Did a grizzly bear kill Melody Applegate? Or was it something else stalking the remote edge of Yellowstone National Park? Kathleen Snow ’65 reveals the secrets in her new mystery novel, Searching for Bear Eyes: A Yellowstone Park Mystery (University of Montana Press, 2016).
Melissa Musick Nussbaum ’74 and her daughter, Anna Keating, bring new light to traditions that have been lost through the years and reveal how Catholics can keep the spirit of Sunday in every day with their book, The Catholic Catalogue: A Field Guide to the Daily Acts That Make Up a Catholic Life (Penguin Random House, 2016).
Mike Kleine ’11 published his first play, a one-act titled The Mystery of the Seventeen Pilot Fish with Plays Inverse, 2016. He also released his third book, Kanley Stubrick (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2016), a character study.
André Darlington ’98 and his sister Tenaya Darlington freely admit that they are not bartenders, but both have written about food and drink for years. When they’re together, they gravitate to a cocktail venue. One night they got the idea to drink their way through history together and started meeting online — they live 900 miles apart — with shakers for long-distance happy hour. The New Cocktail Hour: The Essential Guide to Hand-Crafted Drinks (Running Press, 2016) is the result of their project.
Jeremy “Sequoia” Nagamatsu ’04 has published his first book, Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone (Black Lawrence Press, 2016). “The Return to Monsterland” opens the collection of genre-bending stories inspired by Japanese folklore and pop culture. Demons with marital problems, orientations for neophyte ghosts, the twilight years of legendary heroes, and a dance party in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo populate these pages. Every story turns to the fantastic, the mysticism of the past, and the absurdities of the future to illuminate the spaces we occupy in times of uncertainty.
Walt Giersbach ’61 published his short story, “Test of English as a Foreign Language,” in the January 2016 issue of Mulberry Fork Review. His two volumes of short stories, Cruising the Green of Second Avenue (Wild Child Publishing, 2014), are also available at online retailers.
Susan Coop Street ’64 opened a new art gallery, The HQ Gallery in the Arsenal, in her hometown of Benicia, Calif., in early May. Works from 18 artists, including herself, will be shown regularly. The gallery is a place where artists who may not have another venue to show their art can exhibit their works. It’s also a place where more established talent like Nikki Basch-Davis and Lee Wilder Snider will exhibit.
Cornell University Press is scheduled to release Kenton Clymer ’65’s new book, A Delicate Relationship: The United States and Burma/Myanmar since 1945, in November 2015.
Thomas V. Smith ’70 self-published American Nomad: Hitch-hiking in the Sixties, Infinity Publishing, 2015.
Jin Feng, professor of Chinese, will research her book, Food Nostalgia in the Lower Yangzi Delta, during her 2015–16 sabbatical. Her project will explore the tension between China’s drive toward modernization and its increasing turn toward cultural conservatism by studying the representations and reinventions of culinary traditions in the lower Yangzi delta. She has been awarded a scholar grant from the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange for this project.
