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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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Lee Smith’s Guests on Earth:
An accompaniment both obbligato and
ad libitum

October 28th, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized

On first blush, Guests on Earth by Lee Smith (The Last Girls) bears resemblance to The Secret Life of Bees: A young girl, believing herself responsible for her mother’s death, leaves her home and finds herself among a group of women that soon become her second family. Even Emily Woo Zeller’s voice, while unaccented, has […]

A Different Kind of Noir Classic: The City When It Rains

October 22nd, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized

I’ve been wanting to listen to the Mysterious Press-HighBridge Audio Classics recording of Thomas H. Cook‘s The City When It Rains for a while, ever since meeting Tom at Bouchercon in St. Louis and hearing that this was the favorite of his many books. A recent road trip provided the perfect opportunity for me to […]

NPR National Park Adventures: You won’t regret the time spent

October 14th, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Are you stuck at home like me, or in your car this year doing the commute? Well, get your feet wet and take a listen to National Park Adventures, one of the Road Trips audios from NPR and HighBridge Audio. Noah Adams is the friendly, familiar voice. I know him from All Things Considered. The […]

Digital Classic: Penance

October 7th, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized

First published in the mid-1990s, Penance was David Housewright’s first novel, and won the Edgar Award for the Best First Novel. A Minnesota native and resident, Housewright has gone on to write more than ten novels to date, with about as many short stories under his belt. Penance was released under the Mysterious Press-HighBridge Audio […]

OLD JEWS off-Broadway show coming to the midwest

September 30th, 2013 · No Comments · HighBridge at the Movies, Uncategorized

The hit off-Broadway show based on the beloved internet sensation (and audiobook) by Sam Hoffman and Eric Spiegelman is pulling up stakes from New York and heading for the great midwest. The live show was developed by lifelong Jewish humor devotees Daniel Okrent and Peter Gethers, who clearly loved the original Old Jews Telling Jokes as much […]

Thomas’ Poll Winner: The Seersucker Whipsaw

September 30th, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized

One of the grand masters of the genre, Ross Thomas wrote 25 suspense novels in his long career, employing a well-crafted style and colorful characters who trade on snappy, witty dialogue to churn up the underbelly of many a political intrigue. The Mysterious Press Classic audio line from HighBridge has turned up a gem from […]

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