Fol­low­ing his sci-fi novel Deep Past (2019), au­thor Eu­gene Lin­den has picked up where he left off with Res­ur­rect­ing Bart (2025). The idea for the for­mer book, he told The Hud­son In­de­pen­dent, grew out of a pon­der­ance: “If nat­ural se­lec­tion could pro­duce hu­man scale in­tel­li­gence in just sev­eral hun­dred thou­sand years – the blink of an eye on a ge­o­log­i­cal scale – who’s to say other highly in­tel­li­gent crea­tures haven’t come and gone over the past mil­lions of years.”

Our prolific classmate, Richard Selzer, has done It again – by publishing his newest book, One Family.  This one is very different from his other books, many of which have been profiled in these pages.  This is not a novel; it’s an exploration, a meditation on the nature of human connectedness.

The book starts with a mind-blowing thought experiment (and proof) that, if you have European ancestry, it’s likely that you are related to every other person with European ancestry on Earth today.  We are indeed … ONE FAMILY. 

Richard also makes a generous gift at the end of the article — access to a free copy of the book!

Per his 50th Reunion Essay, Marty Cohen retired in 2015 with six goals, two of which were to publish works in process and create new ones. 

He’s made good on at least one of those goals by publishing Stone Seeds, which Amazon describes thusly: “Stone Seeds is about paying attention to the connections between people and places, poetry and birds, songs and silence, spirituality and the material world.

Marty has been publishing poetry and essays on literature and the arts in periodicals and anthologies since 1970. Stone Seeds brings together the best of his work since A Traveller’s Alphabet (1979).

In this post, Marty makes a generous offer to classmates and shares some personal news, too – read more.