“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, [...]
Entries from March 23rd, 2009
Finally time for Time Traveler’s Wife August 14
March 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
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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 [...]
