Author Archives: Bookworm
The art and thought of Paul Klee
Frederick J. Adelmann, SJ, Professor of Philosophy John Sallis has written a book that provides a philosophical perspective on the relation between artist Paul Klee’s work and his thought. Klee once said that “art does not reproduce the visible but makes visible.” … Continue reading
Naive guys
Boston College alumnus Harry Patz, Jr. has published The Naive Guys: A Memoir of Friendship, Love and Tech in the Early 1990s (Gondolin Advisors LLC, 2014), a novel that follows BC graduate Mark Amici as he makes his way in New York City in the early … Continue reading
Saga of the Redeemed
As Boston College alumnus Auston Habershaw likes to tell it, when you are born on the same day that a NASA space station falls to Earth, you are destined to be supervillain or science fiction/fantasy writer. Habershaw is the latter … Continue reading
A boyhood remembered
In his memoir, Kaufman’s Hill (Bancroft Press, 2015), author John C. Hampsey recalls his boyhood in Pittsburgh during the 1960s, before the counterculture revolution takes hold. Hampsey’s world is a mix of exhilarating freedom — because of absent parents, teachers, and priests — … Continue reading
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Innovations in Mass Spectrometry
Mass spectrometry has long served as an invaluable tool for detection of type and concentration of chemicals present in carefully prepared laboratory samples. Ambient ionization has emerged as one of the hottest and fastest growing topics in mass spectrometry, enabling … Continue reading
In honor of Richard Cobb-Stevens
Philosophy Professor Emeritus Richard Cobb-Stevens’ work in phenomenological philosophy, analytic philosophy and the history of philosophy has served as model for generations of philosophers working between these three fields of research. As a tribute to Cobb-Stevens, several leading experts in phenomenological philosophy … Continue reading
Postcards from Paris
In Bettyville (Viking, 2015), magazine and book editor George Hodgman, travels from New York City to Paris, but readers should not expect a glamorous travelogue. The destination is Paris, Missouri, and Hodgman returns to his childhood home and cares for his mother who … Continue reading
Yeats and Afterwords
Associate Professor of English Marjorie Howes is a contributor to and co-editor (with Joseph Valente) of Yeats and Afterwords (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014). The book’s contributors articulate Nobel Prize winner W. B. Yeats’s powerful, multi-layered sense of belatedness as … Continue reading
Kindness of strangers
A new book by Casey Beaumier, SJ, director of the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College, recalls his days as a Jesuit novice and a pilgrimage he took to help in his discernment. A Purposeful Path: How Far Can … Continue reading
Blueprints
Boston College alumna and best-selling author Barbara Delinsky has published her latest novel, Blueprints (St. Martin’s Press, 2015). Blueprints is the story of Caroline and Jamie MacAfee. The day after her 56th birthday, Caroline is told that she is too old to … Continue reading
