This weekend C-Span2 will be airing the program from last month’s 2007
ALA Annual Meeting “The Best of the Best from the University Presses”
on BookTV. The program is scheduled to air Saturday at 12pm.
But for all updates and re-runs, check with their website at www.booktv.org
Two of Beacon’s titles were chosen for this category including
Kevin Jennings’s Mama’s Boy, Preacher’s Son and Cassandra
Pybus’s Epic Journeys of Freedom.
Kindred in Community Reading Program:
Octavia Butler’s book Kindred has been selected as the All
Henrico Reads reading choice for adults. Henrico County, which is just
north of Richmond, VA, has a population of 294,000 people. The book will be
promoted throughout the fall on the Henrico County Public Library’s website
and in a quarterly publication, Connections, which goes out to 90,000 readers.
The author was also honored posthumously with a tribute at the Harlem Book
Fair on July 21st
In the Blogs:
John Freeman’s blog (National Book Critics Circle Board President),
Freeman on Donald Hall:
“Donald Hall’s Life Work has been strangely gripping, what
with his daily to do lists, his ruminations on the sublimating power of work.
Hall has written so much about that house in New Hampshire where he lives that
I’m beginning to think of it less as a place than a state of mind. I find
it odd that a creative mind can work with such Spartan organization (he describes
waiting for the alarm to go off at 4:45 AM, so eager is he to get to his desk)
at such a mysterious activity (making a poem work) without getting in the way
of itself.”
Philocrites blog, Christopher Hitchens on his opinion of Unitarians in an
interview with Jennie Rothenberg Gritz:
“They say Unitarians believe in one God maximum. And they do produce
the Jefferson Bible. They keep it in print. Good.”
Rights Update:
Laila Halaby’s West of the Jordan, Hebrew rights sold to Resling
Beacon Press is a department of the