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 […]
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? […]
New Hosts Join NPR’s ‘All Things Considered’
September 23rd, 2015 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News, NPR
Congratulations to NPR’s Ari Shapiro and Kelly McEvers, new hosts of All Things Considered! We’re proud to say that Ari hosts our StoryCorps: OutLoud collection and Kelly does the honors on NPR Driveway Moments: Love Stories. Two of our favorite audios – and people! Ari Shapiro has reported from above the Arctic Circle and aboard […]
Featured Audio Giveaway – September 2015 – Trumbo
September 8th, 2015 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways, Sale
Trumbo Bruce Cook; read by Luke Daniels An intimate, essential biography of the man who broke the Hollywood blacklist. Read the full description. ________________________ How to Win This Audio CD 1. Send an email to newsletter@highbridgeaudio.com 2. Put the word “Trumbo” in the subject line. Entries must be received by 9/30/2015. See the Program Details […]
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Praise for Bob and Ray
September 3rd, 2015 · No Comments · Reviews
From the “genius loves company” department: In his new memoir Even This I Get to Experience, comedy legend Norman Lear calls Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding “arguably the greatest comedy team radio ever produced.” We wholeheartedly agree. Do yourself a favor and check out The Very Best of Bob and Ray, still funny, still edgy, […]
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Emmett Till Anniversary
August 28th, 2015 · No Comments · NPR
Sixty years ago today, Emmett Till, a black Chicago teenager, was killed for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. Learn more about Emmett, his tragic murder, and his impact on the struggle for civil rights in NPR AMERICAN CHRONICLES: CIVIL RIGHTS, from HighBridge Audio. “The personal reflections and historical accounts are alternately riveting, moving, […]
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Women’s Equality Day
August 27th, 2015 · No Comments · NPR
Today is Women’s Equality Day. As a young woman myself, I can’t describe what this day means to me. We would be living in a much different world if it weren’t for these pioneers. Before the Women’s Suffrage Movement, people believed the sole purpose of women in life was to cook, clean and take care […]
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