An Audiobook Master on the Secrets of Her Craft
The New Yorker Radio Hour 
About this episode
<p><span>You’ve probably never heard of Robin Miles, but you may well have heard her—possibly at some length. Miles is an actor who’s cultivated a particular specialty in recording audiobooks, a booming segment of the publishing industry. She has lent her voice to more than 400 titles in all sorts of genres—from the classic “Charlotte’s Web” to Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste,” a deep analysis of race in America. “Telling a story, fully, all of it—from all the aspects of it—and creating the kind of intimacy between you and your listener is so satisfying,” she tells the </span><i><span>New Yorker</span></i><span> editor </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/daniel-a-gross"><span>Daniel Gross</span></a><span>. “Being in a great play means you have to have the money and the other actors and a script and a director. This is just me and my book, and I love that.”</span></p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>
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