An amazing week—two books on bestseller lists, another selected by
Barnes and Noble for their Discover New Writers Program and still another selected
by Independent Booksellers as one of the year’s highlights. Plus, a Boston
Globe article about the 35th anniversary of Beacon’s publication of
the Pentagon Papers is forthcoming….
Bestseller Lists:
Thirst,
Mary Oliver, cloth, October 2006, $22.00, 0-8070-6896-9
Bestseller List, #12 Hardcover Fiction NEIBA for w/e 10/22/06
Bestseller List, #13 on Hardcover Fiction NEIBA for w/e 10/15/06
“Set in the early days of post-September 11th America, Once in a
Promised Land draws its structure from Arabian folklore and the western
fairy tale, turning both inside out to illuminate the mythic search for home
and identity, the universal hunger of the soul for the genuine, and the wounding
yet redemptive nature of love itself. In this timely and utterly original
novel, Laila Halaby has crafted a deeply resonant tale of out tangle and common
humanity. —Andre Dubus III
Booklist, forthcoming review: “Halaby perceptively examines
the everyday realities of the immigrant experience through convincingly drawn
characters.”
The Iron
Cage, Rashid Khalidi, cloth, October 2006, $24.95, 0-8070-0308-5
Tikkun, “Tikkun Recommends” section, review in October/November
issue: “Magisterial in scope, meticulous in its attention to detail,
and decidedly dispassionate in its analysis, The Iron Cage is destined
to be a benchmark of its genre.”
On Point with Tom Ashbrook/WBUR Radio
San Francisco Chronicle, interview in “Insight” section
on Sunday, October 21st
Morning Edition/KVON Radio (NPR, Napa Valley), live by phone, Tuesday, October
24th, 11-11:20 am (EST)
The Morning Show/KPFA Radio (Pacifica, Bay Area) , Wednesday, October 25th;
8:35-8:40pm; live by phone
Forum/KQED Radio; (NPR San Francisco) Wednesday, October 25th; 10:-11:00am
Alternet; Print interview; 11:30-12:15pm; Wednesday, October 25th at the
Union Square Hotel; Interview with Liv Leader
Jon Wiener Show/KPFK Radio (Pacifia in LA); Wednesday, Oct.25th, live by
phone; 4:00 - 4:20 pm pst
Gene Burns Show/KGO Radio (50,000 Watt; AM Talk out of San Francisco); Wednesday,
October 25th; live 9:00 – 10:00pm
Charlie Rose Show; taped interview on 10/16, air date to come
Bob Edwards/XM Satellite Radio, will air nationally this morning, 10/19
Jim Bohannon Show/Westwood One, aired nationally 11-12am on Tuesday, Oct.
17th,
C-Span/Book TV, taped Rashid’s appearance at Politics and Prose on
Tuesday, Oct. 17th, air date to come
Atlanta Journal Constitution, article in Tuesday, October 17th issue
Without a Map, Meredith Hall, cloth, April 2007, $24.95, 978-0-8070-7273-8
"Meredith Hall is like a Geiger counter ticking along the radium edge
of these recent decades. She gives us self as expert-witness—Without
a Map is smart, sharp, and redemptively honest." —Sven Birkerts,
author of The Gutenberg Elegies and My Sky Blue Trades
“Meredith Hall boldly charts one of the bravest of stories, the journey
from disrupted youth up through that most tricky and forbidding territory,
the family circle. Bone-honest and strong in its every line, this work of
memory is a remarkably deep retrieval of its times and souls, thereby reflecting
our own." —Ivan Doig, author of Heart Earth
Big-Box Swindle,
Stacy Mitchell, cloth, November 2006, $25.95, 0-8070-3500-9
My River Home, Marcus Eriksen, cloth, April 2007, $24.95,
978-0-8070-7275-2
“Marcus Eriksen is a natural writer. In the best American tradition
of Twain, Kerouac, and others, he uses the hard-fought journey as a means
to cross not only physical space but psychic space as well. Eriksen's memoir
cuts to the core of the great dilemma of what it means to be an American man.
As his story of an epic journey down the Mississippi attests, he is immensely
courageous, determined to overcome every obstacle in his path, and an ingenious
problem-solver. But as the memories that won't leave him alone attest: he,
like so many other Americans, both male and female, allowed himself to be
trained and used as a professional killer. The beauty of this book is that
Eriksen takes it one step further: he begins the forging of a badly-needed
new archetype—an American man who is both participant and witness in
the great struggle for forgiveness and a final end to all war.” —Gerald
Nicosia, author of Home to War
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