About Andre Dubus
Andre Dubus (1936–1999) is considered among the most talented American short-story writers of his generation. Born and raised in Louisiana, he spent his adult life living and teaching in blue-collar mill towns in northern New England. Dubus’ short stories and essays appeared in distinguished literary journals and magazines across the country, and were selected for numerous editions of the Best American Short Stories series, as well as the O. Henry Award and Pushcart Prize anthologies. Dubus’ work earned him MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Jean Stein Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and nominations for a National Book Critics Circle Award and Pulitzer Prize. In addition to seven collections of stories and novellas, Dubus published one novel and two collections of essays. The award-winning films In the Bedroom and We Don’t Live Here Anymore were adapted from his stories. Dubus is buried in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
About Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie has published twenty-one books and is a recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for achievement in the short story, the Rea Award for the Short Story. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
About Robert Fass
Robert Fass is a veteran actor and twice winner of the prestigious Audie Award for the year’s best narration. He has earned many Earphones Awards and AudioFile magazine “Best of the Year” accolades.
About Joe Barrett
Joe Barrett, an actor and Audie Award and Earphones Award–winning narrator, has appeared both on and off Broadway as well as in hundreds of radio and television commercials.
About Bronson Pinchot
Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.
About Traber Burns
Traber Burns worked for thirty-five years in regional theater, including the New York, Oregon, and Alabama Shakespeare festivals. He also spent five years in Los Angeles appearing in many television productions and commercials, including Lost, Close to Home, Without a Trace, Boston Legal, Grey’s Anatomy, Cold Case, Gilmore Girls, and others.
About Cassandra Campbell
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Cassandra Campbell began doing voice overs as the voice for Calvin Klein’s Italian commercials. This was followed by commercial and documentary recording in both English and Italian. She has recorded many audiobooks and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as an Audie® Award nomination. As an actress and director, she has worked at the Public, the Mint, the Berkshire Theatre Festival, Stagewest, Theatreworks, the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, Millmountain Theatre, the National Shakespeare Company, and the New York Fringe Festival.
About Hillary Huber
Hillary Huber is one of the most successful voice talents in Los Angeles. Recent books read for Blackstone Audio include Him, Her, Him Again, the End of Him by Patricia Marx, A Field of Darkness by Cornelia Read, and A Map of Glass by Jane Urquhart.
About Andre Dubus III
Andre Dubus III is
the author of the highly acclaimed, award-winning memoir Townie, a New York Times
bestseller, and of the #1 New York Times bestseller
House of Sand and Fog. Townie made the list of the best books
of 2011 for Esquire, Salon, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble,
Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Washington
Examiner, and AudioFile. House of Sand and Fog, the basis for an
Academy Award–nominated motion picture, was a fiction finalist for the National
Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Book Sense Book of the Year,
and an Oprah Book Club selection. His other works include a collection of short
fiction, The Cage Keeper and Other
Stories, and the novels Bluesman
and The Garden of Last Days. His work
has been included in The Best American
Essays of 1994 and The Best Spiritual
Writing of 1999. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Pushcart
Prize, the National Magazine Award for fiction, and was a finalist for the Rome
Prize Fellowship from the Academy of Arts and Letters. A member of PEN American
Center, Dubus has served as a panelist for the National Book Foundation and the
National Endowment for the Arts, has taught writing at Harvard, Tufts, and
Emerson College, and is currently a full-time faculty member at the University of
Massachusetts, Lowell. He is married to the performer Fontaine Dollas Dubus. They
live in Massachusetts with their three children.
