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A Sampling of
Faculty Books
JACK GOLDSTEIN:
ALL DAY NIGHT SKY
ALL THE WORLD CAN HOLD
The latest novel by Associate Professor of English Jung Yun explores how
we balance our needs and wants, as well as the regrets we live with and the
chances to make them right. Set aboard an aging cruise ship bound for Bermuda
just days after 9-11, All the World Can Hold follows the growing tensions that lead
three strangers—a woman planning her estranged mother’s 70th birthday party; a
washed-up TV star; and the sole Black female graduate student in her department—
to confront their past mistakes and imagine different futures. Yun’s previous novels
have been honored as a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a New York Times
Group Read selection, a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year pick and a
longlist candidate for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize.
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Associate Professor of Art History
Alexander Dumbadze examines the
career, artistic formation and enduring
legacy of conceptual artist Jack
Goldstein with a blend of biography,
theoretical re昀氀ection and archival
research. A de昀椀ning 昀椀gure of the
1970s and ’80s New York art scene,
Goldstein’s wide-ranging body of
work—including color 昀椀lms and
paintings of appropriated images—
has been complicated by his dramatic
life story. Battling drug addiction,
Goldstein dropped out of the art
world in the 1990s, lived alone in an
L.A. trailer park, resurfaced in a wave
of critical fanfare and took his own life
in 2003. Dumbadze’s book is a deeply
compelling portrait of a signi昀椀cant artist,
along with a nuanced meditation on
the nature of images, the meaning of
artistic subjectivity and the consequences
of holding unwavering faith in art.
