Publications

- Nan Bauer-Maglin ’63, co-editor
  
  Final Acts: Death, Dying, and the Choices We Make
  
  Nonfiction anthology/Rutgers University, 2009
  
  Today most people die gradually, from incremental illnesses, rather than from the heart attacks or fast-moving diseases that killed earlier generations. Given this new reality, the essays in Final Acts explore how we can make informed and caring end-of-life choices for ourselves and for those we love, and the roles played by religion, custom, family, friends, caretakers, money, the medical establishment, and the government.
- Peggy Beck ’69
  
  Sweet Turnaround J
  
  Novel/Bedazzled Ink, 2009
  
  Sixteen-year-old basketball star Janey Holmes is devastated when her old school suddenly closes and she finds herself at a new school, on a basketball team that hasn't won a game in over three years. As the Riverside Ravens climb from a hopeless start to challenge the best teams in the district, Janey learns what happens when her passion for the game and loyalty to her team are threatened by her explosive temper and the free-fall desires of first love.
- Elizabeth Eslami ’00
  
  Bone Worship
  
  Novel/Pegasus, 2010
  
  A young Iranian-American woman, Jasmine Fahroodhi, struggles to understand her enigmatic Iranian father after he decides to arrange her marriage. Jasmine is confused, furious, yet intrigued, and realizes she can only understand who she is when she begins to explore her heritage. Read an excerpt in Critical Writing
- Maria Finn MFA ’95
  
  Hold Me Tight & Tango Me Home
  
  Memoir/Algonquin, 2010
  
  Finn's husband was cheating. First she threw him out. Then she cried. Then she signed up for tango lessons. It turns out that tango has a lot to teach about understanding love and loss, about learning how to follow and how to lead, and how to live with style and flair. As Finn's world begins to revolve around the friendships she makes in dance class and the milongas (social dances) she attends regularly in New York City, she discovers the fascinating culture, history, music, moves, and beauty of the Argentine tango.
- Bruce Frankel MFA ’03
  
  What Should I Do with the Rest of My Life?
  True Stories of Finding Success, Passion, and New Meaning in the Second Half of Life
  
  Nonfiction/Avery/Penguin, 2010
  
  Frankel profiles activists, artists, filmmakers, entrepreneurs, inventors, writers, and others who discovered new callings, success, and purpose in later life after living otherwise modest lives.
- Liza Ketchum ’68
  
  Newsgirl
  
  Novel/Viking Juvenile, 2009
  
  Amelia's family has arrived in San Francisco in 1851, hoping for a new life in this gold rush town. She discovers that newsboys can make a fortune selling East Coast newspapers, so she cuts her hair and dresses as a boy. Amelia's disguise gives her an exciting new freedom, but an unexpected and harrowing balloon flight drops her in the gold fields. Suddenly facing more adventure than she ever imagined, Amelia resolves that if she makes it back to her family, she'll find a way to make a living as a newsgirl.
- Barbara Kolsun ’71
  
  Fashion Law: A Guide for Designers, Fashion Executives, and Attorneys
  
  Nonfiction/Fairchild, 2009
  
  As the global fashion and apparel industry has grown to represent a $3 trillion market, a new area of law is required to help guide designers and executives through the legal quandaries peculiar to fashion. The guide provides practical working knowledge to avoid legal disputes and protect rights of fashion executives, managers, and designers.
- Joan Konner ’51
  
  You Don't Have to Be Buddhist to Know Nothing:
  An Illustrious Collection of Thoughts on Naught
  
  Nonfiction/Prometheus, 2009
  
  In this sound-bite history of the concept of nothing, Konner assembles quotes from well-known writers and philosophers, artists and musicians, geniuses and jokers, demonstrating that some of the finest minds explored, feared, confronted, experienced, and played with the real or imagined presence of Nothing in their lives. The book shows that, like many Eastern sages, deep thinkers in the West also recognized and pondered nonexistence as an essential component and complement of existence itself.
- Peter Kulsrud ’80
  
  The Fabrication of the Modern Media:
  An Investigation into the Theater and Its Impact on Public Life in Paris (1760-1835)
  
  Nonfiction-History/VDM Verlag, 2009
  
  This book investigates the development of the theatre and press in France during the revolutionary era (1760-1835), demonstrating that the construction of the modern media exercised a tempering influence on theatricality and personal expression.
- Diane Sacolick Ligon ’82
  
  Mother Goose and Her Fabulous Puppet Friends
  
  Children's Music/Diane Ligon's Puppet Theatre, 2008
  
  Ligon has recorded nine Mother Goose songs-the music from her puppet show-to share with fans. The CD won two Children's Music Web Awards, including Best New Artist for Preschoolers and Young Children.
- Connie Lovatt ’89
  
  The Dumpling: A Seasonal Guide
  
  Cookbook/William Morrow, 2009
  
  Connie Lovatt and Wai Hon Chu have compiled a wide-ranging anthology of dumpling recipes, designed to teach anyone how to be a capable and intuitive dumpling maker. The recipes include everything from layered tapioca dumplings from Thailand to cornhusk-wrapped tamales from Mexico.
- Jonathan Montgomery ’03
  
  Taxis and Shit: The MeToo Poems Volume III
  
  Poetry/Monkey Puzzle, 2009
  
  In this collection, Jonathan Montgomery offers a glimpse of the misadventures of driving a taxi.
- Kim Rosen MFA’04
  
  Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words
  
  Poetry/Hay House, 2009
  
  Weaving teaching, story, verse, and memoir, Rosen guides you to find a poem that speaks to you, take it into your life, and become a voice for its wisdom in the world.
- Nicolas Sansone ’07
  
  Shooting Angels
  
  Novel/All Things That Matter, 2009
  
  Involving a NASA space shuttle, a cosmic conspiracy, and an uncouth disembodied head that enslaves an elderly rancher and campaigns against God, a noir-style slickster with a buxom blonde wife and a taste for margaritas, this novel asks its characters to confront their ordering theories of the universe and raises questions of how we are to envision divinity in a technological age.
- Estha Weiner ’72
  
  Transfiguration Begins at Home
  
  Poetry/Tiger Bark, 2009