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This summer, as Wellesley closes out its 150th anniversary and the United States celebrates its 250th, Katharine Lee Bates 1880 stands as an exemplary scholar, activist, feminist, global citizen, community builder, and person unafraid to be herself.

English professor Dan Chiasson writes in the New York Review of Books about why he is against AI: “My love for human language leads me to strongly oppose all attempts by machines to impersonate it.”

While Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician is a very different kind of work from Dan Chiasson’s previous five books—all collections of poetry—as soon as you hear Chiasson discuss it, you know that he was destined to write this book.

The reviewer calls “Bernie for Burlington” by English professor Dan Chiasson “a sprawling narrative epic, with three equally prominent protagonists”: Bernie, Chiasson, and Burlington itself.

“I have no doubt that Chiasson has written the authoritative history of the Sanders tenure in Burlington,” the Times’ reviewer says about English professor Dan Chiasson’s “Bernie for Burlington.”

Vermont's independent newspaper calls English professor Dan Chiasson’s new book, “Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician,” “the definitive origin story of a unique political career.”

Vermont’s independent newspaper calls Dan Chiasson’s unauthorized biography “Bernie for Burlington” part origin story, part author’s memoir about the mayor who transformed his hometown.

“Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician” by English professor Dan Chiasson was listed as a “book of note” by New England Literary News.

A “New Yorker” review of English professor Dan Chiasson’s new book, “Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician and the Transformation of One American Place,” calls it “revelatory.”