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<\/a>For several months after publication of A Thousand Lives<\/em><\/a> by Julia Scheeres \u2013 and after the last edition of the jonestown report<\/em> \u2013 the book continued to receive numerous reviews, and a year later has made its way onto the shelves of many Jonestown libraries.<\/p>\nThe author discussed her book on BookTV<\/em> in late October 2011, about two weeks after publication. The 44-minute presentation appears here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ms. Scheeres\u2019 reflections on the last year appear here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Perhaps the most significant review of the book was \u201cThe lure of Jonestown\u201d\u00a0 in the May 30, 2012 issue of The Christian Century<\/em>, a biweekly publication which describes itself as\u00a0 \u201cA Christian magazine based in Chicago, Illinois [which] nurtures the faith and examines issues of politics, culture, and theology.\u201d An excerpt of that review appears here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Other reviews included:<\/p>\n Repeating Islands<\/em><\/a>, which describes itself as presenting \u201cNews and commentary on Caribbean culture, literature, and the arts\u201d (December 25, 2011)<\/p>\n Failure Magazine<\/em><\/a> (December 8, 2011)<\/p>\n MacLeans<\/em><\/a>, Canada\u2019s leading weekly current affairs magazine (December 7, 2011)<\/p>\n The San Francisco Bay Guardian<\/em><\/a> (December 6, 2011)<\/p>\n WordPress<\/em><\/a> (December 3, 2011)<\/p>\n Publishers Weekly<\/em><\/a> (November 23, 2011)<\/p>\n The American Conservative<\/em><\/a> (November 17, 2011)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Among the online resources listing it as one of the best books of 2011:<\/p>\n She Knows Book Lounge<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n In 2014, the British newspaper, The Guardian<\/a>, listed the book as one of the 10 books about the 1970s:<\/p>\n Ms. Scheeres was also interviewed several times, including:<\/p>\n It\u2019s Time to Stop Saying \u2018Drink the Kool-Aid\u2019<\/em><\/a>, by Mark Armstrong, Longreads<\/em> (22 November 2014)<\/p>\n Untold Stories: Deirdre Sugiuchi interviews Julia Scheeres<\/em><\/a> (1 July 2013)<\/p>\n Talking Writing<\/em><\/a> (13 February 2012)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n A short interview with Ms. Scheeres produced by the publishing company for A Thousand Lives<\/em> appears on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n