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Michael Palmer '64
The First Patient
(Saint Martin's Press, 2008)

In his latest thriller, Palmer weaves a suspenseful tale about presidential politics, cutting-edge medicine, and nanotechnology. His page-turner centers around . ...more

Geller '75 Offers New View on Freud's Writings

In his original study, On Freud’s Jewish Body: Mitigating Circumcisions (Fordham University Press, 2007) Jay Geller '75, an assistant professor of modern Jewish culture at Vanderbilt Divinity School, depicts psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud ...more

Brooks '81 Writes Guide to Hiking Trails Near NYC

In 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: New York City (Menasha Ridge Press, 2008), Christopher Brooks '81 and Catherine Brooks cover a variety of classic and lesser-known trails..more

Dorsey '83 Shares His Knowledge of Alternative Investments

Alan H. Dorsey '83, a managing director and alternative investment strategist at Lehman Brothers, recently published Active Alpha: A Portfolio Approach to Selecting and Managing Alternative Investments (Wiley Finance, 2007). Dorsey elucidates ...more

Moezzi '01 Receives Georgia Author of the Year Award

Melody Moezzi '01 received this year’s Georgia Author of the Year Award in the Creative Non-Fiction: Essay category for her book War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims (University of Arkansas Press, 2007). The 44th Annual Georgia Author of the Year Awards, sponsored....more

Amy Cohen '88 The Late Bloomer's Revolution (Hyperion, 2007)

In her exhilarating memoir, The Late Bloomer's Revolution (Hyperion, 2007), Amy Cohen '88 tells how she changed her life against all odds....more

Robin Cook '62 Critical (Putnam, 2007)

In his latest medical thriller set in New York City, Cook devises an intricate plot revolving around a surge of drug-resistant staph infections in three specialty hospitals that...more

Amy Bloom '75 Away (Random House 2007)

Bloom's critically acclaimed novel centers around a memorable heroine named Lillian Leyb, a 1920s Russian Jewish immigrant who ...more

Linda Perlstein '92 Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade (Henry Holt, 2007)

In 2005, Perlstein, a former education writer for the Washington Post, was allowed an all-access pass for a year to Tyler Heights Elementary School in Annapolis, Md., some 32 miles from the ...more

Steve Almond '88 Not that You Asked: Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions (Random House, 2007)

In this entertaining and often funny essay collection, Almond shares his passionate views on a number of subjects that obsess him, including media ...more

Mitchell '61 Offers Inspirational Guide to Business Managers

In Hug Your People: The Proven Way to Hire, Inspire, and Recognize Your Employees and Achieve Remarkable Results (Hyperion, 2008), CEO Jack Mitchell '61 examines how personal relationships...more

Novel by Grant '84 Portrays Teenager Growing Up in  '70s Boston

Working-class South Boston in the 1970s is the setting for Map of Ireland (Scribner, 2008), a gripping coming-of-age novel by Stephanie Grant '84 about Ann Ahern, an...more

Memoir by Flynn '89 Recalls Mother's Mental Illness

Laura M. Flynn '89 recounts the harrowing true story of growing up with a mother who was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, in Swallow the Ocean (Counterpoint Press, 2008). In this powerful memoir...more

Machlin '89 Publishes First Poetry Collection

Dan Machlin '89 has published a first book-length poetry collection, Dear Body (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2007). In the title sequence, he imagines...more

 

Yankelevich '95 Translates Russian Poet Kharms

Matvei Yankelevich '95 is the editor and translator of Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Overlook, 2007). He gave...more

 

Poem by Colby '96 Combines Autobiography with Life of Jane Bowles

In her new long poem, Unbecoming Behavior (Ugly Duckling Press, 2008), Kate Colby '96 incorporates part autobiography and part revisionist biography of...more

Paquette '99 Studies Political Reform in 18th-Century Spain and Its American Empire

In Enlightenment, Governance, and Reform in Spain and Its Empire, 1759 1808 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), Gabriel Paquette '99 posits a new interpretation of political reform in Spain...more

Tomie Hahn PhD '97 Studies a Traditional Japanese Dance Form

In her book Sensational Knowledge (Wesleyan University Press, 2007) ethnomusicologist and dancer Tomie Hahn PhD '97 uncovers the process and nuances of learning nihon buyo, a traditional Japanese danceform.  She...more

Casey Nelson Blake '78 Edits Essay Collection on Arts, Public Culture, and the State

Casey Nelson Blake '78, a professor of history and American studies at Columbia University, has edited The Arts of Democracy: Art, Public Culture, and The State (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), an essay collection that...more

Berman '68 Writes About Improving Child Health Care

In Getting It Right For Children, Dr Stephen Berman '68 (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2008) shares true stories about his patients and his work...more

Memoir by Bridge '84 Reveals the Dark Side of Foster Care

In this compelling and honest memoir, Hope's Boy (Hyperion, 2008), Andrew Bridge '84 recounts his traumatic experiences living 11 years in foster care.  The author....more

Eugster '82 Recalls Growing Up in a Commune

In her compelling and frank memoir, Notes from Nethers (Academy Chicago Publishers, 2007), Sandra Eugster '82 remember her childhood growing up in a commune in rural Virginia in the late 1960s and early 1970s.  Nethers, as the commune came to be called...more

Feder '89 Explores Intersection of Race and Gender

In Family Bonds: Genealogies of Race and Gender (Oxford University Press, 2007), Ellen Feder '89, a philosophy professor at American University, suggest a new way to think about the categories of gender and race together.  Feminist and critical race theorists alike have long ....more

Clark '95 Examines Regional Economies

Jennifer Clark '95, an assistant professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology, has co-written (with Susan Christopherson) the book Remaking Regional Economies: Power, Labor, and Firm Strategies in the Knowledge Economy (Routledge, 2008).  Clark's book...more

Prellwitz '02 Writes Guide to Colorado Rock Climbing

Christian Prellwitz '02 has written A Guide to Bouldering in the Telluride and West End Areas (of Southwest Colorado) (Mountain World Media, 2007).  Bouldering is a form ....more