CURRENT PUBLICATIONS

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Whitethorn

Jacqueline Osherow *90

(LSU Press) Osherow’s collection of poetry focuses on the idea that although human suffering may be irremediable, nature and language…

The Color of Night

Smartt Bell ’79

(Vintage Books) The narrator of this novel about the persistence of violence in America is Mae, a blackjack dealer in…

The Liberty Bell

Gary B. Nash ’55

(Yale University Press) Nash explores the history behind the most famous bell in the country, a symbol of liberty and…

The Letters of Sylvia Beach

Keri Walsh *09

(Columbia University Press) Founder of the Left Bank bookstore Shakespeare & Company in 1919 and first publisher of James Joyce’s…

Day for Night

Frederick Reiken ’88

(Little, Brown, and Company) This intricate novel opens in Florida with Beverly Rabinowitz, a middle-aged doctor who escaped from Poland…

The Culture of Diagram

John Bender ’62

(Stanford University Press) This book explores the terrain where words meet pictures and formulas meet figures, and foregrounds diagrams as…

A Comfortable Boy: A Memoir

Sam Pickering *70

(Mercer University Press) In this memoir Sam Pickering, who became a celebrity after being portrayed as teacher John Keating in…

Getting It

Daniel Shaviro ’78

(iUniverse.com) In this novel, Shaviro satirizes the world of large law firms, detailing the professional and personal exploits of Bill…