Sharon Glassman been awarded the American Women in Television and Radio's "Gracie Award" for Outstanding Comic Radio Series for her radio essays for WFUV. Gracie-winner "The Laggy Award" (about a creative way to get those freelance invoices paid) and more can be heard on her new site.

Ricardo Cortes, creative director of Magic Propaganda Mill Books tells us that the company has a new children's book about marijuana, "It'sJust a Plant," coming out this summer.

Michele Wucker's LOCKOUT: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right, was published May 8 by PublicAffairs Press. "The book takes on those culture-war dinosaurs Huntington and Buchanan and argues that both extreme sides of the immigration debate are wrong. We absolutely should not give in to pressures to build walls and close the doors --but we can't ignore that we're in such a pickle now because of laws that neglected to keep track of who comes here even as they intensified demographic and social pressures."