An Audiobook Master on the Secrets of Her Craft
b'You\\u2019ve probably never heard of Robin Miles, but you may well have heard her\\u2014possibly at some length. Miles is an actor who\\u2019s cultivated a particular specialty in recording audiobooks, a booming segment of the publishing industry. She has lent her voice to more than 400 titles in all sorts of genres\\u2014from the classic \\u201cCharlotte\\u2019s Web\\u201d to Isabel Wilkerson\\u2019s \\u201cCaste,\\u201d a deep analysis of race in America. \\u201cTelling a story, fully, all of it\\u2014from all the aspects of it\\u2014and creating the kind of intimacy between you and your listener is so satisfying,\\u201d she tells the New Yorker editor Daniel Gross. \\u201cBeing in a great play means you have to have the money and the other actors and a script and a director. This is just me and my book, and I love that.\\u201d'