Beacon Weekly Report

Archive: March 28, 2006

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Publicity, Reviews, and Praise

When the Rivers Run Dry, by Fred Pearce (hardcover, March 2006, $26.95, 0-8070-8572-3)

• Fresh Air /NPR, interview with Terry Gross, aired Monday, March 27th at 3:00pm
   
• Worldview /Chicago Public Radio, interview aired March 22nd.

At Blackwater Pond, by Mary Oliver (Audio CD, April 2006, $19.95, 0-8070-0700-5)

• "April is National Poetry Month" displays will soon go up in all stores with Book Sense
   
• Two ads in The New Yorker - March 27th and April 10th issues
   
• Ad in New York Times Book Review - April 2nd issue

Epic Journeys of Freedom, by Cassandra Pybus (hardcover, February 2006, $26.95, 0-8070-5514-X)

• The New Yorker will cover in April, details to come

My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes, edited by Lila Azam Zanganeh (paperback original, April 2006, $12.00, 0-8070-0463-4)

• Newsweek International, review, on stands Monday, April 3rd

Unchosen, by Hella Winston, (hardcover, November 2006, $24.95, 0-8070-3626-9; paperback: November 2007, $15.00, 0-8070-3627-7)

• Event Update:
  Hella Winston
  92nd St. Y Makor/Steinhard Center
  Tuesday, May 30th
   
• New York Magazine, reporter interviewed Hella Winston for a piece on sexual abuse in the ultra Orthodox world, will quote Winston and reference Unchosen, likely to run in May

The Future of the Wild, by Jonathan S. Adams, (hardcover, January 2006, $27.95, 0-8070-8510-3)

• Cambridge Forum, recorded Wednesday, March 29th, air date to come
   
• EcoNews, interview with Nancy Pearlman, June 22nd, will air on over 100 educational access channels

Big-Box Swindle, by Stacy Mitchell (hardcover, November 2007, $25.95, 0-8070-3500-9)

• "Through rich, real-life stories, Stacy Mitchell reveals that those 'low prices' so proudly promoted by big-box behemoths come at an intolerably high cost to our communities and culture. Can we beat the behemoths? Yes! And Mitchell shows us the way. Read on, take heart, and take action!"
  —Jim Hightower

Shipping This Week

My Father's Keeper, by Jonathan G. Silin (hardcover, May 2006, 0-8070-7964-2)

• "Jonathan Silin offers a series of valuable reports from what might be called the country of farewells, using his raw experience to explore important questions about childhood, education, parenting, privacy, control, mental health, old age, death, and forgiveness. This is a rich, careful, honest book, both nakedly personal and coolly philosophical. I've never read anything quite like it."
  —Christopher Bram, author of Gods and Monsters
   
• "Primarily a search for the ethics of caretaking, and the boundaries that waver between parent and child when death looms, My Father's Keeper is also a book about a gay Jewish teacher who loses his own life partner while his parents are falling apart. Rich with the strange parallels between coping with young schoolchildren and ‘the frail elderly,' Silin's conscientious analysis only makes the rocky decline of his two very real parents all the more moving. A wise, insightful book."
  —Andrew Holleran, author of The Beauty of Men
   
• "Jonathan Silin's story is uniquely his own but it could be yours and mine. Precious human documents like this prepare us for what lies ahead. They teach and they heal."
  —Terrence McNally, author of Master Class
   
• Publicity
  • Utne Magazine, review with jacket art, May/June issue
  • BTWOF: The Gay Men's Edition, review by Richard Labonte, late April
  • The Jewish Week, feature with jacket art in short reviews column, May
  • Genre Magazine, review with jacket art, May issue
  • Metro Weekly (DC), details to come
  • Columbia Magazine, details to come
  • In Newsweekly, will run Richard Labonte's review, date to come

Confessions of the Other Mother, edited by Harlyn Aizley (paperback original, May 2006, $16.00, 0-8070-7963-4)

• "Confessions of the Other Mother brings together hilarious, heart-wrenching, painfully honest tales of mommyhood. Not just for mothers or other mothers—but for anyone who has felt like an outsider at the playground. Funny, warm, sad, beautiful—and even sexy—the book is not only from the heart, but for the heart."
  —Jill Soloway, author of Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants and writer/co-executive producer of Six Feet Under
   
• "The essays in Confessions of the Other Mother are alternately fascinating, insightful, hilarious, touching and goofy, and all a testament to what a universal thing it is to be a parent. I love the Babas and the Bobbies and the mommies and the mommas, they are all the sweetest and the strongest, as women and writers, and show us, in a very entertaining fashion, that we are all in the same boat."
  —Christie Mellor, author of The Three-Martini Playdate
   
• "Given how many lesbians are conceiving children together, this collection of narratives by non-biological mothers will fill a much-needed place in the queer parenting canon."
   —Rachel Pepper, author of The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians
   
• Publicity
  • Curve, review, Spring issue
  • Publishers Weekly, review with jacket art, March 13th issue
  • In Newsweekly, interview with Aizley for preview piece, details to come
  • Bay Windows, feature to run in a summer issue, details to come

News

Beacon Press, Warner Books, and Seven Stories Press—along with the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and Museum—have established the Octavia Butler Memorial Scholarship Fund. The scholarships will allow a minority writer to attend one of the Clarion writers workshops where Octavia Butler got her start.