Ahead of our recent performance in Dortmund, Germany at the Museum Ostwall I worked with Isaac Gehring at StorySounds to create an “audiobook” excerpt of the chapter from I Am Here You Are Not I Love You that takes place in Dortmund and at the museum. The original idea was to play the audio over the museum’s loudspeakers so that visitors could hear me speaking about the works on display, but this proved too complicated and I ended up giving a reading instead.
So I’m releasing the audio as a standalone podcast episode—the shortest yet (and probably ever).
I’ll admit an ulterior motive. On almost every tour stop, someone has asked me why there isn’t an I Am Here audiobook. I have a face for radio, they say. A recording of the footnotes could put the most difficult child to sleep. The people want it; so where is it?
Well, Iowa doesn’t produce audiobooks, and no audiobook producers have come knocking. So consider this proof of concept. If you want to hear the whole thing, send this to your favorite audio publisher.
