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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On the frontlines
As part of the Women’s & Gender Studies Spring Speaker Series, Fionnuala Ni Aolain will discuss some themes from her co-authored book, On the Frontlines: Gender, War and the Post-Conflict Process. Her address, “Female Terrorists in Ethno-National Conflicts,” will take place Mar. 21 at 7 p.m. in McGuinn Hall, room 334. She is co-founder and associate director of the University of Ulster’s Transitional Justice Institute in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Ni Aolain’s teaching and research interests are in the fields of international law, human rights law, national security law, transitional justice, and feminist legal theory. Sponsored by: Women’s and Gender Studies Program.
Encountering Jesus
Come join co-editors Rev. Daniel Harrington, SJ and Christopher Matthews at a book launch on Mar. 20 for their new publication, Encountering Jesus in the Scriptures (Paulist Press, 2013), part of the Church in the 21st Century Center Book Series. This new book seeks to make accessible some of the best modern scholarship on encountering Jesus in the Scriptures, striving to explain not only who Jesus was in the first century but also what He might mean in the 21st century. The book launch will be held in the School of Theology and Ministry Library on Brighton Campus beginning at 5:30 p.m. Sponsored by: C21 Center and STM.
Past Obsessions
In her forthcoming book Past Obsessions: World War Two in History and Memory, historian Carol Gluck considers examples from Europe, Asia, and North America that help us to understand both how public memory works and the challenge that the present preoccupation with memory poses to what we used to think of as history. Gluck will speak at Boston College on Mar. 20 at 7 p.m. in the Murray Function Room. Her other books include: Japan’s Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period; Showa: The Japan of Hirohito; Asia in Western and World History, and Words in Motion: Toward a Global Lexicon. Sponsor: Lowell Humanities Series
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Tagged history, Japan, Lowell Humanities Series, memory, World War II
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