
Crooked Smile
What It Took to Escape a Decade of Homelessness, Addiction, & Crime
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Featured in the Wall Street Journal
Crooked Smile details one man's journey that left him homeless on Skid Row, and what it took to escape a decade of addiction.
"Darkly humorous" is an understatement when it comes to this tale of addiction, homelessness, incarceration, and redemption. Jared Klickstein, the child of two heroin addicts who eventually became addicted himself, takes listeners on a raw and personal journey from his unsettling and secretive childhood in the suburbs to the slums of Skid Row. Through tales of violence, relapse, and deep inner struggle, Klickstein provides a harrowing account of his personal encounter with near-death.
But this story is not just about one man's life—it's about the hundreds of thousands of homeless and drug-addicted Americans who are on the streets right now. It's about those who need help the most, and what can be done to address the growing addiction and homelessness problems. Klickstein offers a fresh take and solutions to both epidemics, providing firsthand experience and insight into what policies should be put in place to mitigate the suffering. Crooked Smile recounts one man's escape from a hellish life—and carves a valuable path for others.
©2024 Jared Klickstein (P)2025 Tantor MediaLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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In Pure Innocent Fun, Madison explores the key cultural moments that inspired his career as a critic and guided his coming of age as a Black gay man in Milwaukee. In this hilarious, full-throttle trip through the ’90s and 2000s, he recounts learning about sex from Buffy the Vampire Slayer; facing the most heartbreaking election of his youth (not George W. Bush’s win, but Jennifer Hudson losing American Idol); and how never getting his driver’s license in high school made him just like Cher Horowitz in Clueless: “a virgin who can’t drive.”
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Relatable! Great word choice! Hilarious!
- De Anonymous User en 05-02-25
De: Ira Madison III
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Running the Light
- De: Sam Tallent, Kyle Kinane - foreword
- Narrado por: Greg Chaille, Tracy Chaille, Trae Crowder, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
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Debauched, divorced, and courting death, Billy Ray Schafer is a comedian who has forgotten how to laugh. Over the course of seven spun-out days across the American Southwest, he travels from from hell gig to hell gig in search of a reason to keep living in this bleak and violent glimpse into the psyche of a thoroughly ruined man. Ex-inmate, ex-husband, ex-father - comedian is the only title Schafer has left. Trapped in the wreckage of his wasted career, Billy Ray knows the answer to the question: What happens when the opportunity doesn't come - or worse - it comes and goes?
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don't let comedians do a voice actors job
- De Scott Reesor en 07-09-21
De: Sam Tallent, y otros
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Legends and Soles
- The Memoir of an American Original
- De: Sonny Vaccaro
- Narrado por: Armen Keteyian, Sonny Vaccaro, Ari Fliakos, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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Written in collaboration with six-time New York Times bestselling author Armen Keteyian, Legends and Soles provides context and truth to the sensational media stories and headlines. Filled with in-depth stories and photos illuminating some of Sonny’s most treasured career memories, Legends and Soles is the long-awaited memoir of a giant of American sports.
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Riveting!
- De Anonymous User en 05-17-25
De: Sonny Vaccaro
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The Prosecutor
- One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice
- De: Jack Fairweather
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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At the end of the Nuremberg trials in 1946, some of the greatest war criminals in history were sentenced to death, but hundreds of thousands of Nazi murderers and collaborators remained at large. The Allies were ready to overlook their pasts as the Cold War began, and the legacy of the Holocaust was in danger of being forgotten. In The Prosecutor, Jack Fairweather brings to life the heroic story of Fritz Bauer who survived the Nazis as a gay Jewish man to force his countrymen to confront their complicity in the genocide.
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Story
- De janine en 03-25-25
De: Jack Fairweather
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Firstborn Girls
- A Memoir
- De: Bernice L. McFadden
- Narrado por: Robin Miles, Bernice L. McFadden
- Duración: 12 h y 19 m
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On her second birthday in 1967, Bernice McFadden died in a car crash near Detroit, only to be resuscitated after her mother pulled her from the flaming wreckage. Firstborn Girls traces her remarkable life from that moment up to the publication of her first novel, Sugar. Growing up in 1980s Brooklyn, Bernice finds solace in books, summer trips to Barbados, and boarding school to escape her alcoholic father. Discovering the works of Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, she finally sees herself and her loved ones reflected in their stories of “messy, beautiful, joyful Black people.”
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Great Read
- De Mia CB en 05-15-25
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Black Tunnel White Magic
- A Murder, a Detective's Obsession, and '90s Los Angeles at the Brink
- De: Rick Jackson, Matthew McGough, Michael Connelly - foreword
- Narrado por: Jim Meskimen, Michael Connelly
- Duración: 17 h y 18 m
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In June 1990, Ronald Baker, a straight-A UCLA student, was found repeatedly stabbed to death in a tunnel near Spahn Ranch, where Charles Manson and his followers once lived. Shortly thereafter, Detective Rick Jackson and his partner, Frank Garcia, were assigned the case. Yet the facts made no sense. Who would have a motive to kill Ron Baker in such a grisly manner? Was the proximity to the Manson ranch related to the murder? And what about the pentagram pendant Ron wore around his neck? Jackson and Garcia soon focused their investigation on Baker’s two male roommates, one Black, and one white.
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Gripping true crime
- De I. Patterson en 05-31-25
De: Rick Jackson, y otros
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Good story
Good book
Brings hope for the hopeless
Wow, crazy story bro
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Wonderful!
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Storyline
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Crazy story
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Incredible insight into addiction, hilarious, captivating, raw, vulnerable, brilliant
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