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Literature

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Don’t Want to Read Jonathan Franzen? Try Kickstarter.

How much would someone have to pay you to read a book you had no interest in? For local writer and artist Amy Collier, it’s […]

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J.K. Rowling Adds Salem to the Harry Potter Universe

The lead up to November’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them just got more exciting for American Harry Potter fans: Author J.K. Rowling is writing a […]

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New Books to Read in Spring 2016

Blackass by Igoni Barrett A young Nigerian man wakes up to discover he’s become a white man, which changes everything from his employment prospects to the […]

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14 Reasons to Love the Boston Public Library

The Boston Public Library was dealt a great injustice recently, as some idiot decided to vandalize its Copley Square facade. Though that shameful paint job was […]

City Life

TBT: When the Word ‘Serendipity’ Was Coined

Ser·en·dip·i·ty \ser-ən-ˈdi-pə-tē\ noun 1 an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident. 2 good fortune; luck   On January 28, 1754, a very important letter […]

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826 Boston Created a Living Storybook That Anyone Can Write In

Attention all aspiring authors, elementary school kids, imaginative souls, and everyone in between. There’s a living storybook at WriteSomething.org you can write in, adding as […]

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A BC Professor Recovered Lost Poems About Boston

Boston is undoubtedly a hub of literary greatness. From Thoreau to Hawthorne, countless writers have penned classics within city limits and produced eloquent reflections on […]

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BPL Reveals Most-Borrowed Books of 2015

When The Girl on the Train debuted in January, many critics hailed it as the new Gone Girl. It comes as no surprise, then, that the new Paula […]

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Four Things You Didn’t Know About Moby-Dick

The sinking of the Essex piqued Herman Melville’s interest almost 200 years ago, and more recently, the interest of Warner Bros. Pictures. A new film, […]

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Cape Cod Goes to the Dogs in Photo Book by Kim Roderiques

Adele, a black Labrador retriever, and her owner, Marty, were one block away from Boylston Street when the explosions went off on the afternoon of […]

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Travel Author Paul Theroux Discusses New Book, Deep South

Paul Theroux may hail from Medford, but calling him a “local” isn’t entirely accurate. The impossibly prolific travel writer has spent the past 50 years […]

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Jesse Eisenberg Talks New Book, Working with Ben Affleck

After taking Hollywood by storm, Jesse Eisenberg is making his literary fiction debut with his new collection of stories, Bream Gives Me Hiccups. The Academy Award […]

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How Boston Helped Rainn Wilson Fall in Love with Acting

A red sunset peeked through the falling snow as Rainn Wilson walked out of a matinee screening at Government Center one winter afternoon in 1985. The Office star […]

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Massacre on the Merrimack Rekindles True Tale of Revenge in Colonial Haverhill

On the morning of March 15, 1697, members of the Abenaki tribe raided Haverhill, then just an English village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The […]

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You Can See What Books Louisa May Alcott Checked Out at the Athenaeum

Your interactions with Louisa May Alcott have been limited, for the most part. You’re able to read her books and stroll by her Beacon Hill […]