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Listen to chilling stories of America’s most notorious killers, thieves, and other assorted degenerates with the best true crime audiobooks. Equal parts gripping, shocking, and disturbing, fans of true crime audiobooks can’t stop listening to these new releases and bestsellers. Find your newest favorite binge-listen true crime audiobook right here.

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The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune
The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune
The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune
The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune
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The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune

byAlexander Stille

In the middle of the Ozzie and Harriet 1950s, the birth control pill became available and a maverick psychoanalytic institute, the Sullivan Institute for Research in Psychoanalysis, opened its doors in New York City. Its founders wanted to start a revolution, one grounded in ideals of creative expression, sexual liberation, and freedom from societal norms, and the revolution needed to begin at home. Dismantling the nuclear family would free kids from the repressive forces of their parents. The movement attracted many brilliant people as patients, including the painter Jackson Pollock and a swarm of other artists, the singer Judy Collins, and the dancer Lucinda Childs. By the 1960s, it had become an urban commune of hundreds of people, with patients living with other patients, leading a creative, polyamorous life. By the mid-1970s, under the leadership of Saul Newton, it devolved from a radical communal experiment into an insular cult, with therapists controlling virtually every aspect of their patients' lives, from where they lived to how often they saw their children. Although the group was highly secretive, even after its dissolution in 1991, Alexander Stille has reconstructed the inner life of this hidden parallel world. Through countless interviews and personal papers, The Sullivanians reveals the story of a fallen utopia in the heart of New York City.

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True crime audiobooks are the kinds of gripping, fascinating listens that make you want to sleep with the lights on and double-check your front door is locked. Twisting, turning, and chillingly explosive real stories that we shudder to think are true to life. These gripping and frightening real-life stories are laid out for us with all the thrills, chills, and jaw-dropping details of true crime audiobooks. We hang on every word as true crime authors search for answers about some of the most heinous crimes ever committed. Immerse yourself in this dark and fascinating genre when you listen to true crime. The true crime audiobook genre covers everything from kidnappings and abductions to robberies, heists, and murders—all of the things that fascinate and terrify so many of us. This genre has enjoyed a massive surge in popularity since the rise of true crime related podcasts, but true crimes stories have been capturing our attention since around the late Ming dynasty. Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, published in 1966, is credited with introducing the contemporary journalistic style of the true crime genre. Since then, massive bestsellers include Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry, Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City, and Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song. Discover an array of true crime book subgenres and specialties, each of which focuses on a specific type of crime, victims, and the criminals or murderers.

True crime audiobooks are the kinds of gripping, fascinating listens that make you want to sleep with the lights on and double-check your front door is locked. Twisting, turning, and chillingly explosive real stories that we shudder to think are true to life. These gripping and frightening real-life stories are laid out for us with all the thrills, chills, and jaw-dropping details of true crime audiobooks. We hang on every word as true crime authors search for answers about some of the most heinous crimes ever committed. Immerse yourself in this dark and fascinating genre when you listen to true crime. The true crime audiobook genre covers everything from kidnappings and abductions to robberies, heists, and murders—all of the things that fascinate and terrify so many of us. This genre has enjoyed a massive surge in popularity since the rise of true crime related podcasts, but true crimes stories have been capturing our attention since around the late Ming dynasty. Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, published in 1966, is credited with introducing the contemporary journalistic style of the true crime genre. Since then, massive bestsellers include Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry, Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City, and Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song. Discover an array of true crime book subgenres and specialties, each of which focuses on a specific type of crime, victims, and the criminals or murderers.