2013 November

Entries from November 27th, 2013

Narrators Tap Into Their Darker Side for A Darker Shade of Sweden

November 27th, 2013 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News

HighBridge is excited to announce that the highly anticipated audio short-story collection, A Darker Shade of Sweden, will be read by a thrilling and impressive array of talent: Carol Monda, Scott Brick, Adam Grupper, Maggi-Meg Reed, Erik Bergmann, and Tavia Gilbert. Containing seventeen stories, all never before published in English, A Darker Shade of Sweden […]

Artist-autographed copies of Star Wars: A New Hope Radio Drama auctioned for charity

November 15th, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized

HighBridge has teamed up with Knights’ Archive to offer a set of the new Star Wars: A New Hope – The Original Radio Drama Topps Collector’s Editions signed by the artists, Matt Busch and Randy Martinez. All proceeds from the auction will go to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. To view the auction or make a bid, […]

Scott Brick to Narrate The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

November 13th, 2013 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News

HighBridge is proud to announce that award-winning narrator Scott Brick will be reading The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry, a highly anticipated new title by author Gabrielle Zevin. The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry follows irascible A. J. Fikry, the owner of independent book store Island Books. Fikry has already lost his wife, […]

Survival Lessons: A little gem…wise, witty and wonderful.

November 11th, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized

I was drawn to Survival Lessons, the little gem of a book by celebrated fiction author Alice Hoffman, as family members and friends of mine endured trauma and health challenges this past year. A cancer survivor herself, Hoffman’s impulse for writing this book was her need for a “guidebook” to help cope with long-term illness, to […]

Star Wars: The Original Radio Drama Topps Collector’s Editions

November 8th, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized

The Force is with us here at HighBridge. This month marks something very exciting: the launch of our Topps Collector’s Editions of the Original Star Wars Radio Drama. First hitting airwaves in 1981, the thirteen part, 6-hour drama was immensely popular. NPR replayed the drama a couple times, but the audio drama was otherwise unavailable […]

Sweden behind the Shades

November 6th, 2013 · No Comments · Acquisition News

There’s been a lot of excitement about the forthcoming collection of short stories, A Darker Shade of Sweden, which will be published in February 2014 by The Mysterious Press and, I’m here to say with no small measure of gratification, by HighBridge Audio as well. The brouhaha has largely focused on the fact that it […]

Featured Audio Giveaway – Nov 2013 – Ties That Bind

November 6th, 2013 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways

Celebrating 10 years of StoryCorps Ties That Bind: Stories of Love and Gratitude from the First Ten Years of StoryCorps hosted by Dave Isay; as told by StoryCorps participants They’ve made you laugh, cry, ponder, and muse: Stories from all walks of life about all manner of people and places. And it’s StoryCorps that’s made […]

HighBridge Narrator Updates

November 6th, 2013 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News

HighBridge is pleased to announce that Xe Sands will be reading My Accidental Jihad by Krista Bremer, and Tomas Marsh will narrate Kicking the Sky by Anthony De Sa. My Accidental Jihad, available in April, is a profoundly moving and often funny meditation on tolerance, and explores what it means to open our hearts to […]

Ties That Bind Finds Value in People and Their Stories

November 5th, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized

The photo says it all. Legendary oral historian Studs Terkel passing the torch to StoryCorps founder Dave Isay at the 2003 launch of the StoryCorps recording booth in New York’s Grand Central Terminal. The great work of StoryCorps – to chronicle and celebrate the rich and compelling lives of average Americans in their own voices […]

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