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Inside an Audiobook Recording Session

The Times filmed the making of Emma Cline's 'Switzy', from first day to final file.

Source: The New York Times 1 min read September 9, 2026

The New York Times followed the making of the audiobook for Emma Cline’s Booker Prize nominated novel “Switzy,” from the first day in the booth through to the finished file. The result is a piece you watch and listen to rather than read, built around video and audio recorded inside the studio.

It is a rare look at a process most listeners never see, and it goes well past the narrator at the microphone into the work that surrounds a session.

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