Three Plays, Howard Zinn, March 2010, paperback original, $18.00, 978-0-8070-7326-1
Boston Globe; Zinn event on March 24th was the main feature in the Names section of March 25th issue of Boston Globe. The piece included a photo of Chris Cooper and mentioned the book and Beacon Press.
Boston Herald; ran a piece in the Inside Track section, which included a write-up of the event, plus a photo and short video clip of Chris Cooper performing.
The Match, Beth Whitehouse, April 2010, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-7286-8
Booklist; review ran online February 24th.
“The award winning articles on which Whitehouse based this book provided an illuminating, detailed, extraordinarily moving account of Stacy and Steve Trebing’s battle to heal their daughter Katie’s Diamond Blackfann anemia (DBA), a rare condition requiring monthly transfusions that would eventually destroy her organs.”
AOL Health; feature interview running week of March 29th
Diane Rehm Show/WAMU Radio (NPR National) Monday, April 5th; 11:00 – 12pm; live
Doctor Radio/Sirius XM Radio; live; Tuesday, April 13th; 9:00 – 10:00am
Times Union; another piece written by David Kaczynski appeared in the March 25th issue; encouraged readers to attend March 25th author event at The Book Place.
Kaczynski repeated his previous blurb on the title and offers more praise, comparing it to another book that influenced him, Beacon’s very own Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl.
Daily Hampshire Gazette; featured in the Book Bag column of the Tuesday, March 23rd issue. The piece ran in print and online with cover art
The Republican; author interview in the March 30th issue. The interview goes into detail about the book, the author and plugs Chura’s event at Amherst’s Food For Thought on April 6th. The piece also includes a nice picture of David holding the book!
The introduction of Prozac in 1987 heralded a new age of the development of psychiatric drugs. New antidepressants and antipsychotics treated less severe mental illness and had fewer obvious undesirable side-effects, and prescribing for young people exploded. Between 1987 and 1996, the percentage of youth under twenty taking at least one drug tripled. Journalist Kaitlin Bell was one of them, having taken medications for depression and anxiety since she was seventeen. Her book will explore the question of how drugs have affected the first generation to have grown up taking widely-prescribed psychiatric medications. Sharing in-depth accounts of individual experiences, Bell will tease out the myriad psychological, scientific, sociological, and even philosophical questions involved in this provocative issue. Spring 2012.
Beacon Blurbs:
Nobody Turn Me Around, Charles Euchner, August 2010, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-0059-5
“Nearly fifty years after the March on Washington, Charles Euchner has brought that historic event back to life by presenting a panorama of vivid characters, torn by discord over tactics yet united in their determination to shame a timorous government into stamping out Jim Crow.”
—Curtis Wilkie, author of Dixie: A Personal Odyssey Through Events That Shaped the Modern South
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