November

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What are people in the Roger Williams University community reading? The From the Nightstand team asks which books are on people’s nightstands—either being read, or waiting to be read.

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Professor Michael Scully

Current Reads: Professor Michael Scully is currently working on getting his PhD in Humanities at Salve Regina University. For his coursework he is reading a large collection of texts that span the humanities, philosophy, and western literature.

Two books that Professor Scully specifically notes are The Prince by Machiavelli and All That is Solid Melts Into Air by Marshall Berman, the latter of which he describes as a great piece of modernist work illustrating the economic modernization of New York City.

Memorable Reads: The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham. Professor Scully recalls it as one of the most poetically written books he’s ever read. He also can’t leave out In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, due to its role in spawning the “potential for great non-fiction storytelling.”

Essential Reads: Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. “An eye-opening read for anyone interested in learning about what they eat.” Another book that Professor Scully notes as “an important read” is John Galbraith’s The Affluent Society, which discusses how post-WWII America is privately rich yet publicly poor.

Professor Michael Scully has been on faculty in the Communication Department since 2007. He teaches in the journalism major.

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