Audio Killed the Lit’rature Star

As of yesterday, Holtzbrinck has begun podcasting samples from their audiobooks. The publishing conglomerate’s holdings run the gamut from St. Martin’s to FSG, and the MP3s are an equally mixed bag, as thriller writers Mary Jane Clark and Joseph Finder rub shoulders with a live recording of Michael Cunningham reading from Specimen Days, while horror writer Douglas Preston gets interviewed about his new novel, Tyrannosaur Canyon.

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