“I honestly thought that the most challenging thing would be to create this narrative of a city that doesn’t exist anymore purely with raw materials that everyone considers trash. Ads are cutting room floor. It’s like when you make a pie and you have extra dough and you make snickerdoodles out of it.”
PRINT AIN’T DEAD: UPHAM’S CORNER POP-UP BOOKSTORES BRING COMMUNITY WORKS BY WRITERS OF COLOR
With Boston full of so much history and culture, it’s natural that there are so many bookstores all around the city. But as Arielle Gray and Cierra Michele noticed, most of those shops lack sections of books written by authors of color. They also saw that certain neighborhoods like Dorchester don’t have bookstores, which […]
BOOK EXCERPT: SKETCHTASY
Reprinted with permission from the new book by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Arsenal Pulp Press 2018)
INTERVIEW + EXCERPT: ‘CALL ME ANOREXIC: THE BALLAD OF A THIN MAN’
“Let’s be clear: Anorexia destroyed my career. It destroyed my love life. It destroyed everything in its path.”
THE SABOTEUR: A VIVID TALE OF COURAGE IN THE FACE OF NAZI FORCE
Like so many masters of deep research and compelling narrative historical nonfiction before him, Kix leaves very little for the reader to imagine on their own. Some of the descriptions are extremely terrifying, but they’re also necessary if one is to understand the plight of the protagonist.
THROWBACK: BRICKLAYER BILL AND THE ADVENTURES OF AN AMATEUR
A glimpse of the days when sports stars shone closer to earth
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?”
BOSTON’S FIRST ANNUAL ART BOOK FAIR
Celebrating DIY culture in the Hub
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.
BOOK BINGER: MUSIC READS FOR THE BEACH THIS SUMMER
Beach reads for music lovers, covering everything from Twin Peaks to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
