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Alexis Wright, an Indigenous Australian author, writes epic novels in which many voices clamor to be heard.

“Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?” collects correspondence sent by the likes of Warren G. Harding, Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt .

She profiled Vivien Leigh, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand and Ronald Reagan. She also profiled herself, in two memoirs and an autobiography.

Chester Himes was on par with Ellison, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, S.A. Cosby writes.

The actor reads “Collision of Power,” a new memoir by the famed former editor of The Washington Post and The Boston Globe.

Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht bring David Auburn’s nostalgic play about an unlikely friendship straight to your ears.

The latest adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel will feature Jeremy Jordan (“Newsies”) as Jay Gatsby and Eva Noblezada (“Hadestown”) as Daisy Buchanan.

The audiobook might be less, well, useful than it is entertainingly honest, unfiltered and even bizarre.

For Álvaro Enrigue, a novelist fascinated with historical detail, the first meeting of the Aztecs and Spanish conquistadors is the obsession of a lifetime. He brings it to life in “You Dreamed of Empires.”

Reading her audiobook memoir, “How to Say Babylon,” the poet gives voice to her Jamaican roots, her early ambition and the Rastafari father who would have quashed it.