When a writer’s work meets the perfect performer, magic happens. Best selling author Rufi Thorpe has experienced that magic with a few narrators in the past—including Lauren Fortgang, who voices the darkly comedic Audible Original, Everyone’s Happy—but she can’t shake the spell cast by one Audie Award-winning narrator in particular.
“I first fell in love with Michael Crouch’s voice when he was the narrator for Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believers,” Thorpe says. “And then my obsession grew when he became the narrator of my own novel, The Knockout Queen. Honestly, at this point I would listen to him read the phone book!”
Fortunately, she has a better idea. Here, she shares four of Crouch’s best performances in Audible Plus, and why you should hear them ASAP.
''Otto Digmore is 26, gay, an aspiring actor, and a burn victim, and he’s on a road trip. And it’s a love story. I’m not sure it needs more selling than that.''
''A wonderfully creepy story about a brother and sister living together after their grandmother has died. Fairytale meets horror, and Michael Crouch acts the bejeezus out of it.''
''While this is a sequel to 'The Girl From the Well', I did not know that and loved it as a standalone. This book has everything: ghosts, demonic possession, reality TV, human sacrifice, a creepy forest, Japanese mythology, young love!''
''Androgynous, queer Shane Stephenson is on a quest to find the mother who abandoned him as a child in a small town in Minnesota. A book about hate, love, drugs, and home, this gorgeous debut cut me up inside.''
