Beacon Press: Weekly Report

Beacon Weekly Report

May 30, 2008

This Week in Beacon Broadside, a project of Beacon Press (www.beaconbroadside.com):

There Will Be Drought by Claire Hope Cummings

Headlines:

(Not) Keeping Up With Our Parents, Nan Mooney, May 2008, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-1138-6

Washington Post; Robert Samuelson’s Newsweek column ran in Thursday, May 22nd issue of the Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2008/05/21/AR2008052102427.html.

The Seattle Times; review posted Friday, May 23rd

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2004430363_mooney25.html.

AARP, The Bulletin; brief excerpt with jacket art in the May issue

Dozens of blog mentions (see below)

Inheriting the Trade, Thomas Norman DeWolf, January 2008, Cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-7281-3

CBS Early Show; in-studio taping Tuesday, April 29th; co-host Harry Smith interviewed DeWolf and his cousin Katrina Browne; clips of the documentary will be shown; air date to come.

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; coming June 24th

Red Bird, Mary Oliver, April 2008, cloth, $23.00, 978-0-8070-6892-2

Book Sense Hardcover Fiction bestseller lists (50 appearances now!):

#8 Pacific Northwest

#15 Mountains and Plains

Without a Map, Meredith Hall, cloth, April 2007, $24.95, 978-0-8070-7273-8

#11 on this week’s Book Sense NEIBA Bestseller List for paperback non-fiction

Publicity, Reviews, Praise, and Upcoming Events:

Saving Paradise, Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker, July 2008, cloth, $34.95, 978-0-8070-6750-4

Publisher’s Weekly; starred review in the May 26th issue

“. . . strong analyses reveal a powerful “genealogy of paradise”. . . This humane and often beautiful study of faith, loss, and hope straddles the boundary between historical discovery and spiritual writing.”

The Saint of Kathmandu, Sarah LeVine, cloth, June 2008, $24.95, 978-0-8070-1312-0

Upcoming Events:

Women & Children First; Thursday, May 29th at 7:30 pm; 5233 N. Clark Street, Chicago, IL
57th Street Books; Tuesday, June 3rd at 6:00pm; 1301 East 57th Street; Chicago, IL
Porter Square Books; Thursday, June 26th; 7;00pm; 25 White Street; Cambridge; MA

(Not) Keeping Up With Our Parents, Nan Mooney, May 2008, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-1138-6

Check out Mooney’s impressive internet and blog coverage:

http://newreads.blogspot.com/2008/05/not-keeping-up-with-our-parents.html.
http://stepp-sensei.livejournal.com/243907.html.
http://lamoretta.typepad.com/lamoretta/2008/05/individuality-t.html.
http://coffey.tumblr.com/post/34732182.
http://babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/05/15/5-reasons-we-re-falling-behind-our-parents.aspx
http://beingfrugal.net/2008/05/19/not-keeping-up-with-our-parents-the-decision-to-have-children/.
http://www.mothertalkers.com/.
http://lifeunderconstruction.typepad.com/life_under_construction/2008/05/borrowing-to-li.html.
http://consciousconsuming.blogspot.com/2008/05/not-keeping-up-with-our-parents.html.
http://timesnews.net/blogs/fenley/?p=4158.
http://mybusinessmodels.blogspot.com/2008/05/not-keeping-up-with-our-parents-ten.html.
http://faves.com/url/397807561/www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/05/14/mooney/.
http://www.brijit.com/subject/36169/nan-mooney.
http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2008/05/20/not-keeping-up-with-our-parents-just-being-middle-class-is-becoming-out-of-reach/.
http://mojitoglobalinfluence.blogspot.com/2008/05/on-point-decline-of-young-professional.html.
http://vivalafeminista.blogspot.com/2008/05/feminist-economics.html (Beacon Broadside link)
http://purelypartisanpolitics.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/not-keeping-up-with-our-parents/. (Beacon Broadside link)
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Policy/Optimist_Americans_see_gloomy_days/articleshow/3060920.cms.
http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/595/economic_inequality_is_squeezi/.
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977350335&grpId=3659174697246363&nav=Groupspace.
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/family/archives/139312.asp
http://www.nysun.com/opinion/cause-of-middle-class-anxiety/76801/.
http://eatapeachincali.blogspot.com/2008/05/not-keeping-up-with-our-parents-just.html.
http://garybaumgarten.blogspot.com/2008/05/nan-mooney-author-of-book-on-how-this.html.

Upcoming Broadcast:

Weekday/KUOW Radio (NPR Seattle); Thursday, May 29th; 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. PST, live in studio
Prime Time Radio/AARP; Wednesday, June 4th; 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. PST; taped via remote
News Talk Online; Tuesday, June 3rd; 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. EST; live by phone
Joy Cardin Show/Wisconsin Public Radio; Thursday, June 5th; 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. Central; live with call-ins
John McMullen Show/KNEWS Radio, Thursday, June 5th at 11:15 a.m. PST; live by phone
Alex Bennett Program/Sirius Satellite Radio; Tuesday, July 8th; 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. EST, live from New York studio

Love You to Pieces, Suzanne Kamata, paperback original, June 2008, $17.00, 978-0-8070-0030-4

ForeWord; Kamata interviewed for a parenting feature in the July/August issue

The Court and the Cross, Frederick S. Lane, cloth, June 2008, $24.95, 978-0-8070-4424-7

Upcoming Broadcast:

Equal Time for Free Thought / WBAI-NY; live interview via phone; June 1st, 6:30 p.m. EST
WJBC/ Bloomington, IL; interview with talk radio personality Steve Fast; 10-15 minute live phone interview; June 2nd 3:40 p.m. EST
Culture Shocks with Barry Lynn; 40 minute interview taping June 4th; will air June 16th, 2 p.m. EST

The Muse of the Revolution, Nancy Rubin Stuart, July 2008, cloth, $27.95, 978-0-8070-5516-8

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
Fraunces Tavern Museum; author talk; New York City, June 19th

Drifting Toward Love, Kai Wright, January 2008, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-7968-3

Time Out New York; article featuring interview with Wright

http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/features/29893/let-the-gays-begin

Barnes and Noble/Upper West Side; author event in celebration of Gay Pride Month; New York City, June 9th, 7 p.m.

The Wimp Factor, Stephen J. Ducat, September 2005, paperback, $16.00, 978-0-8070-4345-1

The Huffington Post; Stephen Ducat is back on the blog; read his post below

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-ducat/death-wish-ii-what-hillar_b_103492.html

The Lonely Soldier, Helen Benedict, April 2009, cloth

New York Times; read future Beacon author, Helen Benedict’s op-ed piece on women soldiers; ran in the Monday, May 26th issue; picked up by the International Herald Tribune

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/opinion/26benedict.html?ex=1212465600&en=b3f1158849aee997&ei=5070&emc=eta1

Awards:

Spelling Love with an X, Clare Dunsford, October 2007, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-7279-0

The Genetic Alliance named Clare Dunsford the winner of the Art of Advocacy Award

Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage, Nancy D. Polikoff, February 2008, Cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-4432-2

Nominated for consideration for the 2008 Stonewall Book Awards

Drifting Toward Love, Kai Wright, January 2008, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-7968-3

Nominated for consideration for the 2008 Stonewall Book Awards

Shout, Sister, Shout!, Gayle F. Wald, cloth, February 2007, $25.95, 978-0-8070-0984-0

Nominated for consideration for the 2008 Woodie Guthrie Book Award

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