Idea Hunter
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Cape Cod mystery
Hide and Seek: A Murder Mystery, a Kindle book by Boston College English Department faculty member Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield, has been dubbed “a psychologically suspenseful, edge-of-your-seat page-turner that weaves together strands of the major genres of crime fiction, from British detective puzzle to American hard-boiled whodunit, from old Miss Marple detective to Nancy Drew girl-sleuth, from scientist and doctor to patient, from priest to sinner.” Set on Cape Cod in the 1980s, Hide and Seek presents a murder mystery backwards, with the identity of the murderer known to readers.
More authors at the Arts Festival
Authors Janet Costa Bates and Erin Dionne will be featured Saturday during the Arts Festival. Dionne, a graduate from the Class of 1997, will read from her book, Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet. Bates, who works at BC’s Career Center, will read her children’s book Seaside Dream. Details.
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Arts Festival literary events
In addition to music, song and dance, the Boston College Arts Festival is a celebration of the literary arts. In the spotlight this year are senior English majors in the Creative Writing Concentration and faculty writers who will read their fiction, poetry or creative nonfiction. Faculty scheduled to appear are: Maxim D. Shrayer, John M. Anderson, Suzanne Matson, Elizabeth Graver, Carlo Rotella, Bob Chibka, Susana Roberts, Michael C. Keith, Paul Doherty and Christopher Boucher. A detailed schedule is available on the Arts Festival website.
Hogan at Arts Festival
Author and alumnus Chuck Hogan will return to campus this week to take part in the University’s annual Arts Festival, where he will be honored for his artistic achievement. Hogan is the author of several books, including Prince of Thieves, which was adapted into the film “The Town” starring Ben Affleck. Hogan will be interviewed for an event (Apr. 28, 4:30 p.m., Devlin Hall 101) called “Inside the BC Studio,” modeled after Bravo TV’s show “Inside the Actors Studio.” At 7 p.m. there will be a screening of “The Town” followed by a Q&A and book signing with Hogan. On Friday, Apr. 29, Hogan will discuss “Prince of Thieves and The Town: A Boston Crime Story as Novel and Movie” at 7 p.m. in Devlin Hall 101 for the Lowell Humanities Series. For details, check out the Arts Festival website.
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Women and post-war Bosnia
Boston College Professor of Slavic and Eastern Languages Cynthia Simmons published “Women Engaged/Engaged Art in Postwar Bosnia: Reconciliation, Recovery, and Civil Society” in The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies, a scholarly paper series published by the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Russian and East European Studies. She talks about her research on postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina and the recasting of women’s roles in public life in this video from the Boston College Libraries.
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Review of The Case for Lebanon
Language Memory and Identity in the Middle East: The Case for Lebanon by Boston College Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Arabic, and Hebrew Franck Salameh was reviewed by Professor Mordechai Nisan of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the Spring 2011 issue of the Middle East Quarterly (Volume 18, Number 2). Here is an excerpt: “The essence of Salameh’s thesis is that langauge–one rooted in the distant past and leavened with a multiplicity of more contemporary influences–continues to leave its imprint both on how the Lebanese communicate in the popular domain but also on what makes Lebanon the extraordinary human venture it is. […] Salameh’s meticulous research makes for a most worthy book that makes a significant contribution to the literature. His study elucidates a core aspect of national identity with repercussions for all the Arabic-speaking countries. The author questions a conventional and sanctified concept of an Arab world which, battered and bruised by internecine political rivalries and animosities, is as desiccated as a Middle Eastern desert in the heat of summer.” Read the full review.
Lucky Grossman
Vasily Grossman had been one of the principal voices of anti-Nazi resistance, a legendary journalist who spent 1000 days at the front during World War II. When he died in 1964, a month before the removal of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, he had already been devastated by the efforts of the Soviet regime to delete him from history. The Road, a new collection of Grossman’s shorter prose that presents a retrospective of the writer’s career, is reviewed by BC Professor of Russian and English Maxim D. Shrayer in the Spring 2011 issue of the Jewish Review of Books Review (click on “Lucky Grossman” headline to see text).
Baseball stories
Author Lenny Cassuto will deliver a lecture on “Baseball and the Business of American Innocence” to mark the publication of his new co-edited (with Stephen Partridge) book, The Cambridge Companion to Baseball, on Apr. 19 from 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. in Connolly House, 300 Hammond Street, Chestnut Hill. Cassuto is also the author of Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories, which was nominated for the Edgar and Macavity Awards and named one of the Ten Best Books of 2008 in the crime and mystery category by the Los Angeles Times. His articles about American crime fiction have appeared in The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, the Minnesota Review, and other publications. His other books include The Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque In American Literature and Culture and three edited volumes. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Irish Studies and American Studies programs.
Privatize This?
In Privatize This? Assessing the Opportunities and Costs of Privatization, Boston College Adjunct Associate Professor of Economics Richard McGowan, SJ examines the ideology and motives behind the privatization or nationalization of an industry. Based on real-world case studies, ranging from Spain’s privatization of its cigarette industry to Pennsylvania’s “state store system” for selling liquor, the book focuses on the central issues of privatization—profit versus public good, protection from fraud and waste—and shows how the recent economic upheaval has changed public opinion and public policy on privatization. Fr. McGowan, the author of six books on the interactions of business and government, contends that privatization—championed by the Bush Administration–continues to be a controversial concept, and is as synonymous with waste, cronyism, and fraud as it is with efficiency and competition.
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