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4 FALL 2011 . S T. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Christine Sarosky Hand ’79 has written
an interactive e-book, College Bound—
Proven Ways to Plan and Prepare for
Getting into the College of Your Dreams
(College-Path.com, 2010). It provides
information and techniques to make the
most of the college search and admissions
process through an interactive planning
guide with over 1,000 live links to essential
college-related resources.
By Our Faculty and Staf
Dana Professor of Ca-
nadian Studies Robert
Tacker is co-editor of
Willa Cather: AWriter’s
Worlds (University of
Nebraska Press, 2010).
Essays, including one
by Tacker, explore
the many locales and
cultures informing Cather’s fction,
particularly those in France. Te book
pairs Cather innovatively with additional
infuences—theological, aesthetic, even
gastronomical—and examines her as tour-
ist and traveler, cautiously yet assiduously
exploring a diverse range of places, ethnici-
ties and professions.
Munsil Professor of
Government Emeri-
tus Robert N. Wells
Jr., also a former may-
or of Canton, guides
readers through the
sometimes confusing,
ofen downright con-
founding halls of Al-
bany’s power structures in New York State
Government and Politics in a Nutshell: A
Citizen’s Primer (Rosedog Books, 2010).
Te state’s difculties in resolving the
issues of high government spending and
taxes are well known; determining success-
ful solutions is a central issue for residents,
and one motivation for this book.
Te varied aspects of life in the North
Country are explored in a new book of
18 essays edited by Professor of English
Robert Cowser. Why
We’re Here: New York
Essayists on Living
Upstate (Colgate Uni-
versity Press, 2010).
Contributors include
St. Lawrence English
faculty members Mary
Hussmann, Natalia
Rachel Singer and Paul Graham ’99, as well
as Trustee Marion Roach Smith ’77, Wil-
liam Bradley ’99 and Janine DeBaise ’83.
Cowser is also the author of Green
Fields: Crime, Punishment and a Boyhood
Between (University of New Orleans Press,
2010). When he was 9 years old, a frst-
grade classmate was raped and murdered,
and 21 years later the man convicted of the
crime became the frst person in 40 years
to be executed in the state of Tennessee.
Tose events, along with an examination
of all that unfolded in the interim, inform
the book.
Green Fields was named Best Non-
Fiction Memoir at the Adirondack
Literary Awards, held June 12, 2011, by
the Adirondack Center for Writing. Why
We’re Here received special mention in the
general non-fction category.
Landscapes of Capital:
Representing Time,
Space, and Globaliza-
tion in Corporate Ad-
vertising, co-authored
by Professor of Film
and Representation
Studies Stephen
Papson (Polity Press,
2011), analyzes how corporate television
advertising has shaped our collective view
of a world in transition. Its publishers
state, “Just as landscape painters of previ-
ous centuries captured and expressed new
modes of perceiving history, corporate
advertisers now devise the imagined land-
scapes of global capitalism. . . at a moment
of critical historical transition: the passage
into high-tech globalization.”
A book of poems by North Country Pub-
lic Radio Web Manager Dale Hobson
has been released by
FootHills Publishing.
A Drop of Ink is his frst
full-length collection of
poetry. In addition to a
blog, where he occasion-
ally writes about poetry,
Hobson created and
edits Books by Email, a serial presentation
of complete new and forthcoming books
by authors of the region. Previous publica-
tions include the chapbooks Nickelodeon,
Second Growth and Te Water I Carry.
Emeritus Professor of Chemistry Paul
Connett is the co-author of Te Case
Against Fluoride: How Hazardous Waste
Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the
Bad Science and Powerful Politics Tat
Keep It Tere (Chelsea Green Publish-
Piskor Professor
of English Sidney
Sondergard con-
tinues his work on
the frst complete
English translation
of short stories
by 18th-century
Chinese writer Pu
Songling with the fourth in a series of
six volumes ( Jain Publishing, 2010).
Eventually, almost 500 stories will be
published; the frst two volumes of
the set, Strange Tales fom Liaozhai,
were published in 2008, the third in
2009. According to Sondergard, the
books “continue the Chinese tradi-
tion of including black-and-white
illustrations”;
Volume Four
includes work
by Christo-
pher Peterson
’05, Sarah
Lawrence ’12
(top) and Leah
Farrar ’11 (bot-
tom).
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