Books

Editor’s Note: New book by classmate Matt Flynn:

Confessions Of A Church Lawyer: In Defense Of Christianity

In this compelling book, the author, who served as legal counsel for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee during a tumultuous period of sexual abuse claims, delves into three critical missions.

First, they unveil the unvarnished truth behind the abuse cases, shedding light on the profound …

Robert Horvitz worked as editor/translator on a beautiful book that was recently published, An Older and More Beautiful Belgrade: A Visual Chronicle of the Milosevic Era. It was named one of the best books of 2023 by Barnes and Noble.

Click through to see a superb summary of the book and get your copy of the book, which Robert has generously provided to those interested.

Richard Selzer continues his prolific run with his latest novel, We First Met in Ithaca, or Was It Eden?

It is available on Amazon, Booklocker, Target and GoodReads.   Here is the “blurb” about the book:

Elle and Oz, strangers ready to restart their lives, meet by chance and flirtatiously swap stories in a dark abandoned house. They soon sense that …

Matt Flynn (Stiles ’69) announced the release of China Code, the second in his series of novels about Bernie Weber, a math genius at the University of Wisconsin.  (The first, Milwaukee Jihad was reviewed here last year.)

From the blurb:

      A team of Chinese Communist assassins comes to America to kill a young Math genius and …

Classmate Bill Sacco’s  The Caribbean Coral Reef: A Record of an Ecosystem Under Threat  debuts this month with over 200 pages and hundreds of stunning images.

A simpler 48-page book aimed at middle & high school students now needs a publisher or other distribution partner. Do you know anyone who might help?

Click thru to see samples, context, some luscious underwater images and even a downloadable pdf-gift for you!

Another classmate becomes a published author, this time at the ripe old age of 75! Check out Daniel Duke’s Man Camp, available directly from Amazon or other sources.  

“Society today is obsessed with identity–gender, race, religion, political persuasion, and so on. So what does it mean, in this charged atmosphere, to be a man?”

Will someone write a review? If so, just add it in the comments!

November saw the release of Richard Seltzer’s newest book, Grandad Jokes: 3000 Jokes on Trump and Other Nonsense.

Available online for only $3 as a PDF book, you can download your copy right now!
It has a few that probably qualify as simple “dad jokes” (aka, groaners): What did Zorro and the Lone Ranger have […]

Editor’s Note: This is Matt Flynn’s third novel in the series of spy thrillers starring a  brilliant mathematician and lots of Yale connections.  (See our reviews of the prior two books here.)

This one skewers the Wisconsin political elite, which Matt knows well from his stint as Chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party and his unsuccessful runs for Governor and Congress.  Matt would appreciate your support by buying the book.
 

Classmate Richard Steltzer extends his string of well-received fiction with the March 4th release of To Gether Tales..   No, that’s not a typo. Read more to see the explanation for the title and the prescient reflections on/in/about the current pandemic.

Editor’s Note: This is a book review in the LA Review of Books, where classmate Jeff Wheelwright reviews a book about “mystery illnesses.” Given his recent battle with his own mystery illness (see “Patient, Heal Thyself“) and his background as a medical journalist, Jeff’s review of these famous cases was especially poignant.

Elsewhere Than Vietnam, a historical novel-cum-memoir by classmate David Schwartz, is a fictionalized account of his experience as an Army language specialist and interrogator for military intelligence.

As both a novel and a memoir, Elsewhere takes us to places where Dave served and wandered, from the Army’s language school in California to Munich and even to an Israeli kibbutz.