Length1h 27m
About this audiobook
LIES COME FROM THE TELL is a Poetic Cinema journey into the distance between what happens and what human beings eventually call truth. Drawing from Vernon Snell’s memories of Washington Heights, survival, street knowledge, culture, race, money, media, television, technology, relationships, and the psychology of memory, the book asks a deceptively simple question: What happens to truth while it is being told? Across 75 chapters, raw testimony meets reflection as Benson speaks from lived experience, Vernon searches for meaning, and the Curator separates memory, metaphor, interpretation, and evidence. What begins as one unusual phrase grows into an examination of how pain, power, fear, nostalgia, numbers, algorithms, and even our own minds can shape the stories we believe. Lies can come from the tell—but so can truth.
Audiobook details
GenreEducation and Learning, Biography and Memoir
Length1 hr 27 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 6, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Front Matter
2Chapter 1: The Tell Before the Lie
3Chapter 2: When Pain Becomes the Editor
4Chapter 3: Rearview-Mirror Childhood
5Chapter 4: Brothers, Partners, and the Price of Betrayal
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6Chapter 5: The Ruler and the Rulers
7Chapter 6: Sugar in the Gasoline
8Chapter 7: The Hernia of Nothing
9Chapter 8: Blood, Seed, Tree
10Chapter 9: The Cold Zoo
11Chapter 10: Black-and-White Television, Color Streets
12Chapter 11: Pop. Pop. Corn.
13Chapter 12: Washington Heights: Cold and Hot
14Chapter 13: Beautiful Anchors and Fishy Ports
15Chapter 14: See to Sea
16Chapter 15: Goya Wings and Green Bananas
17Chapter 16: The Pyramid at A
18Chapter 17: The Melting Pot Can Burn
19Chapter 18: Money: The Number We Agreed to Believe
20Chapter 19: Who Gets to Tell Washington Heights?
21Chapter 20: When Survival Becomes Identity
22Chapter 21: The Difference Between a Lie and a Limited Truth
23Chapter 22: The Tell Comes Home
24Chapter 23: The Story Before the Story
25Chapter 24: The Brain Is Not a Court Reporter
26Chapter 25: The Nervous System Has a Neighborhood
27Chapter 26: Hypervigilance Is Not a Superpower
28Chapter 27: The Rearview Mirror Becomes a Windshield
29Chapter 28: The Mathematics of Trust
30Chapter 29: The Economy of Attention
31Chapter 30: Numbers Learned to Follow Us
32Chapter 31: The Price Is Not the Worth
33Chapter 32: The Poor Are Measured More Than Heard
34Chapter 33: Television Was the First Window That Talked Back
35Chapter 34: From Broadcast to Algorithm
36Chapter 35: The Advertisement Inside the Emotion
37Chapter 36: Sugar, Reward, and the Quick Yes
38Chapter 37: The Product and the Culture
39Chapter 38: The Neighborhood as a Brand
40Chapter 39: Who Owns the Definition of Safe?
41Chapter 40: Race: The Category and the Person
42Chapter 41: The Name They Give You
43Chapter 42: Masculinity and the Armor Factory
44Chapter 43: Fatherlessness and the Men Who Fill the Space
45Chapter 44: The Street as University
46Chapter 45: What School Did Not Translate
47Chapter 46: Language Before Grammar
48Chapter 47: The Curator Enters the Room
49Chapter 48: Rumor: The Neighborhood Algorithm
50Chapter 49: Repetition Makes a Road
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