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S W A R T H M O R E C O L L E G E B U L L E T I N B O O K S & A R T SB o o k sJim Huang ’82 (ed.), 100 Favorite Mysteriesof the Century, The Crum Creek Press,2000. This list, selected by the IndependentMystery Booksellers Association, featurescherished books and reviews frombooksellers across the United States andCanada, with additional personal recommendationsand comments.Joan (Moffitt) Larkin ’60 (ed.), A WomanLike That: Lesbian and Bisexual Writers TellTheir Coming Out Stories, Avon Books,1999. Extending from the 1940s to thepresent day, the stories in this anthologyreveal the social mores related to the lesbianand bisexual experience in the UnitedStates during the past half-century.Susan Signe Morrison ’81, Women Pilgrimsin Late Medieval England: Private Piety asPublic Performance, Routledge, 2000. Thisbook explores the phenomenon of womenand pilgrimage in the late Middle Ages,examining the medieval perceptions ofgender and space.Stephen Nathanson ’65, Should We Consentto Be Governed? A Short Introduction toPolitical Philosophy (2nd ed.), Wadsworth/Thomas Learning, 2001. In this introductionto political philosophy, Nathansonpresents the central themes of politicalphilosophy and the views of several significantthinkers.Geoffrey Plank ’80, An Unsettled Conquest:The British Campaign Against the Peoples ofAcadia, University of Pennsylvania Press,2001. Plank gives an in-depth account ofthe removal of the Acadians, the ancestorsof the Lousiana Cajuns, and the subsequentoppression of the Mi’kmaq.Nicole (Fischer) Hahn Rafter ’62, Encyclopediaof Women and Crime, Oryx Press,2000. Criminologist Rafter provides aresource that explores the role of women asoffenders, victims, criminologists, lawyers,reformers, and workers in the criminal justicesystem.Donald Kennedy and John Riggs ’64(eds.), U.S. Policy and the Global Environment:Memos to the President, The AspenABOVE: LAWYER ALAN GORDONHAS WRITTEN JESTER LEAPS IN:A MEDIEVAL MYSTERY. RIGHT:ERIC SCHATZBERG, AUTHOR OFWINGS OF WOOD, WINGS OFMETAL, TEACHES THE HISTORY OFSCIENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OFWISCONSIN. BELOW: GEOFFREYPLANK, WHO WROTE AN UNSET-TLED CONQUEST, TEACHES AT THEUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI.Institute, 2000. This set of policy memoswas written by a group of science, business,and environment experts at the AspenInstitute as members of a hypotheticalcommittee to advise the new president onglobal environmental policy.Micheal Emery, Edwin Emery, and NancyRoberts ’76, The Press and America: AnInterpretive History of the Mass Media (9thed.), Allyn and Bacon, 2000. Roberts, aprofessor of journalism and mass communicationat the University of Minnesota,updated this comprehensive history ofjournalism—fulfilling a promise to coauthorsEdwin Emery, her doctoral advisorand colleague, and his son Michael, a professorof journalism at California State University,after their deaths.Eric Schatzberg ’79, Wings of Wood, Wingsof Metal: Culture and Technical Choice inAmerican Airplane Materials, 1914–1945,Princeton University Press, 1999. Schatzbergshows that culture and ideology helpdetermine the most basiccharacteristics of modernindustrial technologiesas well as the influenceof the military on 20thcenturytechnology.Hasia Diner, JeffreyShandler ’78, and BethWenger (eds.), Rememberingthe Lower East Side:American Jewish Reflections,Indiana UniversityPress, 2001. This collectionsof essays exploresthe dynamics of Lower East Side memory,examining the changing ways that theneighborhood has been embraced by AmericanJews over a century.Barbara Calkins Swartout ’53, BuildingCanandaigua: A Collection, Ontario CountyHistorical Society, 1997. In this work,which began as an inventory of historicstructures and neighborhoods, the authorexplores the history of Canandaigua, N.Y.Nina de Angeli Walls ’62, Art, Industry, andWomen’s Education in Philadelphia, Bergin &Garvey, 2001. This book, created becausethe traditions of Moore College of Art andDesign intrigued the author, includes chapterson “Designing Women as Students,"“Managing a Women’s Art School," and“Moore College in the Twentieth Century."Barbara Winne ’41, Singular Shadow, selfpublished,2000. In this collection ofpoems, Winne uses vivid imagery to reflecton memories and relationships fromthroughout her life.54
F i l mDavid Linde ’82, producer of Crouching Tiger, HiddenDragon, wowed moviegoers across the nation this winterwith the hit Chinese action-adventure blend ofkung fu and romanticism. At press time, CrouchingTiger, Hidden Dragon had received 10 Academy Awardnominations.Nancy Cole and Liza Xydis ’86 completed the docucomedySmall Metal Glasses, which aired on Throughthe Lens (WYBe Television, Jan. 23). The followingdescription about the award-winning film was postedon the Web site http://www.docfestival.gr/2000/stories_uk.html:“In a series of interviews with variouseyeglass-wearers as well as with two opticians who selleyewear, the film comments on the issues of medicalnecessity, superficial accessory, [and] the judgementswe make based on appearances.”DAVID LINDE, WHO PRODUCED CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDENDRAGON (RIGHT), IS A NATIVE OREGONIAN WHO SPENT TWOFORMATIVE YEARS BEFORE SWARTHMORE IN EUROPEAN BOARD-ING SCHOOLS, WHERE HE ACQUIRED LANGUAGE SKILLS THATHAVE CONTINUED TO BE USEFUL IN HIS CAREER.CHAN KAM CHUENM u s i cMeghan Hayes ’93, who suggested expanding this section to“Books & Arts" (see box on call for submissions), opened for CapitolRecords recording artist Amy Correia at the Tin Angel inPhiladelphia on Feb. 2. Hayes’ CD, Snow on the Waves, releasedin September, explores her travels through the United Statesand the Czech Republic as well as themes of love and fear. Aftergraduating, she supported her music by teaching in Brno,Czech Republic, and then working for consumer advocate RalphNader, who led Hayes to an accidental singing appearance onNational Public Radio’s E-Town. In addition to writing, singing,and playing acoustic guitar for the 12 tracks of folk, rock, alternativecountry, and melodic pop songs, Hayes produced therecording with David McKittrick.MEGHAN HAYES STARTED WRITING SONGS BEFORE ATTENDING SWARTHMORE,WHERE SHE FIRST PERFORMED LIVE. SHE HAS PLAYED IN CLUBS AND COFFEE-HOUSES IN THE MID-ATLANTIC, NORTHEAST, AND WASHINGTON, D.C., AREAS ATVENUES LIKE THE BLACK CAT, LUNA PARK GRILLE, IOTA, AND CAFFE.KATHRYN SMITHPatrick Runkle ’98 released his first CD, After the Fall, with the“80s-style synthpop” duo Ganymede. As reported in the LancasterNew Era, Ganymede evokes a spacey, other-worldly moodand is on the racks at independent music stores in California.Electroage describes it as “Addictive-like Elegant Machinery,cheerful-like Cosmicity, and pleasurable-like early Anything Box;Ganymede brilliantly plays in the old-school synthpop fieldwithout a sense of déjà-vu.” TM A R C H 2 0 0 155
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