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It was wonderful talking to Anthony Brooks of Radio Boston (WBUR) the other day about the two new books, MARMEE & LOUISA and MY HEART IS BOUNDLESS. To listen, go to:
https://soundcloud.com/#radioboston/the-mother-behind-louisa-may
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The upcoming NYTBR review, by Brenda Wineapple, is terrific.
If you are interested in purchasing Marmee & Louisa online soon (for Christmas, say) and amazon.com is still out of stock, please purchase it at bn.com or independent booksellers using the links here. Tune in December 19 to "The Story with Dick Gordon" to hear my interview with Phoebe Judge of WUNC and American Public Media. Here's the link to listen; we're the final third of the show:
'http://thestory.org/archive/20121219_The_Story__The_Reluctant_Saint.mp3/view Maureen Corrigan of Fresh Air has chosen MARMEE & LOUISA as one of the best books of the year. For more about her favorites:
http://www.npr.org/2012/12/13/167059588/maureen-corrigan-picks-her-favorite-books-of-2012 Lots of radio interviews this week. On Fieldstone Common I had a great discussion about Marmee, Louisa, and their lives and works with Marian Pierre-Louis. Now archived as a podcast and available at
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/fieldstonecommon/2012/12/13/marmee-louisa-with-eve-laplante Marmee (Abigail May Alcott) behind Louisa c. 1865 Maureen Corrigan of NPR's "Fresh Air" gives rave reviews to Marmee & Louisa and My Heart Is Boundless! Listen at: http://www.npr.org/2012/12/07/166436575/at-home-with-dickens-and-lousia-may-alcott?sc=tw&cc=share\ Eve with Dana Brigham launching MARMEE&LOUISA, MY HEART IS BOUNDLESS A great crowd gathered this week at Jeremy and Lisa Sewall's wonderful Lineage restaurant to launch my new books, MARMEE & LOUISA and MY HEART IS BOUNDLESS! Thanks, everyone, for coming. I hope you all enjoy the books as much as I enjoyed researching and writing them! (Photo of Eve and bookseller Dana Brigham by Philip Dorfman) The novelist Kelly O'Connor McNees has writtten a terrific review of Marmee & Louisa in the Washington Post. Click to read the review: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/book-review-marmee-and-louisa-by-eve-laplante-on-louisa-may-alcott-and-her-mother/2012/11/30/12b38db4-21d9-11e2-ac85-e669876c6a24_story.html Abigail May Alcott, Louisa's mother BUST magazine has given MARMEE & LOUISA a five-breast review! This seems appropriate for a biography of a woman (Abigail May Alcott) who in September 1844 wrote to her sister-in-law Lucretia May, who had just given birth, "When God puts the babies in our laps, he places all the needfuls in its vicinity for its life and health - air, water, and Mother's titty is all it wants for a good while." |
AuthorEve LaPlante is the author, most recently, of the biography Marmee & Louisa and the editor of My Heart Is Boundless. Archives
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