September
10, 2004
On
the Nightstand: What MHC Faculty Read This Summer
Robin
Blaetz, associate professor of film studies:
Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer
Jennifer Haigh’s Mrs. Kimble
Mary Jo Salter’s poetry
Alan Durfee, Professor of Mathematics on the John Stewart Kennedy
Foundation:
Dave Roberts’s Escape from Lucania. Durfee explains: “He’s
one of the best writers on
mountaineering. The book is about the adventures of Brad Washburn
(former director of the Boston Science Museum) and Bob Bates
(retired English teacher at Exeter) when they made a first ascent
of the third-highest mountain in North America in the mid-1930s.”
Gina Kolata’s Flu (the story of the great influenza
pandemic of 1918)
F. H. Hinsley’s and Alan Stripp’s Code
Breakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park. Short accounts
by the people who worked in Bletchley Park, the center of English
code breaking during World War II.
Jonathan Lipman, professor of history and chair of Asian studies:
Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything
Qiu Xiaolong’s Death of a Red Heroine
Dru Gladney’s Dislocating China
Susan Scotto, senior lecturer in Russian:
David Brooks’s On Paradise Drive, “which I’m
finding immensely
amusing and also a bit frightening”
Ksenia Buksha’s The House Which We
Will Build, “a
new novel by the hot young Petersburg writer”
The Dancer from Xiva, “the autobiography of an Uzbek woman
whom I got to know last year in Russia after I bought some sweaters
from her at the clothes market and she invited my kids and me
over to her apartment for rice pilaf”
Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran, “our common
read selection, which I’m enjoying for the Nabokov references
and the parallels between postrevolutionary Iran and Soviet times”
Michelle Stephens, assistant professor of English:
Christina Garcia’s Monkey Hunting
Kate McCafferty’s Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl
Shlomo Avineri’s The Social and Political Thought of Karl
Marx
Young, Gifted, and Black, a collection of essays by Theresa Perry,
Claude Steele, and Asa Hilliard
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