Our roundup of noteworthy publications by Wesleyan alumni, faculty members, and parents.

MICHAEL LOBEL ’90

Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art

(Yale University Press, 2002)

In this richly illustrated new study, Lobel offers provocative new interpretations of Lichtenstein’s paintings of the 1960s and their relationship to the Pop Art movement. The book makes available for the first time a selection of archival materials about the artist and his work. The author elucidates some of the central concerns of Lichtenstein’s creations—the status of painting, the artist’s investment in studio practice, the possibility of expressing an artistic identity, and the relationship between a work of art and mechanical reproduction. The study should prove appealing to anyone interested in modern American art.

—David Low ’76

RICK BAROT ’92

The Darker Fall

(Sarabande Books, 2002)

Barot’s first book of poems is wise and lovely. To read these poems is to be taken by the hand and gently led into the world and all of its uncertainties. Barot sees things as they are, and calls things as he sees them; each poem is a catalog and a compass of desire. This is a book to be treasured for its clarity of vision, and the precision and musicality of its language.

—Suzanna Tamminen ’90, Editor–inchief, Wesleyan University Press

FICTION AND POETRY

MAUD CASEY ’91

Drastic

(William Morrow, 2002)

STAN HART ’52

Conquering Son

(AmErica House, 2002)

FRANCIS W. LOVETT ’45

Six Colors for a Champion

(1st Books Library, 2002)

NORMAN R. SHAPIRO, Professor of romance languages and literatures, translator

Lyrics of the French Renaissance: Marot, Du Bellay, Ronsard

(Yale University Press, 2002)

LEMONY SNICKET

(A.K.A. DANIEL HANDLER ’92)

Carnivorous Carnival—A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 9 and Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography

(HarperCollins Juvenile Books, 2002)

JOYCE VON DOHLEN SIDMAN ’78

Eureka! Poems About Inventors

(Millbrook Press, 2002)

AYELET WALDMAN ’86

A Playdate with Death

(Berkley Prime Crime, 2002)

NONFICTION

BRITT BAILEY and MARC LAPPE ’64

Engineering the Farm: Ethical and Social Aspects of Agricultural Biotechnology

(Island Press, 2002)

JOHN COLLINS ’90 and ROSS GLOVER, coeditors

Collateral Language: A User’s Guide to America’s New War

(New York University Press, 2002)

RICHARD C. FRIEDMAN, MD, P ’05 and JENNIFER DOWNEY

Sexual Orientation and Psychoanalysis: Sexual Science and Clinical Practice

(Columbia University Press, 2002)

ALEXANDER LABON HINTON ’85

Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide

(University of California Press, 2002)

ANDREW J. KIRKENDALL ’80

Class Mates: Male Student Culture and the Making of a Political Class in Nineteenth–Century Brazil

(University of Nebraska Press, 2002)

GEORGE JUSTICE ’86

The Manufacturers of Literature: Writing and the Literary Marketplace in Eighteenth–Century England

(University of Delaware Press, 2002)

CHARLES LANDESMAN ’54

Skepticism: The Central Issues

(Blackwell, 2002)

NELSON MOE ’84

The View from Vesuvius: Italian Culture and the Southern Question

(University of California Press, 2002)

RENEE ROSE SHIELD P ’99

Diamond Stories: Enduring Change on 47th Street

(Cornell University Press, 2002)

MARK SLOBIIN, professor of music, editor

American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots

(University of California Press, 2002)

REBECCA J. TANNEBAUM ’84

The Healer’s Calling: Women and Medicine in Early New England

(Cornell University Press, 2002)

RICHARD WHITELEY ’62

The Corporate Shaman: A Business Fable

(HarperCollins, 2002)

WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

DENNIS G. WARING ’82

Manufacturing the Muse: Estey Organs and Consumer Culture in Victorian America

Waring tells the story of the reed organ, a centerpiece in American parlors, churches, and gathering places for nearly a century. He also examines the life and legacy of New England organ entrepreneur Jacob Estey, whose industrial standardization of instrument manufacture strongly affected Victorian popular culture and musical taste.