Today in 1974 the very first broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion was heard from the Janet Wallace Auditorium at Macalester College in Saint Paul. Admission was a whopping $1 for adults and $.50 for the kiddies. It’s still a great value now–but what a deal then! Since then, Garrison Keillor and the APHC team have gone on […]
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Prairie Home Companion Celebrates Another Anniversary
July 6th, 2011 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News
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David Drummond (narrator of ALL THINGS SHINING) pays a visit
June 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News
David Drummond, narrator of All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular World stopped by the HighBridge office this morning to say hello. He’s in town this week performing Guys and Dolls at the Ordway Theater, and was kind enough to pay us a visit. David did an excellent job […]
Tags: All Things Shining·audiobook·David Drummond·HighBridge
Alafair Burke’s LONG GONE is here today!
June 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News, Hear It Here First
With a thriller author as talented as Alafair Burke, nothing is as it seems. Friends become enemies. Dream jobs become murder scenes. Even the title strives to deceive you—for Long Gone is not long gone at all. It’s right here at HighBridge, and it’s available on audio today! Long Gone follows Alice Humphrey. After a […]
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NPR is going to the dogs
June 20th, 2011 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News
NPR is going to the dogs—in the best possible way, of course. NPR Driveway Moments: Dog Tales, an audio-only celebration of extraordinary pooches and the lives that they have touched was released just a few weeks ago. And as you can tell from these pictures from NPR correspondent and Dog Tales host Andrea Seabrook, the […]
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Solving murders in between beers: Inspector Van Veeteren arrives in the U.S.
June 14th, 2011 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News, Hear It Here First
Poor Inspector Van Veeteren. All he wants to do is read books, drink beer, and maybe play a little chess, if anybody’s up for it. But instead, the reluctant hero of Håkan Nesser’s critically acclaimed mystery series is stuck solving murder after murder; and now, for the first time, we in the U.S. get the […]
Tags: audiobook·borkmann's point·Håkan Nesser·inspector and silence·Inspector Van Veeteran·mind's eye·mystery·the return·woman with birthmark
“The Borrower” debuts today
June 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News, Publishing News
Librarians and booklovers rejoice! The Borrower, the critically acclaimed first novel by Rebecca Makkai, is available on audio today. The Borrower follows Lucy Hull, a young librarian in Missouri, as she sets out on an impromptu and legally dubious road trip with her favorite patron—ten-year-old Ian Drake, who is fleeing his mother and the antigay […]
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Excellent summer listening: Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead
June 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News, Hear It Here First
Thank you, Sara Gran! Just in time for summer, a new audiobook from the author that Glamour calls "A latter-day Raymond Chandler" has been released to wide critical acclaim. Gran’s Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead follows tattooed, pot-smoking, new-agey private eye Claire DeWitt as she uses unorthodox means to investigate a murder […]
Garrison Keillor talks retirement
May 16th, 2011 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News, Hear It Here First
The New York Times this weekend ran a new interview with A Prairie Home Companion‘s Garrison Keillor. He confirms that he’s planning to step down as host of the show in 2013 and is looking for a replacement.
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Terry Gross to be honored by Authors Guild
May 5th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Author/Narrator News
On May 23, as part of the Authors Guild annual celebration, the Guild will honor Terry Gross, host of NPR’s Fresh Air, by presenting her with their 2011 Authors Guild Award for Distinguished Service to the Literary Community. The Authors Guild writes, “Ms. Gross’s singular insight and curiosity in exploring writers’ ideas have made Fresh Air […]
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