Eugenia Williamson
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Chicago, IL, United States
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Booked solid: The most anticipated books of 2020
Eugenia Williamson offers a list of the most anticipated fiction, non-fiction, and young adult titles of 2020. → Read More
The great books are going to pile up like leaves
Globe critics offer promising picks from the fall shelves in fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and genre fiction. → Read More
One of the best (and hopefully the last) of Brooklyn novels
Emily Culliton aims to expose the lie of polite society, Brooklyn-based or otherwise, its barely suppressed derangements and contradictions → Read More
Murderous Manson Family, from the perspective of the girls
“The Girls,” Emma Cline’s debut novel, is an astonishing work of imagination — remarkably atmospheric, preternaturally intelligent, and brutally feminist. → Read More
Punk's Not Fed: I Ate at the CBGB Newark Airport Restaurant and It Sucked
It's no New York, but Newark's alright (if you like eating at punk nostalgia traps before you fly). → Read More
Punk Crock
For a movement that famously proclaimed there was no future, punk rock has had a remarkably durable half-life. The world is awash in punk. → Read More
The Big Chill: Are Egg-Freezing Parties the New Way to Go?
Are egg-freezing parties the new way to have it all, or simply more biological-clock fear-mongering? → Read More
New England writers at work: Stephen McCauley
Stephen McCauley has written six novels under his own name and two under a pseudonym. cq Three of his books have been adapted for the screen; the latest, a French adaptation of his 1992 novel “The Easy Way Out,” debuted in Paris earlier this month became a surprise hit. McCauley, who lives in Cambridge, is at work on a new novel. → Read More
Genre-defying works drive Easthampton’s Small Beer Press
Small Beer Press — the name is a Britishism referring to things of little importance — produces unusual, genre-defying works that might have trouble finding a home elsewhere. → Read More
The Writers’ Room is always available for writers to work
The Writers’ Room of Boston is the only place in the city expressly designed to give writers an affordable, quiet, secure place to work. For nearly 30 years local scribes have been able to rent 24-hour access to the room and stave off the crushing loneliness and worldly distractions that often accompany writing at home. Most of them show up from 9 to 5. → Read More
The Writers’ Room is always available for writers to work
The Writers’ Room of Boston is the only place in the city expressly designed to give writers an affordable, quiet, secure place to work. For nearly 30 years local scribes have been able to rent 24-hour access to the room and stave off the crushing loneliness and worldly distractions that often accompany writing at home. Most of them show up from 9 to 5. → Read More
The Writers’ Room is always available for writers to work
The Writers’ Room of Boston is the only place in the city expressly designed to give writers an affordable, quiet, secure place to work. For nearly 30 years local scribes have been able to rent 24-hour access to the room and stave off the crushing loneliness and worldly distractions that often accompany writing at home. Most of them show up from 9 to 5. → Read More
‘Get in Trouble’ by Kelly Link
That’s Kelly Link in a nutshell: inordinately brainy, always concise, darkly whimsical, and entertaining as heck. Her four collections have established her as one of America’s finest writers in the short form, and perhaps its very best at conjuring mood. → Read More
New tools getting Boston Public Library’s old treasures online to millions
The Boston Public Library has endeavored to find the library’s most valuable and important materials and digitize them to make them more visible to the public. Works include records of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, maps owned by Benjamin Franklin, and court transcripts from the Salem Witch Trials. → Read More
Anita Diamant keeps both sides of her brain engaged
December is a big month for Anita Diamant. One week from today, cq dec. 7, Lifetime debuts its miniseries adapted from “The Red Tent,” Diamant’s 1997 bestselling novel and a perennial book-club favorite. On Dec. 9, cq the 9thScribner will release “The Boston Girl,” her latest novel. In the midst of all this activity, Diamant will be busy quietly updating her 1998 conversion guidebook, “Choosing… → Read More
Students give up digital lives for a weekend - The Boston Globe
The professor called it a “digital fast,’’ but for his students it looked more like starvation. Last weekend, Jeffrey Stern endeavored to deprive some digital natives of the defining feature of their generation as part of a media-and-society class he teaches at Bentley University. His assignment called for the students to foreswear interaction with any digital device for 48 hours. They could not… → Read More
Digital fast - The Boston Globe
The professor called it a “digital fast,’’ but for his students it looked more like starvation. Last weekend, Jeffrey Stern endeavored to deprive some digital natives of the defining feature of their generation as part of a media-and-society class he teaches at Bentley University. His assignment called for the students to foreswear interaction with any digital device for 48 hours. They could not… → Read More
How to Become a Famous Author in 10 Easy Steps
Follow these 10 easy steps on how to become a famous author, based on the wisdom of local writers, and you'll be well on your way to penning a best-seller. → Read More
Book review: ‘Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned” ’ by Lena Dunham - The Boston Globe
For people who watch “Girls” on HBO — a group to which I belong and one that I assume will make up a significant portion the majority of Lena Dunham’s reading public — it may be difficult at first to divorce Hannah’s voice from Dunham’s written one. Her collection of essays, “Not That Kind of Girl,’’ The book is divided into sections on love and sex, the body, friendship, work, and “the big… → Read More
Book review: ‘Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned” ’ by Lena Dunham - The Boston Globe
For people who watch “Girls” on HBO — a group to which I belong and one that I assume will make up a significant portion the majority of Lena Dunham’s reading public — it may be difficult at first to divorce Hannah’s voice from Dunham’s written one. Her collection of essays, “Not That Kind of Girl,’’ The book is divided into sections on love and sex, the body, friendship, work, and “the big… → Read More