Having illustrated more than 60 picture books—from “The Great Reindeer Rebellion” and “What Does Cow Say?” to “Road Work Ahead” and “Bunny and Bird Are Best Friends”—Jannie Ho describes her…Continue Reading →
“We will not allow any president to achieve by intimidation what our Constitution precludes him or her from achieving in court,” Macmillan Publishers CEO John Sargent wrote this week in…Continue Reading →
The Boston Public Library has announced the books most borrowed from the city library system in 2017: Adult Books 10. “All The Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr 9.…Continue Reading →
“I wanted my sculptures to be outdoors in parks, where people of all ages could touch and enjoy them,” writes Nancy Schön, the West Newton artist best known for her…Continue Reading →
Here’s how Greg Cook carved and printed a linocut rendition of the cover of his long comic book “Friends Is Friends,” August 2016. Above: Finished prints hung up to dry.Continue Reading →
“It’s about resistance to throwing things out,” poet Ammiel Alcalay said during the shindig Saturday night to celebrate the opening of the Maud/Olson Library in Gloucester. The library is a…Continue Reading →
From “Fragments” by poet Amanda Cook (pictured above) of Gloucester, Mass., as published in late 2015 in the third issue of editor Joe Torra’s “Let the Bucket Down: A Magazine…Continue Reading →
“I smoked a lot of weed with him [Harry Smith], on the streets even. We met in bars. We once were together in the great jazz place that closed very…Continue Reading →
I think today I may have drawn my last page for my comic book “Friends Is Friends,” which is heading to the printer after, like, a decade and a half…Continue Reading →
The Boston Public Library will offer “new and expanded technology programs in the new Teen Central space” scheduled to open at the Copley Square branch in late February with help from a…Continue Reading →