Shelf Life

NOTABLE NEW BOOKS BY ALUMNI

Novelist William Hiortsberg '62, dubbed a "satanic S.J. Perelman" by New York Times critic John Leonard, offers his seventh book of fiction in Odd Comers (Shoemaker & Hoard), a collection of science fiction tales.

Peter Hutchinson 71, founder of Public Strategies Group in St. Paul, Minnesota, and former commissioner of finance in Minnesota, describes a new approach to budgeting in The Price of Government: Getting theResults We Need in an Age of PermanentFiscal Crisis (Basic Books).

Business writer Nicholas Carr '81 explains information technology's dramatically changing business role in Does IT Matter? Information Technologyand the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage (Harvard Business School Press).

Allison Lynn '91,winner of the William Faulkner Medal for Best Novel-in- Progress, offers a haunting tale about a husbands attempt to unravel the mystery of his wife's disappearance in her first novel, Now You See It (Touchstone Books).

Comedian and actress Aisha Tyler '92 shares insights from her life in Swerve: Reckless Observations of a Postmodern Girl (Dutton).

Tim Brooks '64, former president of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, tells the stories of musicians who first brought to America the sounds of African-American culture in Lost Sounds: Blacks and theBirth of the Recording Industry (University of Illinois Press).

Stephen Jenkins '68, biology professor at the University of Nevada in Reno, describes how scientists answer questions in How Science Works:Evaluating Evidence in Biology and Medicine (Oxford Press).

Robert Reich '68, former Clinton administration Labor Secretary, issues a call to arms against the "Radcons," radical conservatives who combine aggressive neoconservative foreign policy with an insistence on interfering with private morality, in Reason:Why Liberals Will Win the Battle forAmerica (Knopf).

David Shribman '76, executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, teams up with former Dartmouth sports information director Jack DeGange in Dartmouth College Football: Green Fieldsof Autumn (Arcadia).

Eric Dezenhall '84 rips open the slats of the Atlantic City boardwalk in his latest mystery novel, Shakedown Beach (St. Martins).

New York journalist JonathanRasenberger '85 pays tribute to Big Apple ironworkers in High Steel: TheDaring Men Who Built the World'sGreatest Skyline (HarperCollins).

Jacqueline Reich '87, associate professor of Italian and comparative literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, gives a new perspective on Italian masculinity in Beyond the Latin Lover Marcello Mastroianni, Masculinity andItalian Cinema (Indiana University Press).