Printer’s Devil literary journal launches tonight
The Printer's Devil Review literary journal gets a launch party tonight at Middlesex Lounge.
View ArticlePoe party continues Thursday with cemetery reading
The Edgar Allan Poe parties start Wednesday with a musical tribute and continues Thursday with a reading in Mount Auburn Cemetery.
View ArticleNovel set in Cambridge’s folk music world wins indie-publisher prize
It’s not just singer-songwriters and folkies enthusing about “Revival,” the novel by Boston Globe columnist Scott Alarik set in the roots music world in general and Cambridge specifically. The book...
View ArticleRoad-tripping writers coming Monday with double treat for young-adult readers
Readers of young adult fiction gets a double-feature Monday as two authors arrive in a unique, end-of-summer road trip inspired by their dual debut novels … about road trips.
View ArticleLiterary Death Match returns Wednesday on way to TV pilot
On the way to proving books can be a fun on television, Todd Zuniga first proved books could be fun onstage. He’s proving it again Wednesday in Harvard Square.
View ArticleTrip-hop gets new meaning with Monday musical novel reading for ‘Crash Course’
This is not your typical reading. True, author Kent Evans will be on hand Monday at Central Square’s Cafe Luna with signed copies of his novel, but he is coming with a full band, and the band will be...
View ArticlePoe visits old friends in cemetery for Saturday literary, musical event
Halloween bliss is here: Access to Mount Auburn Cemetery’s breathtaking Bigelow Chapel to hear Edgar Allan Poe’s candid thoughts and classic works, including his “To Helen” in aria form by...
View ArticlePatricia Cornwell visits the scene of her crime writing Tuesday for $30,000 gift
Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell — whose latest novel, “The Bone Bed,” is set in Cambridge — is visiting the Cambridge Police Department on Tuesday as part of $30,000 in crime scene management she’s...
View Article‘Perfect Christmas’ is only latest delivery ‘Arthur’ creator can talk about
Marc Brown, creator of the beloved “Arthur” children’s book character and television series, speaks Nov. 15 at Lesley University
View ArticleMystery novelist Cornwell brings police pizza in addition to $30,000 training
Murder mystery “The Bone Bed” has taken up residency on The New York Times’ best-seller list, but fictional hero Dr. Kay Scarpetta is staying a resident of Cambridge — and the involvement of author...
View ArticleBetween gigs as poet, actor and hip-hop star, Jade Sylvan find publisher for...
If her candidacy for Best Poet in a Boston Phoenix poll and performance tonight at T.T. the Bear’s Place or at the Feb. 28 performance of Beck’s “Song Reader” wasn’t enough for Jade Sylvan to be...
View ArticleAmazon: Cambridge is fourth among its ‘Most Well-Read Cities’
Cambridge comes in fourth behind Alexandria, Va.; Knoxville, Tenn.; and Miami. Is an Amazon-centric, Kindle-centric list to be trusted?
View ArticleHank Phillippi Ryan coming to share secrets of ‘Other Woman,’‘Wrong Girl’
Three acclaimed suspense novelists, including Boston reporter and award-winning author Hank Phillippi Ryan comes to the Cambridge Main Library next week.
View ArticleLesley MFA program starts weeklong series of free readings with Friday film
Lesley University’s summer series of free readings and presentations starts tonight at 7:15 with the screening of a film written by Barry Brodsky and a reading by Sara Zarr, who specializes in writing...
View ArticleKlosterman brings his latest, ‘I Wear the Black Hat,’ to Porter Square on...
The essayist's newest work looks at who we decide is a villain, with individual pieces putting microscopes on phenomena ranging from Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky to “Star Wars,” Bernhard Goetz and...
View Article‘Gangsters of Boston’ author among readers at tonight’s Dire Literary Series
As the James “Whitey” Bulger trial churns on in U.S. District Court in Boston, this is the ideal time to catch up on the history behind it – all three centuries of it.
View Article‘Hippest city’ blogger offers free prequel, novel that goes from Sonora to...
The blogger who caused a kerfuffle in March by declaring Somerville the hippest city in America is back with her first novel, set – where else? In Somerville – and a free teaser prequel in e-book...
View ArticleStory Club Boston promises monthly mix of theater, literary event, open mic...
With its debut Thursday, Story Club Boston becomes the latest chapter in a storytelling renaissance, and one you need to stick with to the end to see how it comes out.
View ArticleChase around world in ‘Cana Mystery’ gets its start, heart in Harvard Square
Much of David Beckett’s “The Cana Mystery” will be familiar to fans of “The Da Vinci Code,” and some of it will be even more familiar to Cantabrigians, especially those intimate with Harvard Square.
View Article‘Book of Odds’ (now actual book) arrives in stores, while founder stops by...
What are the odds you get to hang out with Harvard grad Amram Shapiro, one-third author of “The Book of Odds,” on the very day HarperCollins publishes it? Really good.
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