Tag Archives: memoir
Finding home
In his forthcoming memoir, A Chance in the World: An Orphan Boy, a Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home, alumnus Steve Pemberton (Class of 1989) writes about growing up in a foster home with no knowledge of … Continue reading
Why Memoir?
BC Associate Professor of English Amy Boesky (pictured), English Dept. faculty member Suzanne Berne, and Joan Wickersham—three authors of recent memoirs—discuss the complications and possibilities of the form, and how their own thinking about memoir evolved during the writing of … Continue reading
Thumbs up for Longing to Love
A book review in America magazine praises Assistant to Vice President for University Mission and Ministry Tim Muldoon’s memoir, Longing to Love: A Memoir of Desire, Relationships, and Spiritual Transformation, calling it “a compelling portrait of. . .how longing and … Continue reading
What We Have
Check out Boston College Associate Professor of English Amy Boesky who will be in Cohasset on Friday, Sept. 17 for a bookstore event. Boesky’s new book, What We Have, is a stirring memoir about love, loss and survival in a … Continue reading
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