{"id":40244,"date":"2013-10-13T03:19:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T03:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=40244"},"modified":"2026-03-02T15:40:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T23:40:39","slug":"08b-01-stories-from-jonestown-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=40244","title":{"rendered":"<i>Stories from Jonestown<\/i> Published"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/08-02a-stories.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47748 alignright\" alt=\"08-02a-stories\" src=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/08-02a-stories-201x300.jpg\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/08-02a-stories-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/08-02a-stories.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a>Stories from Jonestown<\/i>, a book by playwright Leigh Fondakowski based largely upon interviews she conducted in the course of researching her play, <i>The People&#8217;s Temple<\/i>, was published earlier this year through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/stories-from-jonestown\">University of Minnesota Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A contributor to <i>the jonestown report<\/i> for several years, Leigh&#8217;s reflections about the book \u2013 and her speaking engagement at Bucknell, where students read the book as part of a semester-long class on Jonestown \u2013 are here.<\/p>\n<p>The book has been well-received critically. Reviews of <i>Stories From Jonestown<\/i> included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240729160544\/https:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/a-new-book-about-jonestown-the-west-coast-cult-that-led-to-a-massacre\/\">A New Book About Jonestown, the West Coast Cult That Led to a Massacre<\/a>, by Siran Babayan, <i>LA Weekly<\/i>, January 3. 2013<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/blogcritics.org\/book-review-stories-from-jonestown-by\/\">Book Review: <i>Stories from Jonestown<\/i> by Leigh Fondakowski<\/a>, by Greg Barbrick, BlogCritics, February 15 (reposted on the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201022213617\/http:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/press\/press-clips\/blogcritics-reviews-stories-from-jonestown\">publisher&#8217;s website<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popmatters.com\/review\/168329-stories-from-jonestown-by-leigh-fondakowski\/\">\u2018Stories from Jonestown&#8217; Is a Poignant Testimony to Spirit, Forgiveness and Stoic Resilience<\/a>, by Mark Reynolds, PopMatters, February 19;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130520232634\/http:\/\/bookforum.com\/review\/10923\"><i>Stories from Jonestown<\/i> by Leigh Fondakowski<\/a>, by Jeremy Lybarger, Bookforum, January 30 <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140603174106\/http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/books\/atheologies\/6871\/why_we_won_t_let_jonestown__or_9_11_or_sandy_hook__die\/\">Why We Won&#8217;t Let Jonestown (Or 9\/11 or Sandy Hook) Die<\/a>, by Kelsey Osgood, Religion Dispatches, February 25<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A collection of pre-publication reviews \u2013 written for the 2012 edition of <i>the jonestown report<\/i> from different segments of its readership \u2013 appears <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=34255\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stories from Jonestown, a book by playwright Leigh Fondakowski based largely upon interviews she conducted in the course of researching her play, The People&#8217;s Temple, was published earlier this year through the University of Minnesota Press. 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