Search results for “Bill Buford”


Dirt
By: Bill Buford
Narrated by: Bill Buford
Length: 16 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
鈥淵ou can almost taste the food in Bill Buford鈥檚聽Dirt, an engrossing, beautifully written memoir about his life as a cook in France.鈥� 鈥�i>The Wall Street Journal
What does it take to master French cooking? This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in New York City and pack up and (with a wife and three-year-old... Read more


Heat
By: Bill Buford
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
From one of our most interesting literary figures 鈥� former editor of Granta, former fiction editor at The New Yorker, acclaimed author of Among the Thugs鈥� a sharp, funny, exuberant, close-up account of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook.
Expanding on his James Beard Award-winning New Yorker article, Bill Buford gives us a... Read more


Among the Thugs
By: Bill Buford
Narrated by: Bill Buford
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known universe, and England's soccer thugs express it in ways that range from mere vandalism to riots that terrorize entire... Read more
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Hearing History, Life in 1880s Los Angeles As Told By The Mayor's Daughter
By: Belle Buford Thom Collins
Narrated by: Belle Buford Thom Collins
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The following is a 1964 recording of Belle Buford Thom Collins, born in 1878, speaking about her childhood in Los Angeles in the 1880s. Mrs. Collins' father, Cameron E. Thom, was the Mayor of Los Angeles between 1882 and 1884. Read more
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Heat - Abridged
By: Bill Buford
Narrated by: Bill Buford
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From one of our most interesting literary figures 鈥� former editor of Granta, former fiction editor at The New Yorker, acclaimed author of Among the Thugs 鈥� a sharp, funny, exuberant, close-up account of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook.
Expanding on his James Beard Award-winning New Yorker article, Bill Buford gives us a... Read more