Part art catalog, part art history, Stories in Stone by Stephen E. Nash ’86 offers the first comprehensive treatment of the impressive sculptures of Vasily Konovalenko, a little-known Russian artist, and features almost 300 gorgeous color photographs by Richard M. Wicker. The book was co-published by the University Press of Colorado and Denver Museum of Nature and Science, July 2016.
Liane Ellison Norman ’59 has a new book of poetry, Way Station, coming from Finishing Line Press in October 2016.
Worship Space Acoustics (Springer, 2016) by David T. Bradley ’01, associate professor of physics at Vassar College, presents the acoustical and architectural design of a wide variety of individual worship space venues. The book includes essays on topics ranging from the soundscape of worship spaces to ecclesiastical design at the turn of the 21st century as well as detailed renderings and architectural drawings, informative acoustic data graphs, and evocative descriptions of the spaces. This is Bradley’s second book.
Will Bennett ’13, a musician in Columbus, Ohio, has released his debut album, Wichita, with his band, Will Bennett & The Tells. Vinny Newton ’12 plays bass in the band. The self-released album is available for order as a limited-edition compact disc and as a digital download.
Prolific children’s book author/illustrator Caroline Scheaffer Arnold ’66 has published two series of animal board books that were rewritten for younger readers. From the habitat series: A Day and Night in the Rain Forest, A Day and Night in the Desert, A Day and Night on the Prairie, and A Day and Night in the Forest (Capstone: Picture Window Books, 2015). From the animal series: A Zebra’s World, A Panda’s World, A Polar Bear’s World, and A Penguin’s World (Capstone: Picture Window Books, 2015). Arnold also authored Living Fossils: Clues to the Past, illustrated by Andrew Plant (Charlesbridge, February 2016).
Cara Rowe Hoch ’11 has published her second Regency romance novel, A Rogue’s Revenge (Corvallis Press, 2016). It is currently available for Kindle, with the print version to follow.
Mark S. Maire ’78 won the 2015 Emergence Chapbook Series Prize for his poetry collection, Clear Day in January (Red Dragonfly Press, 2016).
Jeremy Hill ’98 argues that country music has found such expansive success because its songs and its people have forcefully addressed social and cultural issues as well as geographic change. In Country Comes to Town: The Music Industry and the Transformation of Nashville (University of Massachusetts Press, 2015), Hill demonstrates how the genre and its fans developed a flexible idea of “country,” beyond their rural roots, and how this flexibility allowed fans and music to “come to town” to move into and within urban spaces, while retaining a country “character.”
Susan Sink ’86 has published her third book of poetry, H is for Harry (North Star Press, 2016), a tightly woven collection of poems on a variety of subjects, including divorce and remarriage, the role of language and literature in life, and the ways in which language contributes to identity.
Kat Jarvis ’09, Erik Jarvis ’12, Katie In ’13, Caleb Neubauer ’13, Justin Carter, and Phill Smith make up The Plain Mosaic, a band/music collective, which is releasing an album, Heartland Shakedown, this summer. They recorded most of the album over two weekends in an Omaha, Neb., basement studio.
