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
The Lonely Soldier, Helen Benedict, April 2009, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-6147-3
Library Journal; reviewed in June 15th issue
“In Iraq more women soldiers have been in harm’s way than ever before, making a mockery of the official policy barring women from combat. These women face special challenges, such as isolation, sexual predation, misogyny, to say nothing of firefights, improvised Explosive Devices, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Benedict (journalism, Columbia Univ.) displays some hostility to the military generally but does provide an anodyne to the favorable chronicles that write only of heroism. She also offers recommendation for change.”
Midwest Book Review’s “Reviewer’s Bookwatch” Online magazine; review in June 2009 issue
Update about The Lonely Soldier:
“On June 25th, Helen Benedict testified about the misogyny in military culture in front of the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs. Rep. The deputy director of SAPRO, said he had read the book was trying to do something to take action on the suggested changes that Helen offers at the end of The Lonely Soldier. Helen will also be testifying to the full House Committee on Gov. Oversight and Reform in September.”
Believer, Beware, Jeff Sharlet and Peter Manseau, July 2009, paperback, $16.00, 978-0-8070-7739-9
Booklist; review in the July 1st issue
“A complex, fascinating collection, full of surprises.”
Break Room Live /Air America; webcast with Jeff Sharlet with Meera Subramanian on Thursday June 25th
Time out NY and The L Magazine ran book announcements and event listings for the Believer, Beware book party which took place June 29th
KPFA LA MorningShow; taped interview July 14th with three of the editors
State of Belief; taped interview on Thursday July 9th with Jeff Sharlet and Peter Manseau
Jewish Book Council website; book announcement and recommendation, by Naomi Firestone posted June 30th
Beliefnet’s Flirting with Faith column, by Joan Ball posted the article “What Kind of Christian Are You?” on June 30th which told a story from the Launch Party that Ball attended on June 29th
Baltimore Gay Life; interview with Terry Galloway; this piece was reprinted in Gay in Phoenix on June 28th and in New York’s Gay News on June 27th; it will also appear in San Francisco’s Bay Area Reporter in July
“I want them overwhelmed with the desire to buy many more copies of the memoir and convinced that by distributing those copies far and wide they will, indeed, be making the world safer for mean little deaf queers.”
Tallahassee Democrat; reviewed in the Sunday’s Living & the Arts section
Borders Bookstore, Tallahassee, FL; On Sunday June 28th Terry Galloway did a reading at her local Borders Bookstore. The event was a huge success, with about 175 people in the audience. The store sold 95 books at the event.
Quiverfull, Katherine Joyce, March 2009, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-1070-9
Kathryn Joyce was interviewed for the online podcast series, Psycjourney. Audio is available online at:
Homeschooling Research Notes (blog); 3 part review on Quiverfull; the first two sections went live on June 22nd and 29th:
“Joyce provides a remarkably sensitive and nuanced depiction of the movement, drawing not only on published works by movement leaders but on extensive interviews with Quiverfull women.”
KPFK inSanta Barbra is taping an interview with Kathryn in July to air on their weekday drive-time show; Air date to come
Beacon is delighted to announce the acquisition of From Red Suits to Black Robes by U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Gertner. Gertner has been recognized by the American Bar Association as a “Human Rights Hero,” and in 2008 received the Thurgood Marshall Award. Before taking the bench, she practiced law in Boston for 22 years. From Red Suits to Black Robesis a memoir of her time as an “outsider” lawyer, concluding with her Senate confirmation as a self-professed “activist judge.” In a boys club climate that held women lawyers weren’t tough enough to take on criminal defense work, Nancy Gertner launched her career fighting a murder charge on behalf of Susan Saxe, one of the few women to ever make the FBI’s Most Wanted List. What followed was a storied span of groundbreaking firsts as Gertner threw herself into criminal and civil cases focused on women’s rights and civil liberties. A graduate of Barnard College and Yale Law School, Judge Gertner has taught at Yale Law School, Boston College Law School, Boston University School of Law, and Harvard Law School. Agented by Helen Rees; to be published Spring 2011.
“Most border ‘experts’ and immigration writers are mere tourists. This writer is not one of them. In Margaret Regan's The Death of Josseline, you have a writer who lives the story, reports from the heart of the killzone, and works the territory on a regular basis. The many admirers of Enrique's Journey will find much to admire, and fear, in this powerful report.”
—Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Devil’s Highway: A True Story
“Imagine a young couple eagerly awaiting the birth of their second child. The mother’s doctor sadly discovers she has a life-threatening illness and offers her a choice: undergo a therapeutic abortion or die. The couple face a heart-rending choice. But if the 2009 Republican Party platform were to be enacted into law today, the mother would have no choice at all but to die. In this brilliant and gripping report from inside the trenches of a high-stakes culture wars, Carole Joffe takes us into the lives of the brave and committed doctors and activists who work against extraordinary odds – and sometimes give their lives -- to preserve our precious right to choose. This is a must-read book for us all.”
—Arlie Hochschild, author of The Commercialization of Intimate Life, and co-editor of Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy
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