Entries from March 23rd, 2009

Finally time for Time Traveler’s Wife August 14

March 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

“It seems like ages ago that Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams finished filming The Time Traveler’s Wife,” notes the website www.cinemablend.com—but it’s apparently really, truly coming out August 14.
Whenever a great book is made into a movie, the fans hold a collective breath, hoping the filmmakers will do it justice. We’ll find out soon enough, [...]

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Seamus Heaney wins £40,000 David Cohen prize for literature

March 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Author News

From The Guardian: “Irish poet is recognised for the ’sheer scale’ of his literary achievements over past 40 years.”
Heaney, who is also a Nobel Laureate, has been widely praised for his remarkable translation and reading of Beowulf, a thousand-year-old elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from a [...]

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Give a “Big Listen” to The Shawl

March 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Hear It Here First

The New York Times ran a story on the National Endowment of the Arts’ Big Read program, featuring this year’s “big book”: Cynthia Ozick’s The Shawl (“Poised for the Next Round of Read-Ins”).
Audiobook lovers are familiar with an NEA offshoot of the Big Read, the Big Listen. HighBridge is pleased to have the audio [...]

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