Whaleboats Under Sail

Joyce Farmer's Special Exits: My Parents, a memoir, a graphic novel, is out with Fantagraphics to fantastic reviews, including a starred PW review:

Underground feminist comic artist Farmer's account of how she looked after her aging parents is a quiet wonder... The story is stunning for its antisentimental realism, as well as for the glimpses of fantasy (Lars's hallucination of Hades' ferryman, Charon, rowing by in the hallway) that flicker by like ghosts. (view the full review here)

And here's a discussion about Joyce Farmer and the glowing advance praise she received from R. Crumb, in the LA Times' Hero Complex.

Nancy Lord's Early Warming: Crisis and Response in the Climate-Changed North will be published by Counterpoint in January 2011. Here's some warm words about it from Kirkus Reviews:

Although she deftly weaves pertinent scientific and political information throughout, her account's power stems from her on-site observations, lyrical descriptions of the land and sea and sensitive interviews of local officials and natives whose insight and experience humanize an otherwise vast and arcana subject. Lord reports from her home base, Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, where the wetlands are shrinking and large-scale modifications in both fresh water and marine conditions threaten the salmon-dependent economy; from Canada's Mackenzie River Valley and Fort Yukon, Alaska, where industrial development endangers the boreal forest, unlocking a massive carbon storehouse... an eloquent and important dispatch.