Author Archives: Bookworm
Writing True Crime: Mark O’Connell
Award-winning author Mark O’Connell will discuss writing true crime and his latest book, A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder (Penguin Random House, 2023), at Boston College on September 13. The event, which is free and open … Continue reading
‘His Name Is George Floyd’
Robert Samuels, co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice (Viking/Penguin Random House, 2022), will deliver the first Lowell Humanities Series lecture of the semester on September 13 … Continue reading
Psychoanalysis, subjectivity, and technology
The newly published Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology has been described as an invaluable resource for academics and students of psychoanalysis, philosophy, ethics, media, liberal arts, social work, and bioethics. The volume is co-edited by Lynch School … Continue reading
A case of murder
Dermot Sparhawk has another murder case to solve in a new novel by writer Tom MacDonald, who graduated from Boston College with an MBA in 2002. The Murder of Vincent Dunn is MacDonald’s fifth book to feature the Boston-based private … Continue reading
A haunted house in Maine
Mark Lance, a former labor reporter who graduated from Boston College in 1971, has published his first book, The Weber House (2022). It’s a young adult mystery that tells the story of Nicole who has moved into a house on … Continue reading
A kid’s guide to the First Amendment
Boston College graduate Clelia Gore, a former literary agent and vice president of a boutique literary agency, has co-authored a children’s book, Your Freedom, Your Power (Running Press Kids/Hachette, 2023). Writing under the name Clelia Castro-Malaspina, she and her co-author … Continue reading
Rough Sleepers
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder will return to campus September 7 to address BC first-year students, who were asked to read his critically acclaimed new book, Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People (Random … Continue reading
Mystery on Cape Cod
Boston College graduate Ted (T.M.) Murphy, writing under the pen name Declan Rush, has published a new novel set on Cape Cod. In the suspense thriller Macabre Trophies (Dark Waters Books, 2023), J.T. O’Rourke’s life has entered another downward spiral, … Continue reading
Philosophical hermeneutics
The Hermeneutics of Person, Belongingness and Diverse Philosophies (an anthology) is a collection of essays written by Boston College Assistant Professor of the Practice of Philosophy Stanley Uche Anozie. Philosophical hermeneutics is central to Anozie’s research and writings. These essays … Continue reading
Animals in the Bible
In What Does the Bible Say About Animals? (New City Press, 2022) author Jaime Waters surveys all the different ways that animals appear in the Bible. She highlight animals as a part of creation—as something that’s blessed and cared for … Continue reading