Category Archives: Boston College Authors
CPA winner
Love One Another: Catholic Reflections on How to Sustain Marriages Today, a book co-edited by Boston College Assistant to the Vice President for University Mission & Ministry Tim Muldoon, has received a third place prize from the Catholic Press Association … Continue reading
Pottermania
With the premiere of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2” just days away, the Boston Globe and GateHouse News Service highlight a new book about the Harry Potter series by Boston College Romance Languages and Literatures Professor Emerita … Continue reading
Numbers 1,2,3,4
A prose poem by Boston College English Professor Elizabeth Graver – written about a photograph of an Arctic weather station – was selected to appear along with the photo in the current issue of Hayden’s Ferry Review.
Banish fear of public speaking
Boston College Associate Vice President for Alumni Relations John Feudo shares advice based upon a lifetime of speaking in public in his new book, I’d Rather Eat Live Spiders: A Definitive Guide to Becoming a Successful Speaker. In the book, … Continue reading
Calling collect
New Boston College School of Theology and Ministry alumna Heather Angell had her poem “Calling Collect” published in America magazine.
Writers and boxing
Boston College English Professor and American Studies Director Carlo Rotella is featured, along with writers Jack London, H.L. Mencken, Mike Lupica, Joyce Carol Oates, George Plimpton, Norman Mailer, and many others, in At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing, a … Continue reading
On the Trail of Harry Potter
With the final chapter of Harry Potter about to hit the big screen, Boston College Romance Languages and Literatures Professor Emerita Vera Lee has published On the Trail of Harry Potter, a literary analysis of all seven Harry Potter volumes. … Continue reading
“Master of the spiritual masters”
Boston College Theology Professor Emeritus and Jesuit priest Harvey Egan, who has been called the “master of the spiritual masters,” has published a book that reflects his 50 years of studying and teaching the Christian mystics. In Soundings in the Christian … Continue reading
Doesn’t time fly?
Doesn’t Time Fly?, charts the history of Aer Lingus, the Irish state airline, on its 75th anniversary. Written by BC-Ireland Academic Director Mike Cronin, the book draws heavily on the company’s extensive archive of photographs, posters and advertisements, as well … Continue reading
Idea Hunter
Boston College Carroll School of Management Dean and BC alumnus Andy Boynton has co-authored a new book that challenges many of the assumptions about how great ideas— the kind that can boost careers, change organizations, and improve lives– are discovered. … Continue reading