Matthew Rubery is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News (Oxford, 2009), which won the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) First Book Award 2010. His article "Play It Again, Sam Weller: New Digital Audiobooks and Old Ways of Reading" appeared in the Journal of Victorian Culture in 2008.

• Foreword, Charles Bernstein Introduction: Talking Books, Matthew Rubery Part 1: Sound Experiments 1. The Three-Minute Victorian Novel: Remediating Dickens into Sound, Jason Camlot 2. A Library on the Air: Literary Dramatization and Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre, James Jesson 3. The Audiographic Impulse: Doing Literature with the Tape Recorder, Jesper Olsson 4. Poetry by Phone and Phonograph: Tracing the Influence of Giorno Poetry Systems, Michael S. Hennessey 5. Soundtracking the Novel: Willy Vlautin’s Northline as Filmic Audiobook, Justin St. Clair Part 2: Close Listenings 6. Novelist as "Sound-Thief": The Audiobooks of John le Carré, Garrett Stewart 7. Hearing Hardy, Talking Tolstoy: The Audiobook Narrator’s Voice and Reader Experience, Sara Knox 8. Talking Books, Toni Morrison, and the Transformation of Narrative Authority: Two Frameworks, K. C. Harrisson 9. Obama’s Voices: Performance and Politics on the Dreams from My Father Audiobook, Jeffrey Severs 10. Bedtime Storytelling Revisited: Le Père Castor and Children’s Audiobooks, Brigitte Ouvry-Vial 11. Learning from LibriVox, Michael Hancher 12. A Preliminary Phenomenology of the Audiobook, D. E. Wittkower

Matthew Rubery is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News (Oxford, 2009), which won the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) First Book Award 2010. His article "Play It Again, Sam Weller: New Digital Audiobooks and Old Ways of Reading" appeared in the Journal of Victorian Culture in 2008.

• Foreword, Charles Bernstein Introduction: Talking Books, Matthew Rubery Part 1: Sound Experiments 1. The Three-Minute Victorian Novel: Remediating Dickens into Sound, Jason Camlot 2. A Library on the Air: Literary Dramatization and Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre, James Jesson 3. The Audiographic Impulse: Doing Literature with the Tape Recorder, Jesper Olsson 4. Poetry by Phone and Phonograph: Tracing the Influence of Giorno Poetry Systems, Michael S. Hennessey 5. Soundtracking the Novel: Willy Vlautin’s Northline as Filmic Audiobook, Justin St. Clair Part 2: Close Listenings 6. Novelist as "Sound-Thief": The Audiobooks of John le Carré, Garrett Stewart 7. Hearing Hardy, Talking Tolstoy: The Audiobook Narrator’s Voice and Reader Experience, Sara Knox 8. Talking Books, Toni Morrison, and the Transformation of Narrative Authority: Two Frameworks, K. C. Harrisson 9. Obama’s Voices: Performance and Politics on the Dreams from My Father Audiobook, Jeffrey Severs 10. Bedtime Storytelling Revisited: Le Père Castor and Children’s Audiobooks, Brigitte Ouvry-Vial 11. Learning from LibriVox, Michael Hancher 12. A Preliminary Phenomenology of the Audiobook, D. E. Wittkower

Matthew Rubery is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News (Oxford, 2009), which won the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) First Book Award 2010. His article "Play It Again, Sam Weller: New Digital Audiobooks and Old Ways of Reading" appeared in the Journal of Victorian Culture in 2008.

• Foreword, Charles Bernstein Introduction: Talking Books, Matthew Rubery Part 1: Sound Experiments 1. The Three-Minute Victorian Novel: Remediating Dickens into Sound, Jason Camlot 2. A Library on the Air: Literary Dramatization and Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre, James Jesson 3. The Audiographic Impulse: Doing Literature with the Tape Recorder, Jesper Olsson 4. Poetry by Phone and Phonograph: Tracing the Influence of Giorno Poetry Systems, Michael S. Hennessey 5. Soundtracking the Novel: Willy Vlautin’s Northline as Filmic Audiobook, Justin St. Clair Part 2: Close Listenings 6. Novelist as "Sound-Thief": The Audiobooks of John le Carré, Garrett Stewart 7. Hearing Hardy, Talking Tolstoy: The Audiobook Narrator’s Voice and Reader Experience, Sara Knox 8. Talking Books, Toni Morrison, and the Transformation of Narrative Authority: Two Frameworks, K. C. Harrisson 9. Obama’s Voices: Performance and Politics on the Dreams from My Father Audiobook, Jeffrey Severs 10. Bedtime Storytelling Revisited: Le Père Castor and Children’s Audiobooks, Brigitte Ouvry-Vial 11. Learning from LibriVox, Michael Hancher 12. A Preliminary Phenomenology of the Audiobook, D. E. Wittkower