I am taking off the Midwest this week -- Madison Wisconsin and Saint Louis Missouri.
The terrific Madison group, Alliance for Animals (www.AllAnimals.org) has invited me to speak at their "Vegantine's Dinner and Dance and Heart of Journalism Awards" on February 14. Valentine's Day in the Heartland -- how perfect! I will also be doing book readings in Madison on Sunday February 15, in Saint Louis on Monday February 16, and at the University of Missouri on Tuesday February 16.
You'll find more information at www.ThankingtheMonkey.com/events.php . I hope you'll share the information with all of your Saint Louis, Madison and University of Missouri friends.
Thanks to the sterling efforts of Lynn Foley and Michelle McGrorty of Alliance for Animals, the animals and I have been getting some wonderful media coverage in Madison:
The current edition of Madison's weekly newspaper, the Daily Page, has a nice article and an interview with me, both by Bill Lueders. The article, "Karen Dawn busts stereotypes as wisecracking vegan ambassador," is on line at http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25019 and "An irreverent interview with animal rights activist Karen Dawn" is on line at
http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25031
Please give them a quick look (newspaper publishers count clicks and the most popular stories are linked on the front page). I hope you enjoy them, and I really hope you thank the paper for the coverage (particularly you Madison readers, but in this age of Internet, letters are welcome and desired from everywhere). Just send a quick letter to the editor in support of animal rights, or plant based diets, or any issue of animal and earth advocacy that feels right to you.
The Daily Page takes letters at http://www.thedailypage.com/staff/email.php?id=43
On Sunday, February 8, I was on the local Air America show "Books and Beats with Stu Levitan." You can listen if you like at http://tinyurl.com/azougz . The interview starts almost exactly half-way through the hour so if you slide the cursor up to the center of the line you should hit it on the mark -- it's right after you hear some of the Rolling Stones doing "Monkey Man." (Smile.)
Stu invited me back on, in studio, next Sunday, February 15, at 10am Central. You can "listen live" on line at http://www.themic921.com/ or find the interview later at http://tinyurl.com/ctnlfg
I hope you will thank Stu Levitan for his enthusiasm about the book and his help in spreading the word. Positive feedback for animal friendly coverage encourages more of it. The site gives Stu Levitan's email address to send him a note: stuartlevitan@sbcglobal.net.
Yours and the animals',
Karen Dawn
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Please go to www.ThankingtheMonkey.com to read reviews and see a fun celeb-studded video and an NBC news piece on Karen Dawn's new book, "Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way we Treat Animals," which was chosen by the Washington Post as one of the "Best Books of 2008."
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Date: Mon Feb 9 20:01:08 2009
