THE WIT OF WILDE
AN IDEAL HUSBAND By Oscar Wilde, Penguin Audiobooks, 2 hours and 45 minutes, $16.95. Read by Derek Jacobi and Jane Lapotaire. Played with flair by actress Jane Lapotaire, intrepid Mrs....
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TRAGEDY ON MT. EVEREST
INTO THIN AIR By Jon Krakauer, Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, 467 minutes, $29.95. Read by the author. In May 1996, journalist and avid climber Jon Krakauer joined an expedition...
LOOKING FOR DIRT IN ALL THE TONY PLACES
OTHER PEOPLE'S DIRT By Louise Rafkin Algonquin, 224 pages, $15.95 Calling herself a "somewhat hip and creative version of Amelia Bedelia," author Louise Rafkin abandoned academia eight years ago in...
STORY OF AN ASSASSIN
KILLING THE DREAM By Gerald Posner, Random House Audiobooks, 4 hours, abridged, $24. Read by the author. Former Wall Street lawyer Gerald Posner takes us on a dramatic tour of...
A MEMOIR THAT SETS ASIDE THE SELF-PITY
DREAMTIME ALICE By Mandy Sayer Ballantine Books, 333 pages, $24.95 Too many contemporary memoirs read like therapy logs rather than textured reflections on past events. Australian writer Mandy Sayer skillfully...
ADVENTURES IN DINING
TENDER AT THE BONE By Ruth Reichl, BDD Audio Publishing, 360 minutes, abridged, $23. Read by the author. When Ruth Reichl, restaurant critic for The New York Times, was a...
YOU GOT TO DANCE WITH THEM WHAT BRUNG YOU
By Molly Ivins, Nova Audiobooks/Brilliance Corp., approximately 5 hours, abridged, $24.95. Read by the author. Until President Clinton's endorsement of welfare reform, liberal Texas columnist Molly Ivins admired the Clinton...
BARNABY HITS A BUMP
A PATCHWORK PLANET By Anne Tyler, Random House Audiobooks, 5 hours, abridged, $24. Read by David Morse. Quirky but likable Barnaby Gaitlin, a 30-year-old former juvenile delinquent, now works for...
WISE AND WONDERFUL
SELECTED STORIES By Grace Paley, FSG/Penguin Audiobooks, 6 hours, $23.95. Read by the author. When poet, political activist and virtuoso short-story writer Grace Paley reads her stories in a chatty,...
A TENSE, POETIC STORY
DREAMER By Charles Johnson, Simon & Schuster Audio, approximately 6 hours, $25. Read by Leland Gantt and Andre Braugher. This tense but poetic novel opens in Chicago and is based...