In a joint letter, more than 80 Maine affiliated writers—including Pulitzer Prize-winners Richard Russo and Michael Chabon, Ann Beattie, Jonathan Lethem and John Hodgman—are calling on Sen. Susan Collins, a…Continue Reading →
There are moments of delight and happiness in the tales of Winnie-the-Pooh—like the very first one, the comedy of the stuffed bear pretending (badly) to be a rain cloud so…Continue Reading →
Sorry to hear about the passing of Sam Cornish, who was Boston’s Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2015. He died on Aug. 20 at age 82. “As a black writer…Continue Reading →
Over the past year, the Gloucester poet Gerrit Lansing had been thinking a lot about death, poet Ruth Lepson recalled at the annual Boston Poetry Marathon on Sunday afternoon. “Do…Continue Reading →
Just north of Harvard Yard in Cambridge sits the Harvard Science Building. And just to its left, on its west side facing toward Cambridge Common, is the stump of a…Continue Reading →
Boston Compass celebrated eight years of publishing and the arrival of its hundredth issue with the “Compass Centennial” party featuring DJs, snacks, beer and a “fashion photo booth” at the…Continue Reading →
I wrote about the Boston Compass reaching a milestone in the latest Dig Boston: “Directing you to underground shows and awesome happenings! in Boston,” Samuel Potrykus scrawled across the top of the…Continue Reading →
The Providence Comics Consortium’s “Sketchbook Church,” writes artist Walker Mettling, is “not church in the religious way, church in the Sunday morning way. Maybe in the coffee and bagels way.” It’s…Continue Reading →
The idea for the Improbable Places Poetry Tour arrived at a time when Colleen Michaels’s daughter was young and they’d walk everywhere, especially along Cabot Street in Beverly, where they…Continue Reading →
In the beginning, there was Elvis Presley shimmying as he sang the new rock ‘n’ roll for 1956 white America. The young things in the audience were entranced, but the…Continue Reading →