The Open Road Blog

Your favorite show was on television. You had to walk the dog. You read the Cliff's Notes (or the review in the New York Times) and got the gist. And somehow, you never managed to actually read the book.

But when someone asks you about Bestseller X or Classic Novel Y at a dinner party, you fumble your way through the conversation and nod knowingly, right?

We consider ourselves smart, moderately well read folks. We’ve all got books that we meant to read—but just haven't gotten around to yet. We’ve got the best of intentions, but somehow there are ...

On November 29, 2011, Open Road Integrated Media will publish Some Came Running by the late James Jones (1921–1977). Recognized as “one of the significant writers of his generation” by The New York Times, Jones is best known as the author of From Here to Eternity, which was reissued by Open Road Media earlier this year. The restored novel, which included previously censored scenes and dialogue, met with great acclaim.

After the blockbuster international success of From Here to Eternity, ...

This week’s archival photo features author James Jones at the trailer camp where he worked. It is the site where Jones wrote From Here to Eternity in the late 1940s.

Raised amid the financial and cultural chaos of the Great Depression, Jones joined the army just before the attack on Pearl Harbor. A brief stint away from the army led him to Lowney Handy, the novelist who later became Jones’s confidant and mentor. Honorably discharged with what we now call Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Jones entered NYU and commenced his literary journey. He is best known for his second novel, ...

Open Road Media announces the ebook publication of seven titles by legendary novelist James Jones, on May 10, 2011.

Jones’s literary debut, From Here to Eternity, became an international bestseller and Academy Award–winning film following its publication in 1951. It earned Jones the National Book Award and established him as a leading American author of the World War II generation. Now, for the first time, previously censored scenes and dialogue have been restored to the text of From Here to Eternity. The Restored Edition includes never-before-seen passages that were cut from the original manuscript, including those containing ...

Remember producing spin art at childhood carnivals (and, if you were really fancy, with your in-home toy set)? Claire O'Neill's NPR piece, "How Sound Can Create Sculpture," tapped into my fondest paint memories this week. Dentsu London—the creative agency behind last year's iPad light painting video—has merged music, paint, and photography to create Water Figures. "Water Figures are sculpted by the action of sound waves which eject water based paints into the air from the surface of a rubber membrane (balloon) placed over the front of a small speaker like those used for computers," explains Linden Gledhill, the biochemist/photographer who ...