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“But fiction is a little thornier.”
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“The performance of a text by a skilled narrator can tweak those meanings even more.”
“Recently I’ve loved Mariam Rhamani’s reading of her 2025 debut, Liquid , and Jordy Rosenberg’s bravura interpretation of his latest novel, Night Night Fawn .”
“Dion Graham’s performance of the books in Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy is one of the all-time great narrator performances, so I’ll use it as a case study.”
“Maris Kreizman on the Importance of a Good Reader Maris Kreizman July 23, 2026 Who’s the better narrator for an audiobook: the author of the book or a professional voice actor?”
“Not all fiction writers are actors and that is more than okay because voice actors exist and many of them are wonderful.”
“But there is a unique pleasure in hearing a novelist read their work aloud, their craft decisions become crystallized.”
“Her essays and criticism have appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Esquire, The New Republic , and more.”
“There are so many great choices for audiobook narrators.”
“But it’s not just Graham.”
“actors audiobooks authors Maris Kreizman narrators nonfiction novels Maris Kreizman Maris Kreizman hosted the literary podcast, The Maris Review , for four years.”
“Let’s leave nonfiction out of this discussion because I find that just about any personal writing will benefit from the author’s literal voice, whether it’s in memoir-form, personal essay, or reporting in which the author is present.”
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“Her essay collection, I Want to Burn This Place Down , is forthcoming from Ecco/HarperCollins.”
“In order to buy into such an assertion you must believe, despite what AI companies like to say , that narrating books is an art form and should be treated as such.”
“More than that, you must believe that human interpretation of a text matters.”
“There is a unique pleasure in hearing a novelist read their work aloud.”
“The main character’s questionable decisions in Miranda July’s All Fours make way more sense when the author is telling the story.”
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