
Longtime JP music and creative mainstay serves up another memoir (of sorts)
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Written by CHRIS FARAONE Filed Under: A+E, Books
Longtime JP music and creative mainstay serves up another memoir (of sorts)
Written by PETER BERARD Filed Under: A+E, Books
A new biography of Boston anti-racist leader William Monroe Trotter
ONE DECEMBER SUNDAY, just two weeks before Christmas, Rose and Mark came home to discover Gretl alone in the yard, surrounded by trails of sticky black hair and a tangle of grayish, gnawed up bones. Hans’s rat-like skull, the eyes picked clean, poked out from under a deck chair on the far side of ... read more
Written by TAK TOYOSHIMA Filed Under: FEATURES, Fiction
“Tough life out here, huh, boy?” She stroked his ears, his thoughts moving up through her hands. He was old, and it hurt to swallow. He had run away from a man who came home drunk some nights and kicked him. It made her throat tighten and her eyes wet. “That’s bad. I’m really sorry.” Some people fed him, but mostly he ate garbage, and he hurt every night when it got cold. He hurt all the time. He wanted peace, and he looked right into her face to say it.