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Former congressman John Monagan '33 recounts his conversations with author Anthony Powell in The Masterand The Congressman (Anthony Powell Society).
Everything-attitudes, politics, culture—changes as the United States copes with a shattering national tragedy in Fool Me Once (Pacific Slope Press):, a novel by Bill Pieper '61.
Ray Welch '61 spent 40 years in advertising, a career he plumbs in Copywriter:A Lifeof Making Ads and Other Mistakes (Hot House Press).
Roger Simon '64 delivers his latest Moses Wine detective novel, Director's Cut (Atria Books), a hilarious, dark thriller set in the movie world.
Frederick Schauer '67 Tu'68, a professor at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, analyzes whether we can justly generalize about member of a group on the basis of statistical tendencies in Profiles, Probabilities and Stereotypes (Belknap). Psychotherapist Hilary Hoge '76 shares her insights in Women's Storks of Divorce atChildbirth:When the Baby Rocks the Cradle (Haworth Press).
Creating Web Graphics,Audio & Video (Prentice Hall) by Michael Mosher '77 covers the creative, technical and business issues associated with Web media.
Rick Beyer '78 offers an historical delight—such as the fact that the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock because they ran out of beer—and a visual feast with hundreds of photographs, drawings and maps in The Greatest Stories Never Told: 100Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder andStupefy (Harper Collins).
Omar Khan '80 spent years researching photography for From Kashmir to Kabul:The Photographs of John Burke and WilliamBaker, 1860-1900 (Prestel/Mapin).
Nancy Kricorian '82 follows her critically acclaimed Zahelle with a story of a young American woman whose half-Jewish, half-Armenian heritage propels her into a series of journeys in Dreams of Bread and Fire (Grove Press)."
Former New York Times journalist Christopher S. Wren '57 offers an account of his saunter into retirement in Walking to Vermont:From Times Square into the GreenMountains (Simon & Schuster). In her first novel; The Boy on theBus (The Free Press), Deborah Schupak '84 writes about a mother who sends her child off to school one day and gets Back a boy who appears and acts differently.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Shipler '64 presents a portrait of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty in The Working PoorInvisible in America (Knopf).
Valerie Block '85 turns her sharp ear and eye on New York personalities in her humorous novel, None of Your Business (Ballantine Books).
Tyler Hoffman '88, director of the American studies program at Rutgers, argues Robert Frost happily disregarded his own pronouncements of poetic form and sense in Robert Frost and the Politics ofPoetry (University Press of New England).
Bennett Schwartz '88, associate professor of psychology at Florida International University, explores the intersection of cognitive science, psycholinguistics and human memory in Tip-of-the-tongue States:Phenomenology, Mechanism and Lexical Retrieval (Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers).
Gina Barreca '79. feminism and women's humor professor at the University of Connecticut, confronts myths and stereotypes in I'm with Stupid: One Man. OneWoman. 10,000 Years of Misunderstanding Between the SexesCleared Right Up (Simon & Schuster).
Options trader Jonathon Lubow '89 gives a background on options and futuresplus his favorite strategies under a range of market conditions - in Optios On Futures: New Trading Strategies (John Wiley and Sons).
