CLASS OF 1984 | 2016 | ISSUE 1

It’s Michael Steven this month, and we have a short list of updates to kick off 2016.

Big news from CFA director Pamela Tatge. Pam, who has led the CFA for 16 years, was just named executive and artistic director of Jacob’s Pillow, the long running dance festival in the Berkshires.

Blake Nelson’s young adult novel, Recovery Road, was made into a TV drama for ABC Family, and premiered at the end of January. You can easily find ways to stream episodes of this series.

Stephanie Grant continues to teach fiction writing at American University, where this spring she hosted Wes grad, the novelist Alexander Chee ’89, whose novel The Queen of the Night was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in February. Most recently, Stephanie published an essay about her mother’s postpartum depression on the New Yorker site: newyorker.com/books/page-turner/postpartum.

Paul Landau’s daughter, Zoe Lillian Landau, is celebrating her bat mitzvah. Her sister, Penelope, is still a couple of years away. Paul’s partner, Emily, published a book about interracial houses of prostitution in the turn-of-the-century, newly Segregationist New Orleans, called Spectacular Wickedness, two years ago. He is hard at work on his third book, this one about Nelson Mandela and other participants in the near-revolutionary situation in South Africa in the very early 1960s.

Margaret Bowman left her job as deputy environment program director at the Walton Family Foundation and is now a consultant on western water and impact investing. She’s still helping to ensure that there is enough water across the American West for rivers, communities, and agriculture, but now she is focused on ensuring that private investments can help drive the needed changes

Roger Pincus | rpincus84@wesleyan.edu

Michael Steven Schultz | mschultz84@wesleyan.edu