She gets a request out of the blue to narrate a romance. And while she loves it, it's hard for her to accept that life has just not gone according to her plan and what she wanted to be doing. And she has found herself doing audiobook narration. WHELAN: Sewanee Chester is a former on camera actress who suffered a pretty tragic event, and it ended her on-camera career. Your main character, Sewanee Chester - she is not you. Well, I want to talk a little bit about the book and then how you do it. And I understood that I had written something that was possibly so meta it just spins off its axis. But when I got into the booth to actually record the book, it just hit different. I knew obviously when I was writing it that I was writing a very meta novel. At this point, nothing makes sense to me. KELLY: Is this the most meta thing ever? How are you keeping fact from fiction straight at this point? And, yes, if you want to listen rather than read off the page, guess who narrates it? Julia Whelan, thanks for joining us. She is also a novelist, now out with her second book, titled "Thank You For Listening." It is the very funny tale of Sewanee Chester, who is an audiobook narrator. She is one of the most prolific, most in-demand narrators in the audio book business. KELLY: Julia Whelan - she is all those voices you just heard. Was Donald Trump's de facto headquarters for much of.ĭoing it is meaningless, especially in literature from.Ī novel written and performed by Julia Whelan. I can certainly consult for you while reading books and writing about. JULIA WHELAN: The girl wakes up in someone else's bed. If you are a fan of audiobooks, it may sound familiar. “The Secret History meets Serial… modern campus novel, in which a woman goes back to her old boarding school to teach a class on podcasting and winds up reliving-and relitigating-her own youth and the murder of a classmate.All right.
I Have Some Questions For You is a most anticipated book from publications including Bustle, Elle, The Millions, Newsweek, NPR, Salon, Time Magazine, and USA Today. She is also a Grammy-nominated audiobook director, a former writing tutor, a half-decent amateur baker, and a certified tea sommelier. It lost the Goodreads Choice Award in Romance, however, to a novel she narrated, Book Lovers by Emily Henry, which she absolutely agrees should have won. Her new novel, Thank You For Listening, was a Best of 2022 pick at Amazon, Audible, and NPR.
Her performance of her own debut novel, the international bestseller My Oxford Year, garnered a Society of Voice Arts award. In 2020, AudioFile Magazine gave her its lifetime achievement designation, a Golden Voice, a year after she won the Best Female Narrator Audie for Tara Westover's Educated. Julia Whelan is a writer, lifelong actor, and award-winning audiobook narrator of over 500 titles across all genres. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, Rebecca is on the MFA faculties of the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe and Northwestern University, and is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago. Her other books are the novels The Borrower and The Hundred-Year House, and the collection Music for Wartime-four stories from which appeared in The Best American Short Stories.
Rebecca Makkai’s last novel, The Great Believers, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award it was the winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal, the Stonewall Book Award, the Clark Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and it was chosen as one of the Ten Best Books of 2018 by The New York Times. This special event is presented by Books & Books, Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Print: A Bookstore, and Prairie Lights. Join NYT Bestselling author Rebecca Makkai for a live stream conversation with award-winning audiobook narrator Julia Whelan about her new novel, I Have Some Questions For You.
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