New in Spoken Cinema: THE JUMPER

Our trippy new thriller  THE JUMPER has landed on Audible!

Voiced by JULIA WHELAN, the acclaimed narrator of GONE GIRL. Recently hailed by THE NEW YORKER as the "Adele of audiobooks", Julia brings THE JUMPER to life in a dazzling solo performance that plays out in the listener's mind like a Film Noir fever dream.

Scan the QR code for unlimited free listens to our pop-up reading by Julia Whelan from THE JUMPER Act One (length 24mins). 


Story Synopsis:  Lemoine is a late night radio storyteller. Cali is an OG BASE Jumper, who leaps from his station’s broadcast tower to stick her landing in the headlights of his oncoming car. Set in the clandestine subculture of international BASE Jumping, their story is a free fall into bottomless obsession and truth or dare sex -- with death lurking in the wings. 


There’s a million stories in the Naked City, but only a handful of True Noir themes worth pursuing. My personal favorite theme is the one that animates my personal favorite Noir, IN A LONELY PLACE (1950); and now, seventy + years later, it animates our “Film Noir for Your Ears” THE JUMPER (2Hrs & 29Mins).

About the theme: OG feminist and scholar Germaine Greer has written, "The muse in her purest aspect is the feminine part of the male artist, with which he must have intercourse if he is to bring into being a new work. She is the anima to his animus, the yin to his yang, except that, in a reversal of gender roles, she penetrates or inspires him and he gestates and brings forth, from the womb of the mind." 

- Steve Brodeur

For more about our story, and to buy THE JUMPER (Length 2hrs 29mins) from Unsung Hero's Start-Up Audiobook Store, scan the QR code...

HER LITTLE BLUE SILK THING

Cavalier Poet Robert Herrick's  
Upon Julia's Clothes
Voiced by Unsung Hero
(:37)
From his debut EP spoken not slurred 

Audiobook Originals @ Unsung Hero

 


HAPLY, I THINK ON THEE...


 
Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 
Voiced by Unsung Hero
(1:07) 
From his debut EP spoken not slurred 
 

THE THROES


  
Voiced by Unsung Hero
(1:09)
From his debut EP spoken not slurred 
 



I, RUMPELSTILTSKIN

 

The beautiful and clever Miller's Daughter falls under the dark spell of the "Little Man" who magically spins her straw into gold. The classic tale from the Brothers Grimm.

Voiced by Unsung Hero

(7:06)

From his debut EP spoken not slurred 

Audiobook Originals @ Unsung Hero


TONIGHT'S SIGN-OFF SONNET

 

Sonnet 73 is perhaps the single most popular of all Shakespeare’s poems. It is certifiably the most anthologized, coming in at number four on The Top One Hundred Poems in English as compiled by The Concise Columbia Book of Poetry.

A meditation on mortality, this beautiful bummer of a sonnet was written when Shakespeare was not yet thirty - but that was on the Elizabethan scale of life expectancy, do keep in mind.

Voiced by Unsung Hero

(1:16)

From his debut EP spoken not slurred