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Scott
Fitzgerald ’17
This side of love
A new book examine the marriage of one of Princeton’s
favorite literary sons, F. Scott Fitzgerald ’17
By Louis Jacobson ’92
Was F. Scott Fitzgerald '17 a patriarchal villain —
someone who hindered his wife Zelda's creative talents and
turned her, through his drinking, into an emotional mess?
Or was he a tender and supportive — albeit imperfect
— husband who was married to a deeply troubled woman?
A new book of correspondence between the two halves of this
celebrity couple decisively makes the latter interpretation.
Peter Kaminsky '69
Food and Fishing
Writer Peter Kaminsky '69 obsesses on both
By J.I. Merritt '66
Peter
Kaminsky '69 has long obsessed on food and fishing —
the first as far back as he can remember, the second since
an outing on a party boat in the 1970s.
Gerald Horne '70
American mercenaries in Rhodesia
Exploring diplomatic history in Zimbabwe
A review
of From The Barrel of a Gun: The United States and the
War Against Zimbabwe, 1965-1980, by Gerald Horne, (Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), 389pp.
By
Andy DeRoche '89
Lesley Carlin '95
Who's rude, and who's not?
Etiquette Girl Lesley Carlin '95 on the occasion
of her new book of manners,
Things You Need to Be Told
(And it would be highly rude to omit mention of her coauthor,
Honore McDonough Ervin.)
Why
does the world need another etiquette book?
Because, sadly, people in general are terribly, terribly rude.
Professor Perry Link
China and the modern world
Professor Perry Link talks about global terrorism
and his book The Tiananmen Papers
By
Fran Hulette
Perry
Link, professor of East Asian Studies, recently updated PAW
on the continuing reaction to The Tiananmen Papers, the book
he helped to edit. The Tiananmen Papers was published early
this year and includes classified Chinese documents concerning
the 1989 Tiananmen massacre. Professor Link also shared some
thoughts on global terrorism.
Mark
Bernstein '83
Football: Not just an Ivy League sport anymore
A new book by Mark Bernstein '83 details the
origins and history of the gridiron game
By Louis Jacobson '92
In the
cutthroat world of book publishing, it's rare for a publisher
to approach a novice author with a book idea. But that's exactly
what happened to Mark Bernstein '83.
Jane Shumate Alison '83
discusses her first novel, The Love-Artist
By Andrea
Gollin '88
Now, with
the release of her first published novel, The Love-Artist,
Alison has returned to her youthful fixation, although it's
probably more accurate to say she never fully left it.
Sina
Khajeh-Najafi '87
Fresh face on the literary scene
An offshoot of Immaterial.com, Cabinet offers the eclectic
and art
By Rob MacKay '89
Question: Buddhism, Marilyn
Monroe, using the nose to eat, elephant art, and Swedish bingo.
What do these topics have in common? Reply: Read the first
issues of Cabinet, the new quarterly magazine edited by Sina
Khajeh-Najafi '87, and the connection will be obvious.
Adam
Barr '88
Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters
What I Learned in Ten Years as a Microsoft Programmer
...Microsoft
was different from the other three newcomers. It has no computer
chip manufacturing plants like Intel, no chain of retail stores
like Home Depot, no network of phone lines like SBC Communications.
Indeed, it's not "industrial" at all. Its product
is software; its assembly line the brainpower
of its employees. And while companies across America would
naturally say their employees are vital to their success,
for Microsoft in a large sense the employees are the
company.
And that
makes Microsoft very particular about who it hires.
Dick
Purdue '50
Getting literary feet in the door
Dick Purdue '50's new Internet publishing venture seeks quality
material out of the mainstream
By Rob
MacKay '89
Dick Purdue
'50 practices -- and publishes -- what he preaches. The 73-year-old
coauthor of the personal testimonial Aging Defiantly works
as many as 60 hours/seven days a week and still finds time
to climb an Adirondack or New Hampshire mountain every other
day. So it's no wonder that after a lifetime of resenting
the large printing houses of the world, he simply started
his own Internet book publishing business in April of 2000.
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Frederick
Reiken '88
A sense of where he is
Frederick Reiken '88 talks about his new book and the writing
life
"Everything
starts with a place for me," says novelist Frederick
Reiken '88. "The place gives rise to the characters.
The characters give rise to the story. And in New Jersey,
the characters would naturally be close to the bone."
Rebecca Goldstein *77
Catching up with Rebecca Goldstein *77,
the imp of metaphysics
by Heller
McAlpin '77
Rebecca Goldstein, who received her PhD.
in philosophy from Princeton in 1977, writes fiction with
a brainy audacity. Her hallmark is to combine challenging
philosophical, mathematical, and scientific concepts with
emotionally engaging stories.
Alan
Lightman '70
Anti-modern age
Alan Lightman '70 must have swallowed hard
when he realized that this profile of him was going to appear
solely online at PAW's Web site.
A man who thinks that technology is often
abused would much prefer that an interview with him appear
on the printed page, especially since it is largely focused
on his new novel, The Diagnosis.
Alfred Glossbrenner '72
Juicy bits and literary lights
Little known facts about your favorite authors
Alfred '72 and Emily Glossbrenner, who
have been married for 26 years, frequently feel the same
way after they've read a particular book. "We often
want to know a heck of a lot more about a book's creator
than the few skimpy paragraphs that appear in the endpapers,"
Alfred says. "So we set about using our research and
Web skills to find out more."
Akhil
Sharma '92
Creating character while commuting
Investment banker Akhil Sharma's first novel examines the
world of a man who molested his daughter
By Lolly
O'Brien
First novels are generally coming-of-age
tales, but Akhil Sharma '92's first novel, The Obedient
Father (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $23), is a full-grown
story of political corruption and incest set in steamy Delhi,
India, that bears little relation to Sharma's life as a
Princeton graduate made good as an investment banker/novelist.
Wendy Kopp '89
Education reformer
Wendy Kopp '89 on her life and work
By
Maria LoBiondo
From her senior thesis, Wendy Kopp '89
developed Teach For America, the nonprofit organization
that recruits, trains, and places these teachers.
Jennifer Weiner '91
From bad boyfriend to boisterous book
Jennifer
Weiner '91 pens her first novel, Good in Bed
By
Lou Jacobson '92
Right off the bat, Publisher's Weekly gave
it a coveted "starred" review, gushing that "Weiner's
witty, original, fast-moving debut features a lovable heroine,
a solid cast, snappy dialogue and a poignant take on life's
priorities."
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