The Juggle/Wall Street Journal blog; Until It Hurts is mentioned in one of WSJ’s most widely read blogs, “The Juggle,” about family and work life; posted Tuesday, May 19th
LGBT Bookseller mailing: Pride Month Flyer with I Told You So, Mean Little Deaf Queer, Courting Equality, other recent and backlist titles
Bookie Pride Catalog: I Told You So
Midwest Bookseller galley mailing: Hollowing Out the Middle (30 galleys to accounts recommended buy MBA in conjunction with their Midwest Connections Program with joint letter from Susan Walker and Tom
The Daddy Shift, Jeremy Adam Smith, June 2009, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-2120-0
Body + Soul; review in June issue
“Smith's book is a gentle but persistent appeal to get beyond all those preconceived notions and make the choices that work best for ourselves and our families.”
Worst Instincts, Wendy Kaminer, May 2009, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-4430-8
Chronicle of Philanthropy; Wendy interviewed for feature to run first week of June
Holy Hullabaloos, Jay Wexler, June 2009, paperback original, $20.00, 978-0-8070-0044-1
Booklist; review in the May 15th issue
“An entertaining ramble that is also thoughtful, even enlightening.”
Culture Shocks/WMET 1160; author interview aired May 18th
Buzzflash Blog; post about student loan lenders that included a nice plug for the book:
“To fully understand the intersection of educational finance, industry, and the government, you'd do yourself a favor by reading Alan Michael Collinge's The Student Loan Scam: The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History -- and How We Can Fight Back (2009). Collinge artfully combines personal stories he's collected on his Web site StudentLoanJustice.org from former students broken by debt and unsavory lending practices with the sordid tales of how lawmakers and officials collaborated with the lending and collections industry to make student loans the worst kind of legal debt a consumer can take on in this country.”
Library Journal; review on the website on May 1st, in the article “Short Takes: 50 Summer Memoirs for the Beach, Backwoods, or Flu Bunker”
“Owing to an antibiotic given to her mother during pregnancy, performance artist Galloway started going deaf and experiencing bizarre out-of-body experiences at age nine. Going from "normal" to disabled is jarring, and her new oversized hearing aids and thick glasses make her feel like a freak. Despite her disability, Galloway’s strong personality, heightened sense of drama, and attraction to girls lead to an unconventional and barrier-busting story filled with sexual experimentation and a desire for a life lived at the extremes, all ably described in this compelling memoir. A good choice to strengthen disability, feminist, and gay studies collections, too.”—L.G.
Library Journal; review on the website on May 1st, in the article “Short Takes: 50 Summer Memoirs for the Beach, Backwoods, or Flu Bunker”
“Literarymama.com founding editor Raday’s touching and occasionally revelatory memoir tackles a marriage of opposites. Raday is the peace-activist who enjoys yoga, while her husband, Barrett, is a West Point graduate and former Oakland police officer destined for combat in Iraq. With enormous empathy, Raday and her guiding principle of respect for differences overwhelms her fears about their dissimilarities as the two make their way into a relationship. They make it work—with a lot of couples therapy—and their story will entrance anyone who has ever wondered if love can last between two people with fundamentally contrasting beliefs. [View the book video here.]”—E.B.
Singular Intimacies, Danielle Ofri, April 2009, paperback, $18.00, 978-0-8070-7251-6
Family Sentence, Jeanine Cornillot, October 2009, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-0038-0
“¡Finalemente! As incisive as she is lyrical, funny as she is profound, Cornillot dislodges the bolero-and-palm tree nostalgia associated with Cuban-American identity, and asserts claim to a new and very real history.”
“If you could start from scratch, if you could do any wild or crazy thing your imagination suggests, what kind of school would you invent for our children? It’s a bold and propulsive and liberating question that has powered the work of the Boston Arts Academy for over a decade. Linda Nathan and her remarkable colleagues … provide argument and evidence, theory and action plan, utopian hope and practical road map to the necessary project of re-inventing America’s schools.”
—Bill Ayers, author of To Teach and A Kind and Just Parent
“The Death of Josseline by Margaret Regan is a humane, sensitive, and informative perspective on a current and controversial topic. It also testifies to the fastest growing international criminal activity today: body trafficking. We all must pay attention.”
—Ana Castillo, author of The Guardians
Hollowing Out the Middle, Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas, October 2009, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-4171-0
“Reminiscent of the great sociological classics, Middletownand Elmtown’s Youth, Pat Carr and Maria Kefalas have produced an exemplary account of coming of age in a Midwestern town. This book is required reading for the policy and research community and anyone thinking about issues facing young adults in America.”
—Frank Furstenberg, Zellerbach Family Chair of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania and author of Destinies of the Disadvantaged: The Politics of Teenage Childbearing
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