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Mark Twain, beloved American writer, performer, and humorist, was a self-proclaimed glutton. With the help of a chef and some friends, Nick Offerman presents the story of Twain’s life through the lens of eight of Mark Twain’s favorite foods.

What’s the difference between a thriller and a mystery? When is something an autobiography and not a memoir? Our editors break down the “rules” of genres – and the books that epitomize each of them. Can’t get enough Audicted? Hear more from The Audible Editors at Audible.com/Audicted.

Audible exclusive. Nothing quite creates another world like a book. Tom Bale talks about his delight of plunging his characters in danger and seeing how they cope. Talking about his inspiration for sinister and macabre twists, we are treated to the peek behind the curtain to why crime fiction is so appealing to Tom. About See How They Run - it's often said that when tragedy strikes, the victims were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. But not Harry and Alice French.

In this exclusive interview at Audible Studios in London, Vaseem Khan provides an insight into how he as an author constructs his novels. He describes how he made The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown as authentic as possible, the painstaking research and adding his own personal touches.

This collection of bits is dedicated to some of our favorite emerging talent, bursting out from the wide world of stand-up! You don’t want to miss this one folks, this is Punchlines: Comics to Watch in 2018.

In the weeks after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on August 29th, Audible reached out to customers in the affected area to offer help. Many customers responded and several agreed to be interviewed about their experience. Stories from the Storm was recorded in mid-November, in the days when many people were still clearing debris and figuring out how to restart their lives. These riveting stories will remind listeners of the heartbreak, confusion, and perseverance of the Katrina survivors.

Hear the Audible editors on what they view, or don't view, as their guilty pleasure books. Including romance, mysteries & thrillers, and celebrity memoirs. Plus an exclusive clip from Emily's conversation with the supremely talented David Sedaris. 

Dick Whittington and his family are very poor. So, hearing that the streets of London are paved with gold, Dick decides to go to this city of opportunites and make his fortune. A magical retelling of the classic fairy tale, read by Stephen Mangan.

Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen takes us to Southern California's Little Saigon, known for its strip malls and tract homes. There, Nguyen unearths a culture that is firmly set in the U.S. but always looking over its shoulder to Vietnam.

[Contains explicit content] Charlie LeDuff takes participatory journalism to new heights in an effort to highlight the tragedies and triumphs of Detroit. He's eaten cat food to lament the lack of funding for Meals on Wheels, and hit golf balls through abandoned buildings to draw attention to city blight. In this episode, we discover how he's tackled rampant arson and the rebuilding of Motor City.

What happens when a city girl from Los Angeles unexpectedly inherits 800 acres of sugarcane in southern Louisiana? Join author Natalie Baszile – along with former sugarcane farmer Rene Simon and other trusted sources – as she rediscovers her southern roots and mines the landscape for her novel Queen Sugar; the inspiration for the Oprah Winfrey Network TV show.

Comedy superstar Todd Glass hosts this edition of Punchlines! Hear bits from Todd, along with appearances from Maria Bamford, Hari Kondabolu and more! This is Punchlines: The Overreactor!

[Contains explicit content] Decades ago, you sent hundreds of people to prison. And to this day, you know a lot of those sentences weren’t fair. How do you make things right? As a federal judge in the mid-90s, Nancy Gertner’s hands were tied by laws that forced her to come down severely against drug offenses – especially when crack cocaine was involved. We often think of judges as all-powerful in their courts.

[Contains explicit content] The series begins with the deaths of two young black men. First, Freddie Gray, who died after police arrested him and threw him into the back of a police van in Baltimore. Then, Len Bias: the rising college basketball player. His cocaine overdose in 1986 helped ignite a new, more aggressive phase of the War On Drugs, one that zeroed in on crack cocaine and black communities.

[Contains explicit content] Close your eyes and think “crack dealer.” Who do you see? How about a chubby big brother from the Chicago projects, who played high school football and made sure everyone did their homework before bed? Eric Wilson had a mantra: protect the family. So, when the jobs weren’t coming and his mom’s drug problem got in the way, Eric did what he had to do. He sold crack cocaine.

[Contains explicit content] Welcome to Washington, DC - the nation’s capital. By the late 1980s, the crack cocaine trade had transformed DC into the "murder capital" of America. In this episode, Christopher Johnson takes a trip back home, to the DC area, to remember just how devastating crack cocaine was for the city. A former narcotics cop takes him across the Anacostia River, and through what was once a notorious open-air crack market.

[Contains explicit content] It is the mid-1980s, and America is alarmed by the dawn of crack cocaine. We go to Capitol Hill for the little-known story of behind the “tough-on-crime” era, when lawmakers played fast and loose with mandatory minimum sentencing, literally “ picking numbers out of [their] asses” according to one insider.

[Contains explicit content] The “war on crack” is over, but the legacy of that battle is alive today – especially in police departments around the country. In this episode, we look at how changes in police practices and attitudes reaching back at least three decades are still shaping the way cops behave, especially towards black Americans. And we explore police behavior as an extension of a larger understanding of blacks as inherently criminal - and the future of that understanding under President Donald Trump.

Prepare for a showcase like no other - 10 back-to-back sets from some of the funniest comics working hard for your laughs. Over two hours of premium stand-up awaits on Punchlines Episode 6: Super-Sized Stand-Up.

It's everything you've grown to love about stand-up comedy on Audible - only, lengthier. A right-sized companion for a couple days off. It's Punchlines Episode 5: The Weekender.