"To be up all night in the darkness of your youth but to be ready for
the day to come...that was what going to Brown felt like." --Jeffrey
EugenidesIn celebration of Brown University's 250th anniversary, fifty
remarkable, prizewinning writers and artists who went to Brown provide
unique stories--many published for the first time--about their
adventures on College Hill. Funny, poignant, subversive, and nostalgic,
the essays, comics, and poems in this collection paint a vivid picture
of college life, from the 1950s to the present, at one of America's most
interesting universities. Contributors: Donald Antrim, Robert Arellano,
M. Charles Bakst, Amy DuBois Barnett, Lisa Birnbach, Kate Bornstein,
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Mary Caponegro, Susan Cheever, Brian Christian,
Pamela Constable, Nicole Cooley, Dana Cowin, Spencer R. Crew, Edwidge
Danticat, Dilip D'Souza, David Ebershoff, Jeffrey Eugenides, Richard
Foreman, Amity Gaige, Robin Green, Andrew Sean Greer, Christina Haag,
Joan Hilty, A.J. Jacobs, Sean Kelly, David Klinghoffer, Jincy Willett
Kornhauser, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, David Levithan, Mara Liasson, Lois
Lowry, Ira C. Magaziner, Madeline Miller, Christine Montross, Rick
Moody, Jonathan Mooney, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Dawn Raffel, Bill
Reynolds, Marilynne Robinson, Sarah Ruhl, Ariel Sabar, Joanna Scott,
Jeff Shesol, David Shields, Krista Tippett, Alfred Uhry, Afaa Michael
Weaver, and Meg Wolitzer "At Brown, we felt safely ensconced in a
carefree, counterculture cocoon--free to criticize the university
president, join a strike by cafeteria workers, break china laughing, or
kiss the sky." --Pamela Constable
