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BOSTON ROCK NOIR: CLEA SIMON’S SCENESTER MYSTERY HAS BEEN SIMMERING FOR DECADES
"I finally got to write about the rock scene, but it’s also about the fallibility of memory, and that weird nostalgia. We all look back on our youth as some kind of golden time, but we’re all subjective, we’re all flawed. How much of that is real?"
YOU ARE WHAT YOU DRINK (AND IF YOU’RE DRINKING HOPS, YOU SHOULD BE READING PETE BROWN)
Brown’s tagline is broad: “Beer is the third most popular drink on the planet, yet few people know the full story behind its four ingredients.”
POE RETURNS TO BOSTON IN GRAPHIC NOVEL FORM
“He describes the narrator dismembering this body, which is horrifying enough, but when you do that visually, it becomes over-the-top grisly,” Hinds said. “I had to strike the right balance, which actually was to show very little and leave a lot to the reader’s imagination.”
BOOKS: A DIG Q+A WITH SKYLAR KERGIL AKA SKYLARKELEVEN
From sports-loving tomboy, to Boston pride parades, to finding his community online
UNIVERSALIZING RESISTANCE
A Q+A with BC sociology professor Charles Derber on his new book
Why did you decide to publish a book on “universalizing resistance” at this particular moment in history?
Because our survival is at stake. Universalizing resistance is a path toward dismantling the militarized capitalism before it wipes us all out. Climate ...
BOSSTOWN: NEW NOVEL NAVIGATES BIG DIG ERA BOSTON
"I grew up in communes in Allston in the ’70s. There used to be this great big penny poker game at the Spanish House commune; it was in the former Spanish consulate on Commonwealth Avenue."
BOOKS: THE ULTIMATE BOND
A Q+A with David Gessner about his high-flying Frisbee tome
SKIFFLE BALL: THE GREAT BILLY BRAGG ON INSPIRATIONAL GRASSROOTS AND GIVING UP BEING HIP
I used to feel, metaphorically, that I stood by a vast river of music and everything that was happening came down that river and I hooked out anything that was interesting to me. Now, I feel like I’m on a small boat on a calm sea and I’m only hearing the stuff that swims near me.
BOOKS: ‘MARRIAGE OF A THOUSAND LIES’
SJ Sindu on her debut novel and growing up in Mass as a queer Sri Lankan immigrant