Fist Stick
Knife Gun, Geoffrey Canada and Jamar Nicholas, October 2010,
paperback original, $14.00, 978-0-8070-4449-0
Publisher’s Weekly; publicist Caitlin Meyer and book get a nice
plug in their June 1st article that recaps on comics at BEA
“And at the Beacon Press booth, publicist Caitlin Meyer was showing
an early preview of Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence,
a comics adaptation of the memoir of the life of Harlem anti-violence activist
and community organizer, Geoffrey Canada, with art by Jamar Nicholas, slated
for release in October. It’s the first of three graphic novel titles
Beacon Press plans to release over the next two years”
Boston Globe; book listed as #10 on the Hardcover Non-Fiction bestseller
list for the week ending May 30th
Backlist Headlines:
“They
Take Our Jobs!” Aviva Chomsky, paperback original, July
2007, $14.00, 978-0-8070-4156-7
Huffington Post; thoughtful piece on Arizona and immigration on May
27th that lists book at the end as one of their Recommended Reading titles
Publicity Reviews, and Praise:
Not Quite
Paradise, Adele Barker, December 2009, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-0061-8
Guernica Magazine; picked up the author’s recent blog post for
Beacon Broadside, which was then linked to on USA Today and was posted
on the website for The International Medical Health Organization.
Edge Publications; a very nice review in this publication, which
includes 18 regional/city Edge newspapers and websites.
“This memoir serves to illuminate both the differences and the similarities
between LGBT parenthood and straight parenthood…The result is a delightful
novel rich with depth, honesty and wit. This book is truly a must read for
any parent or anyone considering becoming one.”
Jewish Book Review; nice write up in Jewish Book World’s Summer
issue
Beacon Blurbs:
Banned in
Boston, Neil Miller, September 2010, hardcover, $26.95, 978-0-8070-5112-2
“I read this book with one eye over my shoulder, fully expecting the Watch
and Ward police to burst in and confiscate it for being too provocative! But
it would have been worth it. Neil Miller has given us everything we could ask
for in an enjoyable history—a revealing subject, well-drawn characters,
and a colorful portrait of another era, all wrapped in a fast-paced, easy-to-read
story. Banned in Boston is a Boston gem.”
—Stephen Puleo, author of A City So Grand, The Boston
Italians, and Dark Tide
“Neil Miller has created a fascinating and often funny history of a time
when censors ruled. The fight for artistic freedom in America begins in Boston,
and Miller gives us a front-row seat.”
—Christopher M. Finan, president of the American Booksellers Foundation
for Free Expression and author of From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act:
A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America
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