Class Note 1997
Issue
May - Jun 2017
Two classmates are making their mark in the world of publishing.
Congratulations to Ulrich Boser on his third book, Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business, and School, or, How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything. Ulrich posits that learning is a skill, showing how techniques like self-questioning and thinking about thinking can create much deeper levels of understanding. As part of his reporting, Ulrich took basketball lessons from a former Harlem Globetrotter, spent time with the country’s foremost emergency room doctor and profiled the man who used some of the recent learning research to dominate the game show Jeopardy.
Publisher’s Weekly called Ulrich’s book “engaging” and “thought-provoking,” noting that the “work infuses a sense of fresh excitement and accessibility into a topic sometimes considered stodgy or overly cerebral. Readers will be left craving something new to learn.” A Korean translation of the book is in the works.
Ulrich is a senior fellow at the Washington think-tank Center for American Progress. A former contributing editor for U.S. News & World Report, Ulrich isthe author of The Leap: The Science of Trust and Why It Matters and The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Theft. His work has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and two daughters.
Congratulations also to Susan Barba on the publication of her debut collection of poetry, Fair Sun, which explores the importance of connection, both with other human beings and with the natural world. Robert Pinsky, one of America’s leading poet-critics, wrote that Susan “has perfected her poet’s gift for thinking in images, moving with efficient grace.”
Susan, who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a senior editor for The New York Review of Books. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry, The Yale Review, The Harvard Review, The Antioch Review, The Hudson Review and Poetry Daily. She has published book reviews in The Boston Review and translations from Armenian in Words Without Borders and Ararat. Susan participated in Consenses, a multi-genre, interactive art installation which opened in West Tisbury, Massachusetts, and is now touring the country. She recently received a MacDowell Colony Fellowship in poetry.
For more information about Fair Sun, go to www.godine.com/book/fair-sun.
Take care and keep sending your news.
—Jason Casell, 10106 Balmforth Lane, Houston, TX 77096; jhcasell@gmail.com
Congratulations to Ulrich Boser on his third book, Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business, and School, or, How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything. Ulrich posits that learning is a skill, showing how techniques like self-questioning and thinking about thinking can create much deeper levels of understanding. As part of his reporting, Ulrich took basketball lessons from a former Harlem Globetrotter, spent time with the country’s foremost emergency room doctor and profiled the man who used some of the recent learning research to dominate the game show Jeopardy.
Publisher’s Weekly called Ulrich’s book “engaging” and “thought-provoking,” noting that the “work infuses a sense of fresh excitement and accessibility into a topic sometimes considered stodgy or overly cerebral. Readers will be left craving something new to learn.” A Korean translation of the book is in the works.
Ulrich is a senior fellow at the Washington think-tank Center for American Progress. A former contributing editor for U.S. News & World Report, Ulrich isthe author of The Leap: The Science of Trust and Why It Matters and The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Theft. His work has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and two daughters.
Congratulations also to Susan Barba on the publication of her debut collection of poetry, Fair Sun, which explores the importance of connection, both with other human beings and with the natural world. Robert Pinsky, one of America’s leading poet-critics, wrote that Susan “has perfected her poet’s gift for thinking in images, moving with efficient grace.”
Susan, who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a senior editor for The New York Review of Books. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry, The Yale Review, The Harvard Review, The Antioch Review, The Hudson Review and Poetry Daily. She has published book reviews in The Boston Review and translations from Armenian in Words Without Borders and Ararat. Susan participated in Consenses, a multi-genre, interactive art installation which opened in West Tisbury, Massachusetts, and is now touring the country. She recently received a MacDowell Colony Fellowship in poetry.
For more information about Fair Sun, go to www.godine.com/book/fair-sun.
Take care and keep sending your news.
—Jason Casell, 10106 Balmforth Lane, Houston, TX 77096; jhcasell@gmail.com