Every story we publish at The Atavist comes with an audiobook version, which is convenient when you want to switch between reading and listening. We always try to have the author record the audiobook version of their piece, rather than relying on voice actors. There’s something special about hearing someone speak aloud the words that they have written. Some writers are better at it than others… While Joe Kloc, author and illustrator of “The Case of the Missing Moon Rocks,” has a fantastic voice, his sense of perfectionism made the editing of the audiobook version of his story a bit of a challenge. He stopped frequently to repeat sentences after perceiving a minor aberration in the way he spoke, marking the mistake by saying “Again.” I started collecting these “again” declarations while editing the audiobook, and the result is five solid minutes of Joe Kloc saying “again.” There are also some amusing outtakes that I deemed worthy of including.
Read (or listen to the pristine audiobook version of) The Case of the Missing Moon Rocks by clicking here.
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If you missed Monday’s New America NYC event about covering tragedy, check out the podcast.
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Like Stowaway, Dan Archer’s piece for BBC Magazine uses comics to tell a human trafficking victim’s story.
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An interactive visualization of every known drone strike and victim in Pakistan.
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Happy Birthday, John Burroughs! A pioneer of the American nature essay, a genre unto itself. And the man who said,
“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.”
We agree, John. We agree.
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In I Am J, Cris Beam imagines the tumultuous life of a transgendered youth. Although it’s a work of fiction, she explains in The Guardian that it was personal experience, not politics, that motivated her to write it.
“I think a lot of authors feel like this – drawn to write out of both love and a need to resolve something confusing, painful or just out of reach.”
Cris Beam wrote Mother, Stranger, a memoir about her own troubled childhood, for The Atavist last year.
