The Weeks Ahead
A quick word on the lovely "Coming Soon" banner you see at your right.
A reader way back when asked that we let you all know when authors are on their way so you can come prepared having read the book. This is me making good on that promise (and vowing to do so whenever possible from now on).
Next week, Mike Connery is going to sit down at the Table for One to blog about about his new book Youth to Power: How Today's Young Voters Are Building Tomorrow's Progressive Majority. Connery is a Fellow with the Center for Independent Media and blogs fulltime about progressive youth politics at Future Majority.
The week after that, we'll be doing a Book Club with Steven Waldman on his new book Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America. Waldman is the co-founder, CEO, and Editor-in-Chief of Beliefnet.com, the largest faith and spirituality website.
Then, to mark the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, we'll be doing a Book Club with Greg Mitchell on his new book So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits--and the President--Failed on Iraq. Mitchell is the editor of Editor & Publisher magazine.
That's what we have so far for March. Who would you like to see? What books are you looking forward to reading? Share some wisdom in the comments.
Well... I'd like to see Mr. Krugman here for a week, which was kind of posted at the time of the switch, but he never did.
I'd also like to see Larry Johnson back for a debate with MJ.
(Talk about a post generator.)
(Big grin)
February 25, 2008 9:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Would it be possible to link to the publishers' websites rather than to Amazon.com? This is like linking to Wal-Mart every time you mention something that people can buy.
February 25, 2008 9:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
I hope that you'll make sure to have some atheists involved in the discussion of Waldman's book. Beliefnet is a cesspool of homophobia and prudish thinking. Heck, they recently featured a whack job calling a bride a slut because she wanted her wedding dress to show off her tattoo.
February 25, 2008 10:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
I heard a while back that Rupert Murdoch bought beliefnet. That might be an interesting topic to discuss with Waldman.
February 25, 2008 11:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ugh! I've been getting spam from Belief.net for several years. I don't know how I got on their email list, but unlike most spam, at least it's easy to blacklist the sender.
February 26, 2008 2:06 PM | Reply | Permalink