BEB authors discuss
political courage
On October 28 at the Princeton Public Library, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Frankel discussed his book Rivonia’s Children: Nelson Mandela’s White Comrades and Their Legacy, newly republished by Blue Ear Books, with fellow author Andrew Russell.
Rivonia’s Children … offers fascinating insight into the lives of true South African heroes, whites who fought in the background against the apartheid regime without looking for any kudos or back-slapping. They were seemingly ordinary South Africans – but as you read you come to understand how important their roles were. It is the remarkable story largely of three Jewish couples and their lifelong commitment to the cause: Hilda and Rusty Bernstein, Ruth First and her husband Joe Slovo, and AnnMarie and Harold Wolpe. All three couples played huge roles in the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, for which they paid dearly, as did the Afrikaner dissident Bram Fischer. They deserve to be highlighted and thanked for everything they did for our country.
– from The Leadership We Need: Lessons for Today from Nelson Mandela by Andrew Russell
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I started my lifelong romance with batik in Spain living on top of a mountain with an artist partner and a lifetime later, I find myself married and working alongside another. Beth and I have spent the past 20 years treading a path less-travelled together, making mistakes, learning from them, making more mistakes, experimenting, trying new things, going, two steps forward, three steps back sometimes but always open to fresh possibilities and options. I have learned from her and I hope she has picked things up from me. Together we have explored the wide world out there, shared the wide world of feelings and the wide world of batik art. The options and possibilities in every shared sphere are endless; the adventures never stop and there are always new places to go. The world of batik has expanded also. We teach continually and the gospel according to batik spreads exponentially. At the same time, more and more batik artists are coming out of the woods where they have been hiding.
– Jonathan Evans
“Tell all the truth
but tell it slant”
My purpose in writing this letter is to articulate at least glancingly how and why Blue Ear Books publishes books—books in particular—and to address how, and why, we intend to continue doing that going forward, regardless of what the political and/or media situation turns out to be in the United States after November 5 (and January 6, and January 20).
Read Blue Ear Books publisher Ethan Casey’s October 26, 2024 statement.
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