I quoted Robby in this piece I wrote for The Nation that got syndicated in Rolling Stone and the London Guardian, saying, ‘In the short run we might lose some dough, but in the long run our songs will mature and maybe be worth more dough.’
This is after he heard that someone decided not to commit suicide because of hearing one of our songs. That’s the point. It was a soundtrack for people’s lives. To me, that’s kind of a precious relationship, and I don’t want to distort that. Continue reading
“Eating your way through Union Square is like taking a vicarious spin around the globe, while remaining fiercely local,” write the authors of Nibble. Continue reading
“The Joy Division book is about boys chasing a dream, you know, coming from punk, not sullied by money or excess, drugs, sex, and rock ‘n roll.” Continue reading
Tonight: Show MA GPO the love. Tomorrow: Read, drink, and be merry. Continue reading
He reads from his latest, the Prohibition-era Live by Night … up until Ben Affleck inevitably jetpacks in. Continue reading
There’s something wistful about these characters with their clear ambitions, their simple hearts behind sharp tongues— Continue reading
A smart rampage for the strong of stomach. Worth reading or talking to Boice himself about it this Thursday at Porter Square Books. Continue reading
The Dig likes to read. We hope you do too. Need some ideas? Boston’s independent literary scene (litscene) is so full of people, places, things and thangs that we can present you with a weekly digestif of lit-related palatables. Your only job is to read all the effing time. Continue reading
In addition to tending the raddest beard ever to come out of Detroit, the poet, professor, populist, M.L. Liebler somehow found the time to cobble together an anthology of blue-collar paeans and between-paycheck prose, a collection awesomely entitled Working Words: Punching the Clock and Kicking Out the Jams. Liebler will be in Cambridge this evening, reading selections from the work, alongside his good buddy, Al Fucking Cooper. Continue reading
Stavans, the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst, loves the Spanish language so much, he’ll write about it in English, just to make damn sure you’ll read it. Continue reading
Cleo was plowing through the glass ceiling before they could even make the damn things, pharaohing the shit out of Egypt, nailing every Roman politician you’ve ever heard of and sporting the solid brass ovaries to claim she was the earthly manifestation of the goddess Isis. Continue reading
While most of modern history is just sickly folks in loungewear arguing with each other, every now and then you run into a historical event so unabashedly rad that you have to wonder if some grad student snuck it in there for giggles. Such is the case of Frank Lenz, BMX champ of his day, who turned his status as a star of the penny-farthing circuit into a platform to pimp the newfangled safety bicycle, before disappearing in Turkey under mysterious (murderous) circumstances. Velocipede historian David Herlihy captures the tale of Lenz’ fate in The Lost Cyclist, which he’s reading from at Porter Square Books.
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