The Talking Book

08/22/2026

Had such a frickin blast with KIMBERLY | CHIOZZA | BRIDGES this week recording her lovely book “The Heartestry Project.” Coming soon to an earbud/stereo near you! 💝

What if the universe has been speaking to you all along - through symbols, synchronicities, and tiny heart-shaped wonders hidden in plain sight?

The Heartestry Project is a luminous, soul-stirring journey of awakening, woven from a trail of unexpected hearts that taught one woman to see love in everything. Part memoir, part visual poetry, and part spiritual reflection, this stunning full-color hardcover invites you into a world where beauty softens pain, meaning rises from the ordinary, and the smallest signs can change everything.

Born from a season of deep transformation, these heart-shaped discoveries became tiny lifelines - reminding the author that even in illness, grief, and uncertainty, love still finds a way through. With exquisite full-color photography and deeply honest storytelling, Kimberly Bridges offers readers a companion through healing, hope, and rediscovery.

07/18/2026

The Talking Book team ‘26 ❤️

06/27/2026

So incredibly honored to have gotten the opportunity to record Lindsey Drager’s incredible book “The Avian Hourglass” this week. She absolutely killed it! Make sure to pick this up as soon as it drops! Dzanc Books

~At once an ode to birds, an elegy to space, and a journey into the most haunted and uncanny corners of the human mind, The Avian Hourglass showcases Lindsey Drager’s signature brilliance in a stunning, surrealist novel for fans of Jesse Ball, Helen Oyeyemi, Yoko Ogawa, and Shirley Jackson.

The birds have disappeared. The stars are no longer visible. The Crisis is growing worse. In a town as isolated as a snowglobe, a woman who dreams of becoming a radio astronomer struggles to raise the triplets she gave birth to as a gestational surrogate, whose parents were killed in a car accident. Surrounded by characters who wear wings, memorize etymologies, and build gigantic bird nests, and bound to this town in which young adults must decide between two binary worldviews—either YES or NO—the woman is haunted by the old fable of the Girl in Glass Vessel, a cautionary tale about prying back the façade of one’s world.

When events begin to unfold that suggest a local legend about the town being the whole of the universe might be true, the woman finds her understanding of her own life–and her reality–slipping through her fingers.

A reflection on the intersecting crises of mental health, the climate emergency, political polarization, and the exponentially growing reliance on technology, The Avian Hourglass culminates in a figurative and literal twist that asks readers to reframe how they conceive of a series of concentric understandings of home: the globe, one’s country, one’s town, one’s family, and one’s own body.

01/11/2026

01/06/2026

Happy 2026 from the TB team. Hope to see you soon. 🥂

12/17/2025

💐National Book Critics Circle Longlist💐

🐅SEA, POISON by Caren Beilin is longlisted for fiction.

📘ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (BOOK III) by Solvej B***e is longlisted for fiction.

🌪️EXOPHONY by Yoko Tawada is longlisted for criticism.

Congratulations all, and thank you ⭐️!

12/16/2025

Newly released with author Joan E. Childs

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. There is one day in Joan Childs' life that she wishes she could do over: the day her daughter, Pam, a brilliant psychotherapist, plunged from a 15-story building to her death. In this vivid memoir, Childs, a psychotherapist, explains how her daughter's l.....

12/06/2025

Getting chills over here listening to Erik Bendix read from Rilke’s “Toward Praise.” Coming soon from ❤️ 🔥