Meredith Monday Schwartz
speaker
5,660 appearances
13 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 21 Sep
Meredith Monday Schwartz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 13 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 4.
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There is such a specific pleasure that comes over me when he drops a new book, which of course I'm gonna do on audio because I think for me that is absolutely the only way to experience David Sederis.
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Because I think
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He reads his own work and he is exceptional at it.
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And if you're reading him on the page and not in your ears.
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I think you're leaving something on the table.
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Although when I read him in print, of course, I hear his voice because I've listened to him.
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I've read and reread all of his books so many times on audio.
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But what makes this collection, The Land and Its People, different from previous ones, these are live recordings.
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He recorded these essays as he performed them on tour with actual audiences.
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Now, when I heard that, I wasn't sure how I was gonna feel.
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about it.
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I was worried that the sound would be uneven or that the crowd noise would pull me out or irritate me.
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I'm so fussy from an audio perspective.
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But I was completely wrong because hearing the audience react in real time, like the beats that he takes as the laughter lands, the way you can feel him leaning into something funny as he builds toward it.
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It adds that extra layer that I loved.
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He's a humorist, but he's also very much a performer.
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I've been lucky enough to see him live two times, and both times I spent the entire evening in a state of not wanting him to leave the stage.
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And this book felt exactly like that.
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I was caught between watching the progress bar on my audio app and getting consternated because as the time was like going by, I was just getting sadder and sadder that there would be less and less of it to read, which doesn't happen to be very often.
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This book, of course, has David Siders doing what he always does, which is being super wickedly observant.
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