Introduction : talking books / Matthew Rubery -- The three-minute Victorian novel : remediating Dickens into sound / Jason Camlot -- A library on the air : literary dramatization and Orson Welles's Mercury theatre / James Jesson -- The audiographic impulse : doing literature with the tape recorder / Jesper Olsson -- Poetry by phone and phonograph : tracing the influence of Giorno poetry systems / Michael S. Hennessey -- Soundtracking the novel : Willy Vlautin's Northline as filmic audiobook / Justin St. Clair -- Novelist as "sound-thief" : the audiobooks of John le Carré / Garrett Stewart -- Hearing Hardy, talking Tolstoy : the audiobook narrator's voice and reader experience / Sara Knox -- Talking books, Toni Morrison, and the transformation of narrative authority : two frameworks / K.C. Harrisson -- Obama's voices : performance and politics on the Dreams from my father audiobook / Jeffrey Severs -- Bedtime storytelling revisited : Le père castor and children's audiobooks / Brigitte Ouvry-Vial -- Learning from librivox / Michael Hancher -- A preliminary phenomenology of the audiobook / D.E. Wittkower.