David Gessner has had enough of elevated language and warbling folkies singing about Mother Earth. It's time to kick out the jams. Read more →

A selection of excerpts from new and backlist Beacon LGBT titles. Read more →

Margaret Regan, author of The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands, will once again appear at the Tucson Festival of Books. Her appearance at the 2010 festival was broadcast on BookTV; you can watch it on YouTube.... Read more →

Terry Galloway talks about her cochlear implant surgery and how it felt to hear her mother's voice for the first time in 51 years. Read more →

In an excerpt from her book, Terry Galloway discusses lip-reading, special education, and being Little-d deaf. Read more →

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is available in a new, altered version. The author of Inheriting the Trade writes about why he thinks this is a bad idea. Read more →

Read more about Margaret Regan's compelling book that addresses the human cost of U.S. immigration policy. Read more →

Out now: a new edition of Eboo Patel's acclaimed memoir with a new afterword by the author. Read more →

A member of Beacon's staff shares some photos from her parent's visit with Barack Obama. Read more →

Two Beacon Press books are leading the voting for the Boston Globe's first citywide read program. Read more →

Beacon staff returns from a productive and photogenic BookExpo America! Read more →

Speaking to a convention of Sri Lankan Tamil doctors, Adele Barker discovers renewal through books. Read more →

Today's post is from Tom Hallock, Associate Publisher of Beacon Press. Last week, Beacon announced a change in its distribution from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to Random House Publisher Services which will be effective July 1, 2010. It's a big change... Read more →

An excerpt from Thousand Pieces of Gold, a biographical novel about the life of an extraordinary Chinese-American woman in the old west. Read more →

Current Beacon contests and links to good reading. Read more →

Danielle Ofri, one of many doctors writing about their experiences with patients, discusses her own approach to ensuring patient privacy. Read more →

Out Front Colorado named David Plante's The Pure Lover one of its top 10 nonfiction titles of the year: When a writer as profoundly able as Plante pens a lament for his lost companion, the result is a fierce encapsulation... Read more →

Several Beacon Press books have made it onto Holiday gift-giving lists. Here's a quick look at a handful of them. You can get 20% off any of these titles, or any other Beacon Press book, at the Beacon Press website... Read more →

Michael Patrick MacDonald's All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, still resonates with readers of all ages ten years after it was first published. Read more →

Today's post is from Helene Atwan, Director of Beacon Press. She recently attended the 75th birthday celebration of Sonia Sanchez, an award-winning poet, playwright, activist, and scholar whose work includes Shake Loose My Skin and the forthcoming Morning Haiku. On... Read more →