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HOT TYPE: New releases by Swarthmoreans

F. Harlan Flint ’52

From There to Eternity: Alzheimer’s and Beyond
Sunstone Press

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This is the story of the end-of-life journeys of two dissimilar but treasured people: Flint’s wife, Chris, and his friend Baudelio, the last of a long line of pioneers who found a home in the high country of northern New Mexico. The story has its final act for Chris and Baudelio at close to the same time but in far different ways: hers from the anguish of Alzheimer’s, his from a slow decline after a lifetime of hard work.

Jeremy Mack ’59

Phantoms of the Hotel Meurice: A Guide to the Holocaust in Paris
Tandem Lane Editions

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Though World War II occurred more than 70 years ago, mourning for the loss of national self-esteem in France is hardly essayed. Silence on the defeat, the collaboration, and the knowing participation of the French government in the extermination of 73,000 Jews living in the country is deafening in Paris. Mack examines this phenomenon and offers some ideas as to its origin and continuation.

Steven Riskind ’65

Art | Commerce: Four Artisan Businesses Grow in an Old New Jersey Industrial City
Steve Riskind Photography

Over a period of eight years, Riskind photographed four small businesses in or near Paterson, N.J.: a specialty textile firm, a jewelry manufacturer, a pipe organ builder, and a stained glass studio. Accompanied by introductory essays based on interviews with the owners, Riskind’s images capture the intensity of skilled artisans engaging with the materials they use, caught in the process of creation.

Margery Post Abbott ’67 and Carl Abbott ’66

Quakerism: The Basics
Routledge

In this primer, the Abbotts offer an accessible and engaging introduction to the history and diverse ideas associated with the Religious Society of Friends. With helpful features including suggested readings, timelines, a glossary, and a guide to Quakers in fiction, the book is an ideal starting point for students and scholars new to Quakerism, as well as those interested in deepening their understanding.

Eleanor Morse ’68

Margreete’s Harbor
St. Martin’s Press

Margreete’s Harbor is the story of 10 years in the history of a family, a tale of small moments, intimate betrayals, arrivals, and disappearances that coincide with America during the late 1950s through the turbulent 1960s. Attuned to the seasons of nature, the internal dynamics of a family, and a nation torn by its contradictory ideals, this literary novel reveals the largest meanings in the smallest and most secret moments of life.

Jeffrey Haydu ’75

Upsetting Food: Three Eras of Food Protest in the United States
Temple University Press

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Battle lines have long been drawn over how food is produced, what food is made available and to whom, and how best to protect consumers from risky or unhealthy food. In Upsetting Food, Haydu resurrects the history of food reform and protest, showing how activists defined food problems, articulated solutions, and mobilized for change, while considering how each movement reflected the politics, inequalities, and gender relations of its time.

Peter Cohan ’79

Goliath Strikes Back
Apress

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Capturing the e-commerce edge in customer growth and retention has been a decades-long battle between online startups and traditional retailers. The two face different sets of challenges that are constantly evolving in our digital world. By looking at how they are facing off, Goliath Strikes Back aims to help executives gauge the landscape to create an effective strategy in the modern e-commerce realm.

Diane Wilder ’83

Leap Thirty
June Road Press

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Across 30 poems in this visceral debut collection, Wilder recasts midlife as a second coming of age: a time of new vulnerabilities and strengths, of breakdown and renewal, of constraint and release. In the process, she lands on sources of affirmation — in being a parent, in becoming comfortable with one’s body, in letting go, in claiming new kinds of agency.

Pamela Haag ’88

Revise: The Scholar-Writer’s Essential Guide to Tweaking, Editing, and Perfecting Your Manuscript
Yale University Press

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Writing and revision are two different skills. Many scholar-writers have learned something about how to write, but not all of them know how to revise their own writing, spot editorial issues, and transform a draft from passable to great. Drawing on before-and-after examples from more than a decade as a developmental editor of scholarly works, Haag tackles the most common challenges of scholarly writing, offering practical, user-friendly advice written with warmth, humor, sympathy, and flair.

Jenna Tiitsman Supp-Montgomerie ’99

When the Medium Was the Mission: The Atlantic Telegraph and the Religious Origins of Network Culture
NYU Press

While the advent of a telegraph cable crossing the Atlantic Ocean was viewed much the way the internet is today, religious framing dominated the interpretation of the technology’s possibilities. With lively historical sources and an accessible engagement with critical theory, When the Medium Was the Mission tells the story of how connection was made into the fundamental promise of networks, illuminating the power of public Protestantism in the first network imaginaries.

Erica Turner ’99

Suddenly Diverse: How School Districts Manage Race and Inequality
University of Chicago Press

This ethnographic account focuses on two school districts in the Midwest as they respond to rapidly changing demographics at their schools. While suggesting some ways forward, Suddenly Diverse shows that, without changes to managerial policies and practices and larger transformations to the whole system, even school leaders’ best efforts will continue to undermine the promise of educational equity and the realization of more robust public schools.

Rhiannon Graybill ’06, ed.

“Who Knows What We’d Make of It, If We Ever Got Our Hands on It?” The Bible and Margaret Atwood
Gorgias Press

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In the nightstands of hotel rooms, kept under lock and key, in the poetry of a pre-apocalyptic environmental cult, and quoted by children, atheists, and murderers alike — the Bible is omnipresent in the work of Margaret Atwood. This volume, co-edited by Graybill and Peter Sabo, assembles cutting-edge literary and critical readings of Atwood and the Bible, employing a variety of theoretical approaches to explore both the ancient and modern corpus of texts in dialogue with each other.

Krys Malcolm Belc ’09

The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood
Counterpoint

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For Belc, a nonbinary, transmasculine parent, giving birth to his son Samson clarified his gender identity. And yet, when his partner, Anna ’07, adopted Samson, the legal documents listed Belc as “the natural mother of the child.” In this memoir, Belc moves past societal expectations to take control of his own narrative, with prose that delights in the intimate dailiness of family life and explores how much we can ever really know when we enter into parenting.

Molly Fennig ’20

Starvation
Immortal Works

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Wes McCoy is not the favorite child. He does not have a wrestling scholarship to Stanford, nor does he live up to the family legacy as an athlete, unlike his brother, Jason. But when Jason dies in a car accident, Wes turns to food for a control over his life he didn’t have before. Wes must confront his eating disorder as he learns more about himself and the mystery surrounding Jason’s accident, before he loses his life and those closest to him.
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