Fresh Ink

08/10/2025

Funny / not at all funny.

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson.

05/06/2025

This week, Republicans in Congress are meeting behind closed doors to decide how many people they want to kick off Medicaid.

How many kids will have to lose their health care coverage to fund tax handouts for billionaires?

05/26/2021

Congratulations to all the award winners, and particularly to the winners of the Dever Prize for First Year Writers — for the best essay written by a first-year student in any English course:

Grace Hone ‘24, for “The Shades of Identity: The Use of Color in Moonlight” (nominated by Nell Wasserstrom)
Mary Sarah Olson ‘23, for “Why is Kafala Unknown to Many Americans?” (nominated by Allison Adair)
Tinghao (Duncan) Wang ‘24, for “The Only Way of Doing Calligraphy” (nominated by Paula Mathieu)

This video was created to commemorate the Boston College English Department Honors Tea that took place via Zoom on May 10, 2021. Congratulations to our thesi...

04/27/2021

A substantial grant presented in honor of novelist and BC alumnus Joseph Dever, to a graduating senior who proposes to pursue a career in writing:

03/24/2021

ASPIRING WRITERS AND FILM ENTHUSIASTS OF ALL KINDS:
Join Lulu Wang, BC '05 ,to hear about the road to the film she wrote and directed, "The Farewell," which tells the story of a Chinese-American family that, upon learning their grandmother has cancer, decides not to tell her and instead stages a mock-wedding to bring the family together before she dies. It's "a film everyone should see, a window looking onto a family’s lives and loves that may well be the most sensitively told story of the year" (The Atlantic). FREE, but register here: http://bit.ly/3bfstxv
THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 7PM

Join BC alumna Lulu Wang '05 as she discusses her hit film The Farewell (2019) with Professor Tina Klein. Starring Awkwafina as a struggling writer in New York and based on a “true lie” from Wang's life, the film tells the story of a Chinese-American family that, upon learning their grandmother ...

03/07/2021

03/06/2021

happy friday! hope everyone enjoyed their “spring break”

02/15/2021

Min Jin Lee comes to BC on Feb. 24 -- to participate in the Zoom event with this extraordinary novelist, register at the link below.

Min Jin Lee, author of the bestseller Pachinko (Grand Central Publishing, 2017), will give a lecture and read from her novel in a virtual event on Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. Her reading will be followed by …

02/07/2021

“The Medical Humanities Journal of Boston College is now calling for submissions for our Spring 2021 issue! We are looking for any and all works of poetry, narrative, short stories, memoirs, non-fiction, artwork, opinion pieces related to issues of health, medical science, and the body on campus and beyond. Email us at [email protected] with any questions and submissions. The deadline to submit work is on March 5th!” Medical Humanities Journal of Boston College

01/15/2021

taking advantage of the unseasonably warm—albeit cloudy—january day