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Waiting for America in Italian
Two chapters from BC Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies Maxim D. Shrayer‘s memoir of emigration, Waiting for America, have appeared in Italian translation in a special issue of the Italian magazine eSamizdat. In Waiting for America, Shrayer writes of leaving Moscow with his family to head to a new life in America.
Disinherited majority
Thomas Piketty’s blockbuster 2014 book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, opened a new conversation not only about inequality, but about class, capitalism and social justice. In Disinherited Majority: Capital Questions-Piketty and Beyond (Routledge, 2015), BC sociologist Charles Derber shows that there are ‘two Pikettys’ – different voices of the author on the 1%, inheritance, and capitalism itself – that create a fascinating and unacknowledged hidden debate and conversation within the book. Drawing on Piketty’s discussion, Derber raises 14 ‘capital questions’ – with new perspectives on caste and class warfare, the Great Recession, the decline of the American Dream and the Occupy movement – that can guide a new conversation about the past and future of capitalism.
This Is Why I Came
Alumna Mary Rakow blends fable and theology in her new novel, This Is Why I Came (Counterpoint, 2015). The novel offers readers biblical stories reimagined by Bernadette, a lapsed Catholic who comes back to church on Good Friday after a 30-year absence. Oprah Magazine dubbed This Is Why I Came one of “16 Books To Start 2016 Right.” Rakow’s previous novel, The Memory Room, was shortlisted for the Stanford University Libraries International Saroyan Prize in Literature, a PEN USA/West Finalist in Fiction and was listed among the Best Books of the West by The Los Angeles Times. Reviews for This Is Why I Came: The Atlantic | Boston Globe | Washington Post.
Dead Letters Sent
Literary texts that address tradition and the transmission of knowledge often seem concerned less with preservation than with loss, recurrently describing scenarios of what Professor of English Kevin Ohi terms “thwarted transmission.” By exploring how transmission of a minority sexual culture is intertwined with the queer potential of literary and cultural transmission, Ohi builds a persuasive argument in his new book Dead Letters Sent: Queer Literary Transmission (University of Minnesota Press, 2105) for the relevance of queer criticism to literary study. Ohi’s book explores works by Plato, Shakespeare, Swinburne, Pater, Wilde, James and Faulkner. Ohi was a recipient of a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Bits & Specks
Communication Associate Professor of the Practice Michael C. Keith has published a new short story collection, Bits, Specks, Crumbs, Flecks (Vraeyda Literary, 2015). Some of Keith’s other titles include, Radio Cultures: The Sound Medium in American Life; Voices in the Purple Haze: Underground Radio in the Sixties; Waves of Rancor: Tuning in the Radical Right (with Robert Hilliard), The Broadcast Century and Beyond (With Robert Hilliard), The Radio Station (now Keith’s Radio Station) and Talking Radio: An Oral History of American Radio in the Television Age, among many others.
Madison’s Hand named a “book of the year”
The Legal Theory Blog, by Georgetown Law Professor Lawrence Solum, has named Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention
by BC Law Professor Mary Sarah Bilder one of its “books of the year,” calling it one of the ten most interesting books of 2015. Read more about Bilder’s book in this 9/17/15 BC Bookmarks post. Bilder discussed her book and its important findings with the Washington Post.
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Becoming Washington
In his new book Becoming George Washington (Wise Ink Creative Publishing, 2015), BC alumnus Steve Yoch tells the story of how an insecure, fatherless boy rises to become one of the country’s founding fathers. Becoming George Washington follows Washington through the French & Indian War, and explores his complex relationships with his mother and brothers. Yoch, an attorney, is working on his next book, which will be about Benedict Arnold. Read an interview with Yoch.
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