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在那里找我
How Luke Russert ’08 learned to move forward.
2023年秋季
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In 2015, Luke Russert ’08 was twenty-nine years old, with an enviable broadcast journalism career. An Emmy-winning political correspondent for NBC, Russert had joined the network seven years earlier, after NBC executives saw Russert’s televised eulogy for his father, 传说中的 与媒体见面 moderator Tim Russert, and thought he was a natural on camera. 但在他职业生涯的十年里, 他感到焦虑, unsure whether journalism was his true calling or if he was just trying to uphold the family legacy.
That’s when an encounter with former House Speaker John Boehner changed his life. Boehner called Russert into his office in the US Capitol and asked him if covering politics was truly his dream. “Time’s a flat circle here,” Russert recalled Boehner telling him. “There’s always the next election, there’s always some sort of a banquet scene of lobbyists. It’s a very interesting world, but it’s one you have to make sure you really want to be a part of.”
Boehner’s words never left his mind, Russert说, and in May 2016 he quit his job to travel the world. Originally intended to last six months, his adventure instead stretched on for more than three years, 并启发了他的新回忆录 在那里找我: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself.
The book chronicles his solo odyssey to sixty-seven countries as he grappled with unprocessed grief from his father’s death, and the ways it had affected his life. Time spent alone in places including New Zealand, 日本, and Israel allowed him to slow down and sit with his uncomfortable feelings for the first time. “I think I did what a lot of young men do, which is store and ignore,” he said. “What I came to realize through travel is you may never move on, but you can certainly move forward.” 
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伊丽莎白·圣地亚哥
在她的处女作中, 圣地亚哥, a member of the Woods College faculty, tells the story of fourteen-year-old Taina Perez, who takes care of her brother and grandmother while her mother works to support the family. After Taina discovers that she is a descendant of Anacaona, 受人尊敬的领袖, 战士, and poet among the Caribbean Taino people, she learns the stories of her ancestor and develops a renewed faith in herself.
Why We Forget and How to Remember Better: The Science Behind Memory
伊丽莎白·A. 肯辛格和安德鲁. Budson
Nobody likes being called forgetful, 但在他们的新书中, 布德森和肯辛格, who is chair of the BC Psychology Department, explain why forgetting is a key function of memory, allowing insignificant details to be erased in favor of new information that could be more useful. Readers also learn about the brain’s memory storage system, and the profound influence memories have on human behavior.
Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions
朗达·弗雷德里克
Frederick, a professor of English and African & 哥伦比亚大学非洲侨民电子游戏正规平台, explores how four works of American literature—by Colson Whitehead, 芭芭拉·尼利, Nalo霍普金森, and Colin Channer—portray “fantastical blackness,” or the ability of the Black self to persevere despite society’s attempts to annihilate it. It’s an ability that Frederick argues is spectacular in and of itself.
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肖恩·史密斯
In his debut novel, Smith, the editor of 电子游戏软件纪事报, 向读者介绍赛斯, a man looking back on the bittersweet summer when he was sixteen and his newly divorced mother dragged him to a quirky camp devoted to personal growth. The two-week program proves unexpectedly enlightening, changing Seth forever and leading him to ponder what memories of our youth mean as we age.
插图:乔尔·坎摩尔
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Homegoing
作者:Yaa Gyasi
This powerful novel follows the lineages of two sisters born in eighteenth-century Ghana. After one sister is captured and enslaved in the United States, the novel traces her family’s history during the Civil War and postwar Reconstruction eras, 一直到当代. The other sister’s story provides a window into life in pre-colonial Ghana and the upheavals of British colonization. 这是一本文笔优美的书, illuminating the global linkages between Africa and the US and the family legacies that cross generations.
—劳伦韩起澜, associate professor, department of political science
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