Epic Journeys of Freedom has been named one of three finalists for the Gilder Lehrman Center’s 2007 Frederick Douglass Book Prize. The review committee will meet in late September to determine the winner. Each year the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition presents the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, a $25,000 award for the most outstanding nonfiction book published in English on the subject of slavery and/or abolition and antislavery movements.
Publicity, Reviews, and Praise:
Acts of Faith,
Eboo Patel, cloth, July 2007, $22.95, 978-0-8070-7726-9
“He gives an occasional nod to Henry David Thoreau, perhaps to assure us that, yep, he’s read the masters, but his style—well, imagine Hunter Thompson gone birding, pen in hand.”
The Iron Cage,
Rashid Khalidi, cloth, September 2006, $24.95, 978-0-8070-0308-5
60 on Up, Lillian B. Rubin, cloth, September 2007, $23.95, 978-0-8070-2928-2
USA Today, author interviewed with book mention in the June 13th issue
Queer Action Series,Come Out and Win, Sue Hyde, paperback original, June 2007, $13.00, 978-0-8070-7972-0 and Out Law, Lisa Keen, paperback original, June
2007, $13.00, 978-0-8070-7966-9
Bay Windows, interviews with both Hyde and Keen in the June 14th issue:
“Just as most publishing houses are cutting back on titles geared toward an LGBT audience, Boston-based Beacon Press is doing just the opposite.”
Boston Public Library, Tuesday, June 19th at 6 p.m. (with Hyde, Keen, and panelists)
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center (NY), Tuesday, June 12th, 6:30 p.m. reception, 7 p.m. talk (with Hyde)
Between the Lines/PrideSource.com: June 15th Issue, Review of Out Law by Lisa Keen:
“Lisa Keen has created an important, vibrant book that will serve as both a guide for LBGT youth looking to make sure they know their legal rights, and as an historical document for future generations to mark the community's growth.”
June 7th Issue, Interview with Michael Bronski, series editor, and Series Announcement.
In the News
Big-Box Swindle, Stacy Mitchell, cloth, November 2006, $25.95, 978-0-8070-3500-9
Author Stacy Mitchell has been successfully active in a legislative fight in Maine, where Maine has just passed a law that requires cities and towns to economically evaluate the impact of big-box projects before approving such retail developments. This bill is the first of its kind in the nation.
To read more about the author’s work: http://www.newrules.org/retail/news_slug.php?slugid=360
New Acquisitions:
Hip Hop Matters author Craig Watkins is writing a new book on youth and media culture for Beacon Press called Digital Lifestyles: How the Internet, Social Media, and Online Games are Transforming the Way Young People Live. Watkins contends that television is no longer the dominant medium it once was and that young peoples’ embrace of technology is a digital migration which is, in fact, one of the first major developments in early 21st century life. Watkins research shows that young people spend six to eight hours a day engaging with new communication technologies, from Instant Messaging peers, downloading music and video, to social networking, gaming, and sharing content such as personal web pages, photos, video, and blogs. Timely and relevant, Digital Lifestyles will explore the profound social consequences of young people’s exuberant embrace and innovative uses of these new media technologies.
Beacon Press is a department of the