The latest “review” of Tell It Slant comes from Olympia, Washington Friends Meeting: 24-08-08 Library Committee — Ramona Hinkle shared a book report: Tell It Slant – Chuck Fager, A Prophetic Life of Adventure & Writing on Religion, War and Justice, Love and Laughter by Emma Lapsansky-Werner and Chuck I considered reviewing this book with … Continue reading Excerpt #7, Tell It Slant: “Life Falls on You Like a Ton of Bricks”
Adapted from Tell It Slant, by Emma Lapsansky-Werner, with Chuck Fager: For most of the three-plus centuries since the founding of Quakerism, Quakers had viewed the arts as snares and “distractions” from listening to the Word-of-the-Divine within. George Fox threw down the marker as early as 1678: All ye Poets, Jesters, rhimers, makers of Verses … Continue reading Tell It Slant — With Lemonade: A Book Launch at Haverford
(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
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
Florida Quakers give away hundreds of Black-history books By Special to the Beacon August 8, 2023 BOOK GIVEAWAY A SUCCESS — Members of the DeLand Quakers stand in front of a portion of the books on Black history collected to be distributed at the recent rescheduled Juneteenth celebration. In front, from left, are Kathy Hersh, … Continue reading Quaker Book Giveaway: Turning the Page on Florida Censorship