Celebrity Chekhov
Written by Ben Greenman
Narrated by Kathleen McInerney and Jeff Woodman
4/5
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About this audiobook
New Yorker editor and McSweeney's contributor Ben Greenman reshapes Russian literature's most celebrated stories around America's most popular pop culture icons, probing the deep complexities of Anton Chekov (not to mention those of Cruise or Kardashian). Thought-provoking and funny, these wryly re-imagined tales will be sure-fire favorites for every kind of reader, whether your favorite escapes are celebrity memoirs like L.A. Candy and The Truth about Diamonds, re-conceived classics like Wicked, literary parodies like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, or masterpieces of fiction from authors like Tolstoy, Pushkin and Chekhov himself.
Ben Greenman
Ben Greenman is a bestselling author who has written both fiction—most recently, The Slippage—as well as nonfiction—most recently, the hip-hop memoir Mo’ Meta Blues, cowritten with Questlove. He lives in Brooklyn and rarely leaves.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Boring and gimmicky
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What a fun book. The author takes a collection of Chekhov stories and replaces all the characters with modern celebrities. The results are sometimes funny, but overall make the story just a little more relatable.
I listened to the audio and overall a fun listen. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5f you think Anton Chekhov's writing would be too staid, too removed from modern life to be worthwhile then Celebrity Chekhov is an inventive (and very amusing) retelling of some of Chekhov's most famous stories, recast with celebrities. Greenman does an excellent job fitting personalities to stories, making Chekhov accessible to new readers and treating old fans to a new prism through which to view his works. Great fun. Guest stars include: Paris Hilton, David Letterman, Tiger Woods and Jack Nicholson.