Serious Satire
The satiric science fiction of James Morrow C’69.
Technology and Art Converge in Storyville
Alumni create online home for fiction in Storyville.
On with the Show!
A new book examines the remarkable history of the American musical theater.
Briefly Noted
May|June 2011
Jennifer Egan C’85 takes home the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction (updated: and the Pulitzer)
The award statement calls A Visit From the Goon Squad “a novel at once experimental in form and crystal clear in the overlapping stories it delivers, offering us a sense of youth and what gets lost along the way.”
Grief, Unstaged
Ruth Davis Konigsberg C’90 on The Truth about Grief.
Speak, Pain
A physician who has looked at pain from both sides examines the language we use to describe it.
Briefly Noted
Mar|Apr 2011
A Shelf Full of Resolutions
Five Penn authors offer challenges and inspiration to readers seeking better self-control, wiser conversations, age-appropriate outfits, meaningful reading, and wholesome eating.
Briefly Noted
Jan|Feb 2011
More Light
“I think that what is changing about my writing is my willingness to go darker so that I can come out with more light,” says memoirist and fiction writer Beth Kephart C’82. In her new novel, set in Philadelphia during the Centennial, a young woman contemplates suicide following the accidental death of her twin.
The Wounded Wore Aftershave
One day in a doctor’s life at the 399th Combat Support Hospital in Iraq.
Golf Instructor, Grandfather, President
A grandson’s memories of Eisenhower in retirement.
Kelly Writers House Expands Online Book Groups
Latest online discussion groups from Kelly Writers House.
Museums and Their Meanings
Conn asks Conn, Do Museums Still Need Objects?
Moscow Noir
Martin Cruz Smith’s venerable Russian detective investigates dark crimes and class tensions.
Down to Zeroes
Randall Lane C’90 wrote the book on Wall Street insanity.
To Flush or Not to Flush
Penn Reading Project’s The Big Necessity makes excrement interesting.
Speak Softly, and Carry a Big Bat
A hard-hitting history of horsehide diplomacy.
Après Roland, le Déluge
Beyond Bovary. One Hundred Great French Books.
Briefly Noted
Sept|Oct 2010
Stuart Gibbs C’91 makes his fiction debut with Belly Up
Q&A with the author.
The Unusual Suspects
A new book celebrates the sketchy offspring of Penn’s macabre master.