Fresh Ink

September 8th, 2008

 

ALUMNI FICTION  Dmitri: A Tale of Old and New Russia by Olive Jeanfreau Alexander ’60 (Morgan-James).     In the Land of No Right Angles by Daphne Beal ’92 (Anchor). The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff ’91 (Random House). Sweetsmoke by David Fuller ’75 (Hyperion). Contradictions: Short Stories and Psychograms by Donald D. Hook ’61 (Wildwechsel). My Father’s Paradise by Ariel Sabar ’93 (Algonquin).

ALUMNI NONFICTION
  A Passion for Mars: Intrepid Explorers of the Red Planet
by Andrew Chaikin ’78 (Abrams). After the War on Crime: Race, Democracy, and a New Reconstruction edited by Mary Louise Frampton ’67, Ian Haney López, and Jonathan Simon (NYU). Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles edited by Thomas Glave ’98 (Duke). High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families by Peter Gosselin ’76 (Basic). The Mental Health Needs of Young Offenders: Forging Paths toward Reintegration and Rehabilitation edited by Carol L. Kessler ’83,’87 MD and Louis James Kraus (Cambridge). Party Competition between Unequals: Strategies and Electoral Fortunes in Western Europe by Bonnie M. Meguid ’95 (Cambridge). The Complete Idiot’s Guide to String Theory by George Musser ’88 (Alpha). Patriot Pirates: The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution by Robert H. Patton ’79 (Pantheon). Mysteries in Reality by Ira Schneider ’60 (Edition Braus). The New Pluralism: William Connolley and the Contemporary Global Condition edited by Morton Schoolman ’75 PhD and David Campbell (Duke). The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths that Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By by Scott A. Shane ’86 (Yale).
 
ALUMNI POETRY
 
Milk Glass Mermaid
by Suzanne Keen ’84, AM ’86 (Lewis Clark). Love Poems of a Philanderer’s Wife by Henny Wenkart ’49 (CYCO).  Dear Darkness by Kevin Young ’96 (Knopf).
 
FACULTY FICTION  
The Year She Disappeared
by Ann Harleman ’88 AM (Texas).
 
FACULTY NONFICTION
Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul
by Kenneth R. Miller ’70 (Viking).  

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