Tag Archives: nonfiction
‘The People’s Hospital’
Physician and author Ricardo Nuila will talk about his acclaimed book, The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine, at Boston College on September 10 at 7 p.m. in Gasson 100. The People’s Hospital details the stories of five … Continue reading
‘Be Unapologetically Impatient’
Have you ever asked “Why?” and been met by a response like: “That’s just the way we do things here.” According to Christina Cipriano, who holds a Ph.D. from the Boston College Lynch School of Education and Human Development, it’s … Continue reading
Girls with Goals
Girls and women have always found a way to play soccer, in spite of bans, challenges, rules, and backward-looking attitudes. Today, soccer is the most popular women’s sport in the world. A new YA book by Boston College alumna Clelia … Continue reading
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Tagged athletes, nonfiction, soccer, sports, women's history
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An innocent man
In a small Missouri town in 1992, the body of 19-year-old Mischelle Lawless was found in her car, stalled on the side of a road. Joshua C. Kezer was arrested and charged for her murder—and spent the next 16 years … Continue reading
Reuben Jonathan Miller on mass incarceration
Reuben Jonathan Miller, an associate professor at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and a research professor at the American Bar Foundation, will present “Mass Incarceration, Voting Rights, and Citizenship” at Boston College … Continue reading
Pickwick Club
On the night of July 4, 1925, the Pickwick Club, a five-story speakeasy in Boston, collapsed, killing 44 people and seriously injuring dozens more. In his book, Deathtrap: Boston’s Pickwick Club Disaster, 1961 Boston College graduate John Keefe, a retired … Continue reading
Asian American is Not A Color
Educator and race scholar OiYan Poon’s new book Asian American Is Not a Color: Conversations on Race, Affirmative Action, and Family (Beacon Press, 2024) is inspired by her daughter’s questions about race and racism. Poon conducted interviews with Asian Americans … Continue reading
Plymouth, MA and Columbia, MO
Stephen Paul Sayers, a 1988 Boston College graduate, pays homage to two of his favorite locations in the United States in the travel books, 100 Things to Do in Columbia, MO Before You Die and 100 Things to Do in … Continue reading
The Troubles, grief, and trauma
Martin Doyle will discuss his new book, Dirty Linen: The Troubles In My Home Place (Merrion Press, 2023), at Boston College on April 3 at 5 p.m. in Connolly House. Dirty Linen is an intimate, personal history of the Northern … Continue reading
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Tagged nonfiction, Northern Ireland, The Troubles, trauma, violence
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Women, vengeance, and justice
Emmy-winning journalist and author Elizabeth Flock examines how three women used violence and lethal force to gain power, safety, and freedom when the institutions meant to protect them—government, police, courts—failed to do so. Flock’s new book The Furies: Women, Vengeance, … Continue reading
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