Fiction and the biggest question
Author and book critic James Wood will present “Why? Fiction and the Biggest Question” on Sept. 25 in Gasson Hall, room 100 at 7 p.m. Wood is a staff writer and book critic at The New Yorker. His critical essays have been collected in two volumes, The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief and The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of a novel, The Book Against God, and a study of technique in the novel, How Fiction Works. Sponsor: Lowell Humanities Series
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Shrayer on Vasily Grossman
Soviet writer Vasily Grossman bore witness to the horrors of Russia’s World War II and the Shoah and deserves a place in literary history, according to Boston College Professor of Russian and English Maxim D. Shrayer, who recommends the best books by and about Grossman on FiveBooks.com
Graver on National Book Award longlist
Congratulations to Boston College Professor of English Elizabeth Graver who has been named to the longlist for the 2013 National Book Award in Fiction for her novel, The End of the Point (Harper/HarperCollins Publishers). The End of the Point follows three generations of the Porter family from the middle to the end of the 20th century. Graver joins many notable authors on the longlist, including Alice McDermott, Thomas Pynchon, and Jhumpa Lahiri, among others. All together, the longlist includes four National Book Award winners and finalists and a Pulitzer Prize winner and finalist. The longlist was selected from 408 books submitted by publishers for consideration. One of the most prestigious literary prizes, the National Book Awards (fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature) are sponsored by the National Book Foundation, whose mission is to celebrate the best of American literature. The finalists for the 2013 National Book Awards will be announced Oct. 16 and winners will be announced Nov. 20 in New York City. Here are some reviews of The End of the Point and interviews with Graver: New York Times, Boston Globe, NPR affiliate WNYC and Boston College Chronicle.
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Tagged English Department, fiction, National Book Award
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The Virgin Mary in Chinese iconography
The Virgin Mary and Catholic Identities in Chinese History (Hong Kong University Press) is a new book forthcoming from Father Jeremy Clarke, SJ, a historian whose expertise is the history of Catholicism in China. Through a prism of history, theology and art, the book explores how the Virgin Mary has been depicted in Chinese paintings and sculptures and the communities that produced them. Fr. Clarke is an assistant professor in the University’s History Department. For a limited time, it can be ordered from Columbia University Press at a 30% discount using code VIRCLA.
Honors for Jacobs
Congratulations to History Associate Professor Seth Jacobs, winner of the New England Historical Association’s James P. Hanlan Book Award for his work, The Universe Unraveling: American Foreign Policy in Cold War Laos. The NEHA is a professional association of over 700 historians who live and work in New England. Jacobs will receive the award at the NEHA meeting in October. Story
A story of emigration
Author Maxim D. Shrayer, a Boston College professor of Russian and English, is the subject of a feature story in the Cape Cod Chronicle, which focuses on his emigration from Russia to America–the subject of his memoir Waiting for America.
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Tagged immigration, Russia, Slavic and Eastern Languages Dept
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Nurse leadership
A book co-authored by Connell School of Nursing Professor Dorothy A. Jones has been honored with the 2013 Sigma Theta Tau International “Best of Book Author Award.” Fostering Nurse-Led Care: Professional Practice for the Bedside Leader From Massachusetts General Hospital offers a practical model for nurses to translate theory into a professional nursing practice that advances the patient relationship and the quality of care. Jones’ co-authors are Jeanette Ives Erickson and Marianne Ditomassi. In addition to her work at BC, Jones serves as director of the Yvonne L. Munn Center for Nursing Research at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Tagged Connell School of Nursing, leadership, nurse
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Gustave Courbet
Visitors to the exclusive exhibition, “Courbet: Mapping Realism” which opens this weekend at BC’s McMullen Museum of Art, can gain additional insights into its subject–realist movement leader Gustave Courbet, one of France’s most prolific and innovative painters–via an accompanying volume of essays by American and Belgian scholars. Courbet: Mapping Realism, a color-illustrated volume, explores Courbet’s art in light of this expanded view of his career and showcases artwork from both the US and Belgium, which are rarely exhibited or published together. The catalogue is edited by Jeffery Howe, a professor of art history at Boston College. Contributors include BC Fine Arts Department professors Claude Cernuschi and Katherine Nahum, as well as Dominique Marechal, curator of 19th century art at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, and Jean-Philippe Huys, a researcher at the Centre international pour l’Étude du XIXe siècle in Brussels. For more about the exhibition, see this Boston Globe story.
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Tagged art, artist, Fine Arts Department, France, McMullen Museum of Art
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