FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, The Audio
An “exclusive” nine-minute clip from the audio of Fifty Shades of Grey is on Entertainment Weekly‘s “Shelf Life” blog. We were suspicious, since the post is dated April 2nd (this year’s unofficial...
View ArticleBOSSYPANTS Named Audiobook of the Year
The Audio Publishers Association (APA) announced the winners of the Audies in 30 categories last night. Tina Fey’s recording of her book, Bossypants (Hachette Audio) was named the Audiobook of the...
View ArticleBest Audio; BEAUTIFUL RUINS
Audible has just released their list of the best audios of the year, including their pick of the ONE best, which is Beautiful Ruins by Jesse Walter (HarperAudio). It was also chosen by Salon, which...
View ArticleGet Ready For PARADE’S END
Called “Downton Abbey for Grownups” (Laura Miller, Salon) and “The Better Downton Abbey” (The New Yorker), the BBC/HBO mini-series adaptation of Ford Madox Ford’s series of four novels, Parade’s End,...
View ArticleOprah — Audios Better Than Books
If you’re searching for ideas for your library blogs, here’s one to steal from Oprah.com, a feature on seven “Audiobooks That Sound Better Than the Printed Versions.” Among the narrators spotlighted...
View ArticleNew Audio Sounds
On NPR this morning, AudioFile founder and editor Robin Whitten selected several audiobooks from the magazine’s picks of the best of the year to showcase ways in which producers are “expanding the...
View ArticleMARS Ascending
The Kickstarter-funded movie, Veronica Mars, may not have done well at the box office (or with the NYT critic, or with some of the funders), but the related book (which picks up the story after the...
View ArticleBest Spoken Word Grammy to Joan Rivers
The 2015 Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album, presented last night, went to Joan Rivers, for Diary of a Mad Diva (Penguin Audio; BOT Sample). Her daughter, Melissa Rivers accepts the award, below. The...
View ArticlePatti Smith Narrates Nesbo
Patti Smith has narrated just one audiobook, her own, Just Kids. Now she adds a second, Jo Nesbo’s Blood on Snow, (RH & BOT Audio; RH/Knopf print; Random House Large Print) a standalone released...
View ArticleWitherspoon Voices WATCHMAN
Following in the footsteps of actress Sissy Spacek who narrates the 2009 production of To Kill A Mockingbird, Reese Witherspoon has been selected by HarperAudio to narrate Go Set A Watchman. The...
View ArticleOrder Alert: Stephen King’s DRUNKEN FIREWORKS
Stephen King will release an audiobook-only title this summer, Drunken Fireworks (Simon & Schuster Audio; CD and DD, OverDrive Sample), about a fireworks rivalry that gets way out of hand. To be...
View ArticleIn Defense of Audiobooks
Do audiobooks still need defending? At least one person thinks so. Ten years after the New York Times looked into whether listening to audiobooks was “real” reading, or just “oral CliffsNotes for...
View ArticleRUSA/CODES Audiobook Winners
The titles selected for The Listen List: Outstanding Audiobook Narration were announced at the ALA Midwinter meeting in Boston this past weekend. The Listen List picks audiobook titles based on the...
View ArticleNYT’s Sunday Book Review Discovers Audio
In an audiobook focused 5-page section, the upcoming NYT‘s Sunday Book Review offers a host of reviews for listeners of all interests and ages. The highlight is Gillian Flynn’s take on The Turn of the...
View ArticleTHE GIRL ON THE TRAIN Tops Audies
The 2016 Audies, given by the Audio Publishers Association for “distinction in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment ” were announced last week. The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins, read by Clare...
View ArticlePennie Picks Audio
Costco’s influential book buyer Pennie Clark Ianniciello generally picks one title to feature in Costco’s monthly publication, The Costco Connection, but for the July issue, she picks an entire format,...
View ArticleAnd The Grammy Nominees Are …
The Grammy Awards announced their finalists in the Best Spoken Word category this Tuesday. Spanning poetry, audiobooks, and storytelling, the category has a rich history of winners, including Jimmy...
View ArticleGeorge Saunders on Audio
The literary world is eagerly awaiting the debut novel from George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo (PRH/RH; RH Audio/BOT; Feb. 14). Audiobook fans should start the countdown as well. Time magazine...
View ArticleHANDMAID Redux?
Excitement is building over a possible sequel to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (Houghton Mifflin, 1986; tie-in ed., PRH/Anchor, 2017; OverDrive Sample). A sly wink from Atwood as well as some...
View ArticleHAMILTON: THE REVOLUTION Tops Audies
The 2017 Audie Awards were announced last night by the Audio Publishers Association. Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter, narrated by Mariska Hargitay with the authors...
View ArticleTHE KING’S SPEECH
The L.A Times calls the movie The King’s Speech, “perhaps the award season’s most extraordinary box-office tale,” overturning conventional Hollywood wisdom about American audiences (for instance, that,...
View ArticleSpoken Word Grammy Nominees
Tina Fey may add a Grammy to her many awards. Her best selling audio recording of Bossypants (Hachette Audio) was announced as a nominee in the Best Spoken Word category at last night’s Grammy...
View ArticleBetty White Wins Grammy
Betty White has another Grammy Award to add to her large trophy case (her first was in 1975 for her supporting role on The Mary Tyler Moore). She won best Spoken Word Album last night for If You Ask Me...
View ArticleWorld War Z, New Trailer
A new trailer for the film adaptation of Max Brook’s zombie apocalypse novel, World War Z (RH/Crown, 2006), was released today. The movie was originally scheduled to arrive in theaters last December,...
View ArticleHamilton, Carter Win Grammys
The Grammy Awards are not known for celebrating books, but this year’s opening number has its roots in Ron Chernow’s biography Alexander Hamilton (Penguin, 2005), the inspiration for the hip hop...
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