Press
July 1, 2009
David Dudley, editor of Urbanite, a Baltimore monthly, designated Annie’s Ghosts as a “critic’s pick” in the magazine’s July issue. “Like many a detective story, the book concludes with a triple-whammy of reversals as Luxenberg discovers that other family members harbor a few secrets of their own,” he wrote.
July 1, 2009
Sandra Svodoba’s interview with Steve in Metro Times, a Detroit weekly, explores his methodology in researching and writing the book, eliciting information about the obstacles that others might encounter in pursuing their own family secrets.
May/June 2009 – A roundup of bimonthly magazines
AARP Magazine called Annie’s Ghosts one of its “Hot Reads.”
Harvard Magazine featured Annie’s Ghosts in its “Off the Shelf” column.
HourDetroit Magazine, in a review of the book, praised Steve’s meticulous research in “retracing the life of his parents and grandparents, following converging paths of deception. . .”
Style, a bimonthly in Baltimore, put its spotlight on the book in a feature article on three local authors, describing Annie’s Ghosts as “a detective story that lovingly but insistently teases the truth from one family’s tangled web.”
The NAMI Advocate, a print and online magazine published by the National Alliance on Mental Illness, put Annie’s Ghosts on the NAMI Bookshelf for May 2009, one of four new books awarded that distinction.
June 9, 2009
Diane Rehm interviewed Steve for the Diane Rehm Show at her WAMU studio in Washington D.C. The one-hour segment was broadcast live across the country on NPR. Download a podcast of the interview.
May 31, 2009
Mary Carole McCauley, writing for the Baltimore Sun, wrote a profile of Steve and a review of Annie’s Ghosts. The feature piece explores the balance between Steve’s responsibilities as a journalist and as a son. In the review, McCauley says “Annie’s Ghosts is an exhaustively researched, often moving testament to the ties that bind families together.”
May 28, 2009
Suzanne Chessler’s article in The Detroit Jewish News, headlined “Hidden Memories,” focused on Steve’s reporting techniques, the universal nature of the story, and how treatment of mental illness has evolved and changed since Annie’s death in 1972.
May 27, 2009
Elaine Margolin’s review in the Jerusalem Post, “Haunting family skeletons,” called Annie’s Ghosts “a masterful work.”
May 26, 2009
NewsChannel8, Washington’s 24-hour cable news outlet, explored the consequences of family secrets during a five-minute interview with Steve on its daily noon-time show, “Let’s Talk Live.” (Watch the interview by clicking on this link, and then on the story headlined “Find out what happens when family secrets escape.”)
May 23, 2009
Kyle Norris of Michigan Public Radio did a four-minute segment on the book, “Steve Luxenberg’s Quest,” that included a walking tour with Steve to some of the places described in the book, including the former site of Eloise Hospital.
May 16, 2009
Barry Werth’s review in The Washington Post, on the front page of the Style section, described Annie’s Ghosts as a “probing, wise and affecting new memoir of family secrets and posthumous absolution . . . a poignant investigative exercise, full of empathy and sorrowful truth.” The Post coverage included a podcast interview with Steve, available through iTunes.
May 13, 2009
Washington Jewish Week published “Finding Aunt Annie,” by arts editor Aaron Liebel, a feature article that explored Steve’s goals in writing the book.
May 12, 2009
WYPR-FM, the NPR affiliate in Baltimore, broadcast an hour-long interview with Steve on “Midday,” its public affairs show. Listen to host Dan Rodricks’s interview.
May 11, 2009
A review by Susan McCallum-Smith, a Baltimore writer, aired on the “Maryland Morning” show of WYPR-FM, the NPR affiliate. McCallum-Smith called Annie’s Ghosts an “engaging investigative memoir [that] proves, as the best nonfiction does, that true facts about true lives need no embellishments to be startling or moving.” Listen to her full review.
May 5, 2009
NPR's "All Things Considered" aired an eight-minute interview with Steve about Annie's Ghosts. Listen to co-host Robert Siegel's interview, and read NPR's online coverage, headlined "A Journalist Uncovers His Family's 'Ghosts'."
May 3, 2009
Javan Kienzle's Sunday review in the Detroit Free Press, "The Case of the Unknown Sibling," called Annie's Ghosts "unforgettable."
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