Listening

For my birthday I got a subscription to Audible.com and I've lately been listening to American Gods by Neil Gaiman, turns out to be a great choice for an audio book given how deeply rooted the whole narrative is in storytelling.  I daresay you won't find so many stories-within-stories this side of A Thousand and One Nights.  I'm also given to ponder the age old advice of reading your own work aloud as an aid to hone the prose.  I think listening to others' prose may be just as useful.  It...