March 2011
2 posts
New article published by Billy Shore in the John... →
February 2011
2 posts
Imaginations was reviewed by Richard Holton and...
You can link to the review on The New York Review of Books website here, and the available text is pasted below. You can also read Billy Shore’s response to the review on his blog here.
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
FEBRUARY 24, 2011
Stopping Malaria: The Wrong Road
Richard Horton
The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men: Inspiration, Vision, and Purpose in the Quest to End Malaria by Bill...
January 2011
4 posts
Blog post by Billy re: imagination: "A powerful...
Over the weekend I picked up one of the slim “Great Ideas” volumes published by Penguin Books. It was a collection of Michel De Montaigne’s writings from the mid-1500’s. One chapter begins: “Fortis imagination generat casum”: a powerful imagination generates the event.
It was wonderful to find a 500 year old antecedent to the themes I’ve tried to write about in THE IMAGINATIONS OF...
Savannah Guthrie interviewed Billy on MSNBC’s Daily Rundown Dec 23!
Before the holidays, Billy was interviewed on The... →
December 2010
10 posts
Failures of imagination and year-end giving: Op-ed... →
Imaginations chosen as one of the best books of...
http://www.philanthrocapitalism.net/2010/12/books-of-the-year-part-3/
“The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men: Inspiration, Vision and Purpose in the Quest to End Malaria,” by Bill Shore. This is a fascinating insider’s account of the extraordinary global campaign now under way to eradicate malaria, by one of America’s top social entrepreneurs. It is at once inspiring and challenging, in that it...
IMAGINATIONS was chosen as 1 of 4 books for... →
Bad Air: Malaria And The Search For A Cure →
This morning Billy was interviewed in Seattle on KUOW’s “Weekday” with Steve Scher. Listen to the interview here.
KCAL9, a local TV news show in Los Angeles, also interview Billy today, and you can watch the video here. Exciting momentum is growing for the book! Please consider sharing your comments and a review on Amazon.com by visiting the book’s page here.
On Friday morning, Billy was interviewed on Jeff... →
November 2010
10 posts
Billy's response to WSJ review. →
Billy Shore’s Personal Recap from the Kickoff...
What a special treat it was for me to have my first book party for THE IMAGINATIONS OF UNREASONABLE MEN at Boston’s Pucker Gallerty, which played such a critical role in the development of my thinking about the book. A year ago I was invited to speak there about the work of the artist and potter Brother Thomas. It was just at the time I thought I was struggling to finish the book. I was actually...
Great review for Imaginations published yesterday... →
Read blog post on the No Kid Hungry blog... →
Click here for details on Billy's first DC book... →
At Politics & Prose on Nov 23 at 7PM, Billy will be speaking with Alan Khazei (Founder, City Year & Be the Change). Books are discounted 20% for P&P members, and the event is free and open to the public. Invite your family and friends to learn more about THE IMAGINATIONS OF UNREASONABLE MEN.
The book is hitting the shelves - click here to... →
Check out this recently released article in... →