Author and professor David Damrosch records for "Around The World In 80 Books"

Engineer Louis Fisher (left) and professor David Damrosch (right) in the Dubway lobby after wrapping recording.

As part of a project borne out of COVID-19 related travel restrictions, author and professor David Damrosch’s Around The World In 80 Books explores authors and titles that are distinctly tied to place. As the chair of Harvard University’s Comparative Literature Department and the founder of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature, Damrosch is uniquely positioned to build a compelling list and connect the titles–which span about as wide a range as one can imagine–with insight, contextualization, and an adventurous sense of exploration.

Damrosch worked with studio engineers Sydney Fuqua and Louis Fisher to record the audiobook, which will be available through the book’s publisher, PenguinRandomHouse. Director and producer Nithya Rajendran, who we’ve worked with on a number of other Penguin titles, joined in remotely to help produce the recording.

Find the hardcopy at the publisher’s site, and watch the same space for the audiobook, coming soon.