Author Archives: Bookworm
Cooking in a melting pot
Chef and author Lynne Christy Anderson lets food do the talking in her new book, Breaking Bread: Recipes and Stories from Immigrant Kitchens, which recounts in loving detail the memories, recipes and culinary traditions of people who have come to the … Continue reading
Women & the Catholic Church
Book Event 9/23: BC alumna Erika Bachiochi will be on campus Sept. 23 to discuss and sign her book, Women, Sex, and the Church: A Case for Catholic Teaching. The event, starting at 7:30 p.m. in Higgins Hall, room 300, … Continue reading
Eyewitness to War
Dexter Filkins, a New York Times foreign correspondent, was part of a team of reporters who won a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan. He won a George Polk award for his coverage of the eight-day assault … Continue reading
Talk of The Town
Did you know “The Town”–a new movie directed by Ben Affleck– is based on a book by a BC grad? Chuck Hogan, BC Class of 1989, is the author of Prince of Thieves, which is the basis for the new … Continue reading
Sister Helen
Dead Man Walking author Helen Prejean, CSJ, will speak at Boston College on Sept. 17 at 7 p.m. in Robsham Theater. Sister Helen is a Roman Catholic nun whose prison ministry and advocacy against the death penalty have garnered international … Continue reading
What We Have
Check out Boston College Associate Professor of English Amy Boesky who will be in Cohasset on Friday, Sept. 17 for a bookstore event. Boesky’s new book, What We Have, is a stirring memoir about love, loss and survival in a … Continue reading
How Lincoln Learned to Read
Over the summer, each member of the Boston College Class of 2014 was given a copy of Daniel Wolff’s How Lincoln Learned to Read. The author will address the Class of 2014 and the rest of the University community at … Continue reading
Necessary Secrets
Gabriel Schoenfeld, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and resident scholar at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, will discuss his new book, Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law, on Sept. 16 at … Continue reading
Fire in the Heart
Harvard Professor Mark Warren, author of Fire in the Heart, a new book that uncovers the process by which some white Americans become activists for racial justice, will speak on Sept. 15 at 4:30 p.m. in Campion Hall, room 139. … Continue reading
Literary Lives
Irish writers are the subject of the exhibition that opened this weekend at the McMullen Musuem of Art. “Literary Lives: Portraits from the Crawford Art Gallery and Abbey Theatre, Ireland” captures the visages of Irish writers by Irish artists in … Continue reading
