The Boston Globe; book review ran in the Sunday, September 21st issue,
including photos of some of the landmarks in the book as well as a listing
for the Friday, September 26th Porter Square Books event
“…this may well be the finest book about the town as a place,
highly personal and at the same time keenly descriptive.”
“. . . engaging and informative report on the consequences of
overconsumption.” —Donna Seaman
Greater Boston with Emily Rooney / WGBH-TV; interview to air on October
20th at 4:00 p.m.
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)
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
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
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
KBOO / Portland, OR; interview to air on Thursday, September 25th
from 8:00-9:00 a.m. PST
The Tuesday Buzz /89.9 FM, WORT; Madison, WI; interview to air on
Tuesday, October 14th at 8:40 a.m. Central Time
Upcoming Advertising:
Nation; 1/4 page ad in September 29th issue
Saving Paradise,
Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker, July 2008, cloth, $34.95, 978-0-8070-6750-4
New York Review of Books (online); 100,000 impressions running September
22 - October 6; wide skyscraper
The Chronicle Review; 60,000 impressions running September 22 –
October 6, skyscraper
New York Review of Books, single column ad in October 9th issue,
on sale September 25th
Disciples World; 1/3 page ad in September issue
Christian Century; 1/3 page ad in September 23rd issue
The Opinion
Makers, David W. Moore, September 2008, cloth, $23.95, 978-0-8070-4232-8
Thomas Riggins' Blog; very nice review (part 1) of the book posted on Tuesday,
September 23rd; Riggins’ review also posted on Political Affairs Editors
Blog
Cape Cod Times; feature on Mercy Otis Warren and contemporary politics;
to run in the October 24th issue
Bust; review in the October / November issue
“Nancy Rubin Stuart’s nuanced biography …From the first
page, Stuart sets off on a speedy (and scholarly) gallop through Warren’s
life and times… why isn’t she lauded as frequently as our other
Founding Mothers? Stuart persuasively argues for her reinstatement.”
Feminist Review; in-depth review posted Saturday, September 20th
Cape Cod Magazine, interview with Stuart in March issue
Women’s Review of Books; upcoming review in November/December
or January/February issue
Upcoming Events:
American Antiquarian Society; Thursday, September 25th; Worcester, MA;
event time to come
Beacon Acquisition:
Plastic surgery has become ‘the answer’ for more and more Americans,
and sociologist Laurie Essig is interested in exploring how we arrived at this
particular solution in Plastic: Cosmetic Surgery, Credit Cards, and America’s
Obsession with Perfection (tentative title). Over the last 10 years
there has been a staggering 465% increase in the total number of cosmetic procedures;
Americans now spend just under $12.5 billion annually on liposuction, facelifts,
tummy tucks, boob jobs, and the like. Unlike other books that treat this social
phenomenon squarely as a product of new cultural trends, Essig argues this transformation
is the result of massive shifts in our culture and our economy—in her words,
the result of a perfect storm of greed, desire and technology.
Without the 1978 decision by the Supreme Court, for instance, which effectively
ended anti-usury laws (allowing banks to charge astronomical interest rates
to risky borrowers) or the 1980 FTC decision to allow medical professionals
to advertise their services to consumers—the access to cosmetic surgery
simply couldn’t have happened. It’s estimated that 30% of plastic
surgery patients earn less than $30,000 a year, another 41% earn between $31,000
and $60,000—and since the average cost of getting cosmetic work done is
$8000—85% of patients now assume debt to get work done. Using plastic surgery
as a lens to better understand our society, Essig shows how access to credit
and the pressures from an image obsessed culture have led to an unprecedented
desire to “fix” ourselves by turning to plastic. Fall 2010
This Week in Beacon Broadside, a project of Beacon Press (www.beaconbroadside.com):
From the Director: Remembering Robert Giroux by Helene Atwan
Urban Wilderness: Exploring Nature in the City by Eddee Daniel
Link Roundup: Rabbinic Counsel, Cheating Athletes and Memorials
Contraception Foes With Friends in High Places by Kathryn Joyce
Awards:
Beacon author Jennifer Culkin has won the 2008 Ron Jaffe Foundation Writers’
Award
Beacon Press is a department of the Unitarian Universalist Association