Tasting Rome channels the city’s colors, characters and cuisine with Gill’s photography and offers recipes both contemporary and traditional, tracing particular flavors back through history.
Tasting Rome: Fresh Flavors & Forgotten Recipes from an Ancient City, KATIE PARLA and KRISTINA GILL, ’95 Clarkson Potter, $30. Roman food- cucina romana-has always been defined by its local, traditional dishes and is increasingly enhanced by modern twists. Their poetry reveals a wider awakening brought on by decades of unrest in the city. RODRIGUEZ Tía Chucha Press, $24.95. This anthology includes work from 160 poets representing the diversity of voices in Los Angeles, including both well-known and fledgling writers. As the young women dream about what the future could look like, each begins to consider what a life without the other would mean.Ĭoiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes & Shifts of Los Angeles, edited by NEELANJANA BANERJEE, DANIEL A. They’ve lived parallel lives, often too close for comfort, for 17 years. Gemini, SONYA MUKHERJEE, ’92 Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $17.99. Conjoined twins Clara and Hailey have reached the age at which most teens are preparing to break away from their families. LEVINE, MA ’77, PhD ’81, in The Lives of Frederick Douglass Harvard University Press, $29.95. “In short, the man who in the late 1830s was brutalized by Irish workers at Baltimore’s Fell’s Point had no problem in casting at least some of the blame for the poverty exacerbated by the famine on the Irish workers themselves.” SUSAN KELLY-DEWITT, Stegner fellow 1989-91, in Spider Season Cold River Press, $14.95. Kevin Young, also a former Stegner fellow (1992-94), contributes a comical critique of Rachel Dolezal’s attempt at passing for black, while Ward shares the discomfiting experience of ordering personalized genetic testing that illuminated her complex racial ancestry. Drawing inspiration from James Baldwin’s 53-year-old meditation on race, The Fire Next Time, Ward, a former Stegner fellow (2008-10), enlists 17 noted writers to share essays and poems in a ranging and nuanced exploration of the discontent with race relations in America today.
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race, edited by Jesmyn Ward, ’99, MA ’00 Scribner, $25.
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