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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 … Continue reading
A reading by Graver
Boston College English Professor Elizabeth Graver will read from her new novel The End of the Point on Mar. 14 at 4:30 p.m. at the O’Neill Library Reading Room at Boston College. She also will share stories about the research … Continue reading
The End of the Point
A new book by acclaimed novelist and Boston College English Professor Elizabeth Graver will be released next week by HarperCollins. Set in a fictional summer community on Buzzards Bay from 1942 through 1999, The End of the Point traces one … Continue reading
Rotella on Playing in Time
English Professor Carlo Rotella, director of the University’s American Studies program, was interviewed about his new book, Playing in Time, by Brendan Rapple of the BC Libraries. Take a listen. Playing in Time, featured in BC Bookmarks in October, features … Continue reading
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From Rotella: a new book, a NYT book review and two columns
According to a New York Times book review by English Professor Carlo Rotella, Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany — a collection of the author’s reporting, essays, short stories and drama– is a worthwhile read for Portis’ fans. Rotella, who also … Continue reading
A poet’s Magnum Opus
Epitaphs for the Journey, a new collection by award-winning poet and University Professor of English Paul Mariani, offers the best of his long and distinguished career: it brings together new poetry, revisits his extensive body of work which spans four … Continue reading
Discovering Joyce’s Dublin
The Dublin of 1904, explored by Leopold Bloom in James Joyce’s Ulysses, is now accessible to the tech-savvy inhabitants of the 21st century thanks to JoyceWays, a multimedia virtual tour created by Boston College undergraduates with the help of BC … Continue reading
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