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-7 posts tagged "memoir"
Caroline Collins | Monday, August 28, 2023
On the day that 22-year-old Kathleen Osberger arrived in Chile in 1975, two years following the CIA-assisted military coup which overthrew the democratically elected president and installed a military junta under the leadership of Augusto Pinochet, she learned of a secret that would mark her time in the country. The religious sisters that Osberger would be
Willoughby Thom | Friday, November 11, 2022
“I was born with an eccentric heart.” Growing up, I listened to a lot of music, and U2 was always on repeat. My father is one of the biggest U2 fans you will ever meet. In addition to collecting their records, watching their concert films and learning all about their history, my father has seen
Ryan Peters | Wednesday, March 30, 2022
When John Wilford was first introduced to the Sunshine Clubhouse in South Bend, he heard the clubhouse was looking to start a newsletter. A former director of biotechnology equipment production, Wilford saw a row of nonfunctioning computers and went to work. He managed to get a few of the computers up and running and helped
Evan McKenna | Wednesday, September 22, 2021
During his time at Notre Dame from 1978 to 1982, Greg Bourke’s identity as a gay man was something to be discussed only through student-run hotlines and covert off-campus meetings. Now, almost 40 years later, Bourke is in the midst of a book tour for his new memoir “Gay, Catholic, and American: My Legal Battle
Ariana Howe | Friday, September 4, 2020
Department chair of humanistic studies Phil Hicks recently published a book entitled, “Old Notre Dame: Paul Fenlon, Sorin Hall & Me,” about a professor he became friends with when he was a history major at Notre Dame. “[It’s] a memoir of my undergraduate days when I befriended an 80-year-old professor who had lived in my
Mike Donovan | Thursday, April 12, 2018
Irresponsible post-modernists tend to leave a broad, often vacuous, gash of absurdity (read: crap) in their literary wake. The acutely self-aware (semi) post-modernist, Julián Herbert, explains: “In the majority of cases, a post-modern novel is nothing more than a costumbriso cross-dressing as cool jazz and/or pedantic and/or pedantic rhetoric a la Kenneth Goldsmith that spends
Caelin Miltko | Monday, September 19, 2016
Father Edward “Monk” Malloy released the final installment of his three-part memoir on Aug. 25 and a book launch at Notre Dame followed on Sept. 14. “Monk’s Tale: The Presidential Years” completes a project Malloy originally intended to be a single book, until he began writing his childhood years — the first book — and realized a