Category Archives: Boston College Authors
Poetry and emotion
In The Romantic Voice, a two disc recording, Boston College Rattigan Professor Emeritus in English Literature John Mahoney brings to life in his distinctive voice poems and prose by Romantic poets William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and John … Continue reading
Thumbs up for Longing to Love
A book review in America magazine praises Assistant to Vice President for University Mission and Ministry Tim Muldoon’s memoir, Longing to Love: A Memoir of Desire, Relationships, and Spiritual Transformation, calling it “a compelling portrait of. . .how longing and … Continue reading
The case for Lebanon
A new reading of modern Middle Eastern history is proposed—and alternate solutions to the volatile region’s problems are suggested—by Franck Salameh, an assistant professor in the Boston College Slavic and Eastern Languages Department, in his new book Language, Memory, and … Continue reading
Missing: A grandmother
A new title to add to your TBR pile. . . Missing Lucile: Memories of the Grandmother I Never Knew, a nonfiction book by Suzanne Berne, who teaches in Boston College’s English Department, will be published in October. The author … Continue reading
Love One Another
Love One Another: Catholic Reflections on How to Sustain Marriages Today, the 10th book in the award-winning Church in the 21st Century Center book series, will be officially launched on Sept. 28 at a campus event. The book, edited by … Continue reading
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
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