Archive for August, 2009

Operation Bite Back on Very Short List

August 20th, 2009

Great news! Operation Bite Back was featured on the Very Short List for today, August 20, 2009. The VSL is an emailed list of highly-curated selections from the influential NYC newspaper, The Observer. I don’t know how many people receive the VSL, but it’s many, many eyeballs all over the country, and those eyeballs are in the heads of smart, in-the-know people. I am totally rejoicing at the fact that some of those people will read the book and some of them may be moved to take a look at these terrorism charges. Plus, I like the fact that people are simply reading the book, for Rod’s sake and mine. :)

Check out the VSL Page here.

or here’s the link:

http://www.veryshortlist.com/vsl/daily.cfm/review/1330/Book/operation-bite-back/?tp

“Operation Bite Back” major reviews

August 2nd, 2009

The new review on the Christian Science Monitor site reminds me that I haven’t put up the other terrific reviews of the book posted by other sites. I’m proud of what’s been said about the book thus far.  Oh, yes, there’s a long, drawn-out screed about the book posted on Amazon by Teresa Platt, executive director of the Fur Commission USA, but that’s to be expected. You can find it here, along with my own rebuttals in the comments. I think she also posted the same analysis on the Christian Science Monitor site and generated a storm of comments!

Here’s the other great stuff that’s been written about the book thus far, in one handy index:

Los Angeles Times review:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-dean-kuipers28-2009jun28,0,6252540.story

Oregonian review:

http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2009/06/nonfiction_review_operation_bi.html

Christian Science Monitor review and podcast:

http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2009/07/29/operation-bite-back/

Grist interview:

http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-23-terrorism-laws-used-to-round-up-eco-activists-dean-kuipers/

Counterpunch interview:

http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair06192009.html

There will also be video soon from the Seattle Channel. CSPAN’s BookTV has been airing a one-hour segment with me, but I don’t find it as a link on their site. Maybe that happens after they stop airing it. It would be great if someone who is a regular BookTV watcher could let me know about that.