News about The Dirt on Clean

Clean has been chosen for a highly coveted honour: in May, it will be a "Book of the Week" on BBC Radio 4, and excerpts read by an actor will be broadcast twice a day during the week.

The Dirt on Clean was chosen by the New York Public Library as one of their annual list, "25 Books to Remember from 2007."

Katherine Ashenburg was a finalist in the $15,000 Nereus Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize 2007.

The Book-of-the-Month Club and Quality Paperback Book Clubs in the U.S. offered The Dirt on Clean as an Alternate Selection in January 2008.

International Editions

The Dirt on Clean will be published in Britain in March 2008 and in Australia and New Zealand on May 9, 2008, by Profile Books (the prizewinning English publishers who brought you Eats, Shoots & Leaves).

The Dirt on Clean will also be published in Brazil, Japan and Poland.

The Portuguese word for "clean" is limpo (think "limpid"). The Dirt on Clean's first foreign-language publication will be in Portuguese, from Larousse in Brazil.

Recent Media

"Pretty Dirty Things: A Survey," interview with Katherine Ashenburg, The Boston Globe, December 30, 2007.

The Dirt on Clean was reviewed in The New York Times Book Review on December 16, 2007.

Katherine was in conversation about The Dirt on Clean with Shelagh Rogers on Sounds Like Canada on CBC Radio One, on Tuesday, December 11, 2007.

Katherine appeared on the Today show on Monday and Tuesday, December 10 and 11.

Recent reviews and features appeared in Nature (November 22), The Economist (November 29), Elle (December), and Marie-Claire (December).

The November-December issue of Orion magazine carried an excerpt from The Dirt on Clean.

Salon.com ran a lengthy feature/review and podcast at the end of November.

Katherine wrote an OpEd piece in The New York Times about hand-washing on November 27, and appeared in their podcast.

An interview with NPR's "Weekend All Things Considered" aired on November 18, with an excerpt and photos online: www.npr.com. The producers are planning on making Katherine a regular commentator.

For a sanitized look at Katherine in her claw-footed Victorian bath, plus a conversation with Rebecca Dube about The Dirt on Clean, go to The Globe and Mail (October 19).

The October 11 issue of Chatelaine magazine carries an excerpt from The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History. The book is a Canadian Book of the Month Club and Quality Paperback alternative selection.

The Dirt on Clean was discussed on Ian Brown's Talking Books on CBC Radio on November 3.

A feature article on The Dirt on Clean appeared in the New York Times Magazine special on Health and Beauty on October 21.

Katherine Ashenburg in Person

Katherine toured for The Dirt on Clean in Calgary, Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto in late October and early November.