Classmate Norman Zamcheck is still jammin’ and creating new music. For those of you who enjoyed his performance at the 50th Reunion Concert (which you can watch and listen to here) But if you want to hear his latest work (including the work of Mat Kastner, also a classmate), check out these tracks: Bride of…
Update: Bicknell recently presented his Alcott Family research to the Ticknor Society and the Grolier Club. Here is the link to the recording: of the Zoominar.
“Now, in Rainmaker, Norton draws back the curtain on his meteoric rise and abrupt fall. With never-before-told stories and exclusive insights, he discusses what it was like being Tiger Wood’s first agent, his time representing the narcissistic Greg Norman, and shining a bright light on his sudden—and controversial—ouster as the head of IMG’s Golf Division—a juggernaut he helped build. This is an engaging and unforgettable memoir that explores golf as never before.”
The Council of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) has voted to award Eugene Linden The Louis J. Battan Author’s Award for his 11th book, Fire and Flood: A People’s History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present. A previous work on climate change, Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civllizations, won the Grantham Prize’s Award of Special Merit.
A former senior writer for TIME Magazine, where he wrote about nature, science, and …
Michael Folz and wife Maureen have been working and re-working some of their songs using some of the newer recording and engineering technology. And it’s mind-blowing … well, more ear-blowing. Compare, for example “Right Through My Heart” from 2015 vs. the revision of the same song they created a couple months ago, The 2015 version…
Matt Flynn’s newest book differs from his series on Bernie Weber, math genius. His new thriller is set closer to home, namely, Matt’s experience as a court clerk on the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago. He hastens to add that the scenes in the book about cheating with an attractive Asian co-clerk are pure fiction. 😉
Plot Summary: In The Court of Last Resort, Federal Judge Adam Willow, a former Marine commando, demands perfect justice. Some defendants …
Note: In 2012 I gave a talk to a group of Yale undergrads who gathered at the Yale War Memorial on Beinecke Plaza — about how liberal education, especially at elite institutions such as Yale, finesses but sometimes clarifies the difference between self-censorship that’s prompted by fear of a state, of corporate employers, and of other authorities versus a kind of self-censorship that’s prompted by the seductions of power, i.e., by calculating that …
Increasingly, classmates are creating really interesting essays, music, paintings, presentations, playlists, plays, podcasts and other creations we are calling “Works” (as in “works of art”).
Coupled with the existing categories of Op-Eds and Books, this website can serve as a display case where classmates can share their “Works” with classmates. Hopefully, the viewers, readers, listeners, etc. will give some feedback in the comments.
Editor’s Note: Jamie wanted to share his appreciation of some medical mentors and his regimen for optimizing his metabolic health.
The metabolic health which I am now blessed to enjoy by the grace of God is the consequence of my extremely careful following of the guidance of Dr. Andreas […]
