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A composite image with the book covers of The Art Of Revision: The Last Word, The Artist And The Eternal City: Bernini, Pope Alexander Vii, And The Making Of Rome, Banned In Boston, The Combat Zone: Murder, Race, And Boston’s Struggle For Justice, Flame In A Stable, The Legendary Toad’s Place: Stories From New Haven’s Famed Music Venue, Music Is Murder, Payback’s A Witch, Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, And The Global Battle For Cultural Supremacy, and They Called Us Girls: Stories Of Female Ambition From Suffrage To Mad Men

Books

Reading List: New Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry by BU Alums Peter Ho Davies, Daniel M. Kimmel, Jan Brogan, and Others

May 16, 2022

Photo of Christine Riccio (COM’12) sitting on a cement staircase outside and hugging three copies of her book "Better Together." Riccio has long, wavy blonde hair and tilts her head as she smiles. She wears a white blouse with white sleeves and tan corduroy overalls.

Books

Alum Christine Riccio Turned a Love of Reading into a Career as a YouTuber and an Author

March 1, 2022

Photo of Zenda Walker in a red blouse, smiling, as she sits on a staircase with her daughter, in pink, in her lap.

Books

Detangling the History of Black Hair

December 10, 2021

Composite image of the book covers for: At The Foot Of The Mountain By Tak Erzinger; The Brain On Youth Sports: The Science, The Myths, And The Future By Julie Stamm; Game Misconduct: Hockey's Toxic Culture And How To Fix It By Jashvina Shah and Evan F. Moore; Hair Twins By Raakhee Mirchandani; Literacy Heroines: Women And The Written Word By Alice Horning; No Other Rome By Heather Green; Sailing To Freedom: Maritime Dimensions Of The Underground Railroad Edited by Timothy D. Walker; Small Town Monsters By Diana Rodriguez Wallach; and The Playwright's House By Dariel Suarez

Books

Reading List Fall 2021

November 17, 2021

Composite image. At left, a photo of Ha Jin in a tan scally cap and purpleish suit with a red, white and blue polka dot pattern tie. He sits on the edge of a park bench and crosses his hand over the arm rest. At right, the book cover for Ha Jin’s novel, “A Song Everlasting.” The cover features a series of golden birds landing on 5 black lines and the background is blue and white watercolor. The bottom of the cover reads “National Book Award-Wining Author of Waiting”

Books

Ha Jin Ponders the High Cost of Freedom

October 5, 2021

Composite image of the book covers for the following books: ALL ABOUT FLOWERS: JAMES VICK’S NINETEENTH-CENTURY SEED COMPANY By Thomas Mickey; ANIMAL By Lisa Taddeo; BITTER MAGIC: INSPIRED BY THE TRUE STORY OF A CONFESSED WITCH By Nancy Hayes Kilgore; THE COST OF KNOWING By Brittney Morris; ECONOMY HALL: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF A FREE BLACK BROTHERHOOD By Fatima Shaik; THE FALLS By Emily Mohn-Slate; A FEMINIST CRITIQUE OF POLICE STOPS By Josephine Ross; THE GREEK CONNECTION By James Barron; LOVE IS GREATER THAN PAIN: SECRETS FROM THE UNIVERSE FOR HEALING AFTER LOSS By Marilyn Kapp; OUR OWN WORST ENEMY: THE ASSAULT FROM WITHIN ON MODERN DEMOCRACY By Tom Nichols; RED DECEPTION By Ed Fuller; THE SOUVENIR MUSEUM By Elizabeth McCracken; WHY WE ARE RESTLESS: ON THE MODERN QUEST FOR CONTENTMENT By Jenna Silber Store.

Books

Reading List Summer 2021: New Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry by BU Alums

July 24, 2021

Composite image of the book covers for: Corner Shrine, Devastation Class, In Security, The Land of the Dead is Open for Business, The Man Who Loved His Wife, Me and Her Shadow, Sugar Shock, Ten Thousand Shells and Counting: A Memoir, and Terror to the Wicked: America’s First Trial by Jury that Ended a War and Helped to Form a Nation.

Books

Reading List: New Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry by BU Alums

March 25, 2021

composite image of book covers from BU alumni in two rows of six on a white background. Starting at top, left, “60 Stories about 30 Seconds” by Bruce Van Dusen, “Asian Pickles at Home” by Patricia Tanumihardja, “The Cokettes” by Fayette Hauser, “Diners, Dudes & Diets” by Emily J.H. Contois, “A Place of Exodus” by David Biespiel, “The Gretchen Question” by Jessica Treadway, “How to think like an Officer” by Reed Bonadonna, “Hunting Whitey” by Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge, “Last Call” by Elon Green, “The King’s Beast” by Eliot Pattison, “The New Husband” by D.J. Palmer, and “Women in a Waiting Room” by Kirun Kapur.

Books

Reading List

November 20, 2020

US infantrymen make their way through the Hürtgen Forest on November 8, 1944.

Books

Alum’s Book Recounts Long Overdue Search for Lost World War II Soldiers

November 11, 2020

Composite image: on the left, a portrait of Best-selling author and BU alum Sue Miller on a black background. She smiles slightly and wears a black and white stripped shirt. On the right, the book cover of "Monogamy, a novel by Sue Miller, New York Times Best-Selling Author." The cover is dark teal with orange leaves.

Literature

BU Alum Sue Miller’s Novel Monogamy Explores a Good Marriage

October 8, 2020

A composite image of some of the books discussed in the article below including The Real Deal: My Decade Fighting Battles and Winning Wars with Trump, Black Flag, A Clean Heart, Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces, Geode, How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences, Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems, and Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

Arts & Culture

Reading List: Alumni Books That Caught Our Eye

July 7, 2020

A portrait photo of Lara Ehrlich

Books

Lara Ehrlich Finds Inspiration in Fairy Tales in Her Debut Collection, Animal Wife

July 7, 2020

Two illustrations of Billie Jean King standing on a platform raising a medal above her head. Next, is an illustration of Alvin Ailey in a white shirt and dark pants dancing with a dance squad behind them.

LGBTQ+ Literature

New Illustrated Book by CAS Alum Introduces Young Readers to LGBTQ+ History

June 30, 2020

A portrait photo of Elissa Altman

Books

Layers of Love, Loathing, and Longing

March 11, 2020

A selection of book covers

Books

Reading List: Alumni Books that Caught Our Eye

February 18, 2020

Author Stewart O’Nan in his home

Arts & Culture

A Family Patriarch Finally Gets His Due

August 1, 2019

Books

Author Elizabeth McCracken Hates Elves, Loves Fortune Cookies

July 9, 2019

Tennessee Williams and Frank Merlo at a beach

Literature

Leading Men Reimagines Love Affair between Tennessee Williams and Frank Merlo

March 21, 2019

fiction

Book Reviews

February 19, 2019

black and white portrait of Henry Worsley in winter gear

Literature

Exploring Endurance

February 19, 2019

Exploring Endurance