On February 22nd, acclaimed writer George Saunders visited Boston College to grant his audience “A Reading from his Work.” Among his most famous books are the story collections Pastoralia, In Persuasion Nation, and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, and the essay collection The Braindead Megaphone.
Additionally, Saunders writes often for Harper’s, McSweeney’s, The Guardian, The New [...]

Recently, Professor Lewis Hyde visited the Boston College campus to discuss the benefits of public discourse and collective thinking in a lecture entitled “Freedom of Listening.” A poet, essayist, translator, and cultural critic, Hyde has produced much insightful writing to be commended, including his famous book The Gift that was published in 1983.
Deservedly, Professor Hyde [...]

On the evening of February 10th at 7:30, Maureen Foley, the author of the new novel The Book of Illumination: A Novel from the Ghost Files, was scheduled to visit the Boston College bookstore at McElroy Commons to converse about, read from, and sign her debut novel.
Written jointly with Mary Ann Winkowski, the novel explores [...]

At the O’Neill Library, a display providing information about the past 200 years of Catholicism in Boston stole the glances of passersby at the beginning of February. Inspired by the book of essays Two Centuries of Faith: the Influence of Catholicism on Boston: 1808-2008, the exhibit aimed to evaluate the Catholic influences on Boston through [...]

Nancy Werlin, acclaimed  author of young adult books,  recently visited the Vanderslice  Cabaret room at Boston College  to discuss her published works,  experiences as an author, and  plan for future works. Guiding  the discussion were the voices of  “Conversations With” who conduct informal interviews with  “authors, illustrators, and educators.”
According to Nancy, she had  wanted to [...]

The New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer visited Boston College’s  Vanderslice Cabaret Room to  read from, discuss and sign his  newest book, Eating Animals,  that was released just this year.
Having won tremendous  praise for his first novel, Everything Is Illuminated, which recounts a man’s effort to acquaint  himself with his ancestry, and  for [...]

Dean Cycon, owner of Dean’s Beans – an organic, fair-trade, kosher coffee roaster in Orange, Massachusetts – and author of Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee, recently visited Boston College to share his insight on sustainable business as a vehicle for social change.  Recounting his journey from lawyer to coffee connoisseur, Cycon [...]

On Thursday September 17, 2009, the class of 2013 was formally welcomed into the BC community by author Anne Patchett. After reading Patchett’s engaging novel Run about an eclectic Catholic family living in the city of Boston, the freshmen listened to her speech in hopes of gleaning a few morsels of advice with which to [...]