From one profile to the next, the moral threads swing wildly: Subjects include a Syrian arms dealer, a criminal defense lawyer specializing in the most heinous cases, and the chef turned globe-trotter Anthony Bourdain. “Rogues” compiles 12 years’ worth of long-form articles Keefe has written for The New Yorker, revealing his predilection for the margins of what we consider acceptable society. With ROGUES: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks (Random House Audio, 15 hours, 28 minutes), we’re treated to the same level of journalistic rigor, and the same passion for breaking open mysteries, in an unmistakably bingeable package. In between his regular contributions to The New Yorker, he has published an exposé of the Sackler family and an account of the Troubles in Northern Ireland that’s so thrilling I listened to all 15 hours in just three days. The journalist Patrick Radden Keefe has made a career out of deep dives into fascinating characters - and he’s very good at it. Case in point: These three new audiobooks might make you reconsider the categories into which publishers divide what we listen to. As the soundtrack to my daily life has continued unabated, I’ve recently started to wonder: How do we compartmentalize so many competing stimuli? How does the brain organize it all? As both audiobooks and podcasts continue to surge in popularity, I’d argue it’s becoming less and less clear where those classifications fall - and whether classification even matters. Please note depends the audiobook length the file size can be as large as 1 GB which can occupy your device storage.At any given time, I’m usually listening to at least one audiobook, half a dozen podcast series and a handful of new music albums. File types are MP3, M4B, Torrent and iTunes podcast. We have also included downloadable media files in many formats which can be downloaded to your device and can be played later. Any chapter of the book can be played by scrolling through the chapters index with one click. Streaming can be dragged anywhere and playing time can be forwarded, reversed and restarted. Speed can be changed in the multiples of 0.25x which is displayed in the bottom of the player. We have also included speed buttons which can slowdown or increase the media playing speed if the narrator natural speed is uncomfortable for you. Controls including Play/Pause, Volume, Forward/Reverse/Restart buttons. Our streaming AudioPlayer is an easy to use but powerful streaming player. To listen to the audiobook downloading files are not necessary. We have also included Google custom search engine which ignores the spelling errors entered while searching. Search bar can be used to find any audiobook by simply entering the book name. Our website is designed with simplicity and can be navigated easily from the top navigation menu including genres, authors, popular audiobooks and latest audiobooks. However be informed that copyright rules and public domain status of books varies in many countries and readers must check them before accessing. All the audiobooks listed in our site are available in public domain and can be accessed free by anyone as no one holds copyrights of them now. AudioBooksWorld is a website dedicated to provide public domain audio books to listen in streaming mode online and free download in many formats such as MP3, M4B and Podcast which can be stored and played on many devices including computers, iPods and iPhone.
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