Audiobooks Narrated by Curtis Sittenfeld

Show Don't Tell: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Romantic Comedy

"Brought to you by Penguin. Razor-sharp, glittering tales exploring marriage, fame and female friendship, from the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Romantic Comedy and American Wife. In this compulsive collection of twelve witty stories, Sittenfeld shows why she’s as beloved for her short fiction as she is for her novels, as she conjures up characters so real that they seem like old friends. In ‘The Patron Saints of Middle Age,’ a woman visits two friends she hasn’t seen since her divorce. In ‘A for Alone,’ a married artist embarks on a project intended to disprove the so-called Mike Pence Rule, which suggests that women and men can’t spend time alone together without lusting after each other. And in ‘Lost but Not Forgotten,’ Sittenfeld gives readers of her novel Prep a new window into the world of her beloved character Lee Fiora, decades later, when Lee attends an awkward school reunion. Witty, confronting and full of tenderness, Sittenfeld peels back layer after layer of our inner lives, keeping us riveted to the page with her utterly distinctive voice. 'Messy and delicious' New York Times 'Anything Sittenfeld writes, we'll read' People 'No-one else writes with such precision and amusement' Red Magazine ©2025 Curtis Sittenfeld (P)2025 Penguin Audio"

Curtis Sittenfeld (Author), Curtis Sittenfeld, Emily Rankin, George Newbern, Kristen Sieh, Michael Crouch, Nicole Lewis, Xe Sands (Narrator)

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The Best American Short Stories 2020

""To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time," recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best American Short Stories series. "They were windows into emotions I had and hadn't had, into other settings and circumstances and observations and relationships." Decades later, Sittenfeld was met by the same feeling selecting the stories for this year's edition. The result is a striking and nuanced collection, bringing to life awkward college students, disgraced public figures, raunchy grandparents, and mystical godmothers. To read these stories is to experience the transporting joys of discovery and affirmation, and to realize that story writing in America continues to flourish.  THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2020 INCLUDES T. C. BOYLE • EMMA CLINE • MARY GAITSKILL  ANDREA LEE • ELIZABETH McCRACKEN • ALEJANDRO PUYANA WILLIAM PEI SHIH • KEVIN WILSON and others"

Curtis Sittenfeld, Heidi Pitlor (Author), Brittany Pressley, Cindy Kay, Curtis Sittenfeld, Emily Woo Zeller, Gabra Zackman, Gary Bennett, Ilyana Kadushin, Kevin T. Collins, Michael Crouch, Peter Ganim, Priya Ayyar, Ramon De Ocampo, Rebecca Lowman, Robert Fass, Robert Petkoff, Robin Miles, Soneela Nankani, Suzanne Toren, Therese Plummer, Tracey Leigh (Narrator)

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Help Yourself: Three scalding stories from the bestselling author of AMERICAN WIFE

"Brought to you by Penguin. Sittenfeld's wryly hilarious and insightful new collection, HELP YOURSELF, illuminates human experience and gracefully upends our assumptions about class and race, envy and disappointment, gender dynamics and celebrity. Suburban friends fall out after a racist encounter at a birthday party is caught on video and posted on Facebook; an illustrious Manhattan film crew are victims of their own snobbery when they underestimate a pre-school teacher from the Mid-West; and a group of young writers fight about love and narrative style as they compete for a prestigious bursary. Connecting each of these three stories is Sittenfeld's truthful yet merciless eye, as her characters stagger from awkwardness, to humiliation and, if they're lucky, to reconciliation. Full of tenderness and compassion, this dazzling collection celebrates our humanity in all its pettiness and glory. Praise for CURTIS SITTENFELD: 'Nobody else writes with such precison and amusement about the absolute inability of men and women to understand each other' RED MAGAZINE 'You won't want these stories to end' REESE WITHERSPOON 'Perfect miniatures in deadpan prose' GUARDIAN 'Clear-eyed and compulsive' MAIL ON SUNDAY © Curtis Sittenfeld 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020"

Curtis Sittenfeld (Author), Alana Maria, Curtis Sittenfeld, Kate Handford (Narrator)

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