EDITOR’S PICKS
ED GRAY ’ 67
Left in the Wind
Pegasus
The founding editor of Gray’s Sporting Journal imagines the challenges endured by residents of the Roanoke Colony as they faced down dwindling resources and warring tribes in 1587. In this fictional journal, Emme Merrimoth—one of the actual colonists— recounts the harrowing journey to the New World and the final struggles of the 118 men, women and children of the “Lost Colony.”
CHARLES WHEELAN ’88
Naked Money
W.W. Norton & Co.
The Dartmouth economics professor tackles the weird world of money in the third installment in his Naked series. With illuminating stories from Argentina, Zimbabwe, North Korea, America and China, Wheelan demystifies the curious world behind the paper in our wallets and the digits in our bank accounts.
BENJAMIN KWAKYE ’90
Scrolls of the Living Night
Cissus World Press
The award-winning poet and director of the Africa Education Initiative pens an incredible tale of good and evil in his fourth work, an epic poem replete with a wealth of characters and set in Ghana. It’s a “darkly humorous modern take on the fleeting triumph of money, corruption, deceit and evil,” according to Kirkus Reviews.
JOE WHITWORTH ’91
Quantified
Island Press
The president of conservation nonprofit Freshwater Trust draws lessons from the world’s most tech-savvy organizations to show how society can pursue similar goals of innovation and efficiency for the environment. He offers success stories of quantified conservation from his work at the trust, where he is restoring U.S. rivers.
RACHEL RICHARDSON ’01
Hundred-Year Wave
Carnegie Mellon
In her second collection of poems Richardson juxtaposes the grand quests of Melville’s Ahab with the quotidian journeys of contemporary life. Hundred-Year Wave launches stories of marriage and motherhood over the currents of a nearly mythological ancestry: people who built their possessions out of iron and flour and whalebone and wool.
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