From sports-loving tomboy, to Boston pride parades, to finding his community online
MUCH MORE THAN A MURDER MEMOIR
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich explains where stories really come from
‘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.
INK BIG: MOLLY CRABAPPLE DRAWS BLOOD, WRITES PAIN IN NEW MEMOIR
“It’s always the same thing—people who are making their careers claiming they are speaking for people who they say are supposedly voiceless but who are actually shouting to be heard and are still being marginalized.”
THOMAS PAGE MCBEE’S ‘MAN ALIVE’ WILL BE ASSIGNED TO YOUR GRANDCHILDREN IN HIGH SCHOOL
By the time I say all this out loud, Thomas Page McBee will likely be a ubiquitous name in literary circles, and folks will scratch their chins as I remind them that before Man Alive was assigned to every high school student in the land, such stories of staggering transgender triumph hadn’t yet become part of the American narrative.
MEDIA FARM: WITH NEW BOOK, FORMER MAYOR MENINO FINALLY GETS TO WRITE THE HEADLINES
Menino presents a version of the past four decades of local politics that’s absolutely entertaining, but should be taken with a pound of salt.
