new media
Summer 2013
Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories
by Sherman Alexie ’94 :: Grove Press :: John Streamas
Fiction
Most writers’ volumes of “new and selected” stories add only two or three new pieces to twenty or thirty old ones. More than half of Sherman Alexie’s Blasphemy is new, however, including a few lengthy stories. The success of Alexie’s teen novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian seems to have invigorated his short stories, and readers who regard them as his best work will be delighted by this new book. To be sure, this is not for very young readers, though the re...Read more
Chicago, Barcelona Connections
by Greg Duncan ’98 :: New Origins Records :: Eric Sorensen
Music
The Latin-themed recording is one of the great subgenres of jazz, going back at least as far as Duke Ellington’s “Caravan” and running through the likes of Dizzy Gillespie’s “Manteca” and the Getz/Gilberto collaboration that brought “Girl from Ipanema” to hi-fi consoles across the land. Greg Duncan is stepping up with his own contribution, marshaling an Illinois Arts Council grant and Kickstarter funding to bring us an exploration of flamenco borne from the Chicago-ba...Read more
New & Noteworthy
by Various authors :: ::
Veterinary medicine, History, Earth sciences
Planet Rock Doc: Nuggets from Explorations of the Natural World WSU Press, 2012 The Whole Story of Climate: What Science Reveals about the Nature of Endless Change Prometheus Books, 2012 by E. Kirsten Peters The Harvard-trained geologist, columnist, and WSU employee compiles her syndicated science columns in a peripatetic, curiosity-fueled volume in Planet Rock Doc, and applies her knowledge of geological systems to climate change throughout Earth’s history in The Whole Story of Clima...Read more
We Are the Bus
by James McKean ’68, ’74 :: Texas Review Press :: Hannelore Sudermann
Poetry
This small book of poetry plays on themes of reminiscence, travel, and the bliss of simple things like being a boy with a Racket Box full of fireworks. This collection of 42 poems won the 2011 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize. In it McKean transports us to some lovely places. Fishing on the Sandy River, climbing up to the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, floating on Puget Sound in a boat of hand-sawn cedar planks, even into his first car, a ’56 Buick. The title poem is about a bus...Read more
WSU Cougars from A to Z
by Carla Nellis ’90 :: Green Beanie Books :: Larry Clark ’94
WSU history, Children's books
Young future Cougars and current fans of the University will enjoy this volume of WSU facts, stories, and profiles put together in an alphabetical “A is for…” format and illustrated with full-page watercolors. Nellis, a 1990 communications graduate, dug through WSU’s history to tell the tales of “F for Ferdinand’s,” “G for Go Cougs!,” “N for Neva Abelson,” and so on. The book covers a lot of ground in the life of the WSU, from traditions to athletics to faculty ...Read more