Mark Rotella’s ’92 latest work Amore tells the story behind Italian American performers and their songs from the 1940s and 1950s. Rotella’s 2003 book Stolen Figs and Other Stories from Calabria is a travelogue about modern-day Calabria, the region at the southernmost tip of the Italian peninsula. In it Rotella recounts his experience of discovering his ancestral home. Mark Rotella is currently a senior editor at Publishers Weekly.
Learn more about Rotella on his website.
Bonnie Lee Black ’79 joined the Peace Corps at the age of 50, after having been a writer/editor and chef/caterer in New York City for nearly a decade. She recently wrote a memoir about her work in Africa, How to Cook a Crocodile. Black now teaches English and creative nonfiction writing at the University of New Mexico–Taos.
Read more about Black's book on the Peace Corps website.
Donald N. S. Unger ’88 recently published Men Can: The Changing Image & Reality of Fatherhood in America. He tells the stories of a half dozen American families in which fathers are either primary caregivers or equally sharing parents. Donald currently teaches in the Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies at MIT and writes about the representation of men, masculinity, and fatherhood in popular culture.
Learn more about Unger's book on the Temple University Press website.
