American Booksellers Association / Indie Bound; selected as the November
pick for the Indie Next List
Tear-Off Shelf Talkers for new Indiessenials Backlist Program for author’s
two previous titles sent to 1200 indie stores: When
Rivers Run Dry0-978-0-8070-8573-8 ($16 PB) and With
Speed and Violence 0-978-0-8070-8577-6 ($15 PB)
Body + Soul; review in October issue
Newsday.com; mentioned as a should read on “Books for autumn, time
to get serious” list; posted September 14th
Conservation Magazine; excerpt forthcoming in next issue
Illegal People,
David Bacon, September 2008, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-4226-7
Book TV / C-SPAN; Bacon’s September 10th AFL-CIO event in Washington,
D.C. was taped; air date to come
Democracy Now (National); listen to and watch David Bacon’s
September 12th interview
Fresh Air / NPR; interview taped Thursday, August 28th; air date
to come.
Book TV / C-SPAN; taping author event at Water Street Bookstore (Exeter,
NH); Tuesday, September 16th; 7:00pm
Traveling
Light, Kath Weston, September 2008, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-4137-6
Book TV / C-SPAN; taping of author’s September 26th Harvard
Coop event; air date and time to come
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:
Dating Jesus,
Susan Campbell, January 2009, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-1066-2
MORE Magazine; review forthcoming; print date to come
Surprised
by God, Danya Ruttenberg, August 2008, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-1068-6
Jspot.org; book review posted Wednesday, September 17th
“The book is beautifully written, funny, and honest, but what's most
extraordinary is its refusal to offer easy answers. This quality is especially
welcome as we find ourselves, yet again, in the midst of an election cycle
in which many assume that religion offers easy answers to complicated issues.”
Lilith; review in current Summer 2008 issue
World Jewish Digest; excerpt forthcoming
Traveling
Light, Kath Weston, September 2008, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-4137-6
UVA Today (University of Virginia); read a great profile of the book
“Along the way, Weston describes her fellow passengers’ colorful
humanity and tackles issues of class, race and dubious access to America’s
opportunities. The riders with whom she traveled hours and days might
be struggling, hungry or penniless, but they were also helpful, creative
and philosophical.”
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
The Porning
of America, Carmine Sarracino and Kevin M. Scott, September 2008, cloth,
$24.95, 978-0-8070-6153-4
Salon; forthcoming review to possibly run next week; exact date to
come
Joy Cardin Show (Wisconsin Public Radio); interview scheduled for
September 30th; air date to come
Lancaster New Era; click to read the authors’ interview and
review in the September 12th issue
“Sarracino and Scott leave it up to readers to form their own opinions
on the proliferation of porn. They hope their engaging, thought-provoking
book jump-starts a national discussion — because porn isn't going
anywhere.”
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 Events:
Toadstool Bookshop; Saturday, September 20th; 11:00 a.m.; Peterborough,
NH
Porter Square Books; Friday, September 26th; 7:00 p.m.; Cambridge, MA
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, 978-0-8070-4226-7
Upcoming Broadcast:
Bob Edwards Show/XM Radio, Wednesday, September 10th; 10:00 –
11:00 a.m.; taped interview, airdate to come
KVON/Late Mornings with Jeff Schectman, September 25th at 7:30 a.m.
PST (10:30EST); live via phone
Upcoming Advertising:
Nation; 1/4 page ad in September 22nd issue
NACLA Report on the Americas; 1/2 page ad in September / October
2008 issue
Dollars and Sense; 1/3 page ad in September / October issue
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
Your Mental Health Talk Radio; author interview in November; air
date to come
Inheriting the
Trade, Thomas Norman DeWolf, January 2008, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-7281-3
MultiCultural Review; forthcoming review in Fall 2008 issue
Beacon Acquisition:
Beacon is delighted to announce a new acquisition in civil rights history—Perilous
Height: The March on Washington and the End of the Civil Rights Movement
(tentative title) by Charles Euchner. Our history texts record August 28, 1963
as the day when over a quarter-million people—about two-thirds black and
one-third white—rallied in Washington and were profoundly moved by Martin
Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, but the importance of
the march is more complex and compelling than standard treatments allow. Euchner
interviewed hundreds of people who planned and participated in the march—from
ordinary Americans to leaders like John Lewis, Andrew Young, Jesse Jackson,
and Marion Berry. Through meticulous research and reporting, Euchner presents
a dramatic and vivid hour-by-hour account of this watershed event and the behind-the
scenes tensions that bubbled from political powerhouses like JFK, the Justice
Department, FBI, and Congress to Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. Perilous
Height will challenge your understanding of the March on Washington, both in
terms of what happened but also in what it ultimately set in motion. Fall 2011.
Harlem Children’s Zone President and CEO Geoffrey Canada’s bestselling
memoir, Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America,
is a perennial favorite here at Beacon Press. In addition to the book’s many
adult fans, Fist Stick Knife Gun has long been a tool for educators, activists,
and parents to engage young readers in a stirring anti-violence message from one
of our nation’s most respected advocates for children. That’s why Beacon
is delighted to announce that cartoonist Jamar Nicholas will be working with Geoffrey
Canada as he takes on a graphic adaptation of Fist Stick Knife Gun. A Philadelphia-based
graphic novelist, illustrator, and educator, Nicholas has taught comics creation
to adults and kids alike at the Delaware College of Art and Design, Arcadia University,
and at the Moore College of Art in Philadelphia. He has spoken at the San Diego
Comic-Con, hosted the Glyph Awards, and had his work praised by the likes of K
Chronicles creator Keith Knight as well as Signe Wilkinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning
editorial cartoonist. The book will be on our Fall 2010 list.
Sister Pact: A Bostonian Living in Europe Goes to Padua by Jay Wexler
Link Roundup: Student Loans, Funding Locally-Owned Markets, Cow Gas
A Dad’s View of Mommy Wars and Sarah Palin by Jeremy Adam Smith
Professor’s Perspective: the Red Sox and the History of Racial Inequality
by Amy Bass, Ph.D.
Praise for Beacon Broadside:
Mother Talkers, the DailyKos community for women who care about politics,
featured a link to Jane Bernstein’s Beacon Broadside post “Sarah
Palin: No Friend to Children and Adults with Disabilities”.
Beacon Press is a department of the Unitarian Universalist Association