Paul Keegan

The pleasures of reading aloud

In his masterly survey of the audiobook, Matthew Rubery reveals that in the 1960s the novel was considered too risqué to record

issue 08 April 2017

  • The Untold Story of the Talking Book

    Matthew Rubery

    Harvard University Press, pp. 369

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