New York Times; Gift’s A Weed By Any Other Name was featured in Sunday’s New York Times book section under Gardening – Summer Reads.
“By now, between the sharp demands of the roses and the throaty cries of the cabbage, you’ve probably neglected your lawn. The aptly named Nancy Gift advises you to love it and leave it. Her charming collection of essays, A WEED BY ANY OTHER NAME: The Virtues of a Messy Lawn, or Learning to Love the Plants We Don’t Plant (Beacon, $23.95), includes a recipe for dandelion wine. I can thank Gift, a highly trained weed scientist, for the day I gave up on my lawn and planted clover, whose seeds are alarmingly small, tinier even than the poppy seeds on my bagel. Who knows where the clover will end up? Who cares?”
Bay Area Parent; write up with jacket art for “Check it Out” section
Details Magazine; author interview Wednesday, May 27th for story about Reality TV Dads being the new face of fatherhood (on television)
Greater Good.com; book chapter adapted as an essay for the online edition of Greater Good magazine; to be posted on the site next week , with an e-blast going out to 10,000 readers as well as online ads throughout the site
Noe Valley Voice (San Francisco); author feature to come
The Record (Hackensack, NJ); June 2nd interview with Jeremy pegged to Father’s Day
Broadcast:
The Morning Show/KPOJ Radio (Portland, OR); Wednesday, June 17th, author interview live by phone; 7:00-7:15 am (PST)
Afternoon Magazine/WILL Radio (NPR Urban); June 18th, author interview live by phone; 11:06 – 11:50 am (PST)
Publicity Reviews, and Praise:
Sowing Crisis, Rashid Khalidi, March 2009, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-0310-7
Harper’s.com; Rashid’s six questions Q&A with Scott Horton has just been posted on Harpers.com:
Jane and Jane Magazine; book featured in the June issue
“Although Galloway embodies the self-effacing title of her book, the poignancy of her life story resides in her humility and unflinching sense of humor, which counter the heartbreak of the tale.”
You can see the full reviews in the magazine’s digital edition, available at:
Out Magazine; write-up in the June/July issue; named a summer must-read
Booklist; review in the June 1st issue
“Told with understandable rage, quirky humor, and extraordinary humanity, this remarkable woman’s engaging account deserves a large readership.”— Whitney Scott
Hollowing Out The Middle, Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas, October 2009, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-4171-0
Kirkus Reviews; review in the June 15th issue
I Told You So, Kate Clinton, May 2009, cloth, $22.00, 978-0-8070-4442-1
Jane and Jane Magazine; book featured in the June issue
“Along with her brilliant delivery, indefatigable work ethic, and uncompromising political courage, Kate Clinton possesses the superpower of maintaining consistent relevancy in our fickle, sound-bite-driven, instant-downloadable age.”
You can see the full reviews in the magazine’s digital edition, available at:
“In The Death of Josseline, Margaret Regan stands midpoint between immigration’s push and pull factors, her clear and sympathetic eyes watching the south on its treacherous slog north.”
—Tom Miller, author of The Panama Hat Trail
Beacon Acquisition :
Beacon is pleased to announce the acquisition of Man Enoughby Deborah Siegel. Using narrative journalism, Siegel’s book will explore how concepts of masculinity have and haven’t changed in the wake of second-wave feminism, examining progress (and lack of progress) in different areas of life, from household economics, to fatherhood, to sex and dating, in men of different classes, races, ethnicities, and religions. An expert in gender, politics, and the unfinished business of feminism, Siegel is the author of Sisterhood Interrupted and founder of the popular feminist blog Girl with Pen, and her writing has appeared in a multitude of media. Man Enough has already been endorsed by Gloria Steinem, Amy Richards, and Suzanne Braun Levine. Spring 2012.
Across the country, a new generation of transgender warriors are staging a gender revolution, blurring lines and busting boundaries. Although an essentialist trans template has been somewhat accepted by the mainstream (that of the “man born in a woman’s body”), the revolution is being fought over the right to inhabit both and neither, to pick and choose, to affirm the complexity of gender beyond the two strictly enforced bathroom options. Nick Krieger understands this complexity well. Upon moving to San Francisco, he struggled to fit in with his “capital-L Lesbian” friends and their affluent, gender normative lifestyle, while slowly being drawn into the trans-masculine and genderqueer community his housemates were entrenched in. Through Nick’s eyes, readers come to understand the fragmentation of the queer community, struggles around class and male privilege, issues of family, and, ultimately, the striking multiplicity of gender. Agented by Elizabeth Evans at Reece Halsey New York; to be published Spring 2011.
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