Did you know that Cornell has an online book club? Check it out!<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n For more titles by Big Red authors, peruse our previous round-ups<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Have you published a book you’d like to submit? Scroll down for details!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Anthony Fauci, MD \u201966<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cExcept for a rare nod toward his family,\u201d observes Kirkus<\/em>, \u201cFauci confines himself to his professional life, delivering an illuminating, expert account of our government\u2019s encounters with infectious diseases over the past 50 years\u2014stories that involve as much politics as science.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this much-anticipated memoir<\/a>, the famed physician and public health leader<\/a> looks back on his life and long career\u2014from his Brooklyn childhood to medical school at Cornell to his nearly four decades as director of the NIH\u2019s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n There, he led the U.S. response to outbreaks from Zika to COVID\u2014and, during the latter, became a political lightning rod for opponents of pandemic-driven mask mandates and restrictions on public gatherings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf Fauci\u2019s childhood reminiscences can be stiff and dutiful,\u201d says the Washington Post<\/em>, \u201chis accounts of the health emergencies he weathered as a public servant\u2014particularly the AIDS epidemic\u2014are gripping.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nicola Yoon \u201994<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yoon is a bestselling author<\/a> of young adult fiction who has had two books adapted to the screen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Here, she switches to the adult genre in what Publishers Weekly<\/em> calls a \u201cmasterful psychological horror novel<\/a> [that] brings to bear all the claustrophobia of Rosemary\u2019s Baby<\/em> and The Stepford Wives<\/em> against the backdrop of systemic racism and police brutality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her protagonist\u2014a woman named Jasmyn who is expecting her second child\u2014moves with her family to Liberty, an affluent all-Black community in California. <\/p>\n<\/div> <\/p>\n\n\n\n While Jasmyn is in many ways relieved to be in a place devoid of societal racism, she has a creeping sense of unease about how Liberty\u2019s residents seem to lose touch with their Black identity\u2014particularly after spa treatments at the wellness center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe affection and care [Yoon] has for all her characters and the reasons that have taken them to Liberty deepen the novel\u2019s stakes and heighten its terror,\u201d says the New York Times<\/em>. \u201cYoon also reminds us, through Jasmyn\u2019s friendships and her relationship with her husband, King, of the richness and intimacy of Black culture, and underlines how much more we are than our trauma.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Richard Klein \u201962<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Klein made a splash with his 1993 book Cigarettes Are Sublime<\/em>, in which he contemplated the attractions and cultural cachet of smoking while trying to kick the habit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, the professor emeritus<\/a> of French literature has again teamed up with Duke University Press on an iconoclastic volume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is likely the first book<\/a> authored by a geological formation, in this case by the plateau of limestone on which the French city of Arles stands,\u201d notes Kirkus<\/em>. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThat, at least, is the explanation put forward by Klein \u2026 who jokingly claims that the Rock narrated the story of the town\u2019s history to him\u2014in French, which the author then transcribed and translated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n As the publisher explains, that limestone slab \u201cinfallibly remembers every moment of its existence, from the Roman conquest of Gaul to the fall of feudal aristocracy, from the domination of the Catholic Church to the present French representative democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Klein\u2019s other works include Eat Fat<\/em>, a \u201cpostmodern diet book\u201d in which he contemplates the beauty and value of corpulent bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jan Carr \u201975<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Human Ecology alum<\/a>, Carr has worked as a Head Start teacher as well as a magazine writer and children\u2019s book editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her illustrated chapter book<\/a> is the third entry in a series\u2014aimed at readers aged five to eight\u2014chronicling life in a second-grade classroom and starring kids named Buddy and Bea. The plot involves the children\u2019s obsession with animals, including the antics of a visiting dog and the telling of (possibly) tall tales about a pet cat.<\/p>\n<\/div> \u201cEnergetic black-and-white illustrations complement the cheerful tone of the narrative and capture some of the book\u2019s funniest moments to great effect,\u201d says School Library Journal<\/em>, calling the volume \u201ca welcome addition to early chapter book collections, and a surefire hit for animal lovers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pet-a-Palooza<\/em> follows the earlier entries Not Really Buddies<\/em> and Tiny Tornadoes<\/em>; a fourth, Say Cheese<\/em>, is set for September 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Lauren Mukamal Camp \u201988<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2022, Camp (who\u2019s currently the poet laureate<\/a> of New Mexico) served as Grand Canyon National Park\u2019s astronomer-in-residence, a position open not just to scientists but also to artists and conservationists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This book of poetry<\/a>\u2014the first ever published by the Grand Canyon Conservancy\u2014was inspired by Camp\u2019s experiences. It also features a foreword by the park\u2019s \u201cdark sky ranger\u201d and numerous color photos of the landscape.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n As she writes in a poem titled \u201cArena\u201d: \u201cThe sky is out again, galloping on its inherited ribbon. It\u2019s so easy \/ to stand under it: the whole pulse \/ of the world, the dead stars, clouds slinking around, thinking rain, \/ thinking landless, then giving up on that \/ and wandering slow with a thought of tomorrow.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Camp\u2019s seven previous poetry collections include Worn Smooth between Devourings<\/em>, An Eye in Each Square<\/em>, and Took House<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Michael Fontaine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A classics professor<\/a> on the Hill, Fontaine is a regular contributor<\/a> to a Princeton University Press series offering ancient wisdom for modern readers. In his latest<\/a>, he translates (from the Latin) 2,000-year-old romance tips from the Roman poet Ovid, whose suggestions range from heartfelt to humorous and downright raunchy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some of the wisdom echoes the common-sense advice you\u2019d get from your besties after a romantic reversal: staying busy, taking up a new hobby, going on vacation, and \u201cminimizing and belittling your ex\u2019s best features.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div> (Even the most broken-hearted readers, however, will likely decline another of Ovid\u2019s tips: putting your lost love out of your mind by going off to war.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n How to Get Over a Breakup<\/em> is Fontaine\u2019s fourth entry in the series, following How to Drink<\/em>, How to Tell a Joke<\/em>, and How to Grieve<\/em>. Up next: How to Have Willpower<\/em>, followed by How to Speak Freely<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To submit your book for consideration, email cornellians@cornell.edu<\/a>. Please note that to be included in our listings of new titles, books must be recently published by a conventional publisher\u2014not self published, pay-to-publish, publish on demand, or similar\u2014and be of interest to a general audience. Books not featured will be forwarded to Class Notes<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Published July 9, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n This month\u2019s feature titles include Dr. Fauci\u2019s memoir, a bestselling YA author\u2019s adult debut, and poetry inspired by the Grand Canyon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":1318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"alumni_hub_syml_posts":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[644],"tags":[],"cornell_year_post":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-37566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"the](\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/fauci-on-call-A.jpg\")
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