Readers Digest; October issue; book mentioned in Big Ideas section
Newsweek.com; interview with authors during the week of October 9th for a forthcoming Q&A
C-Span/Book TV; taping Patrick Carr's event at the Sumner Library on Tuesday, October 27th
Leanard Lopate Show/WNYC (NPR New York); live in-studio author interview airs Tuesday, November 24th; 1:30 – 2:00pm EST
Wisconsin Public Radio/Kathleen Dunn Show; live interview by phone Tuesday, October 20th; 11:00-12:00pm EST (10:00 – 11:00am Central)
Midwest Opinions/KOGA; live interview by phone Monday, October 26th; 10:00 – 10:10am EST (8 – 8:10am MDT)
Voices of the Tri-States/KDTH Radio(Dubuque, Iowa); live interview by phone Wednesday, November 11th
Des Moines Register; author interview with feature reporter on Thursday, October 22nd at 11am EST; authors will write op-ed in November
The Sumner Gazette (Iowa); review to run on October 22nd
The Wilson Quarterly; review in October issue
Didsbury Review (Alberta Canada); feature article to come
Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, IA) running story on book; exact date to come
Annals of Iowa; review assigned
Midwest Book Review; review assigned
Publicity Reviews, and Praise:
Morning Haiku, Sonia Sanchez, February 2010, cloth, $22.00, 978-0-8070-6910-3
Fall/Winter Events:
The Florida Education Fund Tampa, Florida, Friday, October 30th
Delaware County Community College, Downingtown Campus Lecture and reading
Downingtown, PA, Wednesday, November 4th
9:40a.m. - 11:00a.m.
Boston University/ Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center Boston, MA, Tuesday, November 10th
Possible event in Portland, Oregon Thursday, November 12th
AEI lecture agent has not confirmed event
Yale University New Haven, CT, Tuesday, November 17th
University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst, MA, Wednesday November 18th /Thursday, November 19th
The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space Reading and musical performance of Does Your House Have Lions New York, NY, Tuesday, December 1st
Rust College
Holly Springs, MS, Saturday, January 16th
DuSable Museum of African American History The Freedom Sisters—Exhibit
Chicago, IL, Saturday, January 23rd
University of St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis, MO, Friday, January 29th
Free Library of Philadelphia Reading
Philadelphia, PA, Tuesday, February 2nd
7:30p.m.
Fundraiser for city councilman Chokwe Lumumba Jackson, MS, Sunday, February 21st
University of the Virgin Islands,St. Croix Campus St. Croix, Virgin Islands, Saturday, February 27th
High school/college visit Dallas, Texas, Wednesday, March 24th
The City University of New York, Medgar Evers College Annual Book Festival
New York, NY, Friday, March 26th-Saturday, March 27th
University of Scranton 24th Annual MELUS Conference
Scranton, PA, Thursday April 8- Sunday 11th
The Links, Incorporated Sonia will be awarded the 2010 Co-Founders Award in The Arts, presented at the National Assembly held in Detroit, Michigan
Roslyn, NY, Friday, July 2nd
Unreasonable Faith (blog); two new posts about Kunzman’s book, posted October 16th and October 20th
“As I mentioned in a previous post, this dearth of reliable data is one of the reasons why books like Kunzman’s Write These Laws on Your Children are so valuable.
Nobody Turn Me Around, Charles Euchner, August 2010, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-0059-5
“As was true of the historic March on Washington in 1963, so it is true of Charles Euchner's riveting new chronicle of the event: The massive human train of proud and determined Americans—ordinary, salt-of-the-earth citizens— is the heart and soul of this dramatic and inspiring story. Even more than the planners, the leaders and the big-name personalities, it was the tens of thousands who dropped everything for a peaceable assembly at the Lincoln Memorial that made this happening significant and memorable. Now, more than forty-five years later, those same people stride through Euchner's narrative as if it were a march in progress. The stars are here too, of course—Martin Luther King, Bayard Rustin, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins, John Lewis and many more—but the pages crackle and vibrate with the voices of unsung heroes who drove, flew, rode buses and trains, hitchhiked, even walked long distances to be there in the Great Emancipator's stone shadow as Dr. King spun out his immortal ‘Dream.’”
—John Egerton, author of Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South
"David Chura's timely book ought to destroy our complacency. It takes us inside the locked-down world of neglected and abused youth who've been cast away into adult jails, and reveals, through its succession of haunting vignettes and surprising turns, a truth that ought to shame us: when youth fail, it is most often because we adults have failed them again and again."
—David Kaczynski, Executive Director, New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty
To Uphold the World, Bruce Rich, March 2009, paperback, $23.00, 978-0-8070-0249-0
“For several decades, environmentalists like me have lived in a world of lawyers, economists, and scientists, to the unfortunate neglect of what philosophers, poets, psychologists, and prophets have to contribute. We now belatedly see that “upholding the world” requires the awakening of a new and ethically grounded consciousness. I am in awe of what Bruce Rich does in this wonderful book—reaching back through the millennia to provide an inspiring account of the ethical consciousness so urgently needed today. To Uphold the World is a wise and profound book that could hardly be timelier.”
—James Gustave Speth, author of The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability
Beacon Acquisition:
It’s difficult to define what makes a company hip and also ethical, but we certainly know it when we see it. Some companies—think Apple and Trader Joe’s—seem to have hit that magic bull’s eye. No matter what they do, they manage to project an image of being hip, funky, youthful, fun, and innovative—and, at the same time, green, healthful, politically progressive, and ethical. For progressive-minded consumers, the key question has become: How can we gauge which companies really deserve their glowing reputations and our loyalty? Meanwhile, savvy business execs who recognize that ethical-hip consumers are a big and growing market are asking: How do we develop—and keep—that ideal, trendy, progressive image? Using case studies of six American companies, award-winning journalist Fran Hawthorne will take on these questions and more in her newly signed book The Companies We Love (Fall 2011). Hawthorne is also the author of The Overloaded Liberal: Shopping, Investing, Parenting, and Other Daily Dilemmas in an Age of Political Activism, which Beacon will publish on the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day in April 2010.
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