“Mackall describes the details of family, farming and church life with
sympathy, accuracy and good will… His particularistic description of
one family is a welcome addition to what had often been a sociological literature.”
Grand Rapids Press (MI), review in the August 12th issue:
Closing the Food Gap,
Mark Winne, January 2008, cloth, $23.95, 978-0-8070-4730-9
“An engaging, candid, and sometimes funny look at how ordinary people—and
extraordinary ones like the author—have struggled over three plus decades
to create a fair food system, in the absence of public sector compassion.
Winne has done it all—food coops, emergency feeding, farmers’ markets,
community gardening, Community Supported Agriculture, public policy. He tells
us why and how, weaving into his own experiences stories from other cities
across the country to create an essential picture of how people like him are
struggling to reset the country’s table for everyone.”
— Joan Dye Gussow, author of This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban
Homesteader
Banned Books Week is Sept. 20th-Oct. 6th:
From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act, Chris Finan, cloth, May
2007, $25.95, 978-0-8070-4428-5
Upcoming Author Events:
Sept. 1 Decatur (Georgia) Book Fair
Sept. 13 Ireland House, New York City (TBD)
Sept. 25 Fact & Fiction, Missoula, MT
Sept. 26 Chapter One, Hamilton, MT
Sept. 27 Seattle Public Library (sponsored by Elliott Bay Book Co., ACLU, Seattle
Center for the Book)
Sept. 28 King’s Books, Tacoma, WA
Oct. 1 Village Books, Bellingham, WA
Oct. 2 Book Vault, Oscaloosa, IA
Oct. 3 Kansas City Public Library (sponsored by Rainy Day Books and ACLU)
Oct. 4 St. Louis Public Library (sponsored by Left Bank Books and ACLU)
Beacon Press is a department of the