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The War on Guns (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
William Ayers , author of A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court (Beacon Press, 1997), says "We should call a child a child. A 13-year-old who picks up a gun isn't suddenly an adult. We have to ask other questions: How did he get the gun? Where did it come from?" A blast from the past that did not involve real bombs ... Oh and look--he was joined by other anti-gun "community organizers."...
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Right Voices (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Children who kill are called “super predators,” “people with no conscience,” “feral pre-social beings” — and “adults.” William Ayers, author of A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court (Beacon Press, 1997), says “We should call a child a child. A 13-year-old who picks up a gun isn’t suddenly an adult. We have to [...]
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Daddy Dialectic (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
Back in June, I invited Daddy Dialectic readers to help me think of a new title for my book. Many of the suggestions were good, or at least fun, but none of them ultimately made the short list. This past week we (meaning, me and Beacon Press) finally settled on a new title: The Daddy Shift: How Stay-at-Home Fathers, Breadwinning Mothers, and Shared Parenting are Transforming the Twenty-First-Century...
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Thomas Kraemer (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
PHOTO: vandalism of Oregon State University's library copy of the book by Richard D. Mohr, "Gay Ideas, Outing and Other Controversies," Beacon Press, 1992 edition . It is not clear why somebody would cutout only pages 173 to 184. The paperback edition I own has the same page numbers as the hardcover edition, but the only common thread on these pages was a few pieces of artwork including "Tom of Finland"...
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Life begins at 50 (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Beacon broadside, a project of beacon press, is a forum for ideas, opinions, and reflections by beacon authors, staff, and friends site search search beacon broadside and the. News story, wal-mart hit by brokeback protest wal-mart has turned aside a massive letter-writing campaign by the american y association urging the retailer to refuse to. Company s green initiative, lagging sales of titles among...
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Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
By Frederick Lane, Beacon Press. Posted July 3, 2008. from AlterNet Even worse, Bush wants to ensure that faith-based organizations receiving federal funds can discriminate in their hiring on the basis of religion. The following is excerpted from The Court and the Cross: The Religious Right's Crusade to Reshape the Supreme Court. Faith-Based Organizations and Religious Discrimination in Hiring For...
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Disability Studies, Temple U. (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
[Image: Cover of Nancy Mairs' collection of essays titled Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled (Beacon Press 1996), featuring a close-up of a woman's belly with her hands clasped across it, a detail from Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus"] "You know, if things are flashing by you, you don't have time to contemplate them and cherish them, you don't know that you're not doing it.
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English Webster (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Surprised by God Danya Ruttenberg Beacon Press, 2008 Subtitled “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion,” Danya Ruttenberg’s very personal account includes: rejecting the sterile religion of her childhood, dancing her way through punk culture, the cancer-induced death of her mother, and her path through a meditation-oriented Judaism that eventually opened the doors for a deep encounter with...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Yesterday's NY Times story about the threats facing the Mark Twain House over in Hartford reminded me about an article from mid-May over at the Beacon Broadside that I'd been meaning to write something about, in which Beacon Press director Helene Atwan took a roadtrip to Edna St. Vincent Millay 's estate with poet Mary Oliver , who lived at Steepletop off and on during her college years, and "[bore]...
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PopCultureShock (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Cheryl sent me the following message via Mikhaela Reid: Allison Trzop (ATrzop@beacon.org): As the acquiring editor of graphic books at Beacon Press, I'm writing about a project we have in the works that I'm hoping might interest you. Beacon Press is a nonprofit, independent book publisher in Boston. Our mission is to advance progressive principles, particularly when it comes to anti-racism, [...]
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Pinwheels (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
Suzanne Kamata’s new book, Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs (Beacon Press) was released this month. It's a collection of poems, short stories, essays and excerpts from larger works–some of the writing has been published and widely read elsewhere; some has appeared only in smaller presses; some appears in [...]
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Buckeye State Blog - Comments (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
http://www.democracynow.org/2007/7/2/how_the_pentagon_papers_came_to How the Pentagon Papers Came to be Published by the Beacon Press: A Remarkable Story Told by Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, Dem Presidential Candidate Mike Gravel and Unitarian Leader Robert West Thirty-five years ago this weekend, Beacon Press lost a Supreme Court case brought against it by the US government for publishing the first...
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bilerico.com (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Nancy D. Polikoff Beyond (Gay and Straight) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law Beacon Press, 2008 Law professor Nancy Polikoff argues in Beyond (Gay and Straight) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law that marriage and the rights currently associated with it were developed decades ago in a culture where sex outside marriage was taboo, illegitimate children were outcasts, and gender...
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Gibraltar News Online (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
Raising funds for youth inventiveness Friends of the Earth Gibraltar (FoE) will be holding an auction of items, submitted by the public, at the Garrison Library on the 26th April (during Earth Day week) to raise funds for a special project. Sellers’ forms will be available at Beacon Press, Cloister Ramp from the 15th to the 21st [...]
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Apesma's Lament (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
While Souls in the Hands of a Tender God, the remarkable new book out on Beacon Press by Seattle mental health chaplain Craig Rennebohm, won't be available in stores until May 15, you can get your copy now. The book "tells stories of the search for home and healing on the streets, drawn from Craig's ministry over the years, and explores an understanding of God active in our lives in support of
