Fresh Ink

By The Editors / January / February 2007
February 12th, 2007

Alumni Fiction

The Only Pure Thing by Patrick Hyde '78 (Beckham).
The Underdogs by Mariano Azuelo; translated by Gustavo Pellón '75 PhD (Hackett).
To Feel Stuff by Andrea Seigel '01 (Harcourt).
20 Over 40 edited by David Galef and Beth Weinhouse '79 (Mississippi).

 

Alumni Nonfiction

The New York Times Practical Guide to Practically Everything edited by Amy D. Bernstein and Peter W. Bernstein '73 (St. Martin's).
Trust: The Secret Weapon of Effective Business Leaders by Kathy Bloomgarden '70 (St. Martin's).
American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work by Susan Cheever '65 (Simon & Schuster).
Turizm: The Russian and East European Tourist Under Capitalism and Socialism edited by Anne E. Gorsuch '82 and Diane P. Koenker (Cornell).
The Failure of Corporate Law by Kent Greenfield '84 (Chicago).
Noni, Baloney, Puddin' & Pie: From Costa Rican Kitchen to the Corners of the World by Lenny Karpman '60 (self-published).
Late Modernist American Poetry and Historical Amnesia by John Lowney '91 PhD (Iowa).
Strange Duets: Impresarios and Actresses in American Theatre, 1865-1914 by Kim Marra AM '83 (Iowa).
MamaRama: Confessions of a Badass Mother by Evelyn McDonnell '86 (Da Capo).
The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America's Underground Food Movements by Sandor Ellix Katz '85 (Chelsea Green). One Clear Call: A Father Grieves the Loss of an Only Son by David H. Murray '69 (iUniverse).
Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain: The Peasants of Galicia by Allyson Poska '87 AM (Oxford).
Whispering in the Giant's Ear: A Frontline Chronicle from Bolivia's War on Globalization by William Powers '93 (Bloomsbury).
Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection by Jessica Prentice '91 (Chelsea Green).
The Velvet Grind: Selected Essays, Interviews, Satires 1983-2005 by David Robbins '79 (JRP/Ringier).
Monkey Corner: Life on the Outside Looking In by Jerry (Rocky) Romano '58 (Publish America).
When No One Understands: Letters to a Teenager on Life, Loss, and the Hard Road to Adulthood by Brad Sachs '78 (Trumpeter).
Tables of Knowledge: Descartes in Vermeer's Studio by Harriet Stone '82 PhD (Cornell).
Other People's Property: A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America by Jason Tanz '96 (Bloomsbury).

Alumni Picture Books

Manny's Cows: The Niagara Falls Tale, written and illustrated by Suzy Becker '84 (HarperCollins).
What the Sea Saw by Stephanie St. Pierre '82; illustrated by Beverly Doyle (Peachtree).

Alumni Poetry

Supermodel by David Breskin '80 (Soft Skull).
More Wordworks by Richard Kostelanetz '62 (Talisman).

Faculty Nonfiction

Atlantic Shorelines: Natural History and Ecology by Mark D. Bertness (Princeton).
Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind by Peter D. Kramer (HarperCollins).


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