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

Black Mask 1: Doors in the Dark

Edited by Otto Penzler; read by Eric Conger, Oliver Wyman, Alan Sklar, Pete Larkin, and Jeff Gurner
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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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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

Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea

Morgan Callan Rogers; read by Luci Christian Hear an excerpt

 

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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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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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Featured Audio Giveaway – January 2012

December 31st, 2011 by Kay Weiss · Featured Audio Giveaways



Running the Rift

Running the Rift

Naomi Benaron; read by Marcel Davis
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Winner of the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Fiction, this powerful debut novel describes the life of a young Tutsi boy who comes of age during the Rwandan genocide.

“Truly fearless writing . . . culturally rich and completely engrossing.”
      &#151Barbara Kingsolver, founder of the Bellwether Prize, author of
The Poisonwood Bible

“The politics will be familiar to those who have followed Africa’s crises (or seen Hotel Rwanda), but where Benaron shines is in her tender descriptions of Rwandan’s natural beauty and in her creation of Jean Patrick, a hero whose noble innocence and genuine human warmth are impossible not to love.”
      —Kirkus Reviews HC starred review

“Benaron accomplishes the improbable feat of wringing genuine loveliness from unspeakable horror. . . . It is a testament to Benaron’s skill that a novel about genocide . . . conveys so profoundly the joys of family, friendship, and community.”
      —Publishers Weekly HC starred review

“Unflinching and beautifully crafted. . . .   This tale of social justice [is] a memorable read, and those interested in coming-of-age stories set in wartime will want it as well. Highly recommended.”
      —Library Journal HC starred review

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When She Woke. Thanks to all who participated.

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Featured Audio Giveaway – November 2011

November 2nd, 2011 by Kay Weiss · Featured Audio Giveaways



When She Woke

When She Woke

Hillary Jordan, author of Mudbound;
read by Heather Corrigan
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Hannah Payne awakens to a nightmare. She is lying on a table in a bare room, covered only by a paper gown, with cameras broadcasting her every move to millions at home. She is now a convicted criminal, and her skin color has been genetically altered. Her crime, according to the State of Texas: the murder of her unborn child, whose father she refuses to name. Her color: red. The color of newly shed blood.

In Hannah’s America, sometime in the future, faith, love, and sexuality have fallen prey to politics. Convicted felons are no longer imprisoned and rehabilitated, but “chromed,” forced to appear in a new and sinister form of reality TV, and released back into the population. Stigmatized in a hostile world, they must survive the best they can.

Until her arrest, Hannah had devoted her life to church and family. In seeking a path to safety, she is forced to question the values she once held true and the righteousness of a country that politicizes the personal.

“Corrigan’s narration becomes one with the plot.”
      —AudioFile

“Jordan blends hot-button issues such as the separation of church and state, abortion, and criminal justice with an utterly engrossing story, driven by a heroine as layered and magnetic as Hester Prynne herself.”
      —Booklist HC starred review

“It reads like a thriller, and one that makes you think hard, to boot. I’ve already placed this one on my favorite-books-for-book-clubs list.”
      —BookPage

“[A] provocative, politically charged novel . . . chilling and riveting.”
      —Family Circle

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