--- description: Kevin Morris's collection is getting the celebrity treatment title: Listen to Matthew McConaughey Read a Short Story image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltae06efc20f3fa83d/69885d665f570fe866b1cb55/whitemansproblems.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Books](/tag/books/) ## Books Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Listen to Matthew McConaughey Read a Short Story by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 3, 2015 6:53 PM CUT  Audible by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 3, 2015 6:53 PM CUT [_White Man’s Problems,_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0802123880/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined")a short-story collection by Kevin Morris, published last year to critical acclaim. In the nine stories, Morris, an entertainment lawyer by trade, offers up shrewd, bitingly funny commentary on his own privileged class. On Aug. 11, _White Man’s Problems_ makes its [audiobook](http://www.audible.com/mt/WMP?source%5Fcode=AUDORWS0511159DKH "undefined") debut with a star-studded cast of readers, including Matthew McConaughey, Minnie Driver, Josh Holloway, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Listen to McConaughey read the first half of “Summer Farmer,” the first story in Morris’s collection, in an exclusive clip for TIME. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3980581/matthew-mcconaughey-audiobook/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3980581/matthew-mcconaughey-audiobook/"},"headline":"Listen to Matthew McConaughey Read a Short Story","datePublished":"2015-08-03T18:53:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:47:52.450Z","description":"Kevin Morris's collection is getting the celebrity treatment","url":"https://time.com/3980581/matthew-mcconaughey-audiobook/","keywords":["Books","Matthew McConaughey"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltae06efc20f3fa83d/69885d665f570fe866b1cb55/whitemansproblems.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltae06efc20f3fa83d/69885d665f570fe866b1cb55/whitemansproblems.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"WhiteMansProblems","caption":"","creditText":"Audible","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3980581/matthew-mcconaughey-audiobook/","name":"Listen to Matthew McConaughey Read a Short Story"}}]}] ```