News Briefs
By Raya Kuzyk -- Library Journal, 03/01/2010
And the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album goes to...Always Looking Up (LJ 6/15/09), read by the author, Michael J. Fox, from Hyperion Audio. (The Hyperion print edition was an LJ Best Seller.) Also nominated in that category were The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (LJ 5/1/09), performed by Richard Dreyfuss and David Strathairn; Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales (a 2009 LJ Editors' Fall Pick); and Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking (LJ 6/1/09; Best Audiobooks of 2009, LJ 1/10, p. 54).
BBC Audiobooks America has launched a new line of audiobook classics on CD priced at under $50 and accompanied by full-text PDFs. Two titles will be released monthly; among those currently available are Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence, read by David Horovitch, and Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, read by Martin Jarvis. More info at www.bbcaudiobooksamerica.com/library.
Though the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation of the Jewish Bible has long been available on audio, the newer, more widely read 1985 translation has previously never been recorded—until now. Produced by the Jewish Braille Institute, JPS Tanakh: The Jewish Bible is read by 13 narrators, including actors Theodore Bikel and Tovah Feldshuh and authors Bruce Feiler and Rabbi Harold Kushner. For updates on the availability of the 60-hour recording as well as free podcasts and full-text PDFs of the weekly Torah readings, visit www.jewishpub.org/books/audiobible.
Coming in April from HighBridge Audio: Jerzy Kosinski's controversial 1965 Holocaust novel, The Painted Bird, read by Fred Berman. Available for the first time on audio, the title will be sold in formats including CD, Playaway digital, and digital download. More info at www.highbridgeaudio.com.
Coming in April from Blackstone Audio: Stephen King's 1982 British Fantasy Award-winning potboiler, Cujo, read by Lorna Raver. Available for the first time on audio, the title will be sold in formats including CD, MP3-CD, Playaway digital, and digital download. More info at www.blackstoneaudio.com.
