Friday, April 9, 2010

“The Antioch Review Honors Martin Duberman; Writer to ... - PR Inside” plus 2 more

“The Antioch Review Honors Martin Duberman; Writer to ... - PR Inside” plus 2 more

The Antioch Review Honors Martin Duberman; Writer to ... - PR Inside

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 07:21 AM PDT

2010-04-09 16:24:06 -

Martin Duberman – writer, historian, philosopher, playwright, and gay-rights activist – will be honored on May 12, 2010 when he receives The Antioch Review's Distinguished Writing Award at The National Arts Club in New York.


Martin Duberman is the Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at Lehman College : and the Graduate School of the City University of

New York : and was the founder and first director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies : at the CUNY Graduate School. He has authored over twenty books including James Russell Lowell (a National Book Award finalist), Paul Robeson, Stonewall, and the memoir Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey. He is also a neoabolitionist : scholar, as evidenced by his edited collection of essays, The Antislavery Vanguard. His play In White America won the Vernon Rice/Drama Desk Award for Best Off-Broadway Production in 1963.

"Best known for his acclaimed biographies of Paul Robeson and Lincoln Kirstein and his provocative books about the gay rights movement, Marty has also had a long-standing involvement with the theater that began early in his career, when his drama criticism appeared in the Partisan Review and Harper's, and continued with his own radical, adventurous, and deeply moving plays," said Robert Fogarty, editor of The Antioch Review. "He occupies a singularly important place in American culture, and we are honored that he will accept this award."


About The Antioch Review

The Antioch Review, founded in 1941, is one of the oldest, continuously publishing literary magazines in America. The magazine publishes fiction, essays, and poetry from both emerging as well as established authors. Authors published in its pages are consistently included in Best American anthologies and Pushcart prizes.

About Antioch College

Antioch College is a private college of the liberal arts and sciences located in the Village of Yellow Springs, Ohio. Founded in 1852, with Horace Mann as its first president it counts among its accomplished alumni Nobel Prize recipients and numerous MacArthur "Genius" Prize awardees. The College has a historic legacy at the vanguard of progressive education through its work-study-community governance curriculum and was among the first colleges in the United States to offer equal educational opportunity to African Americans and women. Antioch College is a member of the Great Lakes Colleges Association.

On Friday, Sept. 4, 2009 the keys to Antioch College were transferred from Antioch University to the Antioch College Continuation Corporation.

That action marked the college's return, after 30 years as part of a university system, to being an independent liberal arts college. Thanks to the unprecedented support of its alumni, and under its direction, a target date for welcoming students back to campus has been set for the fall, 2011.

For more information about the College please visit www.antiochcollege.org : .

Antioch CollegeLyn Chamberlin, Director of Communications,

508-636-2500 lyn@skyepr.com : mailto:lyn@skyepr.com

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Oops, he did it again - Mining Journal

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:44 AM PDT

To the Journal editor:

Well, there he goes again. John Hongisto has a long history of voicing false claims about the Sierra Club (readers may recall that a few years ago he wrote that the Sierra Club "receives millions of dollars annually from the federal government" - this was demonstrably false; it receives no public funding, and The Mining Journal retracted his letter).

He's done it again, this time claiming that the Sierra Club is "anti-hunting." A scant bit of research would have taken him to the Sierra Cub biographies of the club's hunting and fishing outreach staff (www.sierraclub.org/sierrasportsmen/people/leaders/) or our hunting policy (www.sierraclub.org/sierrasportsmen/policy.aspx).

But, true to form, the facts did not get in the way of his false rhetoric. I would be happy to debate Mr. Hongisto about the Sierra Club's hunting and fishing activities in the public time and place of his choosing. But I'm not holding my breath.

Marvin Roberson, forest ecologist

Sierra Club

Marquette

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120,000 items at the Hunterdon County Library book sale - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:58 AM PDT

By Renee Kiriluk-Hill/Hunterdon County Demo...

April 09, 2010, 7:57AM

RARITAN TWP. -- Books for all ages, tastes and collections, as well as music, movies and software are up for grabs at the 14th annual Friends of the Hunterdon County Library Book Sale on Saturday and Sunday. There will be more than 120,000 titles spread among dozens of categories, in large "rooms" at the National Guard Armory on Route 12.

Among the rows of donated books, shoppers will find "an incredible profusion of cookbooks... hundreds of biographies... a large section on pets, with a couple of hundred books on cats... craft books that add color, feeling and spice to a holiday for your family," said volunteer Tom Mullen.

One cavernous room is filled with fiction, a second with nonfiction and a third room houses children's books. There are three new categories this year: teen/young adult readers, military and unexplained - meaning astrology, ghosts, UFOs and other cryptic phenomena.


Mullen's advice is to "come early, bring a big bag and plan for a long day," re-energizing at the food sales area manned by Boy Scout Troop 288 of Annandale.

Volunteer Jean Allured adds, "Come Saturday for the best selection and Sunday for half price." They offer a tip for fans of books-on-tape (or CD): most are with the fiction books, not in the multimedia sales room.

Shoppers on Saturday should allow extra time for traffic; one of two annual county Electronics Collection days is from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the nearby county complex on Route 12. That's also where book sale shoppers catch the free shuttle to the armory, which has limited parking.

Through Friday, anyone who joins the Friends for 2010 may get into the sale up to two hours early on Saturday. Those who haven't can pay $20 for early admittance.

Normal hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday. After the sale closes, representatives of schools, hospitals, prisons and charitable organizations come to glean the piles at no charge.

Mullen said shoppers should bring a bag, but leave rolling cases at home because "there are hundreds of shoppers" filling the aisles.


Rare and unusual books are priced higher. Otherwise, most hardcover or large trade paperback books for adults cost $2 or $1 for regular paperbacks. Young adult hardcovers are $2, paperbacks 50 cents. Children's books are $1 or 50 cents.

LPs, sheet music and pamphlets cost 50 cents. Most software, CDs, DVDs and books on cassette range from $2 to $5.

Membership in the nonprofit Friends costs $3 for students or older than age 62; $5 individual; $10 family; $25 patron; and $50 corporate. Proceeds of the book sale and memberships benefit the County Library system.

For more on the Friends, visit hclibrary.us/friends/friendspage.htm.

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