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The Muslim Brotherhood: The Burden of Tradition | Alison Pargeter | Saqi Books | 9780863564758 | December 2010 | $29.95 | Trade Cloth
The Muslim Brotherhood is one of the longest surviving and perhaps the most controversial of all Islamist movements to have emerged out of the Middle East. The Muslim Brotherhood: The Burden of Tradition gives a unique account of this secretive but extremely influential group in both Egypt and around the world.
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- What do the rising stars of Arab literature have to do with the current crisis in the Middle East? BBC's The Strand talked to Peter Clark, editor of Emerging Arab Voices, about just that.
- Habeeb Qaudri, author of Kube's War Within Our Hearts, speaks about the joys and trials of being principal of a Muslim school in the Chicago suburbs. Read the report (and watch Qaudri get tackled by schoolchildren) here.
- Clarence Lusane (author of The Black History of the White House) was featured on NPR's Talk of the Nation. Listen to the segment and read an excerpt of the book. Then check out Lusane in the Atlanta Post's exploration of the White House's forgotten past.
- Are zoo animals taking vengeance on their human captors? Jason Hribal, author of Fear of the Animal Planet, will be interviewed on Your Call Radio at 8:00 p.m. Listen tonight, and stay away from the tiger pit!
- Can't decide what to read next? Andrew Ervin's current list of favorites is featured on What Writers Read. Ervin's first book Extraordinary Renditionsjust got included in the 2011 Story Prize's list of notable books. Trust his judgment!
- Former Senator Gary Hart (author of The Thunder and the Sunshine) covers the continuing protests in Egypt for Esquire magazine— read it here.
- Read Craig Morgan Teicher's spring poetry recommendations: Sky Burial, Space, In Chains, The Bigger World, How Long, and Your Father on the Train of Ghosts in Publisher's Weekly top ten for poetry.
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February 10, 2011
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Author of Strange Relation To Be on NPR's Talk of the Nation on Valentine's Day
Rachel Hadas, the author of Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry, will be a guest on NPR's Talk of the Nation on Monday—Valentine's Day. Hadas' memoir details the experience of "losing" her husband to early-onset dementia at age sixty-one. Lydia Davis praised the book, describing it as "[A] thoughtful and lucid tale of love, companionship, and heartbreaking illness."
Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry | Rachel Hadas | Paul Dry Books | 9781589880610 | February 2011 | $16.95 | Trade Paper
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Author of Bad Shoes on The Today Show on February 8
Leora Tanenbaum offered her two cents about why women are so obsessed with shoes during the 8:00 a.m. hour of The Today Show on February 8. The title of Tanenbaum's book Bad Shoes and the Women Who Love Them was included in her byline. As for the question at hand—why do women go gaga for stilettos?—you'll have to watch the clip to find out.
Bad Shoes and the Women Who Love Them | Leora Tanenbaum; Illustrated by Vanessa Davis | Seven Stories Press | 9781583229040 | June 2010 | $13.95 | Trade Paper |
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The Motorcycle Diaries Featured on PRI's The Takeaway This Morning
In light of the protests sweeping across the Middle East, Patrik Henry Bass, a senior editor at Essence magazine, shared his favorite revolutionary books this morning on Public Radio International's The Takeaway. Second on the list of iconic books was Che Guevara's The Motorcycle Diaries, of which he commented, "What's exciting about The Motorcycle Diaries, is this is one of the more recent revolutionary tracts that is appealing to younger people. . . . When people go back and read it, you're astounded not only by the richness of the writing but also the ideas that he was moving forward." The Takeaway is a national morning news program that is a co-production of PRI and WNYC radio in collaboration with the BBC World Service, The New York Times, and WGBH Boston.
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey | Ernesto Che Guevara | Ocean Press | 9781876175702 | August 2003 | $14.95 | Trade Paper
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Birth Matters in Mothering Magazine, on Babble.com, and on New York Nightly News in March
Ina May Gaskin, who has been called "the midwife of modern midwifery" by Salon.com, will be promoting her latest book Birth Matters at several major parenting and childbirth outlets. On March 8, Gaskin will be interviewed on the NBC-affiliate New York Nightly News with Chuck Scarborough. Also in March, Mothering magazine will review the book and feature it in an e-mail to its subscribers. Babble.com, one of the top parenting web magazines, with five million unique visitors, will host a live chat with Gaskin for their huge community of parents. Gaskin will also answer questions on StudentMidwife.org, a site that receives over one hundred thousand visitors a month, in a video interview to be posted on the homepage. Reviews of Birth Matters will follow in Fit Pregnancy, Bitch magazine, Midwifery Today magazine, Utne, Make/Shift, VegFamily, Ms., and Birth Journal, with more to come. Online reviews will be posted on Feministing.org, Mybestbirth.com, indiebirth.com, the About.com pregnancy page, and on many other sites. Finally, TheBusinessofBeingBorn.com, the website associated with the Ricki Lake documentary of the same name, will post a review and possibly and interview with Gaskin.
Birth Matters | Ina May Gaskin | Seven Stories Press | 9781583229279 | March 2011 | $16.95 | Trade Paper
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Author Nawal El Saadawi on Democracy Now! and Praised by Nicholas Kristof
Nawal El Saadawi, the author of The Fall of Imam, appeared on Democracy Now! on January 31 to discuss the role of women in Egypt's protests. El Saadawi, a renowned human rights activist and a former political prisoner exiled from Egypt for several years, returned to participate in the demonstrations. On February 4, she was quoted in a New York Times column by Nicholas Kristof: "In the center of Tahrir Square, also known as Liberation Square, I bumped into one of my heroes, Dr. Nawal El Saadawi, a leading Arab feminist who for decades has fought female genital mutilation. Dr. Saadawi, who turns eighty this year, is white-haired and frail and full of fiery passion.'I feel I am born again,' she said, adding that she intended to sleep with the protesters on Tahrir Square." Saqi Books is publishing Zeina, a novel by El Saadawi, next year. For more fictional accounts of life in Egypt, explore In Their Father's Country and Cairo Stories, by Anne-Marie Drosso.
The Fall Of Imam | Nawal El Saadawi | Saqi Books | 9780863563966 | November 2001 | $11.95 | Trade Paper Zeina | Nawal El Saadawi | Saqi Books | 9780863564178 | February 2012 | $14.95 | Trade Paper In Their Father's Country | Anne-Marie Drosso | Telegram Books | 9781846590597 | June 2009 | $13.95 | Trade Paper Cairo Stories | Anne-Marie Drosso | Telegram Books | 9781846590252 | June 2007 | $14.95 | Trade Paper |
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Barry Gifford's Kaleidoscopic Career Profiled on Salon.com
Salon.com profiled the career of Barry Gifford on February 7. With a reputation built on the success of his novel Wild at Heart, which was adapted into a film by David Lynch, Gifford's output since then has been anything but predictable: "Barry Gifford is known for his noir fiction—but his more recent work is full of unexpected, brilliant surprises." The essay highlighted Gifford's Sailor & Lula novels: "Taken together, the Sailor and Lula stories form one of the most amazing love tales in American literature," and the dark, down-and-out characters that populate his work, "Gifford writes about men and women of whom you ask, 'Where do they go during the day?' And the answer is that they are the kind of people who always seem to show up after dark because they carry their own private night with them. You'll be glad that you went along for the ride, but also glad that you have a kinder, saner world to return to." Gifford's most recent book is Sad Stories of the Death of Kings, published by Seven Stories Press.
Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels | Barry Gifford | Seven Stories Press | 9781583229101 | May 2010 | $19.95 | Trade Paper Sad Stories of the Death of Kings | Barry Gifford | Seven Stories Press | 9781583229224 | October 2010 | $16.95 | Trade Paper |
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Slideshow from Venus with Biceps Featured on NewYorker.com
A slideshow of images from David L. Chapman's Venus with Biceps: A Pictorial History of Muscular Women was featured on The New Yorker's book blog The Book Bench on February 4: "Here's a book to get pumped up about. . . . A truly fascinating tour of the hardbodied heroines of the photographic age." You can read the article and view the images here.
Venus with Biceps: A Pictorial History of Muscular Women | David L. Chapman | Arsenal Pulp Press | 9781551523705 | January 2011 | $27.95 | Trade Paper |
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"This ambitious book is a patchwork quilt of oral histories, photographs, hymns, newspaper accounts, fresh interviews, and, foremost, poetry that takes the temperature of race relations in 1969. . . . One With Others feels like the furrows of memory itself."
The New York Times February 9, 2011 By the Numbers | James Richardson | Copper Canyon Press | 9781556593208 | November 2010 | $16.00 | Trade Paper
"James Richardson is a smart and funny poet who provokes you into quoting him over and over and over. . . . Exquisite literary M&M's, word candy for a culture spastic with attention deficit disorder."
The New York Observer's Very Short List February 8, 2011 The Black History of the White House | Clarence Lusane | City Lights Publishers | 9780872865327 | January 2011 | $19.95 | Trade Paper
"Lusane is an elegant, impassioned writer, and the book—which is full of stories we'd never encountered in American History 101—is totally engrossing. . . . This is a serious, necessary book."
Bookslut.com February 2011 The Correspondence Artist | Barbara Browning | Two Dollar Radio | 9780982015193 | March 2011 | $15.50 | Trade Paper
"Intelligent. . . . A pleasure to read."
"Nobody now at work in American verse combines [H.L. Hix's] attraction to programmatic Big Projects (narrative, philosophical, or procedure driven) with his supple interest in older tones and forms."
"In Six, Michael Smith takes a broad view, adding new stories, filling in details, using true names and dates, and, perhaps most interesting, describing the reactions of government entities to the intelligence they received."
"Both [Signs of Change and Celebrate People's History] offer images of where we have been, not only in an attempt to record an alternative history, but also to encourage readers to imagine how we might forge our future."
"One of the more interesting literary experiences in recent times. The Orange Eats Creeps is sure to make an impression."
Publishers Weekly Feb 7, 2011 And Yet They Were Happy | Helen Phillips | Leapfrog Press | 9781935248187 | May 2011 | $14.95 | Trade Paper
"Milestones—emotional, familial, biblical—feature heavily in Phillips's imaginative debut. . . . Mothers, weddings, and monsters are all treated with irreverence in this cunning work that winks at reality as it carves out its niche deep in fable territory."
"The new book not only complements its predecessor, but manages to surpass it. . . . With this latest release, 3DTotal has once again proved to be a driving force in art education."
Read more reviews here.
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