A hapless salesman flees the librarian hell-bent on retrieving her lost library book. This story appears in Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, published by Tordotcom in hardcover and e-book, and by Recorded Books in audiobook format. For more from the author, visit tobiogundiran.com.
Content advisory: Explicit language, gore
Apr 2024
"The November Story" by Rebecca Makkai
A reality TV show producer tries to make love happen, on- and off-screen. “The November Story” is from MUSIC FOR WARTIME by Rebecca Makkai, published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.Find LeVar on Instagram Live on Monday, ... Show More
49m 59s
Apr 2024
"She Builds Quick Machines" by Lyndsie Manusos
Robotics, quick machines, fugitives -- none are exactly what they seem on the surface. Find more from the author at https://lyndsiekay.wordpress.com. And find LeVar on Instagram Live on Monday, May 6th from 6:30-8pm Pacific, celebrating 13 seasons of LeVar Burton Reads! Join us f ... Show More
38m 33s
Mar 2025
Karl Berglund, "Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Streaming Age" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
What is the future of reading? In Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Digital Age (Bloombury, 2024), Karl Berglund, Assistant Professor in Literature at Department of Literature and Rhetoric at Upsala University, examines the rise of audiobooks as a new mode of reading ... Show More
36m 42s
Jul 2025
Zadie Smith Reads “The Silence”
<p>Zadie Smith reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/07/the-silence-fiction-zadie-smith"><strong>The Silence</strong></a>,” from the July 7 & 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Smith, a winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Audible Li ... Show More
33m 57s
<p><strong>Title: The Ghost Librarian</strong></p><p><strong>Level: Advanced (C1)</strong></p><p>#Story :</p><p> Lydia, a young woman from the quiet town of Ridgewood, stumbles upon the mysterious library that no one in the town seems to talk about. Inside, she finds the enigmati ... Show More
<p><strong>Title: The Phantom Librarian</strong></p><p><strong>Level: Advanced (C1)</strong></p><p>#Story :</p><p>Lydia, a young woman from the quiet town of Ridgewood, stumbles upon the mysterious library that no one in the town seems to talk about. Inside, she finds the enigmat ... Show More
