Lantern Books Blog

Getting Fit

martin@lanternbooks.com (Martin Rowe) — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:00:00 EST

Ruth Heidrich: Ready for a run

After being diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of forty-seven and not getting answers from her physicians, Ruth Heidrich began her journey to fitness and over two decades without a recurrence of symptoms—a story she writes about in her extraordinary and inspirational A Race for Life.

"[I learned] I was responsible for my own health care," she reports. Heidrich went on to receive her PhD in Health Management. Affectionately known as "the other Dr. Ruth," Heidrich is sharing what she has learned and changing the way people view their senior years. In Senior Fitness, Ruth shows how to maintain and even increase physical and sexual fitness at any age, as well as how to reduce the risks of prostate cancer, varicose veins, osteoporosis, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, Alzheimer's, and a host of other ailments associated with aging. Since her diagnoses of cancer, Ruth Heidrich has gone on to win more than nine hundred athletic trophies and metals. She has been cancer-free for more than twenty years.

Two other books that talk about getting fit are The Joy of Weight Loss and The Love-Powered Diet, both of which encourage you to lose weight by feeling good about yourself rather than forcing yourself onto a restrictive diet and demanding that you suffer for your sins. In the former, Norris Chumley lost over 180 pounds, and kept it off, by learning to love himself and enjoy movement, and this is his secret to shedding the pounds. In the latter, Victoria learned that her dieting was only leading her to binge, and that a crucial step to a healthy body was to nurture a healthy attitude toward food.

Related Titles

The Joy of Weight Loss A Spiritual Guide to Easy Fitness Norris Chumley	The Love-Powered Diet Eating for Freedom, Health, and Joy Victoria Moran	A Race for Life A Diet and Exercise Program for Superfitness and Reversing the Aging Process Ruth E. Heidrich, Ph.D.
Senior Fitness The Diet and Exercise Program for Maximum Health and Longevity Ruth E. Heidrich, Ph.D.

Sistah Vegan: Best Review Quote Evah

kara@lanternbooks.com (Kara Davis) — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:50:15 EST

A nice mix of essays and poetry! It's good to know that there's more to the vegan movement than snobby little white ladies like me.
—Karen from North Carolina

Related Titles

Sistah Vegan
Black Female Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society
A. Breeze Harper, pattrice jones

Meat Is Boring, Say Top Chefs

kate@lanternbooks.com (Kate Lawrence) — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:10:04 EST

A Practical Peacemaker Ponders . . .

TIME magazine recently proclaimed some heartening news in "Where's the Beet?: How Big-Name Chefs Are Shrinking Their Customers' Carnivore Quota." Six top chefs were interviewed, all saying they are preparing less meat in their restaurants. Two of them, Mario Batali and Jose Andres, say that meat is boring. "After four bites of a big steak, I'm tired of it," says Batali, who plans to open his sixteenth restaurant soon, this one in New York City and entirely vegetarian. Andres, with six restaurants in Los Angeles and Washington, describes a combination of fruits and vegetables as "a rainbow of possibilities. It's more interesting than any meat."

Those of us who care about animal suffering and the planet will gladly accept any reason that convinces influential foodies to urge cutting back on meat, and vegetarian activists who are wise have always applauded and supported any reduction in meat consumption among people they meet. But for the sake of a trend? A few years ago, the trend was just the opposite: the fat- and cholesterol-loaded Atkins diet. Fashion is fickle, and the American people seem easily influenced to follow the diet du jour. If they're cutting back on meat only because it's fashionable, it's not likely to last. Far better to do so for the incontrovertible reasons that underlie it and always have- -the animals, the planet, human health--regardless of the whims of chefs and the Food Network. We can only hope that the current trendiness will create in people a greater openness to hear and respond to those deeper and lasting reasons, and continue regardless of what's currently "in."

Related Titles

The Practical Peacemaker
How Simple Living Makes Peace Possible
Kate Lawrence

How to Eat like a Vegetarian Even If You Never Want to Be One
More than 250 Shortcuts, Strategies, and Simple Solutions
Carol J. Adams, Patti Breitman

Stray Ladies

kara@lanternbooks.com (Kara Davis) — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:09:48 EST

Kim Stallwood, editor of A Primer on Animal Rights and Speaking Out for Animals, is working on a new book called Animal Dharma.

He's sharing small bits of the book-in-progress via podcast at kimstallwood.com. The first recording is about a woman he remembers from childhood who took care of the neighborhood stray dogs: Camberly Kate Ward.

Besides enjoying Kim's soothing voice and old photos, I realized while listening that I'm yawning a bit from my own late night stray cat care. Wait, I'm that lady! Now I just need a painted cart to make it official.

More Animal Dharma, please!

Related Titles

A Primer on Animal Rights
Leading Experts Write about Animal Cruelty and Exploitation
Kim W. Stallwood, Jeremy Rifkin

Speaking Out for Animals
True Stories about Real People Who Rescue Animals
Kim W. Stallwood, Jane Goodall

Peace Crimes

kara@lanternbooks.com (Kara Davis) — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:19:33 EST

Diane Lefer, co-author of The Blessing Next to the Wound, writes about Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, Hector Aristizábal performing in Colombia, and why nonviolent mass movements pose a threat in LA Progressive.

Hector Aristizábal lay on a table in Medell�n, Colombia, his head covered with a black cloth. Twenty-eight years had passed since he was taken from his home by the US-trained military, secretly detained and tortured. Now he had returned to his birthplace after years in exile in the US to spend a month working with peace and justice groups and this night he was not in custody but onstage.

"Nightwind"—the play we created in 2004 about his experience and his brother’s abduction, torture, and murder by a death squad—has toured the US and the world, including Afghanistan, to raise global opposition to the practice of torture. Performing it for the first time in Medellín, the city where the atrocities took place, Hector was nervous. He worried about the effect on the audience, people who had experienced these horrors firsthand, but as he lay with his eyes covered, unable to see, he also felt vulnerable.

Every day in Colombia, twenty people are disappeared. Massacres continue as do rightwing paramilitary links to the Army and to high government officials and to the cocaine trade. Anyone could be in the audience—members of the military or paramilitary that go on killing with impunity and any one of them might decide, "This guy thinks he's going to survive again. Not this time. Let’s finish the job." Hector believed for the moment he was going to die.

Read full article.

Related Titles

The Blessing Next to the Wound
A Story of Art, Activism, and Transformation
Hector Aristizábal, Diane Lefer

Muzzling a Movement
The Effects of Anti-Terrorism Law, Money, and Politics on Animal Activism
Dara Lovitz

Terrorists or Freedom Fighters?
Reflections on the Liberation of Animals
Steven Best, Ph.D., Anthony J. Nocella, II

The Professional Curmudgeon

martin@lanternbooks.com (Martin Rowe) — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:27:26 EST

Vegan by choice, grumpy by necessity

In a world that values sunshine over the saturnine and hope over harrumphing, it's hard to be a professional curmudgeon. In the animal rights community (where the competition for Chief Grouch is fierce), that vital role was ably handled by the late Cleveland Amory, whose dyspepsia was a key component of the barbs he so effectively aimed at hunters and other animal exploiters. The banner of bile is now waved by Kim Stallwood, a.k.a. the grumpy vegan, who first refined discontent and dysphoria into an art form in his editing of The Animals' Agenda magazine, and then in two books he edited for Lantern: Speaking Out for Animals and The Primer on Animal Rights.

Actually, I'm kidding. Those two books are inspiring and thoughtful examinations of how one can help animals in distress and through policy changes rather than belly-aching about how awful everything is. Plus, Kim is distressingly sweet-tempered when you get to know him (which, of course, you are thoroughly discouraged from doing), and now that he is back in his native England after doing time in the U.S. for many years, he's distressed to find unwelcome shafts of sunlight brightening the winter of his discontent.

Fortunately, this being the world we live in and our exploitation of other animals showing no sign of stopping any time soon, Kim retains a measure of grouchy glory, blogging and helping to run the excellent Animals and Society Institute. In all these and other endeavors, of course, Lantern wishes him luck, and hope that we don't see him around.

Related Titles

A Primer on Animal Rights
Leading Experts Write about Animal Cruelty and Exploitation
Kim W. Stallwood, Jeremy Rifkin

Speaking Out for Animals
True Stories about Real People Who Rescue Animals
Kim W. Stallwood, Jane Goodall

Time to Grow Up?

kara@lanternbooks.com (Kara Davis) — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:43:54 EST

Photo by Bon Duke

Dr. John McKinnon is the author of An Unchanged Mind, a book about delayed maturity, as well as the forthcoming To Change a Mind, which discusses how parents can help nudge kids along to mature functioning.

He (and we) have noted the Times' ongoing series about the psychology of teens, and this week, that has been extended to our society's child-like twenty somethings. Here's what Dr. McKinnon had to say, a bit more insightful than my grumblings about the undependable, drifting "adults" I often bump into in my own life:

Have you seen the piece about delayed psychological development in the NY Times Magazine?

From where I sit, of course, this reframing of the 20's as a new "stage of emerging adulthood" strikes me as a cheerful re-packaging of "stuck" adolescence and delayed arrival of adult character structure and responsibility.

This account seems filled with the benign possibilities provided by yet another decade of self-preoccupation and delayed maturity. The implicit message is that maybe this is somehow really a great thing. �I must say, however, that few of our parents, who are fed up with academic and economic fecklessness, the persistence of inconsiderate arrogance, goal-lessness and selfish, childish moral reasoning (oddly soft-pedaled in the NYT account) share this optimistic viewpoint.

I'll be intrigued to hear what people think about the piece. �Surely it marks the arrival of "maturity" as a major issue in the sophisticated lay press, even if contemporary psychiatry has not yet recognized the problem.

Related Titles

An Unchanged Mind
The Problem of Immaturity in Adolescence
Dr. John A. McKinnon

To Change a Mind
Parenting to Promote Maturity in Teenagers
Dr. John A. McKinnon

Finding My Message in Stillness

brooke@lanternbooks.com (Brooke Morgan) — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:22:47 EST

A nice place to relax, read and reflect

I can hear the sounds of the Hudson River behind me as I jot down my thoughts in my bright red spiral notebook. I purposely picked red because the color symbolizes passion and power – two emotions I hope to feel as I start putting my thoughts onto paper (and screen). The warm summer air lingers, and there are moments where the wind feels like a faint whisper, gently encouraging me to continue to write.

I look around and breathe in the greenery. The bench is uncomfortable beneath me, but I don’t mind. Joggers pass by with ease; dogs bark and play while their “parents” chat about their most recent adventures.

I shift my weight and look down at my lap.

I’ve had this notebook for some time now. It’s been a little over a year since I last blogged. It’s not as though I haven’t wanted to – it’s just easy for me to burry myself in responsibilities, rush to the next appointment; make a plan to “do it later.” The truth is, I have been too distracted by my own voice and somehow convinced myself that what I had to share simply wasn’t worth the effort. Shame on me. At nine years old, school and after school activities meant sharing my stories with anyone kind enough to listen. At twenty-nine, I am trying so desperately to figure out what the story is I want to tell and the best way to tell it. For the past year or so, I have spent so many days with full sentences, stories even, brewing in my brain and by the time I get to the notebook, I’ve moved on.

I’ve struggled to pin point what “my message is.”

From as far back as I can remember I have always been fascinated by stories. I come from a loud, boisterous bunch, where stories were – and still are – tossed around at the dinner table just as much as warm garlic bread. To this day, the smell of a freshly borrowed book from the local library brings a smile to my face. As I turn the pages of a book and take in that musty, old-familiar, I’m reminded of rainy Saturday afternoons, where I would spend hours in my bedroom, reading and writing stories.

As an adult, my perfect day would involve reading or writing, and the beach, but for now we’ll just stick with the reading/writing part. It’s one of the reasons why I decided to pursue a master’s in publishing. After answering a lot of questions and doing research on what it is I want to spend my days doing, combined with learning about how so many are miserable in their jobs – including me at the time – it was time to take the leap. They say – whoever they are – that publishing is a labor of love. It feels great to lead with my heart.

While interning at Lantern Books this summer as part of my graduate work, I had an eye-opening conversation with Martin. We were discussing authors and what makes their writing unique. “This might sound a bit harsh, but I often use the expression, ‘who cares?’ In other words, ‘what’s so interesting and unique that readers will want to read your story?” Martin thoughtfully replied that I was thinking like an editor or a publisher, where if an author is writing about a subject that he or she cares about, it’s just a way for them to express themselves creatively.

Wow.

So, while I’ve wanted to “express myself creatively,” by writing about my beach wedding followed by an unforgettable 10 days in Italy, I stopped myself. For someone who has always been exceptionally strong at planning for the future, I’ve gotten pretty good at enjoying the moment – and releasing the worry or need to know what will happen next. Now I just have to find a balance between enjoying the moment and then reflecting back on it through my writing.

How do you know what to write about versus accepting some thoughts as simply thoughts that you let go of? My wedding and honeymoon was such a special time. I have plenty of pictures and video – and Randy and I both kept pocket-sized journals while we traveled through Rome, Amalfi Coast/Positano, Tuscany, Florence and Venice. Maybe I’ll revisit those journals someday�

Last December, we moved minutes away from New York City. I’m looking at the Manhattan skyline right now from this bench. It’s even more beautiful that I imagined it to be when we were hoping this is where we would eventually move to. We are both so grateful to have finally found our soul-nourishing environment. (Thank you to Cheryl Richardson who uses that term throughout her work and gave me a fresh perspective on what “home” should feel like)

Our apartment is nestled on a quiet corner surrounded by the river. Liberty State Park is our “front yard.” I’ve met so many adorable dogs in the few short months we’ve lived here, and when the time is right, it will be our turn to adopt a puppy.

Right now I’m reading a book “Working for Good” by Jeff Klein. Once I complete “Working for Good,” I will move onto a long list of books that will hopefully inspire me in the volunteer work I will be doing, alongside my husband, my thesis paper and overall, the direction I want to focus my day to day on as my career progresses.

By May 2011, I will have earned my master’s degree in Publishing and am incredibly grateful to be part of the Pace program at Pace University. I am also incredibly grateful that I had the opportunity to intern at Lantern Books. My first experience working in publishing at Lantern Books gave me so many valuable lessons, which I will write more about in future blogs.

It’s interesting to look back and remember being a newlywed and moving to a new city, juggling classes and trying to manifest my wishes into reality. January 1 was a big turning point for me because I rode the subway alone for the first time (I know, how country bumpkin as my old manager used to call me). Now, I ride the subway with a sense of belonging.

I’m still learning my way around New York and am in search of finding “my message.” I do believe that whatever it is I want to share will relate to the new philanthropic project I am working on, alongside my husband. Our new campaign, “30 Deeds, 30 Days” will take us both on a journey where for the entire month of September, we will be volunteering at 30 different charitable organizations and documenting the experience. Since he has such a strong platform, we are fortunate enough to reach a lot of people and hope to inspire others to volunteer. More on this to come in another blog, but for now I’m going to sit back and take in the scenery. I’ve seen a few boats pass by and feel a sense of calm wash over me just like the waves crashing over the rocks.

Sprout Master

kara@lanternbooks.com (Kara Davis) — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:43:37 EST

Ever needed a detailed guide to sprouting microgreens? Mark Braunstein, author of Radical Vegetarianism, comes to the rescue with his detailed microgreens online resource.

Related Titles

Radical Vegetarianism
A Dialectic of Diet and Ethic
Mark Mathew Braunstein

Social Justice Theatre for Colombia

kara@lanternbooks.com (Kara Davis) — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:46:01 EST

Diane Lefer, co-author of The Blessing Next to the Wound, writes about Hector Aristizábal's recent trip to Colombia to teach non-violence, and what he found there, in Latino LA.

Related Titles

The Blessing Next to the Wound
A Story of Art, Activism, and Transformation
Hector Aristizábal, Diane Lefer

Greger on CNN Regarding Egg Recall

kara@lanternbooks.com (Kara Davis) — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:25:30 EST

See Dr. Michael Greger, author of Bird Flu, on CNN Headline News discussing the massive egg recall, and the causes of Salmonella.

Related Titles

Bird Flu
A Virus of Our Own Hatching
Michael Greger, MD

More Than a Meal
The Turkey in History, Myth, Ritual, and Reality
Karen Davis

The Vegan Diet as Chronic Disease Prevention
Evidence Supporting the New Four Food Groups
Kerrie K. Saunders, Ph.D., M.S., L.L.P.

A Place for Dialogue

martin@lanternbooks.com (Martin Rowe) — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:19:18 EST

The following article by Sr. Mary Margaret Funk and Dr. Shahid Athar was just submitted to National Catholic Reporter. Let's hope they reprint it.

A Place for Dialogue
By Shahid Athar, M.D., and Sr. Mary Margaret Funk

The controversy regarding the site of Cordoba House, the Islamic community center, in Lower Manhattan has brought forth many opinions, snap judgments, and outright prejudice. But it also provides all Americans with a “teachable moment”: an opportunity to engage in dialogue.

For several years, the two of us—a Muslim doctor and a Catholic nun—engaged in respectful interreligious dialogue. Our aim wasn’t to compare our religious traditions to see which one was more authentically American or more tolerant. We didn’t want to share sermons and try to convince the other of whose religion was superior. We weren’t competing to see who was more religious or truer to our faith’s origins.

Our purpose, instead, was to open our hearts to each other and discern—that vital word so essential for genuine knowledge and far-sighted public policy—what it means to be a person of faith. We connected through our practices (Benedictine nuns also pray five times a day; in Lent and Ramadan, we share periods of penitence and thanksgiving). We both had our sacred books, and, of course, oriented our lives continually toward the one God. But most significantly, we discovered that through listening intently to the other we found through our faith our common humanity.

We shouldn’t be scared of interreligious dialogue, or of places and organizations that dedicate themselves to it. When the two of us came together in dialogue, we didn’t deny the sometimes violent and troubled histories of our respective faiths; we acknowledged that voices in both traditions had called upon the worst of human tendencies, and that they still do. But, humbly, in our separate sacred spaces we knelt and submitted to the God of mercy and love; together, we found courage for our duties and more devotion to our ways of life.

We have not merged our faiths: One is a practicing Muslim; the other is a practicing and faithful Catholic. In fact, our dialogue has strengthened our commitment to our respective paths to God, while giving us a valuable and cherished insight into another tradition. This dialogue has also cemented our love for the country of which we are both citizens—precisely because the U.S. makes such dialogue possible, without fear that either a government or a mob will harm us. We know that such freedom was not easily won. We know it is not easily maintained. We know it must be protected with fierce pride and utmost diligence.

Every time the possibility of genuine dialogue is denied, fear and hate gain strength. Divisive voices will play on raw emotions and sincere piety to gain political advantage. We cannot allow this to happen. We must reach out and begin the dialogue, and do so near a site where intolerance and hatred caused the deaths of thousands. As we—one Muslim doctor and one Catholic nun—have found, the possibility for genuine healing and genuine transformation awaits.

Sr. Mary Margaret Funk is a Benedictine nun from Our Lady of Grace Monastery, Beech Grove, Indiana. She is the author of Islam Is. . . .: An Experience of Dialogue and Devotion. Shahid Athar, M.D., is a physician in Indianapolis and past President of the Interfaith Alliance. He is the author of Healing the Wounds of Sept. 11, 2001.

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Shifting Sands Bedouin Women at the Crossroads Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer, Gil Sedan	The Olive and the Tree The Secret Strength of the Druze Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer, Gil Sedan	Making Their Own Peace Twelve Women of Jerusalem Ann N. Madsen
Islam Is... An Experience of Dialogue and Devotion Sr. Mary Margaret Funk, Shahid Athar, MD	God's Harp String The Life and Legacy of the Benedictine Monk, Swami Abhishiktananda William Skudlarek, O.S.B.	The Common Heart An Experience of Interreligious Dialogue Netanel Miles-Yepez, Ken Wilber, Thomas Keating

Feminist Review of Blessing

kara@lanternbooks.com (Kara Davis) — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:27:54 EST

Feminist Review weighs in on The Blessing Next to the Wound.

Related Titles

The Blessing Next to the Wound
A Story of Art, Activism, and Transformation
Hector Aristizábal, Diane Lefer

Non-violence on Campus

kara@lanternbooks.com (Kara Davis) — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:24:49 EST

Students are getting on with living and learning at VA Tech

Lantern has published two books that do well when things in the world are going badly: No Easy Answers and Bird Flu.

The Bird Flu phenomenon is self-explanatory. Every time a flock is culled or the flu transmits to a human, people's interest in the subject tends to grow. And every time there is a school shooting, people want to read about the Columbine killings in No Easy Answers. In the office we talk about this response, and cringe a little. But the reality is that people need this book. They need to understand what can turn angst into murder. When unfathomable events happen, it is natural to want to dissect them, to study them, and to take steps to avoid the disaster happening again. The book doesn't let anyone off easy, instead calling for people to examine their own behavior, and the behavior that they endorse or excuse.

One Political Science professor at Virginia Tech took preventative measures, and 300 students read No Easy Answers in their introductory course. When this sort of non-violence education is made formal (especially in wounded atmospheres like VA Tech), we feel quite good about it. No cringing this time.

Finally, another book that's a kind of antidote. Violence can take other forms—the kind that's meted out upon you when you resist violence and the kind you see every day on television and on dinner plates. That's why Aftershock is an excellent, even necessary, book for those contemplating direct action to stop violence.

Related Titles

No Easy Answers The Truth Behind Death at Columbine High School Brooks Brown, Rob Merritt	Boys Will Be Boys Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence Myriam Miedzian	Bird Flu A Virus of Our Own Hatching Michael Greger, MD
Aftershock Confronting Trauma in a Violent World: A Guide for Activists and Their Allies pattrice jones

Hector Aristizábal Returns to Medellín

kara@lanternbooks.com (Kara Davis) — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:34:23 EST

The subject of Hector Aristizábal's book, The Blessing Next to the Wound, is the dangerous life he lived and escaped from in Medellín, Colombia.

Hector was back in Medellín this month to perform his play, Nightwind, and in Colombia Reports offers some insight about the changes the city has seen since he left.

The article is written by Diane Lefer, Aristizábal's co-author.

Related Titles

The Blessing Next to the Wound
A Story of Art, Activism, and Transformation
Hector Aristizábal, Diane Lefer

Dear Sir or Madam, Can You Read My Book?

martin@lanternbooks.com (Martin Rowe) — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:48:43 EST

When I was young, and so much younger than today, I used to make notes about all the books I read. Mainly that was because I was an English major, and it was kind of required. Now, however, I'm almost sixty-four (that's enough Beatles references, ed.), and I can't remember anything. Which is why I've decided to put my thoughts about each published book I read from now on on-line, so I won't forget. You're welcome to check in if you want, and subscribe and all that malarkey. It's Martin's Random Reviews, and I begin with The Bridge.

The Blessing Next to the Wound Resonates with a Reviewer

brooke@lanternbooks.com (Brooke Morgan) — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:51:16 EST

The Blessing Next to the Wound

If you haven't already read The Blessing Next to the Wound written by Hector Aristiz�bal and Diane Lefer, you can understand a bit more as to why it's a worthy read from Lois Holzman, author and director of East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy in New York City. Lois read and reviewed the book and uses words including "engaging and unusually honest" to describe her experience. To read her entire review, click here: Lois Holzman.

Eating Animals is Indefensible

kara@lanternbooks.com (Kara Davis) — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:20:40 EST

Why is Bruce Friedrich willing to go up against debate teams at the brainiest schools in our nation over and over again? Because his argument (that eating meat doesn't make sense if given even a few minutes of thought) is watertight.

Read all about it at The Huffington Post, and get plenty of tips from Bruce in The Animal Activist's Handbook.

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101 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian Pamela Rice	The Animal Activist's Handbook Maximizing Our Positive Impact in Today's World Matt Ball, Bruce Friedrich, Ingrid Newkirk

Vote for Sistah Vegan

kara@lanternbooks.com (Kara Davis) — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:48:11 EST

Sistah Vegan isn't technically a cookbook, rather a collection of pieces by women reflecting on what they eat and why, and how that food relates to body image, identity, and politics. Still, we think you should go vote for Sistah Vegan in the "Best Cookbook" category (#27) of the African American Literary Awards. (My friend Carol Mackey is also up for best breakout author of the year. Go Carol!)

Related Titles

Sistah Vegan
Black Female Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society
A. Breeze Harper, pattrice jones

Political Media Reviews "Muzzling"

kara@lanternbooks.com (Kara Davis) — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:16:22 EST

Muzzling a Movement, written by lawyer Dara Lovitz, finds its place in today's activist challenges and conversations, and is reviewed by Political Media Review.

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Burning Rage of a Dying Planet Speaking for The Earth Liberation Front Craig Rosebraugh	Free the Animals The Story of the Animal Liberation Front Ingrid Newkirk, Chrissie Hynde	Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? Reflections on the Liberation of Animals Steven Best, Ph.D., Anthony J. Nocella, II
Muzzling a Movement The Effects of Anti-Terrorism Law, Money, and Politics on Animal Activism Dara Lovitz