Category Archives: Guest Authors
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In her memoir, Lay the Favorite, Beth Raymer tells the story of her years in the high-stakes, high-anxiety world of sports betting. She will speak on Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. in Devlin Hall, room 101. The movie adaptation of the … Continue reading
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The Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan
On Oct. 27, Gerard Magliocca, author of The Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan: Constitutional Law and the Politics of Backlash, will take part in a panel discussion on his book with BC Associate Professor of Political Science Ken Kersch, director … Continue reading
Humanitarian hero
Eric Greitens, author of The Heart and The Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, The Making of a Navy SEAL, will give a the Chambers Lecture and conduct a book signing on Oct. 20 at 7 p.m. in the Murray … Continue reading
Super Sad True Love Story
Gary Shteyngart, author of the New York Times best-seller Super Sad True Love Story, will speak on Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 1oo. Shteyngart was born in Leningrad in 1972 and came to the U.S. seven … Continue reading
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The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson, the first black woman to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize in journalism and the first black American to win for individual reporting, is the author of The Warmth of Other Suns, an epic account of the Great Migration. … Continue reading
Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci
Ronnie Hsia will deliver a lecture on the famous Jesuit missionary to China, Matteo Ricci, SJ, on Sept. 21 at 5:30 p.m. in the Yawkey Center’s Murray Function Room. Hsia, the Edwin Earle Sparks Professor of History at Penn State, … Continue reading
The poetry of Meg Kearney
Award-winning poet Meg Kearney will read from her works on Sept. 20 at 5 p.m. in the Hovey House Library. Kearney’s collection of poems, Home By Now, was winner of the 2010 PEN New England LL Winship Award; it was … Continue reading
Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCann, author of National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin, will address the Class of 2015 and other members of the BC Community tomorrow as part of the Office of First Year Experience’s Conversations in the First … Continue reading
On the Constitution
Jack Rakove, one of the nation’s most respected scholars of the American Constitution, will discuss “Beyond Belief: The Radical Significance of the Free Exercise of Religion” on Sept. 15 at 4:30 p.m. in McGuinn Hall, room 121. Rakove, a professor of … Continue reading
Summer reading
Since 2004, the University’s Office of First Year Experience has sponsored Conversations in the First Year, a program that joins together the freshman class with ritual, ideas, and conversation. A common text is distributed to the incoming freshman class at … Continue reading
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