At Home in Exile
The Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life will sponsor a book panel Nov. 12 to mark the launch of its director’s new book, At Home in Exile: Why Diaspora Is Good for the Jews (Random House, 2014). Written by Boston College Professor of Political Science Alan Wolfe, At Home in Exile makes an impassioned and controversial case for Jews to take pride in their Diasporic tradition. While it is true that Jews have experienced discrimination and destruction in exile, Wolfe argues the Diaspora can be good for the Jews no matter where they live, Israel very much included—as well as for the non-Jews with whom they live, Israel once again included. Wolfe will be joined at the event by Ben Birnbaum, editor of Boston College Magazine; Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College; and BC History Professor Kevin Kenny who all will review and critique At Home in Exile. The event will take place at the Yawkey Center, Murray Room beginning at 5:30 p.m. An excerpt of At Home in Exile appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education | New York Times Review
Poet Peter Fallon
Award-winning poet Peter Fallon will read from his latest collection of poems, Strong, My Love, on Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Strong, My Love is a series of prayers for his daughter and son and for their generation. His other works include News of the World: Selected and New Poems and The Company of Horses, among others. He founded The Gallery Press, Ireland’s leading literary publishing company, which has published more than 400 books of poems and plays by Ireland’s finest established and emerging authors. Sponsor: Lowell Humanities Series
Poetry Days with Laura Kasischke
Boston College welcomes award-winning poet and novelist Laura Kasischke to campus November 5. She will give a talk at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Kasischke’s books of poetry include Wild Brides; Fire and Flower; Gardening in the Dark; Lilies Without; Space, in Chains (a National Book Critics Circle Award winner), and, most recently, The Infinitesimals. She has been honored with the Juniper Prize, the Beatrice Hawley Award, the Alice Fay DiCastagnola Award, the Bobst Award for Emerging Writers, and the Rilke Poetry Prize from the University of North Texas. She has also won several Pushcart Prizes, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She has written nine novels, three of which have been made into movies: Suspicious River, White Bird in a Blizzard and The Life Before Her Eyes. Sponsors: Lowell Humanities Series and Poetry Days. Read more about her campus visit, including an informal colloquium planned with BC students and faculty, in the Boston College Chronicle.
Talk of the town: Richardson’s book on the GOP
To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party (Basic Books, 2014) by Professor of History Heather Cox Richardson (cited in BC Bookmarks on 9/17) has received a lot of attention this election season. Here is a sampling of some of the media interviews, opinion pieces and reviews connected to Richardson’s book about the Republican party: Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, C-SPAN Book TV, Los Angeles Times, WBUR Radio Boston, Salon and New York Times. She recently was interviewed about her book by BC Libraries. BC Libraries Video
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