David James Keaton
David James Keaton is the author of three collections of short stories, including Fish Bites Cop! Stories to Bash Authorities, which was named the 2013 Short Story Collection of the Year by This Is Horror, and Stealing Propeller Hats from the Dead, which received a Starred Review from Publishers Weekly. He is also the author of three novels, The Last Projector (a thriller), Pig Iron (a western, which has been optioned for film), and She Was Found in a Guitar Case (a mystery). He is the co-editor, along with Joe Clifford, of Hard Sentences: Crime Fiction Inspired by Alcatraz, and the editor of Dirty Boulevard: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Lou Reed. He teaches composition and creative writing at Santa Clara University in California.
All Books By David James Keaton
Play Sample
Head Cleaner
- By: David James Keaton
- Narrator: Joe Hempel
- Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
-
Head Cleaner is a hugely original blend of thriller, science fiction, and horror that takes our love of nostalgia to task for its morbid obsessions with dead media and dead-end jobs: Clerks meets Black Mirror (with a little Groundhog Day and Russian... Read more
Most Popular Audiobooks
More free audiobooks
The Year of the Flood
The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God’s Gardeners—a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the ...
Read Book
Faery Born
It’s been thirteen years since the Dark Years ended. Thirteen years since the mad War Faery responsible was imprisoned in stone. Now, with goblin attacks on the rise it seems Galanta, the Goblin Queen, is intent on returning the land to chaos and terror.Isadora Scrumpleton is trying not to think about the Dark Years. She’s just been chosen by her “familiar,” found out she’s half faery, ...
Read Book
The Man in the Wooden Hat
Acclaimed as Jane Gardam’s masterpiece, Old Filth is a lyrical novel that recalls the fully lived life of Sir Edward
Feathers. The Man in the Wooden Hat is the history of his marriage told from the perspective of his wife, Betty, a
character as vivid and enchanting as Filth himself.
They met in Hong Kong after the war. Betty had spent the duration in a Japanese internment camp. Filth was
...
Read Book
MiG Alley
Of the many myths that emerged following the end of the Korean War, the prevailing one in the West was that of the absolute supremacy of U.S. Air Force pilots and aircraft over their Soviet-supplied opponents. The claims of the 10:1 victory-loss ratio achieved by the U.S. Air Force fighter pilots flying the North American F-86 Sabre against their communist adversaries, amongst other such ...
Read Book
Floating City
Citizen Kane reimagined, a novel about ambition and the relentless desire to belong, from the author of the Commonwealth Prize-winning and Governor General’s Literary Award-nominated The Electrical Field.
Frankie Hanesaka isn’t afraid of a little hard work. An industrious boy, if haunted by the mysterious figures of his mother’s past in Japan, he grows up in a floating house in the harbour ...
Read Book
The Atomic Bazaar
In his shocking and revelatory new work, celebrated journalist William Langewiesche investigates the burgeoning threat of nuclear-weapons production and the inexorable drift of nuclear-weapons technology from the hands of the rich into the hands of the poor. As more unstable and undeveloped nations acquire the ultimate arms, the stakes of state-sponsored nuclear activity have soared to ...
Read Book
Summer Breeze
New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer never fails to imbue her novels with warmth and wisdom. In Summer Breeze, the author of Beachcombers and Heat Wave tells the wonderfully moving story of three women who forge a unique bond one sun-drenched summer on New England’s Dragonfly Lake. Morgan O’Keefe feels trapped in a gilded cage. True, the thirty-year-old mother agreed to put her ...
Read Book
The Nobodies
The story of two young women whose friendship offered–and demanded–more than either should share. For fans of Sally Rooney and Claire North.
“Sometimes I wondered if I imagined it,” said Nina. “But deep down I knew I didn’t.”
Jess said, “We did too much damage for it not to be real.”
Jess and Nina, Nina and Jess … to everyone else they’re typical best friends, sharing ...
Read Book
Exodus, Revisited
The definitive follow-up to Unorthodox (the basis for the award-winning Netflix series)—now updated with more than 50 percent new material—the unforgettable story of what happened in the years after Deborah Feldman left a religious sect in Williamsburg in order to forge her own path in the world.In 2009, at the age of twenty-three, Deborah Feldman packed up her young son and their few ...
Read Book
Micro-Resilience
Learn powerful, science-based techniques to boost focus, drive and energy hour-by-hour throughout the day — every day.
As leadership consultants and executive trainers, Bonnie St. John and Allen P. Haines have heard the same complaints from clients for years; periodic burnout, lack of focus and low energy. So they dug into the latest research on neuroscience, psychology and physiology looking ...
Read Book
