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Tennis shamans* on creative rereading
March 4th, 2019
Christopher Clarey calls A TERRIBLE SPLENDOR “One of the great tennis books and perhaps the best finish to any tennis book.”
Read moreNYPL chooses Samway’s “FLANNERY O’CONNOR AND ROBERT GIROUX” in Top Dozen “Year in Archive” Titles
December 21st, 2018
The New York Public Library’s Manuscripts and Archives Division’s year-end round up of books—”2018: The Year in Archival Research”—includes FLANNERY O’CONNOR AND ROBERT GIROUX, edited by Patrick J. Samway, S.J., among projects they were most excited to support from behind the scenes.
Read morePublishers Weekly hails Samway on O’Connor-Giroux
March 25th, 2018
“Fastidious … Samway’s analysis is thorough … The respective biographies are seamlessly welded together. … An insightful account of how an uncommonly discerning editor helped guide a distinctive authorial voice to new literary heights.” —Publishers Weekly
Read moreIn Mamet’s Book, George V. Higgins Is Tops for Dialogue
March 5th, 2018
Mamet in TheWeek.com: “[Higgins was] “a Homeric chronicler-inventor of the language of the cops, crooks, and shysters of Boston.”
Read moreThe Times Is Mindful of MANNERS
December 6th, 2017
“At a time when civility seems in short supply,” a nice plug from Judith Newman in the Times Book Review …
Read moreTeeth author Mary Otto Makes Waves in Boston
September 14th, 2017
Boston’s local media covers Mary Otto’s talk on dental justice at Harvard Med School.
Read morePatrick Samway Honored with Newbridge Award
August 3rd, 2017
Congratulations to Father Patrick Samway, SJ, on receiving the Newbridge Silver Award, presented by the Gerard Manley Hopkins Society at their 30th annual International Literary Festival at Newbridge College in County Kildare, Ireland, on July 23, 2017.
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