Wired/NECN (New England Cable Network), live interview, Thursday, September
13th from 4-5 p.m.
Upcoming Events:
Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Lynn, Friday, September 14th, 7:30
p.m.
Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley) Thursday, September 20th, 7:30 p.m.
Part of Latina Heritage Month. Co-sponsored by Odyssey BookShop
Cornerstone Books (Salem) Saturday, September 22nd
The Bookstore of Gloucester, Thursday, September 27th, 7 p.m.
JP Forum (Boston), Thursday, October 4th, 7 p.m.
Shout, Sister,
Shout!, Gayle F. Wald, cloth, February 2007, $25.95, 978-0-8070-0984-0
(13)
Curve Magazine, review in the September 2007 issue
Closing the
Food Gap, Mark Winne, January 2008, cloth, $23.95, 978-0-8070-4730-9
"Closing the Food Gap reveals the chasm between the two food systems
of America—the one for the poor and the one for everyone else. Speaking
from his decades of political activism, Mark Winne offers compelling solutions
for making local, organic, and highly nutritious food available to everyone.
It’s heartening to find a book that successfully blends a passion for
sustainable living with compassion for the poor."
— Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder – the Jane Goodall Institute and
UN Messenger of Peace
“By combining stories of his deep personal experience as an activist
with keen insight into strategies for addressing food injustice, Winne himself
fills a gap in the growing literature on good food, why it matters, and how
to ensure everyone everywhere has access to it. Plus, the book is a fun read.
Winne's stories made me want to meet him down at the local farmer's market,
and then join him afterward for a cold beer.”
—Anna Lappé, co-founder of the Small Planet Institute and author
of Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen
Inheriting
the Trade, Thomas Norman DeWolf, January 2008, Cloth, $25.95,
978-0-8070-7281-3
“[Inheriting the Trade is] like a slow-motion mash-up, a first-person
view from within one of the country’s founding families as it splinters,
then puts itself back together again.”
—Edward Ball, author of Slaves in the Family
“Tom DeWolf’s deeply personal story, of his own journey as well
as his family’s, is required reading for anyone interested in reconciliation.
Healing from our historic wounds, that continue to separate us, requires us
to walk this road together.”
—Myrlie Evers-Williams, civil rights leader, chairman emeritus of the
NAACP (1995-98), and author of The Autobiography of Medgar Evers
"As compelling a page turner as the tensest thriller and as emotionally
rich as the sweetest love story. Kai Wright lets the bravery, resilience,
and creativity of these teenagers shine through every page. The hardships
they face will make you angry; their heroism will inspire you. Drifting Toward
Love is social commentary at its very best."
— John D'Emilio, author of Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard
Rustin
“Kai Wright’s Drifting Toward Love has all of the ingredients
of a good novel: dazzling prose, seductive plot, and sympathetic characters.
Yet, the lives he chronicles are not fiction but rather the very real, complicated
and often times tragic stories of gay male youth of color in New York. These
young men’s stories and Wright’s rendering of them compel us all
to reconsider our judgments about “at risk” kids and remind us of
the resilience of the human spirit.”
— E. Patrick Johnson, author of Appropriating Blackness
“Kai Wright’s journalistic talents give much needed voice to the
struggles of queer youth of color in New York. The stories unfold passionately
without judgment to reveal the common adversity we endure and are challenged
with as gay men of color trying to survive and reclaim our space in this city.
Resonating with genuine realness, each account celebrates an inspiring journey
and leaves us with hope for the future of our community.”
— poet Emanuel Xavier, author of Americano and editor of Bullets
& Butterflies
"Kai Wright has precisely diagnosed the dysfunction of homophobia.
With his insights, we can provide the best possible care to Black and Latino
children.
Group homes, support groups and community-organizing efforts described in
this book demonstrate practical ways to counter negative effects of continued
prejudice toward GLBT teenagers.
The more we are able to replicate these relatively affordable models, the
more we can help our children grow, graduate and share with all of our society
from their deep and rich resources of creativity, passion and compassion."
— Dr. M. Joycelyn Elders, former Surgeon General
Rights Update:
Fugitive Days by Bill Ayers, film rights to FilmAcres Independent
The Man with the Beautiful Voice by Lillian Rubin, German rights
to Patmos
What Book Clubs are Reading:
The Boston Italians, Stephen Puleo, cloth, May 2007, $26.95,
978-0-8070-5036-1
The Boston Italians has been chosen to be a Fall selection for the
Sons of Italy Book Club by Italian America Magazine
Beacon Press is a department of the