Beacon Press has launched its first official blog, Beacon Broadside. Beacon
Broadside’s launch coincides with the American Library Association’s
Banned Books Week, which begins September 29th, 2007, and will feature essays,
news items, and dispatches from Beacon authors, prospective authors, affiliates,
staff, and others. The blog will also be a forum for discussion, with all posts
open for comments by readers, and it will be updated frequently to keep the
conversation current. First and foremost, Beacon Broadside will be a way to
expand on the mission of the press and its commitment of freedom of thought
and speech, respect for diversity in all areas of life, the preservation of
our environment, and the education and welfare of our children.
Beacon Broadside will be online for viewing by the public prior to September
29, 2007. The web address will be: http://beaconpress.typepad.com
First postings will be themed for Banned Books Week and include the following
pieces:
Director Helene Atwan interviews Lois Lowry
“Banned Books Aren’t Going Away” by Chris Finan
Forrest Church on the Federal Bureau of Prisons purging their libraries
of religious books
Awards:
Confessions of the Other Mother, Harlyn Aizley, May 2006, Paperback
Original, $16.00, 978-0-8070-7963-4
About.com, named one of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2006
“Reading The Sutras of Abu Ghraib is disheartening and at times horrifying.
Delgado does not bring to light any shocking new revelations about the Iraq
war; no scandal will emerge from the book's publication.
What is most disturbing is the routine nature of it all: The soldiers are
everyday people who have been conditioned to brutality. Delgado was just one
of the hundreds of thousands of U.S. soldiers who have served in Iraq, and
his book offers glimpses into their everyday lives.”
60 on Up,
Lillian B. Rubin, cloth, September 2007, $23.95, 978-0-8070-2928-2
Late Mornings/KVON Radio (Napa, CA); Thursday, September 27th; 8:00 - 8:20am
PST; live by phone
Prime Time Radio/AARP; Wednesday, October 10th; 9:00 - 9:30am PST; taped
in studio at KQED Radio; air date to come
The Missing
Class, Katherine S. Newman and Victor Tan Chen, September 2007,
Cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-4139-0
Broadcast:
Joy Cardin Show/Wisconsin Public Radio; Wednesday, September 26th; 9:00
-10:00am ET (8:00-9:00am Pacific); live by phone
Radio Times/WHYY Radio (NPR, Philly); Wednesday, September 26th; 10:00 –
11:00am; live in studio
Bob Edwards Show/XM Satellite Radio; Monday, October 1st; 9:00-9:45am; taped
in studio
Diane Rehm Show/WAMU Radio; (National NPR); Monday, October 1st; 11:00-12:00pm;
live in studio
To the Contrary/PBS; Monday, October 1st; 3:00 -3:30pm; taped in studio;
air date to come
Midmorning with Kerri Miller/ Minnesota Public Radio; Wednesday, October
3rd; 11:00am – 12:00pm (10:00-11:00am Central); live via ISDN
A Dynamic
God, Nancy Mairs, September 2007, Cloth, $23.95, 978-0-8070-7732-0
National Catholic Reporter, interview with the author forthcoming
Story Circle Book Reviews, online, review posted September 20th:
“A Dynamic God is rich, risky, and startling. It is a remarkable book.
Read it.”
Inheriting
the Trade, Thomas Norman DeWolf, January 2008, Cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-7281-3
“Inheriting the Trade is a candid, powerful and insightful book about
how one family dealt with the infamous slave trade. This book is jarring in
its candor, and revealing in its honest assessment of slavery and the Dewolf
family. We must read important books like this one, if we dare to appreciate
every aspect of our history, and as the Dewolf family does, dare to change
our judgments about the wretched history of slavery.”
— Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., Executive Director, The Charles
Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School
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