This July, Cambridge University Press published my latest book, a history of record keeping in Europe from 1400-1700. Indirectly inspired by the digital revolution, it looks at how changes in making, keeping and using documents helped support the rise of modern societies and politics. Meanwhile, I’m just back from the Canary Islands, where I served […]
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Katie Harmon Courage ’01
My latest book, Cultured: How Ancient Foods Can Feed the Microbiome, was published this February by Avery/Penguin Random House. Just a few months before the book’s arrival, my husband, Dave, and I welcomed our first baby–and are beyond grateful to have had Carina Fisher nearby for support! Katie Harmon Courage CdeP 2001
Jim Levy ’58
Jim has published three new books: a memoir with his partner Phaedra Greenwood, called Those Were the Days: Life and Love in 1970s New Mexico; Seen From A Distance, poems from 2017-18; and Of All the Stars, the Evening Star: Real and Fictional Latin Women Poets. Jim Levy CdeP 1958 Jim’s books on Amazon
Randolph Head ’74
After working on it for nearly 20 years, my new research monograph on the history of archives and the growth of the state in Europe from 1400 to 1700 is finally sitting in front of me as proofs. The book will be out by late summer, and will doubtless have an enormous audience in the […]
Clint Wilson ’83
I haven’t submitted much here over the years because I was waiting until I actually did something worthwhile lol, and that took some time! But over the winter I wrote a book on investing – mostly for my young adult kids, but some of you might find it useful too if you’re into stocks. Not […]
Jim Levy ’58
Jim Levy has two books coming out in May. Seen from a Distance is a book of poetry about art, love, sex, poetry, animals, and death. Those were the Days is a memoir co-authored with his partner Phaedra Greenwood about life and love in northern New Mexico in the 1970s. The picture is Phaedra Greenwood, […]
1982
MIKE VOEVODSKY reporting in for the class, has the following update. TOM SAIDY; still in DC, Saids says his girls are now in high school and dealing with all those joys. A new lab puppy is soon to join the family; labrador of course. Tom, put your good shoes out of reach. MARIAN “MUFFET” HUNTINGTON […]
Peter Dunne ’81
I got to hang out with fellow CdeP 1981 members Mariana Schwartz Smith, Marci Dabbs, Dianna Marguleas, Owen Bly and Alex Calhoun while listening to our classmate Glen Gold read from his new book in the same room that has seen the likes of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Krassner, Timothy Leary and Jack Kerouac. Pretty cool. Peter Dunne CdeP 1981
Glen Gold ’81
Knopf published my memoir I WILL BE COMPLETE. There’s a Thacher component. Thacher has saved a lot of kids; it saved me. Here’s the hype I should be ashamed of, but secretly embrace: www.glendavidgold.com Buy it from your newly-revitalized local independent bookstore. www.indiebound.org/book/9781101946398 Glen Gold CdeP 1981
Lynn White ’59
Lynn has just published a book on the “Rural Roots of Reform before China’s Conservative Change*, available in either hardcover or paperback. Routledge, the publisher, offers this link at which the full text may be viewed by anyone for a few weeks. The book is dedicated to my students and teachers, including those whom I […]