“[A]n uncommon and exemplary book, a guide of sorts to the natural
history of one great city, Boston, Massachusetts . . . You don’t
have to know Boston to appreciate the stories Mitchell is relating, for
despite his local slant, his approach has global implications.”
The Lowell Sun; feature ran in the October 11th issue on the upcoming
Concord Festival of Authors; cover art for Mitchell’s book tops the page
in the print version
The Porning
of America, Carmine Sarracino and Kevin M. Scott, September 2008, cloth,
$24.95, 978-0-8070-6153-4
XBIZ; the book was reviewed on the XBIZ website, which is an adult-industry
publication
“They have names like Bratz Dolls, Carl's Jr., Clinique and Johnson
& Johnson. NBC Universal, Comcast and AOL are the new adult producers
and webmasters. They are the companies we see every day. In The Porning
of America: The Rise of Porn Culture, What It Means, and Where We Go From
Here, Carmine Sarracino and Kevin M. Scott introduce a cast of porn
stars with names that normally would illicit brand awareness, if not warmth,
security and affluence.”
Click to read (note: the advertising on the site is a tad naked):
Toronto Sun; Fred Pearce was interviewed in the Green Planet section
in the October 11th issue; the piece includes a video clip
“In his new book, Pearce makes it his mission to trace the origins
of everyday items he finds in his home… For a year Pearce traveled
the world, both tracing the life cycle of these items but also meeting
the people who produced them for him. It was an experiment that reinforced
some longheld truths, but also shattered a few eco-adages/rules.”
Click to read the complete article and see the video:
Cape Cod Times, author interview to run October 26th
Cape Cod Magazine author Nancy Rubin Stuart interviews Mass. Senator
Therese Murray and Rep. Sarah Peake about the Bills of Rights, Mercy Otis
Warren, other historical Cape Cod women; to run in the March 2009 issue
The Look Books; a thoughtful endorsement of Nancy Rubin Stuart’s
scholarship and style, posted Saturday, October 11th
Cambridge Forum; author event on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
Upcoming Advertising:
Columbia Journalism Review; 1/6 page ad in September/October 2008
issue
Pollster.com; 2 months (mid-September through mid-November), standard size
blog ad
Beacon Backlist:
Dark Tide,
Stephen Puleo, September 2004, paperback, $15.00, 978-0-8070-5021-7
Puleo’s Dark Tide was chosen by Medford, MA as their 2009 Community
Reads title. January 2009 will mark the 90th anniversary of the Molasses Flood;
Community Reads will host tours and activities in March/April.
Beacon Acquisition:
Rosa Parks—memorialized as the “accidental matriarch of the civil
rights movement”—may be the most widely known American woman of the
20th century, yet there’s a curious lack of both general knowledge, as
well as serious scholarship, on her life. In this revealing biography, Professor
Jeanne Theoharis recovers the breadth of Parks’s astounding six decades
of activism, arguing that she was anything but a quiet and accidental actor
with “a life history of being rebellious,” as Parks herself phrased
it. From standing up to white bullies in her youth to marching alongside Martin
Luther King, Jr. and implementing Malcolm X’s militant ideas of self-defense
in adulthood to later fighting the death penalty, Parks committed her life to
social justice while battling economic insecurity and racial threats. Theoharis’s
groundbreaking book explores how mythologizing Parks promotes a seductive but
misleading story about her life—as well as the civil rights era—and
has implications for the continued salience of race in America today. Spring
2010.
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