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Beacon Weekly Report

September 4, 2008

Headlines:

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

  • #13 on Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) Hardcover Fiction Bestseller List for the week of August 31st
The Opinion Makers, David W. Moore, September 2008, cloth, $23.95, 978-0-8070-4232-8
  • Diane Rehm Show / NPR (national); live author interview taped September 3rd from 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.; Moore will be on with John Zogby, author of the The Way We'll Be(Random House) and will be discussing how polls sometimes shape political opinions and how the American Dream will change in the coming century.
    http://wamu.org/programs/dr//
  • On the Media / NPR (heard on over 200 stations); author interview to air Friday, September 5th and Saturday, September 6th
  • Fresh Air / NPR; interview taped Thursday, August 28th; air date now tentatively set for sometime during the week of September 8th
  • Book TV / C-SPAN; taping author event at Water Street Bookstore (Exeter, NH); Tuesday, September 16th; 7:00pm
  • US News and World Report Online OpEd Piece September 2, 2008

Love & Death, Forrest Church, September 2008, cloth, $22.00, 978-0-8070-7293-6

  • Religion & Ethics Newsweekly / PBS; author interview; air date to come; taping September 2nd
  • NPR’s Fresh Air; author interview; air date to come; taping September 10th

Publicity, Reviews, and Praise:

Inheriting the Trade, Thomas Norman DeWolf, January 2008, cloth,

$25.95, 978-0-8070-7281-3

Surprised by God, Danya Ruttenberg, August 2008, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-1068-6

  • Lilith; review in current Summer 2008 issue
  • World Jewish Digest; excerpt forthcoming

Upcoming Events:

  • Center for New Words, author reading and signing in Cambridge, MA on Thursday September 4th at 7:00 p.m.
  • Bluestockings; author reading and signing in New York, September 15th at 7:00 p.m.

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

  • Vermont Public Radio (VPR) / Vermont Edition; author interview aired Wednesday September 3rd at 12:00 p.m.

Click to hear the interview:

http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/81938/

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

  • Cape Cod Magazine, interview with Stuart in March issue
  • The Commercial Dispatch (Columbus, MS weekly) review in August 20th issue; to be picked up by The Times of Acadiana (Lafayette, LA)
  • Women’s Review of Books; upcoming review in November/December or January/February issue

Souls in the Hands of a Tender God, Craig Rennebohm with David Paul, May 2008, cloth, $23.95, 978-0-8070-0042-7

Upcoming Broadcast:

  • WORD-FM (Pittsburgh); live author interview aired Tuesday, September 2nd

  • Grace Matters with Rev. Peter W. Marty / Weekly Radio Program of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (broadcasts on nearly 180 stations internationally); 30-minute interview with Craig Rennebohm was taped on June 30th; to air in September, exact air date to come

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

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

  • Michigan Law Review; review forthcoming

The Paradise of All These Parts, John Hanson Mitchell, August 2008, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-7148-9

  • Garden Party and Book Signing; Sunday, September 7th; 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.; Littleton, MA; for more information visit www.beacon.org
  • Hubtrotter; a nice blog review posted Tuesday, September 2nd

    http://hubtrotter.blogspot.com/2008/09/paradise-of-all-these-parts.html

    “[A] really interesting new book on the natural history of Boston….If you want to read a different take on the evolution of Boston, check out The Paradise of All These Parts.”

  • Yankee Magazine; the front page of www.yankeemagazine.com will feature the book in a week-long series on the surprising natural histories of Boston landmarks; to run last week of August; a featured review will run in the November print issue
  • Natural History Magazine; forthcoming review in the November issue

Upcoming Broadcast:

  • Pages to People/WBNW, taped interview Sept 5th; airdate to come
  • WICN 90.5FM / Inquiry with Mark Lynch, Sundays at 9pm; taped interview Sept 16th at 10:30 a.m; air date to come

Illegal People, David Bacon, September 2008, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-4226-7Upcoming Broadcast:

Upcoming Events:

  • The Jamaica Plain Forum; author event Tuesday, September 9th; 7:00 p.m.; First Church in Jamaica Plain, MA

Upcoming Broadcast:

  • Gathering Peace/WGDR (community radio in Vermont - 91.1 FM); Tuesday, September 9th; 8:40 – 9:40 a.m.
  • WBNW Radio/Pages to People (Boston); Tuesday, September 9th; 3:00- 3:45 p.m., taped in studio
  • Bob Edwards Show/XM Radio, Wednesday, September 10th; 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.; taped interview, airdate to come
  • Jim Bohannon Show/Westwood One; Wednesday, September 10th; 10:00 - 11:00 p.m.; live in studio
  • GRIT TV with Laura Flanders (New York); taped interview Thursday, September 11th; 11:00 – 11:30 a.m.
  • Democracy Now, Friday, September 12th; 8:00 - 9:00 a.m.; live in studio
  • WBAI/Evening News (WNYC); taped Friday, September 12th; 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
  • Latin Waves/CJSF 90.1FM (Vancouver); Saturday September 13th; 9:00 a.m. PST; live by phone
  • KVON/Late Mornings with Jeff Schectman, September 25th at 7:30 a.m. PST (10:30EST); live via phone

The Opinion Makers, David W. Moore, September 2008, cloth, $23.95, 978-0-8070-4232-8

Upcoming Broadcast:

  • Progressive Forum / KPFT-FM; author interview 8:00 -8: 40 p.m. (PST) Thursday, September 4th
  • KPOJ / Morning Show; author interview live by phone; Tuesday, September 9th; 7:00 – 7:15 PST (10:00-10:15am Eastern)
  • NECN/Morning News; author interview live in studio; Tuesday, September 16th; 7:45 – 8:00 a.m. (EST)
  • Greater Boston/WGBH TV; author interview; in studio taping; Monday, September 22nd; 4:00 – 4:45 p.m. (EST)

Upcoming Events:

  • Water Street Bookstore; Tuesday, September 16th; 7:00 p.m.; Exeter, NH
  • McNally Robinson Booksellers; Thursday, October 9th; 7:00 p.m.; New York, NY
  • Cambridge Forum; Wednesday, October 15th; 7:30 p.m.; First Parish (Unitarian Universalist) Cambridge, MA

Upcoming Ads:
  • Columbia Journalism Review; 1/6 page ad in September/October 2008 issue
  • The Nation; 1/4 page ad in October 6th issue
  • Pollster.com; sidebar ad on website for two months

Traveling Light, Kath Weston, September 2008, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-4137-6

  • Greater Media Detroit; Weston interviewed by Peter Werbe of Greater Media Detroit on September 3rd; interview may air on 3 stations in the Detroit area- WRIF, WMGC, and WCSX; air date to come
  • UVA Today / University of Virginia magazine; tentative author interview on September 10th; print date to come
  • Foreword; review in October print issue and at www.foreword.com
  • Library Journal; review forthcoming

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

  • Link Roundup: RNC Protests, Women and Labor Day, Literary Peace Prize
  • My Soul Looks Back and Wonders by Sherrilyn Ifill
  • “Dirty” Porn: The Flip Side of Puritanism by Carmine Sarracino
 

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