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November 20, 2008

Headlines:

Fugitive Days, William Ayers, paperback reprint, November 2008, $15.00, 978-0-8070-3277-0
  • Fresh Air/NPR; interview aired November 18th

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97112600

  • The Swamp/Chicago Tribune.com; interview with Clarence Page; column ran in the Chicago Tribune and in syndication on Wendesday, November 19th

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-oped1119pagenov19,0,2967765.column

  • Salon; Q&A with Walter Shapiro and the filmed interview ran Monday, November 17th

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/11/17/ayers/?source=newsletter

  • Morning Edition/NPR; story about Ayer's Busboys and Poets event in Washington D.C. on November 17th

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97124808&sc=emaf

  • Washington Post; Ayers article ran Tuesday, November 18th

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/18/AR2008111800007.html?sub=new

  • Democracy Now; two part interview aired on November 14th and 17th

  • The Atlantic; read James Fallows piece, praising Terry Gross' interview with Ayers; posted November 19th

http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/11/how_it_should_be_done_terry_gr.php

  • Lenny Lopate Show/WNYC Radio (NPR in NYC); taped Friday, November 14th, air date to come

The Blue Cotton Gown, Patricia Harman, October 2008, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-7289-9

  • People; Three-star review in the November 24th issue

"A flower child who found her calling after coaching a friend through a home birth, nurse-midwife Harman works with her ob-gyn husband at a West Virginia clinic. In her sweetly perceptive memoir, she reveals how her exam room becomes a confessional. Coaxing women in thin blue gowns to share secrets—about abusive boyfriends, OxyContin habits, unplanned pregnancies—she reminds them that they're not alone."

Publicity, Reviews, and Praise:

Confessions of an Eco-Sinner, Fred Pearce, cloth, October 2008, $24.95, 978-0-8070-8588-2

  • Living on Earth; click to listen to (or read) Fred Pearce's interview; aired November 14th

http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=08-P13-00046&segmentID=7

  • Citizen Reader Blog; review posted November 17th

    "As we enter the holiday season, this book leaves me with one thought: Buy less, but spend more . . . Or, just buy this book for everyone on your list."

http://www.citizenreader.com/citizen/2008/11/finally-a-great-investigation-of-consumption.html

  • Treehugger Radio / Treehugger.com; 45 minute podcast interview, air date to come

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

Recent Blog Coverage:

  • Christian Church: Church History; write-up posted November 11th

"Saving Paradise offers a fascinating new lens on the history of Christianity, from its first centuries to the present day, and asks how its early vision of beauty evolved into one of torture."

http://books-chuch.blogspot.com/2008/11/saving-paradise-how-christianity-trade.html

  • First Congregational United Church of Christ; a blog piece about the book posted on November 17th by the Church's Minister

"Saving Paradise is an important book as we in the church begin to look at the ways that we can become transformative in our time."

http://www.fccsr.org/2008/11/saving-paradise-new-old-foundation-for.html

Beyond Bogotá; Garry Leech, January 2009, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-6145-9

  • NACLA.Org, the North American Congress on Latin America's website will be excerpting Beyond Bogotá beginning November 19th

Beacon Backlist:

Kabir; Robert Bly, February 1993, paperback, $12.00, 978-0-8070-6380-4

  • Washington Post; 2 Kabir poems were selected and written about in the "Poet's Choice" section of the Sunday, November 16th issue

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/13/AR2008111302953.html?sid=ST200811`401190&s_pos=

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

  • Broadsheet/Salon; read Mooney's babble.com piece, picked up by Broadsheet, about being a single mother; posted November 18th

http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/11/18/mooney/index.html

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