UChicago Magazine Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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In "Sleeping Presidents," artist and writer John Ransom Phillips, ABʼ60, PhDʼ66, takes viewers inside the minds of (almost) every one from George Washington to Joe Biden. https://t.co/VGWP24eFhY https://t.co/4VwB0wizm8

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“Chicago is the known city,” novelist Richard Wright famously wrote. But the midland metropolis still holds a lot of secrets, according to a new book by historian John R. Schmidt, PhD’83. https://t.co/TY7Xz0jj3B

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“For me, doing right by my patient couldn’t end in the operating room.” —“Parent Nation” author and surgeon @DrDanaSuskind (shown here with her two research paw-ssistants) https://t.co/wEeWXsOPqH https://t.co/qJ8gmSlJCN

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Understanding Juneteenth: Edward T. Cotham Jr.'s (AM’76) research centers around the document at the heart of the holiday—the understatedly titled General Orders No. 3. https://t.co/iGwlsa26o8

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“You need to master the art of playing in the gray.” Sociologist @kimberlykhoang’s new book “Spiderweb Capitalism” reveals the secrets of how money moves to and from Southeast Asia. https://t.co/abfIyccEpx

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Tomi Obaro, AB’12, began writing “Dele Weds Destiny” in 2019, after her twin sister, Dami Obaro, AB’12, moved out, leaving behind her desk. “There’s something about actually having a desk,” Obaro says. “It just made it easier.” @TomiObaro https://t.co/FiwFdGDl20 https://t.co/BjnkdutCo8

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Dana Suskind has performed hundreds of cochlear implant surgeries during her medical career, but there’s another number for which she’s better known. “The title of my first book, ‘Thirty Million Words,‘ is going to be my epitaph, I’m sure,” says Suskind. https://t.co/hOoml2DyyT https://t.co/Rr1Gg5soxg

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From Spring/19: For some workers, retiring is a transition fraught with ambivalence and grief—emotions that often go ignored and undiscussed. That’s the argument of Michelle Pannor Silver’s (PhD’10) book "Retirement and Its Discontents." https://t.co/s9k6xsYbOo

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Author Sam Greenlee, EX’57, cowrote and coproduced the 1973 film adaptation of his signature novel, "The Spook Who Sat by the Door." Both the film and the novel have since become "a byword for a certain stealthy subversive energy." https://t.co/3qd5riIdVW https://t.co/fdY1M3N2O8

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Nearly a century after it was banned, Gertrude Beasley’s (AM 1918) "My First Thirty Years," a memoir of her Texas upbringing, is reaching a new generation of readers. https://t.co/PUvcjU25z6 Join the Alumni Virtual Book Club meeting tonight to learn more: https://t.co/tIZDxljTPx