The Francona years
Award-winning sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy of the Boston Globe will sign copies of his new book, Francona: The Red Sox Years, on Apr. 16 from 6-8 p.m. at the McElroy Commons Bookstore. The book, written with former Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona, chronicles an epic era in Red Sox history, from their 2004 world championship to the controversial September collapse in 2011.
Poetry fest
Students representing 26 colleges and universities, including Boston College junior Helen Spica, will share their original poetry at the annual Greater Boston Intercollegiate Undergraduate Poetry Festival on April 11 in the Yawkey Center’s Murray Function Room. Irish poet Peter Fallon will deliver the keynote address. Spica will read her works “Witches’ Brew” and “The Horses,” which contain scenes and experiences that relate to her past in the Midwestern United States. “Helen writes with a powerful sense of authority, and lovely, bold imagery. I’m always very proud of how our BC student poets shine at the festivals,” said festival organizer Suzanne Matson, English Department chairwoman and professor. The event begins at 7:30 p.m. Sponsors: Poetry Days and Boston College Magazine.
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A caregiver’s perspective
Writer and CBS This Morning contributor Lee Woodruff will discuss how caregivers cope during a crisis at the Connell School of Nursing’s Pinnacle Lecture on April 10 at 5 p.m. in Yawkey Center. Woodruff is the co-author of In an Instant: A Family’s Journey of Love and Healing, a bestseller about her family’s experience after her husband, ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff, was critically injured in Iraq. An advocate for veterans, survivors of traumatic brain injuries, and their caregivers, Woodruff co-founded the Bob Woodruff Foundation, which assists wounded service members and their families. Woodruff also is the author of a collection of essays, Perfectly Imperfect: A Life in Progress, and a novel, Those We Love Most. Sponsor: Connell School of Nursing.
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Catholics & Jews
In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah), historian John Connelly will present “How the Catholic Church Overcame its own Theology and Discovered that God Loves the Jews” at 2 p.m. on Apr. 7 in McGuinn Auditorium. Connelly is the author of From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965, a study of the evolution of Catholic thinking on the Jewish people. It was awarded the John Gilmary Shea Prize from the American Catholic Historical Association. Sponsor: The Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College
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New book: Bearing witness to the Shoah
In his new book, I SAW IT: Ilya Selvinsky and the Legacy of Bearing Witness to the Shoah, Boston College Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies Maxim D. Shrayer explores how Jewish-Russian poets became the earliest literary witnesses to the Holocaust (Shoah). I SAW IT introduces the work of Ilya Selvinsky (1899-1968), the first Jewish-Russian poet to depict the Holocaust in the occupied Soviet territories. “Selvinsky and other Jewish-Russian authors viewed the war and their calling not only in Russian and Soviet terms, but also in Jewish ones,” Shrayer explains. “By bearing witness to the immediate aftermath of the murder of Jews by Nazis and their accomplices in the occupied Soviet territories, Selvinsky simultaneously committed acts of civic courage and Jewish zealotry. His contribution to Shoah literature is all the more significant because he managed to keep his poems in print during the most destructive years for Soviet Jewish culture.” Titled after one of Selvinsky’s poems, I SAW IT features more than 60 rare photographs and illustrations and includes Shrayer’s translations of the poet’s principal Shoah poems. More from BC News
A ghostwriter revealed
Author Amy Boesky, a professor of English at Boston College, recently revealed a secret to The Kenyon Review: she was a ghostwriter of more than 50 books in the popular teen book series Sweet Valley High. While a graduate student studying 17th century British literature, she wrote Sweet Valley High books under the pseudonym Kate William. In a recent interview with National Public Radio, she called the experience “enormously fun.” She added that since her identity has been revealed, she has been receiving fan mail. “I’ve been getting these wonderful letters from readers, who are women now — who are lawyers, who are doctors, who grew up reading these books.”
What the letters reveal
The Center for Irish Programs at Boston College will host a book event for His Grace is Displeased, Selected Correspondence of John Charles McQuaid. One of the book’s editors, Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh, will speak at the event, which will held Mar. 25 at 4 p.m. in Burns Library. His Grace Is Displeased contains a selection of the letters of John Charles McQuaid, Roman Catholic archbishop of Dublin from 1940-72, that reveal the huge range and extent of his activities, contacts and correspondents in educational, health, ecclesiastical, cultural, political and international affairs. According to the publisher: “John Charles McQuaid thought like a demon, wrote like an angel, and was meticulous in attending to every detail of his ministry as Archbishop of Dublin. There was no aspect of the religious and social life of Catholic Ireland that escaped his eye, and this legendary attention to detail is reflected in his illuminating correspondence.”
A Pope, a Jesuit and Hitler
Peter Eisner, an award-winning author and reporter, will speak on his new book, The Pope’s Last Crusade: How an American Jesuit Helped Pope Pius XI’s Campaign to Stop Hitler, at Boston College on Mar. 25. From the publisher: Eisner combines new evidence (released only recently from Vatican archives) and eyewitness testimony to create a thrilling narrative into a little-known story of an American’s partnership with the head of the Catholic Church and Pope Pius XI’s effort to condemn Nazism and the policies of the Third Reich—a crusade that might have changed the course of World War II. Eisner is a former reporter for the Washington Post, Newsday and the AP. His book The Freedom Line was honored with a 2005 Christopher Award. The lecture, which begins at 7 p.m., will take place in Devlin Hall, room 008. Sponsor: Center for Christian-Jewish Learning.
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