High Noon in the ‘hood
Penn sociologist Elijah Anderson writes about life at "ground zero," in the inner city's most blighted areas. In this excerpt from his new book, a reformed drug-dealer turned small-businessman attempts to take back a neighborhood corner from his successor in the drug trade.
Raise your bottom line
Raise your bottom line. Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People.
The Dirty Little Secret About Bathing
Dr. Barney Kenet CGS’84
Great Expectations
Rebecca Crane Matthias CW’75
Off the Shelf
Briefly Noted | Recent books by alumni and faculty.
New Chapter in Alumni Education
The Writers House Virtual Book Groups
In the Valley of the Shadow of Death 101
Two instructors and 14 students took a literary tour of duty through our bloody century.
Freshmen to Visit Copenhagen
Freshmen will read the play Copenhagen this summer
An Angler’s Autobiography
Simple pleasures, minor tragedies, lessons for living.
Murder, She Writ: A Conversation with Lisa Scottoline
Lisa Scottoline C’77 L’81
Paris is for Pooches
Michael Malyszko C’73 and Judith Hughes CW’73
Landmark Studies
Lewis Mumford's 1930s New Yorker "Sky Line" columns.
Feasts Fit for a Writer
Craig Boreth C'91
Back to the Future
What's in a Web? Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace.
Mysteries of the Deep
Sunken treasures. Imagining Atlantis and The Search for the Giant Squid.
Where Does Beauty Lie — In the Eyes of the Employer?
Steven Jeffes, G'87
Making Good Books Possible
Remembering Jerre Mangione
Talking Around Love
A poetry collection examines the emotion from multiple angles.
The Best on the Greatest
The greatest of our time. The Muhammad Ali Reader.
Side effects. Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs.
Reflections of a Couple of Book Prize Judges
An insider's view of the passions, politics, and personalities involved in, well, singling out literary merit.
Rising, Falling, Hanging On
Less in common than meets the eye. Tempest Rising and Pride.
Have You Heard the One About the Traveling Book-Salesman?
Sample books cast light on 19th-century bookselling
News That’s Stayed News
A sampling, from Daniel Defoe to Norman Mailer and beyond.
The Other Side of Aesop
Robert and Olivia Temple