Columbia Daily Spectator Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Columbia University Players’ “Sense and Sensibility: 1976” takes a groovy spin on Jane Austen's classic Regency tale, exploring themes of grief, love, and social change. https://t.co/4VGj510kJt

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Vince Passaro, CC ’84, SoA ’88, opens his latest novel with a group of Columbia students getting high on a hill. In “Crazy Sorrow,” Passaro uses sex, lyrical prose, and Columbia’s campus in a poetic ode to pre-9/11 New York City. https://t.co/zD5H2CD0xl

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The Classical Theatre of Harlem’s production of “Twelfth Night” by William Shakespeare is running from Feb. 11 to 19. Its modern take bubbles and explodes into a vibrancy that reminds you of the unique potential for fun at the theater. https://t.co/QZ5o6stxfh

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Columbia University Players’ “Sense and Sensibility: 1976” takes a groovy spin on Jane Austen's classic Regency tale, exploring themes of grief, love, and social change. https://t.co/4VGj510kJt

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In questioning why we should consider the text “foundational” to all others and why it is so prominent in the Core, Eki Uzamere, CC ’25, argues that Homer’s “Iliad” has become “a fixed entity unable to move with the times.” https://t.co/dCo7iV8jbF

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Vince Passaro, CC ’84, SoA ’88, opens his latest novel with a group of Columbia students getting high on a hill. In “Crazy Sorrow,” Passaro uses sex, lyrical prose, and Columbia’s campus in a poetic ode to pre-9/11 New York City. https://t.co/zD5H2CD0xl

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Former Attorney General Eric Holder, CC ’73, Law ’76, spoke on Thursday about his new book, “Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote” with history and African American studies professor Frank Guridy. https://t.co/SyB4ABDFVV

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Amid 1972 Columbia demonstrations against the Vietnam War, THE SERPENT PAPERS, a novel, features ’70s counterculture, riots & murder JAN 2023 is 50th Anniversary of Paris Peace Accords "SCHNADER'S WRITING IS MULTI-SENSUAL & POWERFUL"-NY JOURNAL OF BOOKS https://t.co/xCXwAG8bI4 https://t.co/JaCVU06EpW

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The writing of Ottessa Moshfegh, BC ’02, is riddled with dissections of the human body and graphic depictions of self-induced pain. In her latest novel, “Lapvona,” Moshfegh’s affair with the grotesque takes center stage. https://t.co/XtYwP54yIT

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Susan Hartman, an adjunct associate professor at School of the Arts, talked about her book “City of Refugees” on Thursday at the Manhattanville campus. Her writing process closely mirrors what she asks of her students in her class, Writing About Communit… https://t.co/NI1AmMTaA8