An Overextended Prison Health System Loses its Mercurial Advocate by Sasha
Abramsky
All’s Not Fair In Class Warfare by Victor Tan Chen
Letter to the Palestinian Leadership: Try a New Approach by Philip C. Winslow
Dust Off Your Darwin Costume: It Evolution Weekend! by Glenn Branch
Link Roundup: Mary Oliver, Sherrilyn Iffill on YouTube
The People Speak: Performances from Howard Zinn’s Voices of a People’s
History of the United States by Allison Trzop
Publicity, Reviews, and Praise:
Our World,
Mary Oliver and Molly Malone Cook, October 2007, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-6880-9
AARP Magazine; interview in March issue
Red Bird,
Mary Oliver, April 2008, Cloth, $23.00, 978-0-8070-6892-2
Booklist; glowing review in March 1st issue
“One of few avidly read living poets, Oliver revels in the beauty
of the living world, and takes to heart its lessons in patience and pleasure,
cessation and renewal. As piercingly observant as ever in this substantial
and forthright collection, Oliver is rhapsodic.”—Donna Seaman
Town and Country; brief profile with excerpt of “Mornings at
Blackwater”; to run in March or April issue
Poets and Writers; highlighting Red Bird with jacket art
and author photo, plus excerpt of “Small Bodies”; to run in March/April
issue
Imagine visiting a different Christian church each Sunday morning for a year
- anywhere in the United States! Suzanne Strempek Shea made just such a pilgrimage,
and she shares her travels in Sundays in America: A Yearlong Road Trip in
Search of Christian Faith (Beacon). Her book is remarkable! Readers accompany
Shea on each leg of her journey: from a rousing Baptist service in Harlem to
a chapel at Denver International Airport. Stops in between include a silent
Quaker service in Philadelphia, and a visit to Joel Osteen’s megachurch
in Houston. Suzanne Shea is the perfect guide. Her impressions of each church
are both honest and respectful. She offers brief bits of church history, and
occasional background to particular denominations. She generously shares her
own struggles too. Shea is always insightful, and often quite humorous. I enjoyed
the book immensely. I thank her for sharing her journeys -literal and
spiritual, and for showing so clearly that there are unlimited paths to a single
destination. --Chris Rose, Andover Bookstore
Inheriting
the Trade,Thomas Norman DeWolf, January 2008, Cloth,
$25.95, 978-0-8070-7281-3
Mornings with Thom Hartmann/ KPOJ/Portland’s Progressive Talk Station;
Wednesday, February 14th; 8:30 a.m.; live in-studio interview
P.O.V. / PBS; Traces of the Trade: A Story From the Deep North, the Sundance
selected documentary based on DeWolf’s book has been selected for a national
broadcast premiere; air date to come
Christian Science Monitor; review forthcoming in February issue
Upcoming Events
Powell’s City of Books (Burnside); reading, Q&A and book signing;
Oregon; Thursday, February 14th, 7:30 p.m.
California State University at Monterey Bay; book lecture; California; Wednesday,
February 20th
First Christian Church; book discussion; California; Saturday, February
23rd, 10 a.m.
Closing the
Food Gap, Mark Winne, January 2008, cloth, $23.95, 978-0-8070-4730-9?
Kansas City Star; food editor Jill Silva to interview Winne in February
21st issue
Vegetarian Times; interview to come in April issue
Broadcast
Topical Currents /WRLN-Miami/South Florida Public radio; Wednesday, February
6th, 1-2 p.m. EST; live interview
FOX 4 Television News/WDAF-Kansas City, MO; Wednesday, February 20th, 12
p.m.; interview
Up to Date with Steve Krasne/KCUR-Kansas City Public Radio; Thursday, February
21st, 11 a.m. - Noon CST; live interview
Lake Effect/WUWM-Milwaukee Public Radio; Thursday, February 28, 10 a.m.;
live interview
A Chef’s Table/WHYY-Philadelphia Public Radio; Thursday, April 3rd,
3 p.m.; taped in-studio interview
Out; capsule review with jacket art in the March issue
“A compelling look at underreported lives.”
Brian Lehrer Show/ WNYC-New York Public Radio; Monday, February 18th, 11:06
a.m. EST; live interview.
Barnes & Noble Manhattan; author reading; New York City, February 19th,
6 p.m.
Brooklyn Public Library; author reading; New York City, February 24th, 1:30
p.m.
Uncertain
Peril, Claire Hope Cummings, March 2008, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-8580-6
Associated Press; Cummings quoted in article which hit wires Wednesday,
February 13th
“It has almost nothing to do with feeding people," said Claire Hope
Cummings, a former environmental lawyer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture
and author of the upcoming book "Uncertain Peril," a critique of biotech
farming. "It's an industrial commodity for industrial agriculture.”
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