Thinking Critically and Finding Answers: The Benefits of Arts Education
Monday Link Roundup: Bill Ayers and Stanley Fish, SCOTUS, YouTube
Wal-Mart Takes Greenwashing to a New Level
Publicity, Reviews, Praise, and Upcoming Events:
Red Bird,
Mary Oliver, April 2008, Cloth, $23.00, 978-0-8070-6892-2?
Book Sense Hardcover Fiction bestseller lists:
#9 National
#7 New England
#11 Mountains and Plains
#6 Pacific Northwest
#10 Northern California
#10 Heartland (Upper Midwest and Great Lakes)
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:
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
Inheriting
the Trade,Thomas Norman DeWolf, January 2008, Cloth,
$25.95, 978-0-8070-7281-3
Upcoming Broadcast:
CBS Early Show; co-host Harry Smith will interview DeWolf and his cousin
Katrina Browne; clips of the documentary will be shown; in-studio taping Tuesday,
April 29th; airing next week; exact date and time to comeP.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;
coming June 24th
Upcoming Events:
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
AARP, The Bulletin; brief excerpt with jacket art in the May issue
Salon.com; Katharine Mieskowski will interview Mooney on May 9th for a
Q&A to run right around the book's pub date (May 15th); interview will
also run as an edited podcast on the site
“Using real case studies, Polikoff makes a strong case that furthering
the legal protections for all people, regardless of relationship status, will
help the LGBT community more than marriage itself. A harder path to imagine,
perhaps, but a realistic message that activists would do well to heed.”
—Rachel Pepper
Michigan Law Review; review forthcoming
Utne Reader; excerpt in July/August issue
Upcoming Broadcast:
Peace and Social Justice/KZFR-Chico, California; Friday, May 9th, 3:30
p.m. ET; live phone interview
Without a
Map, Meredith Hall, paperback, April 2007, $14.00, 978-0-8070-7274-5
#6 on this week’s Book Sense NEIBA Bestseller List for paperback non-fiction
Upcoming Events:
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
Library Journal; starred review with cover art in May 1st issue
“This wonderfully researched and readable book has done an excellent
job of giving another view of what it took to make this country. Essential
for academic and public libraries. Enjoy!”
American Spirit; review in July/August or September/October issue
The Wilson Quarterly; review to run in summer issue; date to come
Upcoming Events:
Colony Club of New York; author talk; New York City, June 5th
Bostonian Society; author talk; Boston at the Old State House; June 17th
Frances Tavern Museum; author talk; New York City, June 19th
Uncertain
Peril, Claire Hope Cummings, March 2008, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-8580-6
Edible Hawaiian Islands; review forthcoming
Utne Magazine; review in the May/June issue
“. . . More valuable, though, are her scathing critique of the scientists
who have shielded this unscrupulous industry from public scrutiny and her
call to return the discourse—and the control of our food supply—to
the public domain.”
—Hannah Lobel
Alternet; excerpt forthcoming
Upcoming Events:
Toby's Feedbarn; reading; Point Reyes Station, CA; Saturday, May 3rd
Early Spring, Amy Seidl, cloth, March 2008, $24.95, 978-0-8070-8584-4
BE HEARD! T.V.; interview with author at the Aspen Environment Forum, forthcoming
book discussed; visit the website to watch Seidl’s interview
The Religious Left in American History, Daniel Patrick McKanan, Fall 2009
Theologian, historian, and future Beacon author Daniel Patrick McKanan
was named the inaugural incumbent of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist
Association Chair of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School
Awards:
Confessions of an Eco-Sinner, Fred Pearce, cloth, October 2008, $24.95,
978-0-8070-8588-2
Pearce’s upcoming Beacon book has been selected for the long list
for the BBC FOUR Samuel Johnson Prize for Non Fiction 2008
Beacon Press is a department of the