Beacon Weekly Report

Archive: July 20, 2006

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Publicity, Reviews, and Praise:

Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son, Kevin Jennings, cloth, August 2006, $24.95, 0-8070-7146-3

• Horace, review in September issue
   
• Independent School, review in Fall issue
   
• Genre, review in September issue
   
• Lambda Book Report, review in Fall issue
   
• Winston-Salem Journal, feature in September
   
• Sirius Radio, John McMullen Show, live interview on Monday, August 14th at 4:30 pm

Thirst, Mary Oliver, cloth, October 2006, $22.00, 0-8070-6896-9

• NPR, The Writer's Almanac, Garrison Keillor will read Mary Oliver in August
   
• Utne Magazine, excerpt in September issue
   
• Harvard Divinity Bulletin, excerpt in Autumn 2006 issue
   
• America, running excerpt in September 25th issue
   
• Christian Century, excerpt in September issue

My Father's Keeper, Jonathan G. Silin, cloth, May 2006, $23.95, 0-8070-7964-2

• New York Times, Long Island Region section, essay by Silin forthcoming in late July or early August

People's Movements, People's Press, Bob Ostertag, cloth, May 2006, $23.95, 0-8070-6164-6

• Chronicle Review: The Chronicle of Higher Education, excerpt in July 21 issue
   
• Columbia Journalism Review, review in July/August issue:
  
  "The value of his [Ostertag] approach lies in the skill with which he combines the history of the journalism of such movements with the history of the movements themselves."

The Earth Knows My Name, Patricia Klindienst, cloth, April 2006, $26.95, 0-8070-8562-6

• California Bookwatch, review in July issue:
  
  "It's a wide-ranging title which will interest not only gardeners, but any intrigued by immigrant history and cross-cultural encounters."

Weaving a Family, Barbara Katz Rothman, paperback, May 2006, $18.00, 0-8070-2830-4

• ColorLines, review in July/August issue:
  
  "Katz Rothman reveals race to be a house of mirrors with its dizzying interruptions and distortions, reflections and reflexes. The strength of this book lies in its unflagging attention to nuance and its reliance on lived experience."