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Boston University BU, College of Communication COM, professor Dick Lehr, Whitey Bulger 02.21.2013

“Whitey”: The Story of a Monster

Boston University BU, Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading, National Book Award–winner Terrance Hayes, Ani Gjika, 02.20.2013

Poems That Invoke Cultural Figures, from Harriet Tubman to Dr. Seuss

The Feminine Mystique book by author Betty Friedan, 50th anniversary of Feminine Mystique 02.12.2013

Friedan’s Feminine Mystique Turns 50

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 02.06.2013

Machiavelli’s The Prince: Still Relevant after All These Years

Carrie Preston, associate professor of English, Boston University, Modernism’s Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance book, Learning to Kneel: Noh, Modernism, and the Pedagogies of Transnational Performance bookVideo: 01.29.2013

Linking the Ivory Tower with the Street

Boston University BU, nobel laureate Elie Wiesel interview, new novel memoir, Open Heart, Hostage 12.10.2012

Nobel Laureate Wiesel on His New Novel, Memoir

The Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading, Pulitzer-winning poet C. K. Williams, Eleanor Goodman, poetry reading, The Castle 12.06.2012

Lowell Poetry Series Presents “Fellini of the Written Word”

Tom Lyons, New England Mobile Book Fair 11.08.2012

Crazy? The Man Bought a Bookstore

Three Encounters with Elie Wiesel The Fascination with Jewish Tales annual lecture series, Boston University Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities, 1986 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Holocaust survivor, author 10.15.2012

Annual Elie Wiesel Lecture Series Begins Tonight

Hanna Rosin author of The End of Men And the Rise of Women book, dominant human gender 10.12.2012

The End of Men: True or False?

Running Ransom Road Confronting the Past One Marathon at a Time book by author Caleb Daniloff, running, jogging, marathons, alcoholism 10.09.2012

Confronting the Past, One Marathon at a Time

Boston University BU psychology professor Donna Pincus, Growing Up Brave: Expert Strategies for Helping Your Child Overcome Fear, Stress, and Anxiety, childhood anxiety stress and stress 10.03.2012

When the World Is Scarier Than It Should Be

Sylvia Nasar's new book details how economists developed anti-poverty strategies. 09.25.2012

Sylvia Nasar’s Grand Pursuit

The Kings’ Mistresses: The Liberated Lives of Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna, and Her Sister Hortense, Duchess Mazarin by Elizabeth Goldsmith, College of Arts & Sciences CAS professor 08.27.2012

17th-Century Sisters the Kardashians Might Admire

Sin the early history of an idea by Paula Fredriksen, Christian views on original sin 08.06.2012

Evolving Ideas of Sin

Ben Mezrich author sex on the moon the amazing story behind the most audacious heist in history accidental billionaires book 07.16.2012

Sex on the Moon

Stephen Prothero author of The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation book 06.28.2012

In Arguing We Trust

Forgotten Chapters of Boston’s Literary History exhibit at Boston Public Library 06.13.2012

Discover the Forgotten Chapters of Boston’s Literary History

Jay Atkinson author, Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man: Guts, Glory and Blood in the World’s Greatest Game, Ice Time, Legends of Winter Hill book 06.01.2012

Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man

Author Justin Halpern, I Suck at Girls book, Shit Sh*t My Dad Says 05.29.2012

Sh*t My Dad Says Author Reads Tonight

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