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IN A BIND: GREATER BOSTON’S BOOKSTORES THRIVE ONLINE AND ON LOVE

Written by MITA KATARIA Posted August 24, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Books

Harvard Book Store

“In a tactile way, things feel lovely and serene and intriguing. You’re led from one place to the next through your own imagination and inclination to explore and discover.”

Filed Under: A+E, Books Tagged With: Bookstores, Brattle Book Shop, Brookline Booksmith, Grolier Poetry Book Shop, Harvard Book Store

SPECIAL FEATURE: FENTANYL IN THE FAMILY

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted September 3, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Books, FEATURES, Non-fiction

Ben Westhoff’s dive into the 'deadliest wave of the opioid epidemic' is the most frightening book of the year, and it’s mandatory reading

Filed Under: A+E, Books, FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: addiction, addicts, arts, Ben Westhoff, books, Brookline Booksmith, china, criminal justice, Donald Trump, drugs, F.I.G.H.T., Fentanyl Inc., fight, opiates, opioids, Oxycontin, Recovery, Suboxone, upcoming events, Walter White

THE SABOTEUR: A VIVID TALE OF COURAGE IN THE FACE OF NAZI FORCE

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted February 21, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Books

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.

Filed Under: A+E, Books Tagged With: book reviews, books, Brookline Booksmith, france, Paul Kix, The Saboteur, World War II

BOOKS: A DIG Q+A WITH SKYLAR KERGIL AKA SKYLARKELEVEN

Written by M.J. TIDWELL Posted September 12, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Books

From sports-loving tomboy, to Boston pride parades, to finding his community online

Filed Under: A+E, Books Tagged With: Activism, Before I Had the Words, Boston, Brookline Booksmith, memoir, Sky, Skylar Kergil, transgender, YouTube channel

BOSSTOWN: NEW NOVEL NAVIGATES BIG DIG ERA BOSTON

Written by M.J. TIDWELL Posted August 1, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Books

"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."

Filed Under: A+E, Books Tagged With: Adam Abramowitz, Allston, big dig, bike messenger, Bosstown, Boston, Brookline Booksmith, fiction, novel, Vicious Cycle

SKIFFLE BALL: THE GREAT BILLY BRAGG ON INSPIRATIONAL GRASSROOTS AND GIVING UP BEING HIP

Written by M.J. TIDWELL Posted July 13, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Books

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.

Filed Under: A+E, Books Tagged With: books, Brookline Booksmith, Donald Trump, England, London, Lonnie Donegan, Margaret Thatcher, Punk, Roots Radicals and Rockers How Skiffle Changed the World, Skiffle

INTERVIEW: LEAH CARROLL’S NEW BOOK REVISITS ROUGH RHODE ISLAND MEMORIES AND TOUGH PERSONAL TRIALS

Written by M.J. TIDWELL Posted June 28, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Books

Leah Carroll’s book revisits rough Rhode Island memories and tough personal trials

Filed Under: A+E, Books Tagged With: Autobiography, books, Brookline Booksmith, Down City, Leah Carroll, mafia, murder, providence, Rhode Island

MUCH MORE THAN A MURDER MEMOIR

Written by M.J. TIDWELL Posted May 29, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Books

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich explains where stories really come from

Filed Under: A+E, Books Tagged With: Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, books, Brookline Booksmith, Grub Street, harvard, memoir, nonfiction, The Fact of a Body, true crime

OVERNIGHT, UNDER DURESS: A MARATHON READING OF A SINCLAIR LEWIS CLASSIC IN LIGHT OF EMERGING FASCISM

Written by DIG STAFF Posted March 21, 2017 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

In an age that’s increasingly anti-intellectual, the study of history is gravely necessary, and this novel reminds us that this threat has come before.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: Aforementioned Productions, Brookline Booksmith, Carissa Halston, Donald Trump, fascism, It Can't Happen Here, Randolph Pfaff, Sinclair Lewis

DIG THIS: GOGOL BORDELLO, STELLA STARSKY, AND THE ROCK & ROLL RUMBLE

Written by DIG STAFF Posted March 30, 2016 Filed Under: DigThis

Your week in stuff to do

Filed Under: DigThis Tagged With: Boston LGBT Film Festival, Brookline Booksmith, Dan Whalen, Gogol Bordello, Nathalia Holt, Oberon, Once Ballroom, paradise rock club, Passport to Pasta, Rise of the Rocket Girls, Rock & Roll Rumble, Stella Starsky, WGBH Studios, WZLX

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