NEWS

The FOG MACHINE Goes to Norway!
University of Agder Masters’ Education course “Literature, Culture,
and Didactics” explores The FOG MACHINE, Siobhan Dowd’s
Bog Child, and Glenn Patterson’s The Rest Just Follows
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Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Karen Branan (The Family Tree)
 recommends The FOG MACHINE

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Visiting Author Shares Perspective on History, Prejudice, and Education
by Ryan Anderson
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The FOG MACHINE Goes to College!
Saint James HS “College Now” students read and discuss with the author
Explore ideas for teaching The FOG MACHINE
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ISD 196 Secondary Social Studies Book Study, Fall Semester 2015
Includes The FOG MACHINE 
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Susan presents "Stories from Civil Rights History, Then and Now,”
  SALT Fall 2015 Series, October 12, 9:30 am
Church of the Risen Savior, Burnsville
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Teaching Tolerance includes an excerpt from The FOG MACHINE
in its online anti-bias curriculum, Perspectives for a Diverse America!
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African American Registry founder Ben McHie joins Susan for Stories from Civil Rights History, Then and Now at Rosemount High School May 21
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C.P. Lesley, New Books in Historical Fiction, interviews Susan Follett
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Author, activists to share stories of civil rights history at Rosemount event
by Liz Rolfsmeier, Special to the Star Tribune

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Educator activist Jason Sole joins 1964 Freedom Summer veteran Gail Falk
on “Stories from Civil Rights History, Then and Now” panel
Rosemount Community Center, February 17, 6:00 pm
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EdChange founder Paul C. Gorski calls The FOG MACHINE:
“a bit of a miracle—that rare piece of historical fiction that simultaneously awakens the racial justice sensibilities of my activist self, the poetic sensibilities of my creative writer self, and the learning sensibilities of my educator self”

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Teaching Tolerance Magazine (No. 49: Spring 2015) Staff Picks features
The FOG MACHINE in review of latest in culturally aware literature
and resources for professional development and teachers

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Reading Today Online features The FOG MACHINE with National Book
Award winner and Longlist authors Woodson, Sheinkin, and Wiles:
“Putting Books to Work: New Takes on the Civil Rights Movement”

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MSU celebrates Freedom Summer, foundation for the future
Susan Follett delivers closing Keynote, “Remembering Freedom Summer:
Building a Better Future” Conference, October 21
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Book groups, community reads, diversity forums, educators:
Email Susan to get together for a conversation

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Andrew Goodman Foundation President David Goodman says:
“a must read for those who want to really understand the granularity
of racism, even amongst well intentioned people”

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Learning From the Summer of ’64’, a Teaching Tolerance resource page,
links to an excerpt from The FOG MACHINE

Coming soon, Perspectives for a Diverse America, their
online anti-bias curriculum, will incorporate an excerpt!

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Mississippi’s McComb High and Washington’s The Overlake School
read The FOG MACHINE in Civil Rights Education Pilot Program

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The FOG MACHINE is a Silver Medalist in
2014 Independent Publishers Book Awards for Best Regional Fiction

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