Alumni Publications
We are thrilled to share the following news about recent books, articles, and other publications written by Horace Mann School alumni.
A cultural commentary about Will Smith’s assault of Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars, written by HM’s own Vinson Cunningham ’02, appeared in the March 22, 2022, issue of The New Yorker. Vinson has been a theater critic for the magazine since 2019. As his bio states, “in 2020, he was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for his profile of the comedian Tracy Morgan. His writing on books, art, and culture has appeared in the Times Magazine, the Times Book Review, Vulture, the Awl, The Fader, and McSweeney’s, where he wrote a column called “Field Notes from Gentrified Places.” You can read the piece here:https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/will-smiths-slap-and-the-ecstatic-blur-that-followed-at-the-oscars
Ali Lemer ’90 is a guidebook author who has written three new Lonely Planet guidebooks:
A memoir by Alan Patricof ’52, No Red Lights: Reflections on Life, 50 Years in Venture Capital, and Never Driving Alone, was released in early May 2022. As his publisher explains, “The book is a roadmap of his robust, fruitful personal life and career in VC, PE, politics, publishing, and much more.” Simon and Shuster continues:
Extensive media and online coverage of the business arena, news of start-ups, mergers, and deals are familiar headlines these days. But that wasn’t always the case. The early years of venture capital were a far cry from today’s very public dealings. Alan Patricof, one of the pioneers of the venture arena, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the past 50 years of the industry. From buying stock in Apple when its market valuation was only $60 million to founding New York Magazine to investing in AOL, Audible, and more recently, Axios, his discerning approach to finding companies is almost peerless.
All of Patricof’s investments—from Xerox to Venmo—share certain qualities. Each company had sound product with wide appeal, the economics were solid, and the management team was talented and committed to seeing their visions come to fruition.
Of the course of his career, Mark Weiss '61 has published ten books of poetry, most recently A Suite of Dances and As Luck Would Have It (Shearsman Books, 2021 and 2015). He edited, with Harry Polkinhorn, Across the Line/Al otro lado: The Poetry of Baja California (Junction Press, 2002), and, with Marc Kaminsky, Stories as Equipment for Living: Last Talks and Tales of Barbara Myerhoff (University of Michigan Press, 2007). Among his translations are Stet: Selected Poems of José Kozer (Junction Press, 2006), Cuaderno de San Antonio/The San Antonio Notebook, by Javier Manríquez (La Paz, Mexico: Editorial Praxis, 2004), the ebook La isla en peso/The Whole Island, by Virgilio Piñera (Shearsman Books, 2010), and three books by Gaspar Orozco, Notas del país de Z (Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, 2009), Autocinema (Chax Press, 2016), and Book of the Peony (Shearsman Books, 2017). His bilingual anthology The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry was published in 2009 by the University of California Press. He lives at the edge of Manhattan's only forest.