the Death of Me
- ...And You Too!
- By: Chelsea Handler
- Narrated by: Chelsea Handler
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
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In the wake of President Donald Trump’s election, feeling that her country—her life—has become unrecognizable, Chelsea Handler has an awakening. Fed up with the privileged bubble she’s lived in, she decides it’s time to make some changes.
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Raw Chelsea Hander
- By LSnid on 04-14-19
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What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker
- A Memoir in Essays
- By: Damon Young
- Narrated by: Damon Young
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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For Damon Young, existing while Black is an extreme sport. The act of possessing Black skin while searching for space to breathe in America is enough to induce a ceaseless state of angst where questions such as “How should I react here, as a professional black person?” and “Will this white person’s potato salad kill me?” are forever relevant. What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker chronicles Young’s efforts to survive while battling and making sense of the various neuroses his country has given him.
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Reviewed by a B![c# @$$ White Boy
- By netusera on 04-13-19
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Serving the Servant
- Remembering Kurt Cobain
- By: Danny Goldberg
- Narrated by: Danny Goldberg
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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Danny Goldberg explores what it is about Kurt Cobain that still resonates today, even with a generation who wasn’t alive until after Kurt’s death. In the process, he provides a portrait of an icon unlike any that has come before.
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Good Perspective Danny but you left some stuff out
- By Amazon Customer on 07-12-19
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I Miss You When I Blink
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- By: Mary Laura Philpott
- Narrated by: Mary Laura Philpott
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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Acclaimed essayist and bookseller Mary Laura Philpott presents a charmingly relatable and wise memoir in essays about what happened after she checked off all the boxes on her successful life’s to-do list and realized she might need to reinvent the list - and herself.
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Good for 30 somethings
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