Category Archives: Featured Books
From “Tell It Slant,” Excerpt #2: Encouraging Rejections
(Excerpt #1 is here.) In the spring of 1956 — Chuck was in eighth grade — orders came for the family to leave an Air Force base in California. His father, now a major, was aircraft commander of one of the largest bombers ever, the B-36. Click was assigned to join a squadron of these … Continue reading From “Tell It Slant,” Excerpt #2: Encouraging Rejections
Announcing: A Very Special Quaker Publishing Award
For years, I’ve been loudly protesting the sky-high, exclusionary prices on “academic” or “scholarly” books and monographs. The particular focus of my ire has been publications by or about Quakers and Quakerism, though the price-gouging has infected many other fields of study. Today I want to recognize and celebrate a successful challenge to this uber-inflationary … Continue reading Announcing: A Very Special Quaker Publishing Award
A History of NOW and its Women who Made History
The Women of NOW review: superb history of feminist growth and groundswell Katherine Turk has produced a must-read on the group which did so much for American women in the 1960s and 70s Clara Bingham Sat 2 Sept 2023 Follow Clara Bingham What do a bestselling author, a segregationist congressman and a Black legal scholar … Continue reading A History of NOW and its Women who Made History
Let’s Go Goatwalking, Friends
Jim Corbett was a fascinating guy, but like all of us he had his faults. In his amazing first book, he way overdid the self-deprecation: ”Goatwalking is a book for saddlebag or backpack —to live with a while, casually. It is compact and multifaceted, but for unhurried reflection rather than study. It is woven from … Continue reading Let’s Go Goatwalking, Friends