Though many students think professors retreat to a hole in the Earth after class, many of them actually spend their time publishing interesting and time worthy books. To make your lives a little easier, we hand-selected a few of the most exciting professor works coming out this fall.
For the offbeat bookworm:
“Games and Stunts” by Professor Albert Mobilio is the it book to show off this fall in the Lang Courtyard while sipping organic fair-trade coffee.
Professor Mobilio said he was inspired by the language of an old book of directions for parlor games and experiments with the dictatorial tone of those words in “Games and Stunts”, a book of short fiction. Much of the writing for this book was done at the highly exclusive MacDowell Artists Colony in New Hampshire, which has hosted many other accomplished writers such as Willa Cather, James Baldwin and E.L. Doctorow.
The Brooklyn Rail published an assortment of excerpts from the book which you can read here.
The book will be available for sale sometime during the fall.
For the aspiring psychologist:
“Inside Ethics: On the Demands of Moral Thought” by Professor Alice Crary is the perfect companion to take to a café (the author favors Think Café, if you needed a suggestion) for a mug of green tea.
The book, which takes a deep look into the psychology of humans and animals, was written by Professor Crary from The New School for Social Research both here in New York and in Berlin with support from the Humboldt Foundation. Professor Crary was inspired by her ongoing conversations and friendship with philosopher Cora Diamond, as well as her reading of, “a number of animal activists and activists for cognitively disabled human beings.”
Available now on Amazon.
For the astute social activist:
“Assassin of Youth: A Kaleidoscopic History of Harry J. Anslinger’s War on Drugs” by Professor Alexandra Chasin, who teaches Creative Nonfiction at Lang, is the perfect book to read from at a protest or rally.
According to the author, her book would be enjoyed by “anyone interested in creative nonfiction, epistemology (the theory of knowledge), drug law and policy, speculative history, 19th and 20th century U.S. culture, prohibitionism, biography, experimental writing and Harry J. Anslinger.”
She started the book in Geneva in 2002 and picked it back up in New York back in 2012. During her writing process, she was inspired by Dutch, a biography of Ronald Reagan by Edmund Morris, as well as a film by Isaac Julien called Looking for Langston.
Available now on Amazon.
For a reader who likes their fun served with wisdom:
“The Ape is Dead!” by Professor Nkosi Bandele, a first year writing instructor at Lang, will amuse and grant insight that pairs well with a mocha to “rationalize [any] chocolate habit.”
Written under “a summer’s worth of sunrises at an unremarkable South Beach beachside café,” Professor Bandele crafted his novel with “the irrepressible need to tell the essential truth, no matter how bad it makes [him] look.” If you’re looking to laugh and learn with a book this fall, look no further than Professor Bandele’s “The Ape is dead!”.
Available now on Amazon.
Bonus: Fall alumnus release.
“Sweetbitter” by Stephanie Danler, a New School alum, is an “instant national bestseller,” according to Amazon, and was inspired by her experience working at a café in Union Square Park while attending The New School’s Creative Writing MFA program.
It’s received rave reviews from the New York Times. Show your New School pride while reading this bestseller in the very place it’s set: Union Square Park.
Available now on Amazon, and in store at Barnes and Noble.