Dreaming of Barack and Hillary (and John) by Kelly Bulkeley
Color Me Gay by Harlyn Aizley
Publicity, Reviews, and Praise:
Red Bird,
Mary Oliver, April 2008, Cloth, $23.00, 978-0-8070-6892-2
Red Bird soars on all Book Sense, hard cover fiction bestseller lists:
#11 on this week's Book Sense National Bestseller List
#3 on this week's Book Sense PNIBA Bestseller List
#15 on this week's Book Sense NCIBA Bestseller List
#15 on this week's Book Sense NEIBA Bestseller List
New York Times Book Review; ad in the April 6th issue
Town and Country; brief profile with excerpt of "Mornings at
Blackwater" from Red Bird; to run in June issue
Poets and Writers; highlighting Red Bird with jacket art and
author photo, plus excerpt of "Small Bodies;" to run in March/April
issue
Upcoming Events:
State Theatre; reading and book signing; book sales through Micanbers Book
Store; Minneapolis, MN; Sunday, March 30th
Northern Lights Book and Gifts/The College of St. Scholastica; evening reading
and book signing; Duluth, MN; Monday, March 31st
Poetry Center & Poetry Foundation; reading and book signing; book sales
through Museum Shop; Chicago, IL; Wednesday, April 2nd
Friends of the Central Library Poetry Center; evening poetry reading and
reception; Syracuse, NY; Tuesday, April 15th
Pacific Lutheran University; evening poetry reading with commentary, Q&A,
and book signing, as well as pre-reading reception, plus an additional one
hour Q&A with students; book sales through Garfield Book Co. at Pacific
Lutheran Univ.; Tacoma, WA; Tuesday, April 22nd
Book Passage/Dominican University, Santa Sabina Center; evening reading
and book signing; book sales through Book Passage; San Rafael, CA; Thursday,
April 24th
Island Bound; reading and book signing; book sales through Island Bound;
Block Island, RI; May 2nd - 4th
Valley Bookstore; reading and book signing; book sales through Valley Bookstore;
Jackson, WY; May 8th & 9th
Boise Egyptian Theater; reading and book signing; book sales through The
Rediscovered Bookshop; Boise, ID; September 23rd
Sun Valley Bookstore; reading and book signing; book sales through Iconoclast
Books; Sun Valley, ID; September 25th
Philadelphia Hall; reading and book signing; book sales through Joseph Fox
Bookshop; Philadelphia, PA; November 18th
Santa Rosa Hall; reading and book signing; book sales through Copperfield's;
Santa Rosa, CA; December 1st
Herbst Theater; reading and book signing; book sales through Books Inc;
San Francisco, CA; December 3rd
Our World,
Mary Oliver and Molly Malone Cook, October 2007, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-6880-9
AARP Magazine; interview in March issue
Without a
Map, Meredith Hall, cloth, April 2007, $24.95, 978-0-8070-7273-8
Without a Map debuts at #14 on this week's Book Sense NEIBA Bestseller
List for paperback non-fiction
Upcoming Events:
The New Hampshire Council of Teachers of English Conference; speech and
signing; Manchester, NH; Tuesday, April 1st, 12:00pm
Gibson's Bookstore; reading; Concord, NH; Tuesday, April 8th, 7:00pm
The Cambridge Center for Adult Education; Panel Discussion in collaboration
with the National Writers Union; Cambridge, MA; Wednesday, April 9th, 8:00pm
River Run Bookstore; reading; Portsmouth, NH; Thursday, April 10th, 7:00pm
Ruskin Art Club; reading; Los Angeles, CA; Sunday, April 13th, 2:00pm
Porter Square Books; reading; Cambridge; MA; Thursday, April 17th, 7:00pm
Books Etc; reading; Falmouth, ME; Thursday, April 24th, 6:30pm
Odyssey Bookstore; reading; Hadley, MA; Wednesday, April 30th; 7:00pm
Andover Bookstore; reading; Andover, MA; Thursday, May 1st, 7:00pm
Jabberwocky Bookshop; reading; Newburyport, MA; Friday, May 2nd; 7:00pm
Acts of Faith,
Eboo Patel, cloth, July 2007, $22.95, cloth, 978-0-8070-7726-9
Brian Lehrer Show; Patel appeared on the show for the second time on Wednesday,
March 19th ; click to watch
Hyannis Golf Club; Cape Cod Writers Series "Breakfast with the Authors;"
Hyannis, MA; Friday, April 11th, 9:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Inheriting
the Trade,Thomas Norman DeWolf, January 2008, Cloth,
$25.95, 978-0-8070-7281-3
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
Upcoming Events:
Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place Hotel; White Privilege Conference; screening
of the documentary and book signing; Springfield, MA; April 2nd - 5th
The Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum; reading, book signing and
Q&A; New Bedford, MA; April 6th; 3 p.m.
Four Corners Art Center; reading, book signing, Q&A; Tiverton, RI; April
6th, 7 p.m.
A Novel Idea Bookstore; reading, book signing, Q&A; Bristol, RI; April
7th, 6 p.m.
Albertus Magnus College; reading; New Haven, CT; April 8th, 1 p.m.
Harvard Coop; reading, discussion, book signing; Cambridge, MA; April 14th,
7 p.m.
Independence Mall, National Constitution Center documentary screening,
Q&A and book signing; Philadelphia, PA; April 24th, 6:30 p.m.
Baltimore Convention Center; Episcopal Diocese of Maryland annual convention;
Baltimore, MD; May 2nd-3rd
Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center; Council on Foundations
Philanthropy Summit; National Harbor, MD; May 6th-7th
Davies Memorial Unitarian Universalist Church; reading, discussion, book
signing; Campa Springs, MD; May 10th, 6 p.m.
Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly, Greater Fort Lauderdale
Broward County Convention Center; workshop led by DeWolf to examine the complicated
legacy of slavery, a fresh look at history and tools to overcome racism, followed
by book signing; Fort Lauderdale, FL; June 28th, 1:30pm
"a book. . .which, largely because it is very well-written, may usefully
introduce general readers to some key civil liberties struggles during the
past 90 years. . ."
-R.J. Goldstein, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
The Bone Gatherers,
Nicola Denzey, cloth, July 2007, $27.95, 978-0-8070-1308-3
Choice; review in March 2008 issue
". . .lively and erudite, and this combination of engaging writing and
effective research makes it worthy of recommendation for all readers"
-R.E. Winn, Northwestern College
New York Times; Jennings is quoted and photographed in an article
about gay hockey fans challenging homophobia at Ranger's games in Madison
Square Garden; ran in Friday, March 21st issue; click to read:
Huffington Post; click to read Ostertag's post, comparing the split between
Hillary and Barack to the historic split between suffragists and abolitionists,
which he also recounts in his book
Beacon is excited to be publishing Mean Little deaf Queer, a
memoir by performance artist Terry Galloway. Born in 1950 in Germany
where her father was stationed as a spy for the U.S. Army, Terry spent her elementary
years in Berlin before her family returned to the States and settled in Texas.
The victim of an experimental drug given to her mother while pregnant, Terry
suffered from profound hearing loss and during her ninth year experienced a
period of hallucinations and disillusionment before a series of tumultuous medical
procedures. Theatre and performance, whether on stage or in the privacy of her
room and whether as a child at the Texas Lion's Camp for Crippled Children in
the 1960s or as a young adult at Columbia University in the 1970s, allowed Terry
to transcend and further explore her physical and emotional reality. With ferocious
candor and charming wit, Terry Galloway writes about living in her silent and
eccentric world-but that's just the surface. This is a memoir about masks, about
masking one's body while paradoxically using one's body to mask one's self.
Spring 2009.
Beacon Press is a department of the