It’s a fantastic interview, and Jon Stewart is right; she really might have been the nicest person on the entire West Side that night!
The segment: bit.ly/4scKK3u
The book: bit.ly/4s8HI00
On the show & in her new book from UC Press, THE MIDDLE CLASS NEW DEAL: Restoring Upward Mobility and the American Dream, Dickerson zeroes in on housing, zoning, tax code, employment, & education to offer solutions to make life more livable in a society where wealth is funneled upwards.
Twenty-plus inches of snow did not stop Mechele Dickerson from talking Monday night on The Daily Show about how to rebuild the middle class, something the US government has the ability to do—just like it did after the Depression and WWII—but now lacks the necessary resolve!
If you live in the DC area, you should definitely do this
16 front pages from major newspapers throughout the U.S. on Jan. 6th.
Never forget #J6
In case you have never seen this.
WARNING: This horrific video by a war correspondent reporting from the front lines of war ravaged Portland is not for the squeamish. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
This was a great Q&A with publicist Leah Paulos!
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He later captained the very boat he took and, after the war, became a Congressman.
This incredible story is powerfully told and richly illustrated in DEFIANT, which is published this week!
Smalls, along with seven other enslaved crew members and their families, had run the blockade. Smalls’ heroism, and material aid for the Union, made national headlines and influenced Lincoln’s decision to accept Black soldiers into the Union Army.
He disguised himself as a captain and, in the dead of night, commandeered the ship he worked on and sailed it to freedom. By the time Confederate soldiers realized what was happening, it was too late.
A quick rundown of this staggering story of bravery, determination, and genius: At the height of the Civil War, on May 12, 1862, Robert Smalls—an enslaved harbor pilot in Charleston, South Carolina—carried out one of the most courageous and cunning acts in American history.
This CNN segment! We could not have asked for a better piece about DEFIANT: The Story of Robert Smalls, which comes out this week from @strangercomics.bsky.social and @legionmofficial.bsky.social just in time for Juneteenth.
bit.ly/4n6bzEE
BONIUS Episode: Book Promotion 101 with @leahpaulos.bsky.social of Press Shop PR!
Lead time for promotion, selling journalists on covering our book, the cost of publicity, your job as your own publicist, and lots more.
Here is the episode:
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Interview with NYT-bestselling author Lynne Olson about her new book SISTERS OF RAVENSBRUCK @randomhouse.bsky.social "How Women Imprisoned at an All-Female Concentration Camp Resisted the Nazis" bit.ly/4kOL8RN
He argues Deliberative Polling—where people literally come together in a mediated space to consider evidence, discuss issues, decide on a plan—holds the key to healing our politics. He draws on decades of applying his work around the world & offers a roadmap to positive change— which we need badly!
James is a political scientist & Director of Stanford’s Deliberative Democracy Lab; his new book CAN DELIBERATION CURE THE ILLS OF DEMOCRACY? (bit.ly/4jFh5LB) will publish in July w/ Oxford University Press.
Shelley is a Mark Twain scholar; her book JIM: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade was published in April as part of Yale University Press’s Black Lives Series bit.ly/4kRtOvI Here’s an Axios piece that just posted about it: bit.ly/3Te9FUx
What a treat it is to work on our first His & Hers book publicity campaign combo! Shelley Fisher Fishkin and James S. Fishkin are married, and both are lovely, insightful Stanford professors — with two very different books being published around the same time.
You can hear more about Robert Smalls in this TED talk by his great great grandson Michael B. Moore: bit.ly/4kjADpn
We’re thrilled to be working with an incredible group from Legion M Entertainment (an innovative fan-funded movie production company) who led the charge to get this story told in book form — they will be producing the film down the road.
Smalls, along with seven other enslaved crew members and their families, had run the blockade.
It is impossible to hear this story without thinking to yourself, This should be a movie!
Well, soon it will be!
At the height of the Civil War, Robert Smalls, an enslaved harbor pilot in Charleston, South Carolina, disguised himself as a captain and in the dead of night commandeered the ship he worked on and sailed it to freedom. By the time Confederate soldiers realized what was happening, it was too late:
It is great to be back in the graphic novel space again. Hard copies of DEFIANT: The Story of Robert Smalls (Stranger Comics; June 10) just arrived and they are gorgeous! It tells the incredible — and largely unknown — story of one of the most courageous and daring acts in American history.
Happy pub day to Abigail Leonard and her book FOUR MOTHERS from @algonquinbooks.bsky.social! Publishers Weekly called it “an enthralling and kaleidoscopic view of modern motherhood” in a starred review, and Abigail spoke w/ Ms. Mag about what it means to parenting around the world: bit.ly/3GIzw46
Happy pub day to Shelley Fisher Fishkin & her book JIM @yalepress.bsky.social. In this brilliant, scathing op-ed @sfchronicle.com, she uses Mark Twain's words to clarify our moment: "We've never had a president before who was destitute of self-respect & of respect for his high office" bit.ly/3Y1m4OD
How to leak to a journalist!
featuring a bunch of good advice from those who know: @marisakabas.bsky.social @amandabecker.bsky.social @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social @rmac.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social @juliaangwin.com @benmullin.bsky.social & @maxtani.bsky.social
Show up for our libraries. ALA American Library Association.
Tell Congress to protect library funding and the communities it supports: bit.ly/ProtectLibraryFunding
They are coming after knowledge, wherever it lives.
