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Q&A: New Book Probes Powerhouse Family of College Presidents
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How College Presidents Succeed examines three men in the Reveley family — including two Princeton alumni
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Culinary Podcaster Maggie Hoffman ’04 Knows What’s for Dinner
‘I wanted to make it very real in our discussion of how sometimes cooking is hard and sometimes also cooking can make life feel less hard’
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Laura Clarke ’11 Offers Books to Inspire Children’s Moral Imaginations
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Poet Gordon Walmsley ’71 Found His Voice in Denmark
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Sociologist Allison Daminger ’12 Researched Mental Workload in Family Life
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In What’s on Her Mind, Daminger shows women take on the majority of cognitive labor at home
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Todd Purdum ’82 Penned a Biography of Television Visionary Desi Arnaz
‘The biggest takeaway from Desi’s story for me is that talent in our country comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and sometimes in the most unlikely packages’
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The President’s Bookshelf: Two Selections for This Fall
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Books for the Perpetually Curious
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Andrew Hui *09 Studies the Study
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In The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries, Hui examines the origins and the ambivalent nature of personal spaces devoted to books
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‘Tomorrow Will Be Worse’
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Julia Ioffe ’05 explains Russia’s depressing history through its women, and the warning signs for America
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‘Garden State’ Writer John Hennessy ’87 Recommends Poetry
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Giri Nathan ’13 Captures a New Tennis Rivalry
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Some say it’s too early to elevate Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, but the co-founder of Defector Media disagrees
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Achille Tenkiang ’17 Founds Baldwin Institute to Foster Creative Resistance
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The organization uses James Baldwin’s literature to engage youth in thoughtful conversations on literature and race
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Lauren Ling Brown ’12 Sets a Thriller at a Princeton Eating Club
‘Some Princeton students have reached out saying that they really identified with the characters, especially multiracial young women, and that meant so much to me’
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Morgan Jerkins ’14 Explores Love Across Generations in New Novel
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Bates College Professor Therí A. Pickens ’05 Recommends Poetry
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Allison Light ’18 Finds a Career in Audiobooks
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‘I’m trying to combine the things that I know and the things that I love,’ Light says
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Will Bardenwerper ’98 Chronicles a Baseball Rebirth
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Bardenwerper’s new book is Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America
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Rob Kutner ’94 Recommends Books on Humor
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For those who could use a laugh, Kutner’s latest is The Jews: 5,000 Years and Counting
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Ambika Vora-Nagino ’15 Penned a Fantasy Series
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‘Writing this book became more of a catharsis and an escape from a corporate job that did get very stressful’
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On Shakespeare, Jodi Picoult ’87 Just Doesn’t Buy It
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‘When I started to learn more about Emilia Bassano, I couldn’t believe how seamlessly her life plugged in all of the question marks and gaps that exist in Shakespeare’s’
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Cassandra James ’23 Recommends Romantasy Novels
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James graduated from Princeton with a book deal for Capitana, a romance/fantasy novel she wrote during her junior year
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‘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...
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Michelle Lerner ’93 Turns From Law to Writing
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‘If I had really had the wherewithal and given myself permission earlier, I could have done it earlier,’ Lerner says