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The Talking Book

The Talking Book is an independent audiobook recording studio and production house located in Asheville, North Carolina.

It is our continued hope to produce awesome books by innovative authors and publishers. We are home to Asheville’s only audiobook recording studio. We have produced hundreds of award-winning audiobooks.

11/20/2024

NEW READING on the pod! VIVIENNE by .russo ❤️ “Did Vivienne Volker Kill Wilma Lang? This question has dogged Vivienne ever since Wilma jumped from a window to her death shortly after Volker stole her lover, the visionary artist Hans Bellmer, in the 1970s.”

Set over the course of a fateful week, Vivienne deftly weaves surreal prose with a Greek chorus of internet comments and text messages, to ask the questions: what is the cost of vision, what is the price of art? What connects creation and procreation, a life and an afterlife?

09/24/2024

NEW READING 💕 NDA is a collection of revealing poems and exchanges between and their clients as they navigate the dark bohemia of NYC and LA as a nonbinary s*x worker.

Spiral upward, downward, and side to side. From the safe words of New York to the alleys of Los Angeles....and all the flights in between.

www.farwestpress.com/far-west-books…/nda-lily-lady

07/19/2024

The TB gang had a great time hanging with our editor this week. This is the woman that makes sure all your audio is perfecto! 🍸🦢👄

07/12/2024

HAPPY 3 YEAR ANNIVERSARY to audiobook SLEEPOVERS! We had such a good time producing this with the author Ashleigh Bryant Phillips and ♥️ You can get this timeless recording by following the Come to Asheville to record your audiobook!

“Hailed by Lauren Groff as “fully committed to the truth no matter how dark or difficult or complicated it may be,” and written with “incantatory crispness,” Sleepovers, the debut short story collection by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips, takes us to a forgotten corner of the rural South, full of cemeteries, soybean fields, fishing holes, and Duck Thru gas stations. We meet a runaway teen, a mattress salesman, feral kittens, an elderly bachelorette wearing a horsehair locket, and a little girl named after Shania Twain.“

07/06/2024

New interview and reading with and his new YA novel The Sword and the Sophomore! Narrated by the great Out July 9th⚔️ 🦢 “Arlynn Rosemary Banson is an atypical sixteen-year-old—the cool, popular outsider, effortlessly straddling the line between divas and dorks. Her forever young mother, Jennifer, is dedicated to making her life awkward by trying to be her friend. Her father, Alan, is a workaholic history professor who barely acknowledges his family’s existence. Her boyfriend, Benz, the quarterback and homecoming king, has just broken up with her, while her best friend, Joslin, bears reluctant witness to Rosemary’s romantic drama. But nothing prepares any of them for a Welsh foreign exchange student named Emrys Balin. Emrys looks like a teenager, but he seems to act much, much older.”

06/27/2024

An old Talking Book poster from a while back. Can’t believe we’ve been doing this for over 8 years already. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. I hope we never stop. Come to Asheville to record your audiobook, or do it with us remotely. 🤎🎙️👄

06/23/2024

Have you listened to Jack Houghteling read from SUNNYSIDE? 🎙️ “In this winningly oblique, slender, and wise-hearted novel, Jack Houghteling puts his finger on febrilely metropolitan human nature as it expresses itself (cerebrally, athletically, familially) in the outer boroughs and in patinated suburbia—and he does so in fleet, uncannily vivid sentences that are summational masterstrokes. Jack Houghteling is a writer of dumbstriking originality and virtuosity, and Sunnyside, his second book, is a dazzlement.” — Garielle Lutz, Author of Divorcer and Stories in the Worst Way

04/26/2024

New episode of the .book podcast with film critic

In Fear Not!, critic Josh Larsen makes the case that monster movies, creature features, slashers, and other fright films artfully reflect our deep worries in a way that resonates with the Christian experience. Combining critical observation and theological reflection, Larsen devotes each chapter to a different horror subgenre, connecting that subgenre to a commonly shared fear.

03/15/2024

New pod ep with reading from his novel FARSICKNESS, out now from ♥️♥️
“Hal, an Afghan war veteran, begins to hear a voice telling him to go “home”—to a castle, in Scotland. But Hal has never been to Scotland. So whose voice is it? What does it want? And why is it calling Hal “home”? What follows is a surrealist road trip story, part Heart of Darkness and part bipolar Guardians of the Galaxy. In Farsickness, Joshua Mohr spins a picaresque, hallucinatory yarn like only he can, as Hal and the reader journey deep into the human soul.”

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23 Congress Street
Asheville, NC
28801

Opening Hours

Monday	5pm - 11pm
Tuesday	5pm - 11pm
Wednesday	5pm - 11pm
Thursday	5pm - 11pm
Friday	5pm - 11pm
Saturday	9am - 11pm

Website

http://www.thetalkingbook.org/

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The Talking Book is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit audiobook publishing house located in Asheville, North Carolina. It is our continued hope to record and publish awesome writing by innovative authors from independent publishers.

We are home to Asheville’s only audiobook recording studio. We have produced over 100 audiobooks to date.

We produce audiobooks with professional voice actors as well as authors who want to narrate their own work.

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS? 1. We believe stories make people more empathetic (and we need that now more than ever). 2. Audio is the fastest growing segment in publishing, and gets more stories in front of new people (not to mention the seeing impaired and people with dyslexia). 3. There are tons of amazing, weird books with little to no representation in audio. 4. There is a rich, literary history in audiobooks and the spoken word. We want to bring that back 5. We like it. You like it. It’s cool.