“Is Mary Oliver Masai?” In a Talk of the Town piece by Rebecca Mead called “Cleaned Out” (New Yorker, p. 30, Nov. 9 issue) Kim Rosen, editor of the poetry anthology “Saved by a Poem” cites Mary Oliver’s “The Journey”, quoting 5 lines from it. The passage ends nicely with some Kenyan girls asking “Is Mary Oliver Masai?”
Hollowing Out The Middle, Patrick J. Carr And Maria J. Kefalas, October 2009, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-4238-0
Morning Haiku, Sonia Sanchez, February 2010, cloth, $22.00, 978-0-8070-6910-3
Library Journal; listed in the “African America Celebrates” section of the November 1st issue. The book is listed in the poetry section, towards the end of the page.
“Carole Joffe has given us a rare and privileged look into the beleaguered world of abortion providers. I found their determination inspiring -- and Joffe's level-headed perspective deeply clarifying.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed
Advertising, Coop and Promotion Update:
Ms. Magazine, Winter 2010
Women’s Review of Books, Jan/Feb 2010
Feministing.com, January 2010
Events:
National Women's Studies Association meeting
November 15th, San Francisco, CA
Power of Choice luncheon
March, 2010
Not Quite Paradise, Adele Barker, December 2009, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-0061-8
“Adele Barker’s writing is cordial and informed, and offers this memorable gift: the story of strangers from very different countries becoming cherished and enduring friends. Against the background of a most beautiful country and through the tragedies that have marred its recent history, her love of the land and for its people won a high place in this reader’s heart.”
—Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Mary Oliver
Advertising, Coop and Promotion Update:
Advance, Superannotation, Ingram Coop, December 2009
Google ad-words campaign on search and content network, December 2009
Events
Tucson Festival of the Books
Book festival March 13-14th at Tucson’s University of Arizona campus Politics & Prose Bookstore
March 15th, Washington, DC
7:00 pm
“A stunning and disturbing book. Jonathan Metzl shows how white fears of black militancy, radical shifts in diagnoses, the pharmaceutical industry’s promotion of new antipsychotic drugs, and the rise of a carceral state converged to invent the schizophrenic Negro. The Protest Psychosis is a compelling cultural history that exposes postwar psychiatry’s racist character and its enduring legacy.”
—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
Advertising, Coop and Promotion Update:
The Black Scholar, quarter page, March/Spring issue
Events Book Release Party
January 13th, Ann Arbor, MI
5:00 – 8:30pm
Book reading/signing
January 13th, site TBD on the University of Michigan campus
2:00 pm-4:00 pm
Medicine and Society Program, University of California, San Francisco
January 25th, San Francisco, CA
New York University
January 29th, New York, NY
Emory University
Race & Difference Lecture Series
February 4th, Georgia
Disability Studies Program, University of Michigan
February 14, Ann Arbor, MI
Book release lecture/event
First week of March; Ann arbor, Michigan
Visiting Writer: Rutgers University
November 4th, New Brunswick, NJ
1:00 pm
Keynote Speaker: Macaulay Honors College Art and Science Day
City College
November 22nd, New York, NY
2:00 pm
Webinar Discussion “The Importance of Literary Community”
sponsored by AMSA’s Medical Humanities Scholars Program (open to AMSA members only)
December 10th
7:00 pm
Keynote Speaker: Atlanticare Physicians Retreat
December 11th, Atlantic City, NJ
12:15pm
Shenandoah University Commencement and White Coat Ceremony
December 18th, Winchester, VA
10:00 am
Barnes & Noble: Upper West Side
January 7th, New York, NY
7:00 pm
MediaBistro: venue TBD
January 12th or Jan 13th, New York, NY
Darthmouth School of Medicine
January 14th, Hanover, NH
Barnes & Noble
January 20th, Bethesda, MD
7:30 pm
Medical Grand Rounds: Sinai Hospital Baltimore
January 21st, Baltimore, MD
8:00 am
Politics and Prose
January 21st Washington, DC 20008
7:00 pm
Webinar Book Discussion of Medicine in Translation
sponsored by AMSA, open to the public (space limited, reservations required)
January 28th
8:00 pm
Cambridge Forum
Live broadcast on WGBH-Boston
February 3, First Parish (Unitarian Universalist)
Cambridge, MA
5:00 pm
Think Coffee
February 10th, New York, NY
8 pm
Medical Grand Rounds: Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
April 13, New York, NY
8:30 am
Duke University School of Medicine
May 21st, Durham, NC
Kirkus Reviews; review will run in the November 15th issue
“Regan puts a human face on the multiple problems created by desperate, poverty-stricken people entering the United States illegally to look for work.”
To Uphold the World, Bruce Rich, March 2009, paperback, $23.00, 978-0-8070-0613-9
Publisher’s Weekly; review in the November 2nd issue
Bob Edwards Show/XM Satellite Radio; Thursday, November 5th; 1:00pm from WHYY
Midday Dakota/South Dakota Public Broadcasting; Monday, November 9th; 1:00 - 1:25 EST, live by phone
Radio Times/WHYY (NPR Philly); Tuesday, November 10th; 10:00 – 11:00am; live in studio with both Pat and Maria
Conversations/WQUB (Quincy, Ill; Hannibal, MO; Keokuk, IA); Tuesday, November 10th; 1:00 - 1:30pm (12:00 - 12:30pm Central);taped by phone; The Host/Contact, Jim Lenz, will call Pat at home
This, That, and The Other/Gap Broadcasting (Great Falls, MT); Tuesday, November 10th; 6:35 - 6:50pm EST (4:35 Mountain Time); live by phone; The Host/Contact, Jerry Puffer, will call Pat at home
Voices of the Tri-States/KDTH Radio (Dubuque, Iowa); Wednesday, November 11th; 12:30 to 1:00 pm Central (1:30 – 2:00pm EST) ; live by phone with call-ins
New America Foundation; Thursday, November 12th; 12:00 - 1:30pm; Panel Discussion; 1899 L Street NW; 4th Floor, Washington DC
Leonard Lopate Show/WNYC (NPR New York); Tuesday, November 24th; 1:30 – 2:00pm, live in studio
America Magazine; a very nice and thoughtful review of Beyond the Miracle Worker in the November 9th issue of
“Kim Nielsen’s engaging and excellently researched new biography of Anne Sullivan Macy and her relationship with Helen Keller reveals unknown shadows and contradictory facets of their lives.”
Morning Haiku, Sonia Sanchez, February 2010, cloth, $22.00, 978-0-8070-6910-3
Library Journal; listed in the “African America Celebrates” section of the November 1st issue. The book is listed in the poetry section, towards the end of the page.
“Considering the number of books written about President Obama, you would think we’ve heard enough. Not to say that I'm the decider of these things but my vote should count for something, and I think that Power In Words dissects the rhetoric of the President in unprecedented ways. A while back I began to see this movement the President is leading as a kind of cultural transformation, and in this book the stories behind the famous addresses come to life.”
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