Beacon Author Kevin Jennings named Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education,
Office of Safe & Drug Free Schools; read the official press release
below, which mentions his Beacon book Mama’s Boy, Preacher’s
Sonhttp://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2009/05/05192009d.html
Evidence,
Mary Oliver, April 2009, cloth, $23.00, 978-0-8070-6898-4
New York Times; Front page travel section piece drawing on Mary’s
work to explore Provincetown is going to run on Sunday, July 5th –
posted on the Times’ website on July 3rd
Father’s Day Publicity Round up for The Daddy Shift
The Daddy
Shift, Jeremy Adam Smith, June 2009, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-2120-0
Huffington Post; the book gets a nice mention, plus The Daddy
Shift video posted June 14th
WBUR and NPR; Jeremy Smith’s interview on “Here
and Now,” taped last Friday, will air on WBUR and on NPR stations across
the country on Friday, June 19th from 12:10 to 12:30pm EST.
Joy Cardin Show/Wisconsin Public Radio; Monday, June 22nd, 8:00–9:00am
Central (6:00–7:00am PST); live by phone
KVON'S Late Mornings (Napa, CA); Tuesday, June 23rd, 7:30am PST;
live by phone
KRON 4 Morning News (San Francisco); for segment between 8–10:00am
(exact time to come) on Sunday, July 12th
Salon.com; Q&A with Smith will run close to Father’s Day
iVillage.com; posted an excerpt from The Daddy Shift on
site as part of their Father’s Day coverage; featured jacket art and
linked to book’s website, video, and Jeremy’s blog
USA Today; book mentioned in Father's Day story about new attitudes
towards fathering on June 17th
Publicity Reviews, and Praise:
Holy Hullabaloos,
Jay Wexler, June 2009, paperback original, $20.00, 978-0-8070-0044-1
Boston Globe; review (with event announcement) by Jim Concannon; ran in
the Tuesday, June 16th issue
“It's not often that a reader stumbles on a funny book by a constitutional
law professor and divinity school graduate…But author Jay Wexler has
managed the unlikely with Holy Hullabaloos: A Road Trip to the Battlegrounds
of the Church/State Wars.”
Interview by Tim Miller to run in Baltimore Gay Life, Windy City Times
(Chicago) and Bay Area Reporter (San Francisco).
Disability Quarterly Review; to run John Killacky’s review
of Mean Little deaf Queer (previously printed in the Gay and Lesbian
Review) in their summer issue
Advocate.com (from Advocate Magazine) will be posting an
excerpt of Mean Little deaf Queer on their website at the end of
June
Worst Instincts,
Wendy Kaminer, May 2009, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-4430-8
Greater Boston; Wendy Kaminer was on with Emily Rooney on Monday,
June 15th
The Jewish Week/New York; Polak-Sahm was interviewed for an article
about bridal mikvehs; click to read the article, which quotes Polak-Sahm,
mentions the book and uses one of her photos
The Daily Sound; review in the June 16th issue of the Santa Barbara
paperp; review ran with cover art and was also picked up by North Dakota
local paper Minot Daily News.
“Using documents and diaries, author Kim E. Nielsen offers the sometimes
heartbreaking, often frustrating life and work of Anne Sullivan Macy…
If a biography is on your reading to-do list this summer, Beyond the Miracle
Worker is a worthy one for you. Grab this book and learn a thing or two.”
From the Closet to the Courtroom, Carlos A. Ball, June 2010,
cloth, 978-0-8070-1238-3
“A prolific author and eminent legal scholar, Carlos Ball deftly and
accessibly tells the rich and fascinating stories about the clients and lawyers
whose cases have transformed LGBT life in the United States. Timely and deeply
relevant, From the Closet to the Courtroom is a powerful testament
to the role our lawyers and courts can play in creating social change.”
—Nancy D. Polikoff, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, and
author of Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage
American Privacy,
Frederick S. Lane, November 2009, cloth, 978-0-8070-4441-4
“Frederick Lane offers a thoughtful and insightful biography of the
right to privacy in American law from the Puritans to the War on Terror. In
an illuminating account of the evolution of the right, Lane shows how various
threads of the right have emerged over time in our ever more complex society.
This is a fascinating read for any American who wants a deeper understanding
of one of the most important and contentious issues of our age.”
—Geoffrey R. Stone, author of Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime
“American Privacy is a deeply informed discussion of the history
and present state of a fundamental American value. Frederick Lane's detailed
account of the attacks against our basic right to privacy is chilling.”
“This fascinating book takes you inside the mind of a uniquely gifted
urban school leader and reveals the secrets that help her propel her disadvantaged
students toward college: community, transparency, a profound understanding
of adolescents and, especially, moral courage. Reading The Hardest Questions...
is like shadowing a principal for a year. I recommend it to every teacher
or administrator who wants to make a difference in the lives of inner-city
children.”
—Michael Thompson, author of Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional
Life of Boys
“The Protest Psychosis is insightful, challenging, and singularly compelling,
presenting intimate narratives of individuals; tracing the organizational
history of an institution; and reading these stories through the lens of America’s
shifting and troubled racial politics. Metzl forces readers to reexamine our
deeply held beliefs about the nature of disease, the process of medical diagnosis,
and the influence of the political world on our racial ideas. An exceptional
book.”
—Melissa Harris-Lacewell, author of Barbershops, Bibles, and BET:
Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought
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