Audiobooks by Kevin Brockmeier

A Touch of Magic

"By turns funny, moving, romantic and surreal, and filled with unexpected twists and turns, each of the tales on this lineup has a magical element. - Andrew Lam's 'The Palmist', performed by James Naughton. A chance encounter on a bus between a fortune-teller and a teenage boy. - W. W. Jacobs' 'The Monkey's Paw', performed by John Lithgow. A wonderful ghost story about a trinket with terrible powers. - Saki's 'The Occasional Garden', performed by Daniel Gerroll. If you can't grow a garden; poof! - you can rent one. - Donald Barthelme's 'The Balloon', performed by Maria Tucci. There's something suddenly in the sky in midtown Manhattan.... - Kevin Brockmeier's 'The Year of Silence', performed by Anthony Rapp. What if everything went quiet? - Jonathan Safran Foer's 'The Sixth Borough', performed by Jerry Zaks. Yes, New York had a Sixth Borough, but it drifted away.... - Aimee Bender's 'Drunken Mimi', performed by Bernadette Quigley. A romance between a mermaid and an imp. - Haruki Murakami's 'The Little Green Monster', performed by Dana Ivey. A piece of Murakami magic: Is this a monster I see before me?"

Aimee Bender, Andrew Lam, Donald Barthelme, Haruki Murakami, Jonathan Safran Foer, Kevin Brockmeier, Saki, W.W. Jacobs (Author), Anthony Rapp, Bernadette Quigley, Dana Ivey, Daniel Gerroll, James Naughton, Jerry Zaks, John Lithgow, Maria Tucci, Rene Auberjonois (Narrator)

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These Hands

"'Caroline is watchful and sincere, shy yet earnest. She seldom speaks, and when she does her lips scarcely part, so that sometimes Lewis must listen closely to distinguish her voice from the cycling of her breath. Her eyes are a miracle - a startled blue with frail green spikes bound by a ring of black - and he is certain that if he could draw his reflection from them, he would discover there a face neither foreign nor lost. Caroline sleeps face down, her knees curled to her chest: she sleeps often and with no sheets or blankets. Her hair is brown, her skin pale. Her smile is vibrant but brief, like a bubble that lasts only as long as the air is still. She is eighteen months old.' Kevin Brockmeier draws the listener in with poetic prose that paints a picture of beauty and purity, and becomes a part of a love story that tests the boundaries of morality without ever quite crossing them. Lewis Winters, a thirty-four year-old writer of fairy tales, recounts his short-lived relationship with Caroline Mitchell, and the anguish of having to let go without getting to say good-bye."

Kevin Brockmeier (Author), Andre Sogliuzzo (Narrator)

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