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Category: Beacon Press News
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While one man and his small group of followers talk about burning copies of Islam’s holy book, America’s secular and religious communities speak up in solidarity.
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Beacon staff returns from a productive and photogenic BookExpo America!
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Congratulations to Beacon Press staff and associates for their inspired design of David Plante’s The Pure Lover, recently honored by Bookbuilders of Boston.
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Beacon Press congratulates Bellevue Literary Press for Paul Harding’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
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Sit back and watch or listen to some recent media appearances by Beacon authors.
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Today’s post is from Tom Hallock, Associate Publisher of Beacon Press. Last week, Beacon announced a change in its distribution from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to Random House Publisher Services which will be effective July 1, 2010. It’s a big change and one we’re excited about. The new partnership encompasses all formats and channels. Random House…
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Beacon Press director Helene Atwan offers this remembrance of historian, author, playwright, social activist, and friend Howard Zinn.
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A note from Beacon Press director Helene Atwan about the recent deaths of two Beacon authors.
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Eboo Patel, founder and executive director of Interfaith Youth Core, won the 2010 Louisville Grawemeyer award in religion for his autobiography, Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation
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Today’s post is from Helene Atwan, Director of Beacon Press. She recently attended the 75th birthday celebration of Sonia Sanchez, an award-winning poet, playwright, activist, and scholar whose work includes Shake Loose My Skin and the forthcoming Morning Haiku. On Saturday, September 12, I had the joy and privilege of sharing in poet Sonia Sanchez’s…
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