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The cover of "If the Song Doesn't Work. Change the Dress," which depicts sketches of women in colorful dresses.
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Issue  SPRING 2025
Section  New Works

What’s the latest? We’d like to list your recently released books, albums, plays, or podcasts in the magazine. Please send updates about new works to Catherine O’Neill Grace at cgrace@wellesley.edu. For books or albums, please mail one copy to her at Wellesley magazine, 106 Central St., Wellesley, MA 02481.

Shukri R. Abdi ’01, Chris Bruno, and David Howard Lee—Stranded (comedy audiobook), Audible Originals

Sarah Ahmed ’05 (writing as Zerina Usmen)—The Caliphate (science fiction screenplay), Coverfly

Hope Costin Andersen ’77MotherLove (fiction), PipeVine Press

Jocelyn Benson ’99The Purposeful Warrior: Standing Up for What’s Right When the Stakes Are High (memoir), Open Field/Penguin Life

Patrice Caldwell ’15Where Shadows Meet (fiction), Wednesday Books

Cassindy Chao ’90Ancient Wisdom Modern Love: Chinese Wisdom for Dating Success (nonfiction), Stone Monkey Publishing

Molly Colvin ’98, Jennifer Linton Reesman, and Tannahill Glen—Neurodevelopment in the Post-Pandemic World: The Altered Trajectory of Children’s Education, Mental Health, and Brain Development (nonfiction), Oxford University Press

Jill Eicher ’78Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Secretaries at War (nonfiction), Pegasus Books

Barbara Elfman ’05Andrew H. Brown, Favorite Citizen (children’s fiction), Elfworks Books

Kweilin Ellingrud ’99, Lareina Yee, and Maria del Mar Martinez—The Broken Rung: When the Career Ladder Breaks for Women—and How They Can Succeed in Spite of It (nonfiction), Harvard Business Review Press

Melanie Forde ’70Guardian of the Crossroads (fiction), Mountain Lake Press

Jasmine Guillory ’97Flirting Lessons (fiction), Berkley

Lida Maxwell ’99Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love (nonfiction), Stanford University Press

Jacqueline Marie Musacchio ’89The Art and Life of Francesca Alexander (nonfiction), Lund Humphries

Jennifer Phillips ’73Wrestling with the Angel: Poems of Spiritual Exploration (poetry), Wipf & Stock Publishers

Julia Romano ’11The Odyssey: A Comedy, Mostly (play), Eldridge Plays and Musicals

Marty Ross-Dolen ’88Always Here, Always Gone (memoir), She Writes Press

Elizabeth Shim ’99North Korea’s Nuclear Cinema: Simulation and Neoliberal Politics in the Two Koreas (nonfiction), Bloomsbury Academic

J.E. Smyth ’99Mary C. McCall Jr.: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood’s Most Powerful Screenwriter (nonfiction), Columbia University Press

Anne Thiel Thayer ’79Thomas Swalwell: A Monastic Life in Books (nonfiction), Brill

Adrienne Tien ’798 Waves (music album), Cattjacket

Patricia Zipprodt ’46 with Arnold Wengrow—If the Song Doesn’t Work, Change the Dress: The Illustrated Memoirs of Broadway Costume Designer Patricia Zipprodt (memoir), Bloomsbury

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