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Alumni Books of 2022

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Aggie authors covered a myriad of topics with new books in 2022. From true crime to political analyses, topics demonstrated the wide-ranging expertise of 嘿嘿视频 alumni. Check out 嘿嘿视频 Magazine鈥檚 full list for 2022.

FICTION

, M.A. 鈥74, centers her newest novel, Booth, (Penguin Random House, 2022) on the siblings of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth.

鈥00 details a possible alien abduction, combining action with family drama in his newest novel, Light Years from Home (Mira, 2022).

, M.A. 鈥09, delivers a juicy enemies-to-lovers romance about an editor, her bestselling author and one life-changing secret with By Any Other Name (G.P. Putnam鈥檚 Sons, 2022).

NONFICTION

Deborah Holt Larkin 鈥70 tells the true story of a 1958 murder and the last woman to be executed in California in A Lovely Girl: The Tragedy of Olga Duncan and the Trial of One of California鈥檚 Most Notorious Killers (Pegasus Crime, 2022).

Jeanne C. DeFazio 鈥73 offers a retrospective with The Christian World Liberation Front: The Jesus Movement's Model of Revival and Social Reform for the Postmodern Church (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2022).

With coauthor Matthew Bentley, John Bloom 鈥84 examines competing versions of manhood in The Imperial Gridiron: Manhood, Civilization, and Football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (University of Nebraska Press, 2022).

In 鈥淏eyond This Narrow Now鈥 Or, Delimitations, of W.E.B. Du Bois, Nahum Dimitri Chandler 鈥96 executes close readings of Du Bois鈥 early essays, studying his work as a philosophical writer and thinker with contemporary implications (Duke University Press, 2022).

, Ph.D. 鈥97, highlights a pioneer in early surfer culture in Surf and Rescue: George Freeth and the Birth of California Beach Culture (University of Illinois Press, 2022)

Horror movie buff and religion scholar Brandon R. Grafius, M.A. 鈥00, explores the parallels between the two subjects in Lurking Under the Surface: Horror, Religion, and the Questions that Haunt Us, and will be published by (Broadleaf Books, 2022).

Joan S.M. Meyers, M.A. 鈥01, Ph.D. 鈥09, takes an inside look at worker cooperatives to challenge some long-held views in Working Democracies: Managing Inequality in Worker Cooperatives (Cornell University Press, 2022).

Alexander Moss 鈥05 self-published A More Perfect Union (Briefs): Reimagining the United States as a European Union-Style Federation, which looks at the idea of breaking up the country into new nations and developing a plan to make it possible.

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Stacey Lee, J.D. 鈥96, updated beloved children鈥檚 story The Cricket in Times Square (Square Fish, 2022) by George Selden about a New York mouse and cat meeting a talented cricket from the country.

A new chapter book character Starla Jean by Elana K. Arnold, M.A. 鈥98, continues her story with Starla Jean Takes the Cake, in which the protagonist celebrates her sister鈥檚 first birthday (Roaring Brook Press, 2022).

Angie Li 鈥17 follows a cat鈥檚 exploration of a garden willed with magical things for her new picture book, What鈥檚 In That Garden? (Fulton Books, 2022). 

MEMOIR

Part cookbook and part memoir, Six California Kitchens (Chronicle Books, 2022) features farm-to-table recipes and stories from Sally Schmitt 鈥52, the original founder of famed Yountville restaurant The French Laundry (written with Bruce Smith).

Craig McNamara 鈥76 comes to terms with the legacy of his father, Robert McNamara, who served as John F. Kennedy鈥檚 Secretary of Defense and the architect of the Vietnam War, in Because Our Fathers Lied: A Memoir of Truth and Family, from Vietnam to Today (Little, Brown and Company, 2022).

Former cold case investigator 鈥90 has written a memoir charting his experiences on some of the country鈥檚 most notorious cases, Unmasked: My Life Solving America鈥檚 Cold Cases (Celadon Books, 2022).

SHORT STORIES

Building on his collection of works about California鈥檚 Central Valley, Ken White 鈥72, Cred. 鈥73, released fictional memoir and collection of short stories The Flatland Chronicles (2022).

Ryan Johnston 鈥06 published his first book, A Reel Job: Short Stories & Thoughts from the River (2022), a collection gathered from his work as a guide for fishing and founder of Cast Hope, a nonprofit that aims to introduce outdoor activities to at-risk kids.

, M.A. 鈥17, explores the ghosts of war and feelings of displacement in a new collection, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak And Other Stories (Viking, 2022).

ART

Artist Stephen Zaima, M.F.A. 鈥71, released a monograph Fear Not, featuring selected works from 1984 to 2021.

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