The Mo’Nique Show/BET; taped interview honoring Sonia Sanchez, Ruby Dee, Jasmine Guy, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee, who have been honored by The National Visionary Leadership Project January 27th; the show will air in February for Black History Month, exact air date to come.
The Tavis Smiley Show; author interview taped 1/26; exact air date to come.
Hip Hop Connection/Voice of America; taped radio interview Febrary 9th; air date to come.
Philadelphia Tribune; author interview January 6th; print date tentatively scheduled for Friday, January 29th.
Booklist; review in the February 1st issue.
“Sanchez’s bright and dancing poems shimmer with surprising juxtapositions, unexpected flight patterns, and leap-frog associations. Their brevity seems built for speed, but their lyricism and warmth inspire lingering, savoring, reading, and re-reading, perhaps aloud.”
The Atlanta Voice; author interview 1/25; print date to come.
Quarterly Black Review; review in the next issue; exact print date to come.
Not Quite Paradise, Adele Barker, December 2009, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-0061-8
The Toronto Star; author interview regarding the current election violence in Sri Lanka ran on Saturday, January 23rd. The article quotes Barker a few times and mentions her book.
Salon.com interview was picked up by Beliefnet’s “A Pagan’s Blog,” which said:
“Salon has an interview well worth reading with Carol Joffe, author of Dispatches from the Abortion Wars. In this time of Christian terrorism it is heartening to read a sane but sobering analysis of this issue.”
C-Span/Book TV; taping of author event at University of Michigan will air Saturday, January 30th at 8am ET and Sunday, January 31 at 5pm ET.
Featured Books:
Morning Haiku, Sonia Sanchez, February 2010, cloth, $19.95, 978-0-8070-6910-3
Upcoming Events
Thursday, January 28th Spelman College 6pm
The National Visionary Leadership Project Presents: Vision To Visionaries: Women Empowered Featured Guest, hosted by Camille O. Cosby, Ed.D.
(Other guests include Ruby Dee, Jasmine Guy, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee)
Atlanta, GA
Friday, January 29th Missouri History Museum
Author Reading
St. Louis, MO
7:00pm
Tuesday, February 2nd Free Library of Philadelphia
Author Reading
Philadelphia, PA
7:30pm
Sowing Crisis, Rashid Khalidi, January 2010, paperback, $16.00, 978-0-0870-0311-4
Upcoming Events
January 28-31 Creighton University
Author lecture
Omaha, NE
February 4-7 Kennesaw State University
Author lecture
Atlanta, GA
Tuesday, February 9th Intelligence Squared Debate
New York, NY
February 18-20 Brown University
School of Middle Eastern Studies
Providence, RI
February 25-28 Tri-University Conference on Nationalism
Guelph University
Author lecture
Toronto, Canada
March 25-26 Yale University
Hoyt Lecture
New Haven, CT
April 1-3 University of Arizona
Author Lecture
Tucson, AZ
April 12-13 Trinity University
Author lecture
San Antonio, TX
Publicity Reviews, and Praise:
Hollowing Out The Middle, Patrick J. Carr And Maria J. Kefalas, October 2009, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-4238-0
Peninsula Pulse; Lengthy write up with jacket art in local Wisconsin paper.
Our Bodies Our Blog; two different resources from author are listed on their website. Book is also listed as a suggested reading, and author’s GRITtv video is linked to as suggested viewing.
“The Boys from Little Mexico proves once again that the language of sports is universal, and even when it is spoken by a bunch of immigrant kids in a working class town in Oregon, it still tells the old epic story of triumph, adversity, and beating the odds where you least expect it. Steve Wilson takes a small corner of the world and shows how big it can be, especially when a caring coach partners with some talented players in what Pele called ‘the beautiful game.’ This book is both heartbreaking and inspiring.”
—Madeleine Blais, author of In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle
Beacon Acquisition:
Beacon is pleased to announce the acquisition of a book that will tackle the controversial and painful topic of international adoption corruption. Over the past five years, 20% of the 100,000 children adopted into the United States came from Guatemala. Journalist Erin Siegal relates the chilling tale of a Guatemalan mother whose two-year-old daughter and infant child were stolen from her, interwoven with the story of an adoptive mother from Tennessee who began to question the practices of the agency that was handling these two girls. Siegal’s book will shed light on an alarming problem that, unchecked, will only continue to grow. Fall 2011.
In recent years, American Christian Evangelicals have put an enormous amount of money and personal investment into helping African children orphaned by AIDS—from adopting children to building orphanages. Journalist John Donnelly hasseen the effects of this surge of well-intentioned if sometimes wrongheaded efforts firsthand as a reporter for the Boston Globe and through recent work on global health through a Kaiser Family Foundation fellowship. His book will discuss the tensions and problems inherent in this modern missionary work and highlight the lessons that need to be learned by people who want to do real good. Fall 2011.
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