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NewsNovember 2, 2008 Obliterating the book geek vs. jock divide, Lantern founder Martin Rowe finished his second NYC Marathon today, bettering last year's time by 21 minutes, while raising money for some great causes with each step. Congratulations, Martin! September 19, 2008 Bart Potenza and Joy Pierson celebrated the fifth anniversary of their eatery, Candle 79, with a fiesta that doubled as a release party for Bart's book, Look Two Ways on a One-Way Street. With vegan eats, books printed on recycled paper, and pedicabs home, it was green from end to end. September 4, 2008 Veg News magazine's eNewsletter says to "keep an eye out for this great new guide to veg eating" filled with "all kinds of handy info." How to Eat Like a Vegetarian is great for even seasoned vegetarians. May 14, 2008 Yifa's Authenticity is excerpted in the Summer 2008 issue of Tricycle magazine. Read about the five contemplations her monastery uses to appreciate meals. April 10, 2008 Will Tuttle, author of The World Peace Diet, is being cloned! With this new tool, anyone can give a workshop on the concepts in Tuttle's influential book. April 4, 2008 Lantern author Norris Chumley and documentary film maker presents his new film on the Eastern Orthodox Christian mystical traditions. Click here for more details. April 2, 2008 Attention true book geeks: Lantern is now participating in Library Thing's Early Reviewer program! Get books before their release date, and share your review with the world. March 4, 2008 pattrice jones ( Aftershock) and Hillary Rettig ( The Lifelong Activist) are quoted extensively in Veg News' April '08 issue on fighting activist burnout. Their different approaches to activism can be further explored in excerpts here and here. February 8, 2008 Radio France dedicated this "Philosophy Friday" to the subject of animals and violence, and featured the author of Eternal Treblinka. Listen here. January 22, 2008 Lantern mourns the passing of Sharon Towns, co-editor of Voices from the Garden, which collects stories of becoming a vegetarian from over 50 individuals. December 11, 2007 In a continuing effort to save trees, get our books to the widest possible audience, and stay in business in a digital world, we are pleased to offer ebooks of many of our titles. November 21, 2007 Lantern's adopted turkey, Moth, urges people to "seek the light" by going vegetarian. September 24, 2007 Lantern Books is moving to Brooklyn! We've been lucky enough to have our offices in Union Square for 8 years, watching over demonstrations and public art, festivals and the farmer's market. August 14, 2007 300 VA Tech Political Science students will be reading No Easy Answers this fall, beginning their non-violence education. August 13, 2007 As much as we love organic farmers, we've noticed that many of them haven't yet embraced vegetarianism. That is one of many reasons Lantern attended NOFA in Amherst this year. June 25, 2007 J.R. Hyland, author of God's Covenant with Animals, will be interviewed by Tina Volpe on Wake Up America, at 9:00 am Pacific Time on June 25th. To listen to the show, click here. May 24, 2007 Our friends on the west coast know the value of a good book. You can find Lantern titles in Portland next to the vegan donuts or the snazzy hoodies. May 14, 2007 Publisher Ryokufu Shupan-sha (translated as "Green Wind") is gracing readers in Tokyo with a translation of Eternal Treblinka. April 19, 2007 Brooks Brown, co-author of No Easy Answers appeared today on CBS's The Early Show to talk about the Virginia Tech Shooting. April 18, 2007 Brooks Brown, co-author of No Easy Answers gave a commentary today on All Things Considered. Read it here. April 4, 2007 We've improved the Search Engine on this site. You can now look through the entire site: book titles, authors, and all the blog posts. You'll never be at a loss again. We hope. April 2, 2007 We've changed our website to make it easier for you to respond to particular blogs by commenting directly on the page itself. April 2, 2007 We've added a weekly running headline to highlight important days throughout the year and draw attention to the hidden jewels of our publishing program. March 5, 2007 Sustain Print awards Lantern with the "Longtime Leader" award for green efforts in publishing. January 10, 2007 Michael Greger, author of Bird Flu, is the featured interviewed on Massachusetts' own, Vegan Radio. January 2, 2007 The 2006 Lantern Books Essay Competition is now closed. We'll be announcing winners on March 21. December 21, 2006 Dr. John Oxford, author of the standard textbook on influenza, reviews Bird Flu in Nature. December 12, 2006 Not Oprah (yet!), but Bitch Magazine's Green List cites Maathai among their list of favorite people, organizations, and things to love. October 31, 2006 Check out Lantern's new website on Bird Flu! Follow the latest developments, check out author Michael Greger's schedule, and find out all about your favorite zoonotic diseases. October 20, 2006 Dr. Michael Greger hits the ground running on his U.S. Bird Flu tour. October 3, 2006 So far, six translations of Eternal Treblinka have been published, and there are more to come in 2007. September 13, 2006 Anti-vivisection activists, including Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? contributor Kevin Jonas, were sentenced this week for Conspiracy to violate the Animal Enterprise Protection Act. September 13, 2006 Today, a Montreal school shooter reportedly killed himself and one student, leaving many injured and traumatized. August 29, 2006 Lantern Books is launching the writing careers of its Essay Contest competitors! August 28, 2006 Today is Jack Dreyfus's 93rd birthday, and everyone at Lantern wishes him a good one. August 22, 2006 Monica Sweeney, author of Condom Sense, is profiled in today's New York Times. Click here to read the article. August 3, 2006 We're very pleased to announced that Kara Davis, formerly of Doubleday, is joining us as our Managing Director. July 13, 2006 Lantern author and communications expert Josephine Bellaccomo is offering an exclusive intensive course in helping you move your message effectively. The course offers winning tactics to design and deliver a compelling message. July 12, 2006 The diaries of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, who went on a killing spree at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999, have been released. Mentioned is Brooks Brown, a friend of Klebold and acquaintance of Harris, and co-author of No Easy Answers. April 20, 2006 Check out Mark Whitwell's yoga classes throughout the United States this summer by clicking here. April 18, 2006 We've added some more audio reflections to the individual book pages of our titles. Click here for more details. March 21, 2006 Lantern Books is delighted to announce the winners of its 2005 Essay Contest. Go to the blog page for more details. February 21, 2006 Wangari Maathai was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Third Annual Human Rights and Democracy Award, held in Nairobi, Kenya. February 16, 2006 Lantern is now offering 20 percent on all its titles ordered over the web. To find out why we've done this, click here. February 13, 2006 Lantern author Wangari Maathai has received an honorary degree from Waseda University in Japan.
February 1, 2006 Wangari Maathai will be visiting various locations in the United States in March. For her schedule, go to her website. January 9, 2006 Monica Sweeney, author of Condom Sense, is mentioned in the January 9, 2006 edition of The New York Times in an article on the epidemic of diabetes in New York City. November 20, 2005 Pamela Rice and Carol Adams are featured in a 2005 article in North Jersey Herald News about vegetarian Thanksgiving. November 7, 2005 Utne magazine has chosen author Karen Davis' quarterly publication Poultry Press as one of the ten best newsletters out of "hundreds [that] come to the Utne library." October 27, 2005 Foreword magazine celebrates Lantern as the first publisher to join the Green Press Initiative, a project that promotes the use of recycled paper in the publishing. Lantern uses 100% post-consumer waste paper for almost all its books. September 2, 2005 Andrew Beath is speaking at the Dutton's Brentwood, California store, Friday, September 2, 7pm. August 28, 2005 We wish investment pioneer and philanthropist Jack Dreyfus a very happy 92nd birthday. August 24, 2005 The U.K. government has banned author Steven Best from entering the U.K. as a potential terrorist threat. August 4, 2005 Scholar and animal activist, Mark Bekoff to speak on the morality of animals on Good Morning America, Friday, September 9th. May 26, 2005 We were delighted to welcome Daniel Silau and Francis Sakuda from SIMOO (Simba Maasai Outreach Organization) to talk at our office. March 29, 2005 March 28 marked the first meeting of the Lantern Books Reading Club, as author Charles Patterson joined twenty readers in our loft office for a discussion of Eternal Treblinka. March 26, 2005 Kim Ogden-Avrutik, author of Ask the Animals appeared on the March 18th edition of NPR's "Living On Earth" program. A transcript and audio archive is available at the LOE website. March 21, 2005 2nd Annual Animal Liberation Philosophy and Policy Conference, April 23, 2005
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. For more information click here. February 24, 2005 Congratulations to Charles Patterson, whose book Eternal Treblinka has been chosen as one of the ten most important non-fiction books in Germany. February 18, 2005 Wangari Maathai was interviewed on PBS's NOW with David Brancaccio. The video archive, transcript, and more are available on the NOW website. February 15, 2005 On Valentine's Day, Dr. Monica Sweeney and Rita Grisman signed copies of their new book Condom Sense at the Greenwich Village branch of Condomania, "America's First Condom Store." February 8, 2005 Ward Churchill, who has recently been criticized for his remarks about September 11, is featured in an article concerning his foreword to Terrorists or Freedom Fighters. Click here for the article. January 27, 2005 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Lantern Books author Wangari Maathai was interviewed on PBS's NewsHour on January 25. To see the interview and a transcript, visit the NewsHour website. January 7, 2005 Mother Jones features a discussion with 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Maathai on the root causes of environmental and social problems and their solutions. Please visit motherjones.comDecember 20, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Lantern Books author Wangari Maathai was the keynote speaker at the United Nations Development Program’s first annual UN Day for South-South Cooperation. November 30, 2004 Charles Patterson, author of Eternal Treblinka was interviewed on "EcoLogic" on WBAI, 99.5 FM in NYC, by nvironmental journalist David Occhiuto. www.wbai.orgOctober 8, 2004 Professor Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement and Lantern author has been awarded the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. Over the last few months, Dr Maathai has also been awarded the Petra Kelly Environmental Award, the National Arbor Day Foundation's J. Sterling Norton Award, the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation Award, and an honorary doctorate from Yale University. July 1, 2004 Lantern Books was honored with a "Companion Animal Guardian Award" for its contribution to the welfare of New York City companion animals at the Natural Pet Fair in Manhattan. |
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