here’s simon & schuster!

For more than five years I was an overworked and underpaid book editor at Simon & Schuster. And I loved every minute of it. Truly. So it thrills me that a bunch of titles from the S&S audiobook catalog are now available on eMusic. You can find some of the most notable titles here. In particular, I think S&S has some incredible pop culture offerings that translate beautifully into audio form.
My faves below:

Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs: Chuck Klosterman has a way of making the lowest forms of brain cell-killing pop culture topics sound incredibly smart. Which makes my horrid obsession with The Real World feel a teensy bit more respectable.

Born Standing Up: With the publication of his endearing and surprisingly sincere memoir, Steve Martin proves that he’s not only funny–he’s also wise as hell. And nice. When you’ve finished listening to Steve tell his story you will swear that you guys are BFFs.

21: Bringing Down the House: Forget the mediocre movie that came out a few months ago. The book version of 21, about a group of card-counting M.I.T. students who set out to make a killing at the blackjack tables, is as exhilarating as the luckiest of lucky nights at a Vegas casino.

Are You There Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea: Chelsea Handler skewers celebutards on her popular E! talk show, but in this collection (as in her previous book, My Horizontal Life) she turns her razor-sharp wit on her own life.