The cast has been announced for the Off-Broadway production of Old Jews Telling Jokes, which begins performances in May at the Westside Theater in New York. Bill Army, Marilyn Sokol, Todd Susman, Audrey Lynn Weston, and Lenny Wolpe will be featured in the show, which was inspired by the Old Jews Telling Jokes website, which has also spawned a book and two audio productions. The revue will include jokes, songs and more. Break a leg!
Old Jews Telling Jokes Off-Broadway
March 22nd, 2012 by Julie · Author/Narrator News, Hear It Here First
Hola, aka “Bad Dog” stops by HighBridge to say… Hola!
March 16th, 2012 by Kay Weiss · Author/Narrator News
Hola, star of Martin Kihn’s memoir Bad Dog: A Love Story stopped by the HighBridge offices yesterday. She’s a beautiful Bernese mountain dog (and as friendly as she is beautiful). The Bernese mountain dog is a very old breed. The ancestors of today’s dogs served as all purpose farm dogs
in Switzerland and as rescue dogs.
Hola’s owners Martin and his wife (who stopped by with Hola) live in Minneapolis. You’ll perhaps
recognize Martin’s name from his making the TV talk show rounds with actor Don Cheadle, who stars in the Showtime version of another of Martin’s books House of Lies.
As you learn if you listen to Bad Dog (check out the excerpt), Hola lives up to the history of her breed as a rescue dog—but perhaps in an unusual way. It’s in attempting to train Hola that Martin learns he needs to get much more in his life under control than just his dog.
The writing Bad Dog: A Love Story is sharp and witty, and narrator David Drummond delivers this portrait of a man who seems to know even less about himself than he does about training a dog with the perfect mixture of misplaced assurance and bewildered revelation.
“This wry memoir of the human-dog bond is one that eschews the usual treacly sentimentality in favor of a raw, deeply sincere, and self-aware homage to this powerful bond.”
—Publishers Weekly [HC starred review]
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- Frank Randall, who acquired BAD DOG, Gladys Jones (Operations and unofficial HighBridge Dog Whisperper), Hola, and Hola’s mom (wife of author Martin Kihn).
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- Beautiful Hoa
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- Happy to meet her adoring fans.
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- Hola and her audiobook compare profiles.
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- HighBridge shows Hola some love.
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- Hola gets “the star treatment.”
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- “Here–let me get you a copy of my audiobook.”
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- “Should I make it out to you or to your dog?”
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- These audiobook tours are exhausting.
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On the Road – The Trailer
March 16th, 2012 by Julie · Uncategorized
At last, the official film trailer for On the Road is available! Though the film does not yet have a US release date, it will premiere (according to reports) at the Cannes film festival this year.
While you wait for the film to come to a theater near you, brush up on your Kerouac with our audio of On the Road, narrated by David Carradine. And for the back story of the book, One and Only is the story of Lu Anne Henderson, Kerouac’s inspiration for On the Road‘s Marylou. Both are perfect listening for the first road trip of spring!
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Big Laughs & Cultural Reflection from Sam Hoffman (Old Jews Telling Jokes) at St. Paul JCC
March 13th, 2012 by Frank Randall · Author/Narrator News, HighBridge at the Movies
Sam Hoffman (center) with Frank Randall of HighBridge (L) and Jeffrey Richman, Cultural Arts Director of the St. Paul JCC (R).
Sam Hoffman, author of the Audie® Award-winning Old Jews Telling Jokes and producer/host of The Joke-Off, wowed the crowd at St. Paul’s JCC on Saturday night. The evening was a perfect combination of big laughs and cultural reflection, throughout which Sam presented highlights from his web sensation featuring older Jews (60+) telling jokes in a down-to earth manner that never gets old.
Sam takes the podium in St. Paul.
Filmmaker by trade, storyteller at heart, Sam shared many of his favorite jokes and anecdotes, from the birth of the concept (inspired by the compulsive joke-telling exhibited by his own relatives—including his normally buttoned up Dad and least-likely-to-showboat Mom) to the unexpected success of the project which is now available as a DVD, book, audiobook, and comedy album (see the latest release from HighBridge: The Joke-Off: A Comedy Knockdown).
Sam takes a photo of the St. Paul JCC crowd.
Not suprisingly, the audience for Old Jews Telling Jokes continues to grow. Sam was delighted to break the news that an off-Broadway show (news story from Variety and Theatermania) is scheduled to begin previews May 1, ahead of a May 20 opening at New York’s Westside Theater. Based on the delighted buzz in this crowded Twin Cities room, producers will have no trouble filling the seats.
Sam meets the St. Paul crowd in a signing after his presentation.
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Featured Audio Giveaway – March 2012
March 5th, 2012 by Kay Weiss · Featured Audio Giveaways
Black Mask 1: Doors in the Dark
Edited by Otto Penzler; read by Eric Conger, Oliver Wyman, Alan Sklar, Pete Larkin, and Jeff Gurner
How to Win This Audio CD
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2. Send an email to newsletter@highbridgeaudio.com
3. Put the words “Black Mask” in the subject line. Entries must be received by no later than 3/20/2012. See the Win Audiobooks page for more details.
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About This Month’s Featured Audio
See for yourself why this collection was selected as an Audie® Finalist: Best Short Stories/ Collection. Win a copy!
A Library Journal Best Audiobook Selection
“Hitting like a Tommy gun blast, these pulse-pounding collections will leave mystery hounds panting for the next installment.”
—Library Journal 
starred review
From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D. MacDonald got their start in Black Mask. The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture. Modern computer games, films, and television are rooted in the fiction popularized by “the seminal and venerated mystery pulp magazine” (Booklist).
Otto Penzler selected and wrote introductions to the best of the best, the darkest of these dark, vintage stories for the collection The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories. Now that collection is available for the first time on audio.
Includes:
- Introduction by Keith Alan Deutsch; read by Eric Conger
- “Come and Get It” by Erle Stanley Gardner; read by Oliver Wyman
- “Arson Plus” by Peter Collinson (Dashiell Hammett); read by Alan Sklar
- “Fall Guy” by George Harmon Coxe; read by Pete Larkin
- “Doors in the Dark” by Frederick Nebel; read by Pete Larkin
- “Luck” by Lester Dent; read by Jeff Gurner
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Last Month’s Winner
Congratulations to T. NEWELL the winner of the last giveaway, Black Mask 1: Doors in the Dark. Thanks to all who participated.
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Another Hobbit teaser
March 2nd, 2012 by Julie · Uncategorized
There’s a new production video blog on The Hobbit. This one again focuses on location shooting.
The scenery is just breathtaking!
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Literary Death Match in Minneapolis
February 29th, 2012 by Julie · Author/Narrator News, Hear It Here First
No, we didn’t make that up for a catchy headline. It’s a real event taking place Thursday night, March 1 at the Nomad World Pub. Literary Death Match puts on these events all over the country, and the Minnesota installment just happens to include not one, but TWO, HighBridge authors. Kao Kalia Yang, author of The Latehomecomer, will be facing off against Martin Kihn, whose book Bad Dog will be released next month on audio. Tristan Jimerson and Sarah Stonich are also competing. Good luck to all!
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Featured Audio Giveaway – February 2012
February 2nd, 2012 by Kay Weiss · Featured Audio Giveaways
Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea
Morgan Callan Rogers; read by Luci Christian 
How to Win This Audio CD
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3. Put the words “Red Ruby” in the subject line. Entries must be received by no later than 2/20/2012. See the Win Audiobooks page for more details. Alternatively, you can LIKE HighBridge on Facebook and comment on this post, or become a FOLLOWER on Twitter and tweet or retweet this message by 2/20/2012 (remember to “@HighBridgeAudio”).
About This Month’s Featured Audio
A captivating debut, introducing a spirited young heroine coming of age in coastal Maine during the early 1960s.
“So rapturously moving, I could barely bring myself to close the final page.”
—Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You
“Not since Ellen Foster have I rooted so hard for a fictional girl.”
—Monica Wood, author of Any Bitter Thing
“Florine . . . isn’t always lovable . . . [b]ut Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea makes her real. B+”
—Entertainment Weekly
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Last Month’s Winner
Congratulations to SANDRA MALARCHER the winner of the last giveaway, Running the Rift. Thanks to all who participated.
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The Hobbit on location
February 2nd, 2012 by Julie · HighBridge at the Movies
The latest video diary from the set of The Hobbit actually came out in December, but better late than never! This installment shows the crew preparing for and shooting on location. It’s astounding the number of people and trucks it takes! As with all the videos so far, it just makes us anticipate the movie(s) even more.
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“On the Road” to a theater near you?
January 11th, 2012 by Julie · Author/Narrator News, Hear It Here First, HighBridge at the Movies
Director Walter Salles reports that his long-awaited film of On the Road is nearing completion and aiming for a May 23rd release in France. The movie stars Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Tom Sturridge and Kristen Stewart, with Viggo Mortensen, Amy Adams, Steve Buscemi, Kirsten Dunst and Terrence Howard filling out the cast for the adaptation of the Jack Kerouac classic. The movie doesn’t yet have a North American distributor, so there’s no word on when it might release in the U.S. In the meantime, get your Beat fix with our audio of On the Road, read by David Carradine, or our new audio, One and Only: The Untold Story of On the Road. One and Only, by Gerald Nicosia and Anne Marie Santos, tells the story of Lu Anne Henderson, the woman who started Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady on the trip that inspired the book.
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