EDITOR'S PICKS
DAVID K. SHIPLER ’64
Freedom of Speech
Knopf
The Pulitzer Prize-winner investigates the limits on both expression and the willingness to listen—and how they expose troubling instabilities in the foundations of democracy. “His probing exploration…reminds us how America’s robust free-speech culture encourages citizens to talk, rather than shoot, issues out,” ac- cording to Publisher’s Weekly.
SUSAN C. BALL '80
Voices in the Band
ILR Press
An AIDS doctor since 1992, Ball shares personal experiences from two distinct periods in the history of the epidemic: the terrifying early years in which a diagnosis was a death sentence, and the introduc- tion of antiviral therapies that trans- formed AIDS into a chronic, though potentially manageable, disease.
DANI KLEIN MODISETT ’84
Take My Spouse, Please
Trumpeter
Klein Modisett draws on the rules of comedy to lay out 15 axioms of marriage and life—such as Rule 8: One bad set doesn’t mean it’s time to quit. She uses lively anecdotes and information gleaned from interviews with comedians and marriage coun- selors to offer a map for navigating marriage through rough patches.
HEIDIJULAVITS '90
The Folded Clock
Doubleday
After finding the diaries of her young self, Julavits was inspired to chronicle her daily life as a 40-something woman, wife, mother and writer. The “witty, sly, inven- tive” result is a diary “in the way that Thomas De Quincey’s Confes- sions of an English Opium Eater is a confession, or that Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year is a journal,” wrote The New York Times.
JENNIFER CARLSON '04
Citizen-Protectors
Oxford University Press
Carlson examines why millions of Americans choose to carry guns as part of their everyday lives. Drawing on her experiences participating in firearms training classes and car- rying a handgun, the sociologist shows how, against a backdrop of economic insecurity and social in- stability, carrying a gun becomes a means of being a good citizen.
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