Kim Jong-Il, Toyota, and Amnesty International07/10/2006Here's a sample of what he had to say about the enigmatic despot: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/7days/story/0,,1816145,00.html From North Korea we move to Japan and a couple of excellent high-level reviews on two of our leading Japan titles- David Leheny's Think Global, Fear Local in The Daily Yomiuri: http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/book/20060701TDY22005.htm Darius Mehri's Notes from Toyota-land in The Japan Times: http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fb20060709a1.html Stephen Hopgood's Keepers of the Flame was recently featured in the Nota Bene column of The Chronicle of Higher Education. http://chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i42/42a01901.htm Hopgood hosted a very successful book event at Labyrinth Books in New York a few weeks ago and was interviewed on the Leonard Lopate Show afterwards. You can listen to the interview here: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2006/05/25 Elizabeth Economy gives her two cents on the future of China in the latest edition of Fast Company: http://www.fastcompany.com/subscr/107/open_open-debate-extra.html Rene Rose Shield's paperback should get a boost from two new stories featuring her work: http://www.jewishpress.com/page.do/18623/The_Book_Shelf.html http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/in_the_city/here_is_47th_street.php And last but not least, the Associated Press story on Stephen Kress's The Audubon Society Guide to Attracting Birds is still being very widely distributed. http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060506/LIFE07/605060305/1137/LIFE10 So far it has appeared in The Denver Post,The Fayetteville Morning News, The Grand Island Independent, The Spencer Daily Reporter, The Stillwater News Press, and The Reading Eagle. |
