With a three-piece band and Red Stripe beer, Macalester College recognized literary star Marlon James on Wednesday, October 28, which was named Marlon James Day by both Gov. Mark Dayton and Betsy Hodges, mayor of Minneapolis! James, the Jamaican-born novelist who lives in Minneapolis and is on sabbatical from his teaching job at Macalester, recently […]
Entries from October 29th, 2015
The Other Paris
October 21st, 2015 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News
Paris, the City of Light. The city of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, of soft cheese and fresh baguettes. Or so tourist brochures would have you believe. In The Other Paris: The People’s City, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Luc Sante reveals the city’s hidden past, its seamy underside, one populated by working and criminal […]
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A Brief History of Seven Killings wins 2015 Man Booker Prize
October 13th, 2015 · No Comments · Awards
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James is named as the winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction! Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters—assassins, journalists, drug dealers, and even ghosts—A Brief History of Seven Killings is the fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable […]
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2015 Voice Arts Awards Finalists
October 7th, 2015 · No Comments · Awards
We’re thrilled to share the exciting news that The Society of Voice Arts and Sciences (SOVAS) has announced 9 titles produced by HighBridge Audio, a division of Recorded Books, as nominees for the 2015 Voice Arts Awards! Audiobook Narration—Non-Fiction, Best Voiceover How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics by Eugenia Cheng Narrator: […]
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Featured Audio Giveaway – October 2015 – Pretty Good Jokes Live!
October 6th, 2015 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways
Pretty Good Jokes Live! Garrison Keillor; performed by Garrison Keillor and an ensemble cast Even more of a good thing: the latest collection of knee-slappers, toe-tappers, and groaners from A Prairie Home Companion Joke Shows. What does IDK stand for? I dont know. OMG, nobody does!. . . . What is a hippies wife called? […]