PAW BOOK CLUB
Welcome to PAW Book Club, where Princeton alumni and friends read a book together.
Here’s how it works: Four times a year, members read a book — written by an alum or faculty member — and send their questions to the Princeton Alumni Weekly. We ask the author their questions, record the interview, and post it as a podcast. With each new read, PAW randomly selects 25 members to receive a FREE signed copy of the book.
Current Read
Sweet Fury
Sash Bischoff ’09
Bischoff’s first novel plays with the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1917 — his characters, his writing style, and his experience at Princeton. The dark, twisty tale follows a celebrity actress starring in a feminist adaptation of Tender Is the Night as she begins working with a therapist. Both characters are alumni.
Author and Princeton humanities professor Joyce Carol Oates said: “Sweet Fury is a wildly imaginative, very dark romance of a kind that would have shocked F. Scott Fitzgerald, that icon of the Roaring Twenties. Filled with surprises, unpredictable in its denouement, this audacious first novel is a subversive and highly entertaining exploration of the theme of ‘romance’ itself.”
Send us your questions by April 1, 2025.
Past Book Club Reads
Explore our past interviews
‘By Any Other Name’ by Jodi Picoult ’87
‘I never set about to write this story because I wanted to take down Shakespeare. I did it because I love those plays, and I wanted to understand how they…
‘Intimacies’ by Katie Kitamura ’99
‘I don’t know that we can always be reduced to events that have happened in our past …. I’m very much interested in the way that characters behave in the…
Bianca Bosker ’08 on Cracking Open the Art World
‘How does an artwork go from being the germ of an idea in someone’s studio to this masterpiece that we obsess over in museums?’
PAW Book Club: ‘Going Infinite’ by Michael Lewis ’82
“On the witness stand, [Sam Bankman-Fried] came across as more dishonest than I’ve ever experienced him in life.”
PAW Book Club: ‘The Breakaway’ by Jennifer Weiner ’91
“Abortion is a topic that gets very polarized very, very quickly. And I think that one of the things that fiction can do is give us a level of remove…
Questions or Book recommendations?
Reach out to Liz Daugherty at ehulette@princeton.edu or Carlett Spike cspike@princeton.edu.
PAW In Print
March 2025
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