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Dirty
Meredith Maran hits a vein in Dirty, a terrifying look at the teenage
drug epidemic.
-Vanity Fair
Maran's storytelling is colorful and compelling, a sympathetic evocation
of ecstasy, heartbreak, horror, and hope. Provocatively revealing, informative,
and not without humor, Dirty is itself an addictive read.
-Psychology Today
Maran's exploration of youthful self-destruction, Dirty, is wrenching
as both advocacy journalism and parental confessional.
-San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - BEST BOOKS OF 2003
By choosing kids from such different worlds, Maran manages to present several
facets of the nation's losing war on drugs-What's most refreshing about Dirty
is Maran's lack of objectivity... [what] makes the book so compelling: her
late-night conversations with these self-destructive but incredibly likable
teenagers.
-Salon.com
Insightful, compassionate-important and timely.
-Publisher's Weekly
Class Dismissed
Class Dismissed is a moving and, at times, heartbreaking, account
of three kids from very different backgrounds...Maran tells their stories
with great sensitivity. You can't help rooting for them and wishing for a
sequel with a happy ending.
-Newsweek
Revealing and realistic...It's obvious the teens let Maran enter their lives,
not merely observe them...Students, teachers, parents, community leaders and
citizens need to hear these voices. Success can't be celebrated, and problems
can't be solved unless they are revealed. And in Class Dismissed, they
are, in abundance.
-USA Today
Maran the immersed reporter came away from Berkeley High with enough experiential
knowledge to earn a place in the national debate on education. Unlike politicians
and corporate moneymen who have all the answers because they once spent 30
minutes reading to inner-city first-graders, Maran is not another dabbler.
Her headwork is backed by legwork.
-Washington Post
Class Dismissed by journalist Meredith Maran cracks open the door
and demands a political accounting for what she finds.
-Boston Globe
Skillfully integrating multiple and quite disparate voices, Maran gives clear
and chilling examples of how white and black children are treated differently,
bringing to light the "dirty little secret" of racial inequality.
-Publisher's Weekly starred review
Ben & Jerry's Double Dip
A nonfattening blend of social consciousness and practical business advice...a
how-to book with a socially responsible twist. And it's fun to read, too.
-San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
A very different kind of business book, Double Dip shows how a company
can win the respect of its community, loyalty of its customers, and healthy
profits, too, by addressing social concerns as well as the bottom line.
-Business Times
Notes From An Incomplete Revolution
...This book's important point: that at this stage in the history of feminism,
being honest about women's lives is far more a sign of progress than retreat;
that to complete the revolution, women need realistic analysis more than symbolic
gestures.
-The New York Times Book Review
Equal parts Fran Liebowitz and Helen Gurley Brown...Maran's witty, insightful,
first-person narrative acknowledges the limitations and failings of feminism
while still rejoicing in the power of the women's movement.
-The Advocate
A brave and thoughtful woman...With honesty and rigor, she takes on one emotional
minefield after another the relations between men and women, women and women,
people of color and whites, parents and children.
-The Dallas Morning News
What It's Like To Live Now
Unexpectedly compelling; fascinating, and heartening.
-The New York Times Book Review
A delight...a West Coast, distaff Woody Allen, with a good dollop more compassion.
-The Los Angeles Times
One mother's eloquent statement about choices in modern life...Brilliantly
incisive.
-San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
| The Advocate Amazon.com American School Board Journal Atlanta Southern Voice Bay Area Reporter Berkeley Daily Planet Booklist Boston Globe Business Times Chatanooga (TN) Times Christian Science Monitor Contra Costa Times Creative Loafing (Atlanta) Daily News (New York) Dallas Morning News East Bay Express Holt Uncensored Kirkus Reviews Lambda Book Report Library Journal Los Angeles Times Mobile Register (AL) The Monthly New Age Journal Newsweek New York Times Book Review |
Oakland Tribune |
Meredith has appeared on gazillions of national and local TV and radio programs including CSPAN Book TV and ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox morning news shows. Her radio appearances include NPR's All Things Considered, To The Best of Our Knowledge, and Talk of the Nation. She gives great interview and especially loves the hair and makeup part.
