Sports with Coleman/Fox 1370 Sports Radio (Baltimore); Wednesday, April 8th, 3:25 p.m., live by phone
Morning Show with Thom Hartmann/KPOJ (Portland, OR); Friday, April 10th, 9:30-9:45 a.m. EST, live by phone
Here and Now/WBUR Radio (National NPR); Friday, April 17th, 2:00 – 2:45 p.m., taped interview
Vinnie and Me/Sirius Satellite Radio; Thursday, April 23rd; 8:00 – 8:30 a.m., live in studio
Lenny Lopate Show/WNYC Radio (NYC NPR); Thursday, April 23rd, 12:40 – 1:00 p.m., live in studio
Late Mornings/KVON (Napa, CA); Monday, April 27th, 8:30 a.m. PST, live by phone
A Final Arc of Sky, Jennifer Culkin, April 2009, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-7285-1
Seattle Times; review to run in advance of May 3rd appearance in Seattle
Bainbridge Review; feature interview to run in advance of May 3rd appearance in Bainbridge, WA
Boston Globe; review to run in May
Bellingham Herald/ The Kitsap Sun/The Olympian/Sequim Gazette; write up by the books columnist to run in all 4 publications; to run in advance of Bellingham appearance
Worst Instincts, Wendy Kaminer, May 2009, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-4430-8
Publisher’s Weekly; review in the April 6th issue
“compelling . . . brave and informative.”
Feminist Law Professors; pre-pub review ran Friday, April 4th
Toxic Truth, Lydia Denworth, March 2009, cloth, $27.95, 978-0-8070-0032-8
Lenny Lopate Show/WNYC Radio (NYC NPR); Wednesday, April 8th, 1:00 p.m., live in studio
Nature's Second Chance, Steven I. Apfelbaum, February 2009, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-8582-0
Benton County Daily Record; author interview to run in the Saturday, April 4th issue
The Lonely Soldier, Helen Benedict, April 2009, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-6147-3
Columbia Magazine; adapted excerpt with original artwork on both the magazine cover and inside illustrations; to run in the Spring 2009 issue, pages 12-17\
Quiverfull, Kathryn Joyce, cloth, $25.95, March 2009, 978-0-8070-1070-9
Lanigan & Malone /WMJI (OH); interview aired Monday, April 7th; click HERE to listen
Early Spring, Amy Seidl, cloth, March 2009, $24.95, 978-0-8070-8584-4
Seven Days (VT Weekly); full review with cover art and short excerpt to run in the April 12th issue
Beyond Bogotá, Garry Leech, January 2009, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-6145-9
Multicultural Review; full review to run in the Summer 2009 issue
“…inspiring and instructive stories of healing for the homeless that would be an excellent introduction for a church or agency called to minister to the homeless.”
Beacon Blurbs:
The Pure Lover, David Plante, September 2009, cloth, $23.00, 978-0-8070-7298-1
“The Pure Lover is a distinguished addition to the literature of grief. The achievement here is that a book compiled of nothing more than glimpses—carefully observed glimpses of the life of a dead companion—can form such a wrenching and boldly intimate lament.”
—Philip Roth
“At the heart of David Plante’s wrenching text of loss is this bare utterance: ‘My love for you was not enough—you died.’ That is the outcry of every bereaved lover, whose work it is to speak in a long, one-sided conversation, to one who can no longer answer. How a book can be at once so raw and so artful is a mystery; The Pure Lover joins a handful of necessary volumes that speak directly from grief’s wild, inconsolable center, and readers will find it bracing, unflinching, and honest to the core.”
—Mark Doty, author of Heaven’s Coast
“David Plante’s The Pure Lover is not a memoir so much as a series of memories excavated in grief, a re-collection of vivid fragments that together become the narrative of a long and passionate love between two people. Its tone moves from high Romantic lyricism to tough realism as it chases the past and tries to make sense of the agonies of mourning. This deeply tender, wrenching little book addresses an ultimate human question: How do we live with terrible loss?”
—Siri Hustvedt, author of Sorrows of an American
Beacon Acquisition:
Beacon is excited to announce a new Queer Ideas series acquisition on gay legal rights by one of the leading LGBT law professors in the country, Carlos A. Ball. Advancement of gay rights has come about through struggles both large and small—on the streets, around kitchen tables, in newspapers, and on the web. And lawsuits have undeniably played a vital role in propelling the movement forward. In Invisible No More (tentative title), Ball tells the story of five crucial lawsuits that have significantly altered the course for LGBT civil rights today. Beginning each case narrative at the center, with the litigants, Ball broadens the framework to society at large before retracting back again to focus on the lawyers’ stories and their arguments. He follows both parties from their homes and communities to the courtroom while deftly weaving in the socio-historical context of the moment. A richly layered and multifaceted account, Ball vividly documents the judicial victories that have altered LGBT lives in ways that were unimaginable only a generation ago. Spring 2010
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