Bulletin

by J.L. Austgen ’02 Austgen believes “perfect characters are boring,” and the main character in his debut novel is far from perfect. FBI agent Evelyn Morgan’s job is to find the original sources of funding for a terrorist cell operating in a suburb of Washington, D.C. When the cell is lost and agents start dying,…

by Nancy Saltzman ’74 “I’m sorry. There were no survivors.” Nancy Saltzman tried to absorb the caller’s words. Her entire family had perished in a small-plane crash. The caller was wrong, though. There was a survivor — Saltzman. She had beaten cancer twice, and the book chronicles her journey through despair and how having a…

by Kaleb Rittenhouse ’09 “The God Within” is a collection of short stories and poems regarding the divinity within humans and the struggle to transcend mortality. Says Rittenhouse, “Even since before I could read or write I was a writer. I am a writer and I will always be a writer no matter what else…

by Kitty Kroger ’66 In this love story set against the backdrop of radical politics in 1970s New Jersey, Jenny belongs to a Maoist collective which sends its members into factories to organize the proletariat. At her workplace, Jenny falls for Miguel, a Dominican immigrant and revolutionary. Jenny is torn by misgivings about the politics…

by Mary Lowry ’97 Everything looks perfect in 14-year-old Rhonda’s world, but in actuality, the only reliable person in her life is the Mexican yardman, Jesús. When he is deported, Rhonda seizes an opportunity to find her friend by swimming to the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. When a peyote-addled bartender in the border…

edited and translated by Diane Rayor ’80 Rayor, who was awarded an honorary degree from CC in 2010, is a classics professor at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. Sophocles’ Antigone comes alive in this new translation that has been called “accurate yet accessible,” and helps bring to life the play’s inherent theatricality. Rayor provides…