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.
BOOK BINGER: MUSIC READS FOR THE BEACH THIS SUMMER
Beach reads for music lovers, covering everything from Twin Peaks to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
INTERVIEW: LEAH CARROLL’S NEW BOOK REVISITS ROUGH RHODE ISLAND MEMORIES AND TOUGH PERSONAL TRIALS
Leah Carroll’s book revisits rough Rhode Island memories and tough personal trials
DEEP WATER: A Q+A WITH KATHERINE NICHOLS
There will always be someone who was somewhere on the beach at some point who says, “Well that’s not how it happened exactly.” But you write representative pieces, and I had a lot of creative freedom to connect the dots.
MUCH MORE THAN A MURDER MEMOIR
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich explains where stories really come from
AGE OF RAGE: MASS NATIVE PENS DEEP, COLORFUL PORTRAIT OF TRUMP NATION
‘I would never discount or downplay the racism and “authoritarianism” swimming in Trump’s base, but I also wouldn’t reduce it to those things.’
‘POP’ GOES THE GENRE
A conversation with Berklee English prof Mark Polanzak about his new sorta memoir As journalists at DigBoston, it’s hard for us to worship genre-benders who take liberties in weaving fiction into nonfiction and memoir. But while phonies like Ben Mezrich patch together micro lies with fantasy and package slop as real talk, Berklee College […]
EXCERPT: ‘POP!’ BY MARK POLANZAK
But I wrote this funny story about my dad’s death. It goes on for many more pages, being funny and super distanced from the grief.
EXCERPT: ‘WHERE THE BODIES WERE BURIED: WHITEY BULGER AND THE WORLD THAT MADE HIM’
“Every time your name comes up, the prosecutors immediately raise an objection.”
EXCERPT: CAPTAIN SWORD AND THE FIRST GREAT AMERICAN ART FRAUD
Capt. Sword boarded the Connecticut, with his George Washington in tow. However, his destination was not Virginia—it was the Far East.
