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This
Place
on Third Avenue
by John McNulty ’17
This Place
on Third Avenue (Counterpoint) is a collection of short stories by
John McNulty ’17. Included in the volume are previously unpublished stories,
a memoir by McNulty’s widow, Faith, and photographs by Morris Engel.
From 1937 until his death in 1956, McNulty wrote profiles, stories and vignettes
for The New Yorker, specializing in the raconteurs and marginal characters
of New York’s saloons, race tracks and dance halls. In his day, McNulty was lauded
by James Thurber, E.B. White, Red Smith and Ogden Nash,
who wrote, “It was a happy day for American letters when McNulty crossed Lexington
Avenue and took his ear along.”
Commenting
on this new book, Frank McCourt writes, “‘This Place on Third Avenue’ is
a gift of a book, long overdue. When you read McNulty you’ll think, perhaps,
of Joseph Mitchell and Damon Runyon … McNulty shows us that wherever
you look, there’s a story.”
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The
Other American
by Maurice Isserman
The
Other American (Public Affairs), by Maurice Isserman, is the biography of
author, educator and social activist, the late E. Michael Harrington ’47. Harrington’s
book, The Other America, is often cited as the seminal work that ignited
the Johnson administration’s War on Poverty. Isserman, professor of history and
chair of the Program in American Studies at Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y.,
recounts Harrington’s life, from his St. Louis childhood to his days at Holy
Cross, through his involvement with the Catholic Worker Party and his rise to
prominence in the New Left
movement of the 1960s.
The
book has received rave reviews in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington
Post, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation and The Boston
Globe. The New Republic has called the book, “compulsively readable ... one
of the best biographies of an American leftist that we have.” And
the Chicago Tribune calls it “provocative ... compelling ... fascinating.”
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Rethinking
Rape
by Ann J. Cahill ’91
Ann J. Cahill ’91 is the author of Rethinking Rape (Cornell
University Press), which applies current feminist theory to
an urgent political and ethical issue. Cahill takes an original
approach by reading the subject of rape through the work of
such recent feminist thinkers as Luce Irigaray, Elizabeth Grosz
and Judith Butler, who “understand the body as fluid and indeterminate,
a site for the negotiation of power and resistance.”
Commenting
on the book, Marilyn Frye, professor and associate chair
of the department of philosophy at Michigan State University,
writes, “Up to date and respectful
of ‘second wave’ theories, rich with both reminders and new questions,
Cahill’s discussions are accessible and provocative to theorists and activists
of all the waves.”
Cahill
is an assistant professor of philosophy at Elon College in North Carolina.
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Anamnesis
as Dangerous Memory
by Bruce T. Morrill,
S.J., ’81
Anamnesis
as Dangerous Memory (The Liturgical Press), by Bruce T. Morrill, S.J., ’81,
explores the political theology of Johann Baptist Metz to discover injustice
and the challenge and hope it poses to those who join in solidarity with the
oppressed, and the work of liturgical theologian Alexander Schmemann, to elaborate
on how, in its unique keeping of time, the liturgy reveals the kingdom of God
and empowers believers thus to witness to it. The meeting of these two compelling
theologies results in a rich eschatology: life shaped by the vision of a future
that fulfills the promises of the past.
In
reviewing the book, Theology Today says, “Morrill has a provocative way
with words, and a parish liturgy director or social justice committee member
would find that the book opens new horizons, and provides new vocabulary, for
their mutual dialogue. It is a mark of good writing to keep a book of such scholarship
accessible to a wider audience.”
Bruce
T. Morrill, S.J., ’81 is assistant professor of systematic theology at Boston
College, specializing in liturgical and sacramental theology. He is contributing
editor of Liturgy and the Moral Self: Humanity at Full
Stretch Before God and Bodies of Worship: Explorations in Theory
and Practice (The Liturgical Press).
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These books are available
from the Holy Cross Bookstore. Phone: (508) 793-3609.
e-mail: erice@holycross.edu.
If you mention that you read about these titles in
Holy Cross Magazine, the bookstore will offer free shipping!
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