Bulletin

by Kembrew McLeod and Peter DiCola, with Kristin Thomson ’89 contributing How did the Depression-era folk-song collector Alan Lomax end up with a songwriting credit on Jay-Z’s song “Takeover”? Why doesn’t Clyde Stubblefield, the primary drummer on James Brown recordings from the late 1960s such as “Funky Drummer” and “Cold Sweat,” get paid for other…

by William C. Black ’53 Through stories of numerous historical characters, Black, a professor of surgical pathology at the University of New Mexico-Albuquerque, details the robust debate among fly-fishing devotees on the relative merits of dry vs. wet flies. The book is an in-depth examination of the history of fly-fishing, an art that stretches back…

by Henry Biernacki ’97 This “travel book” touches on more than the basics of what people do while traveling; it touches on the growth of the human spirit that occurs and what happens when the traveler returns. Niklas, a young man who travels constantly to seek new experiences and avoid the humdrumness of life, becomes…

by Meagan Frank ’97 After hitting a low point in her marriage, Frank didn’t want to be a divorce statistic, so she set out on a quest to find the tools she needed to fight to save her marriage. She embarked on an eight-year journey of contemplation, research, and eventual revelation about how modern marriage…

by Steven Hayward, CC English professor “Don’t be Afraid” is a darkly comic novel of adolescent anxiety featuring Jim Morrison — not the lead singer of The Doors who died in 1971, but a chubby 17-year-old living in Ohio. This Jim Morrison was born days after the singer’s death, and Jimmy has been living a largely…