Beacon Press announced today an exclusiveagreement to partner with the Estate of Martin Luther King Jr. in a new publishing program, “The King Legacy,” which will give Beacon the sole right to print new editions of previously published King titles and to compile Dr. King's writings, sermons, orations, lectures, and prayers into entirely new editions, including significant new introductions by leading scholars.
Publicity, Reviews, and Praise:
The Daddy Shift, Jeremy Adam Smith, June 2009, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-2120-0
New York Times/Motherlode Blog; read Smith’s Q&A with Lisa Belkin, posted May 27th
The Pure Lover, David Plante, September 2009, cloth, $23.00, 978-0-8070-7298-1
“David Plante's fine meditation on love and loss is the work of one who has been there and who knows that it is the dying who are losing all and that the grief we obtain is the survivor's treasure.”
—Edward Albee
“David Plante has written a delicate threnody, a reticent and tender rite of mourning for an ideal of life-long love at the centre of two men’s entwined lives.”
“With heart, compassion, and a magnifying glass, Linda Nathan takes us into the world of an urban high school, with its daily trials, defeats, joys, and victories. This book does not shy away from raising questions, encouraging self-reflection, and ultimately opening minds.”
—Carol R. Johnson, Superintendent, Boston Public Schools
“Forrest Church, a leading pastor and American religious historian, is also the leading Unitarian Universalist theologian of our time. But he has never pulled together the pieces of his luminous universalist theology, until the gift of this book. The Cathedral of the World is a jewel of theological and grace-filled imagination.”
—Gary Dorrien, author of The Making of American Liberal Theology
Awards:
Illegal People, David Bacon, September 2009, paperback, $18.00, 978-0-8070-4230-4
David Bacon’s Illegal Peopleis the Winner of the 2007-2008 C.L.R. James Award for Best Book, awarded by the Working-Class Studies Association. It will be announced on Friday, June 5, at the banquet of the annual conference of the WCSA, held this year at Penn State in Pittsburgh.
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