Steve Onderick documents the man, the myth, the meme for 2016 ...
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PRAYER FOR THE COMMON WEALTH
A wish list for Governor Baker ...
EXCERPT: ‘HAMMER HEAD: THE MAKING OF A CARPENTER’
Nina MacLaughlin left her job at an alt weekly to work as a carpenter. This is her story.
GET OUT THERE: WINTER NIGHTLIFE GUIDE
Think of it as a snapshot of what Sunday-Thursday has in store for you between now and the spring solstice on March 20, a time period that may later be referred to as “The Great Melt.”
MY FRIEND WAS DETAINED AS A SUSPECT IN THE BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING MANHUNT. THIS IS HIS STORY …
“Out of nowhere, then . . . they flipped me over and . . . they’re cuffing me and giving me a full search down.”
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FICTION: SAINT VALENTINA
YOU WERE BORN the day the IRA kidnapped Shergar. The radio reported it, and the t.v. did, too. The midwife suspected that the Russians had taken him.
Q&A: WEDGE & SHERMAN ON ‘BOSTON STRONG’
"I know we’re going to get people that roll their eyes about the name of the book because they think it’s a marketing ploy and a t-shirt, but to them I’ll just say 'read it.'"
EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT FROM THE NEW BOOK “BOSTON STRONG”
This legal Ping-Pong game will continue to go back and forth through his trial. Meanwhile, Dzhokhar sits in his cell, living off meals of chicken and rice and allowed to make only one phone call, write only one letter each week.
EXCERPT: THE WRITING LIFE OF DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
Part of a draft of The Pale King was written in a notebook with a character from the animated TV series Rugrats on the cover, another in one featuring a photo of kittens.