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Chris Hoffman ’65, ecopsychologist,
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poet, retired organization development consultant, and licensed professional counselor, has had his classic on ecopsychology and spirituality published in a 20th anniversary edition, revised and expanded. The Hoop and the Tree: A Compass for Finding a Deeper Relationship With All Life (Council Oak Books) is about the deep structure of psychological and spiritual wholeness that helps us lead lives of balance and fulfillment. Joseph Bruchac, Nulhegan Abenaki Nation, author of Our Stories Remember and the bestselling Keepers of the Earth series, says: “I admire the gentle simplicity of this book, the way it endeavors to connect us back through the power of story and the healing strength of nature—to the rootedness that so much of the modern world has lost. In our Native traditions, we speak of seven generations, how our deeds will affect those who come long after us. A deep understanding of that responsibility is at the heart of The Hoop and the Tree.” More information is available at hoopandtree.org.
won an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series” for the new HBO Max comedydrama series Hacks. He shared the award with writing partners Jen Statsky and Lucia Aniello; the trio created the show, which premiered on May 13.
Dr. John Stibravy ’68 has written Counseling Sudden Cardiac Arrest Survivors (edited by Tony Smith, Ph.D. and Becky Gringas, D.P.A.). The book was written by a survivor and includes reviews of numerous research studies on delusions, depression, insomnia, childhood trauma, anxiety, anger, burnout, low selfesteem, and nightmares, all relative to sudden cardiac arrest.
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Dr. Bess Rowen ’05, Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre at Villanova University, has written The Lines Between the Lines: How Stage Directions Affect Embodiment (University of Michigan Press), the first major theoretical study of stage directions; the book is a reworking of her dissertation. “While stage directions do cover entrances, exits, and other positions on stage, I am more interested in stage directions that discuss a character’s thoughts or the motivations for what they’re doing,” she says. “These lines have often been ignored by actors and directors, who see them as signs of the performances and interpretations from actors and directors before them. Some of this is true, but there are also examples of playwrights who are using these stage directions as unspoken lines between the lines of dialogue, hence my book’s title.” Dr. Rowen became interested in stage directions when she ended up being the stage manager of Lehigh University’s
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