On the Difficulty of Narrating the Audiobook for Your Own Memoir

This is the most familiar thing in the world, the engineer’s voice in my headphones, me in the sound booth, him at the board. I’ve spent hundreds of hours in recording studios, tracking drums, and I’m accustomed to taking direction and criticism: you were dragging behind the click; your energy was low; you hit the […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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