Time Out New York; author interview June 28th. A short feature about
the book will run in the LGBT section of the magazine in the July 8th issue
Book Marks; great review by Richard Labonte in his Book Mark’s
column, which was distributed to 20 gay and lesbian newspapers and web sites.
The review should start to run at the various publications by July 5th.
“…this riveting book’s focus is on the parallel track of
courtroom battles. The author blends lucid legal analysis, poignant portraits
of the defendants and astute profiles of the attorneys involved in five
cases.”
Featured Book:
Pornland,
Gail Dines, July 2010, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-4452-0
PULSE; great author interview ran June 29th on website and it has
been picked up in a number of really exciting places:
Sacramento Book Review; a great review posted June 22nd:
“Dines has written a treatise that is equally powerful and disturbing.
She asks tough questions and makes uncomfortable observations, but the results
ought to be game-changing: a world in which we have healthy attitudes about
the feminine, the masculine, about sex and about ourselves. A world far-removed
from Pornland.”
A City So
Grand, Stephen Puleo, May 2010, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070- 5043-9
WRKO Boston’s “Tom and Todd” drive time show; author will
be on show 8am EST July 2nd
Beacon Blurbs:
American
Plastic, Laurie Essig, December 2010, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-0055-7
“American Plastic is a playful but deadly earnest reportage on
plastic America – the fateful collisions of cosmetic surgery and credit
(which pays for most of it), beauty and pornography (which now defines beauty),
and technology and perfection (which technology affects to make possible).
Capturing the many meanings of plastic and plasticity, Laurie Essig portrays
a society which, on the way to trying to remake the female body, is unmaking
its core reality in ways equally devastating to women and the economy. Women
will read this book, men need to.”
—Benjamin R. Barber, author of Jihad vs. McWorld and Consumed,
Distinguished Senior Fellow, DEMOS
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