Putting the Carriage Before Marriage
Sociologist Kathryn Edin on poor women’s choices
Briefly Noted
Sep|Oct 2005
Local Taste
Amy Trubek Gr’95
In Praise of Vanity
Penn Reading Project pick: Franklin’s autobiography
Dark Stars in Tinseltown
The growth of Black Hollywood.
Parrish Paradise
Maxfield Parrish and the American Imagists
Killing Stories
How identity theft saved a disgraced journalist’s career.
Star Guide
Movie memoirist Frawley Becker
What’s Next?
“This is a book about land, and about how land, like us, changes over time.” An excerpt from Ghosts in the Garden.
The Heart of the Matter
Framingham study’s legacy
Just Ordinary Free Speech
Greil Marcus on “Resistance”
Briefly Noted
May|June 2005
Birth of the Baby Books
lilaguides creators Oli Mittermaier and Elysa Marco
Weight of the World
Stories by John Edgar Wideman
The Real Goods
Three alumnae offer the real goods on relationships
Briefly Noted
Mar|Apr 2005
Best-Case Scenario
Five years ago, David Borgenicht C’90 and Joshua Piven C’93 came out with a little humor book titled The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook. Since then, things have gone from worst to, well, pretty incredible.
Always on the Move
How do we live in a world where the ground beneath our feet is not fixed?
Tight Lips Sink Societies
Stifling criticism is no way to fight a war.
Briefly Noted
Jan|Feb 2005
Strange Labyrinth
Behind the gift to Penn’s library of a very rare 17th-century book lies the moving story of an alumna scholar’s groundbreaking research and untimely death.
Kulchur and Politics
Loving Ezra Pound
Briefly Noted
Nov|Dec 2004
Writing For Her Life
Stephanie Williams C’92 was determined to fulfill her ambition to write and publish a novel before cancer killed her. With some help from her friends, she succeeded.