In AudioFile’s latest visit Behind the Mic, we hear from narrator Tavia Gilbert as she shares insights on narrating Michiko Kakutani’s significant new work, THE DEATH OF TRUTH: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump. Tavia challenges us to listen, to protest, and to think about what we can do.
“This is a rousing call to action.”—Narrator Tavia Gilbert
THE DEATH OF TRUTH: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
by Michiko Kakutani, read by Tavia Gilbert
Random House Audio/Books on Tape
Tavia Gilbert narrates with a sure sense of this book’s importance, and her performance suits the intent of its thought-provoking treatise on how and why truth and reason are vanishing from our national politics and discourse. Listen to a sound sample and read AudioFile’s full review.
Tavia is a prolific and celebrated narrator: Booklist’s 2018 Voice of Choice: Audiobook Narrator of the Year; 2017 Audie Award for Best Female Narrator; and multiple Earphones Awards. Tavia won her recent Audie Award for BE FRANK WITH ME. She is equally at home with literary fiction, biographies and memoirs, children’s titles, and suspense. Explore the full range of Tavia’s audiobook work in her audiography.
Photo by Joanna Perrin.
