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Will Allen on THE SPLENDID TABLE
I love Lynne Rossetto Kasper’s interview with Will Allen on THE SPLENDID TABLE, in which Will describes how one three-acre inner-city plot can feed 10,000 people a year–something he and his organization Growing Power have accomplished in Milwaukee. The interview begins at 13:45.
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Praise from PBS.org for THE GOOD FOOD REVOLUTION
PBS.org’s roundup of the five best books on food published in May includes Will Allen’s THE GOOD FOOD REVOLUTIO, along with books by James Beard and Michelle Obama. Here’s what their website has to say: A pioneering urban farmer and MacArthur “Genius Award” winner is building a new food system that can feed—and heal—broken communities. [...]
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The buzz begins for Will Allen’s THE GOOD FOOD REVOLUTION
Will Allen’s THE GOOD FOOD REVOLUTION is coming in a few weeks from Gotham. Eric Schlosser wrote the introduction. Former president Bill Clinton has praised it. So has Alice Waters. Now Kirkus has weighed in with a glowing pre-pub review: “What Allen does with a small plot of land and a lot of determination is [...]
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About.com names FOLLOWING EZRA Favorite Special Needs Memoir of 2012
This is a reader’s choice award, which makes it even more meaningful. Congratulations to author Tom Fields-Meyer!
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Wendy Mogel can change the way you think about your teenager
Simon & Schuster has posted a lovely video of Wendy Mogel guaranteed to persuade you that raising a teen can be “invigorating, enlightening, and entertaining”–click here to see it. (It just might bring tears to your eyes.) For much more inspiration and support, read THE BLESSING OF A B MINUS, just out in paperback.
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More coverage of FOLLOWING EZRA in The Atlantic online and Lisa Belkin’s NYT parenting blog
Click here for a wonderful Q&A with author Tom Fields-Meyer about what it was like for him to write about his son, Ezra. Lisa Belkin also wrote about the book in a Motherlode blog entry called “Parenting Reading for Back to School,” where she describes it (rightly!) as “wonderful.”
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The WSJ excerpts Tom Fields-Meyer’s memoir FOLLOWING EZRA
Read the Wall Street Journal excerpt here. When Tom’s son Ezra was diagnosed with autism before he turned three, a counselor suggested that he and his wife grieve for “the child Ezra didn’t turn out to be.” But Tom had, as he writes, no instinct to mourn. Instead, the counselor’s remark helped him bring out [...]
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Praise for Marisel Vera’s IF I BRING YOU ROSES
We’ve gotten such lovely quotes for Marisel Vera’s debut novel, IF I BRING YOU ROSES: “A richly told tale of obsessive love…deeply sensual and mysterious.” –Cristina Garcia, author of Dreaming in Cuban “A deeply felt and satisfying tale that brings attention to the courage required to sustain hope, love, and passion as a stranger in [...]
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Marisel Vera’s IF I BRING YOU ROSES is out now from Grand Central
The author had the brilliant idea to recruit her daughter, actress Alyssa Vera Ramos, and Alyssa’s friend Alex Tey, artistic director of 13 o’clock Theatre in Rio Grande, Texas, to read a chapter from the book. It will bring tears to your eyes. View it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLS2J9czTaU. This also happens to be Marisel’s first book [...]
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Seven Consequences of Fast Food