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 years later. His first novel, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. His second novel, Absurdistan, was named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review. Sponsor: Lowell Humanities Lecture Series
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The video gamer and the therapist
A new book by Graduate School of Social Work adjunct faculty member and licensed independent clinical social worker Mike Langlois challenges healthcare providers to rethink how they understand and work with patients who play video games. In Reset: Video Games & Psychotherapy, Langlois casts a psychoanalytic eye on video games, technology and the practice of psychotherapy and has some resounding criticisms of therapists’ often disdainful attitude toward gamers and the video games they love. Using examples from World of Warcraft, Epic Mickey and The Legend of Zelda among others, Langlois shows how understanding video games may not only improve therapists’ ability to treat their patients who play, but improve their clinical and business skills.
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Political evil
The new book Political Evil: What It Is and How to Combat It by Boston College’s Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life Director Alan Wolfe (featured in BC Bookmarks last month) has recently been reviewed by the New York Times; Chronicle of Higher Education and America. Professor Wolfe also talked about his new book on WBUR.
Compelling short stories
A prolific author, Boston College Adjunct Associate Professor of Communication Michael C. Keith has recently published two acclaimed books of short stories. Many of Hoag’s Object‘s 38 tales–of the horrifying, fantastical and other-worldly—deal with mortality. In reviews by other authors, one describes the stories as memorable and affecting; another hails Keith for investing his stories with his unique knowledge of communication and its impact on our lives. Similarly, the 13 “weird, wild, and wonderful” tales in And Through the Trembling Air explore unusual themes in a volume deemed a strange and compelling collection by this consummate storyteller.
Philosopher Maurice Blondel
A biography of French Catholic philosopher Maurice Blondel, authored by Boston College Professor of Philosophy Oliva Blanchette, has been honored with a first place 2011 Catholic Book Award in the category of biography by the Catholic Press Association (CPA) of the US and Canada. The CPA called Maurice Blondel: A Philosophical Life “the first-ever, finest comprehensive, critical examination of the life and thought of Maurice Blondel. It recounts both his biographical history and philosophy, noting how this committed Catholic and critical philosopher engaged the thinkers of his era and had a tremendous impact on twentieth century theology and philosophy.” Blanchette has been on the BC faculty since 1964 and considers Blondel his “intellectual hero.” More
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After the diagnosis
In the spirit of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, BC Bookmarks highlights a book by Ann Murray Paige, a member of the BC Class of 1987 who was first diagnosed with breast cancer at age 38. Paige is the author of pink tips. breast cancer advice from someone who’s been there. It contains Paige’s best breast cancer advice condensed into 50 top tips to help anyone diagnosed with breast cancer–and all those who want to know how they can help. Paige, who has worked as a local television reporter, brings her trademark storyteller’s eye and humor to her projects, which also include the book Words to Live By: Whatever You’re Up Against, This Book’s for You and the documentary “The Breast Cancer Diaries.”
Will There Be Faith?
These are enormously challenging times for faith on earth, according to Boston College School of Theology and Ministry Professor Thomas H. Groome, an internationally renowned authority on religious education and author of the new book Will There Be Faith? A New Vision for Educating and Growing Disciples. Groome, a BC faculty member since 1976, draws upon his 35 years as a religious educator, a teacher of religious educators, and a parent to outline a 360-degree total community approach to religious education that emphasizes the shared responsibilities of parents, the parish and the Catholic school or religious education program. Read more in the Boston College Chronicle.
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