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Memo to Star Jones: Babs is in Boston, please stay away

by Sharon Steel | May 22, 2008
From the inbox: Brookline Booksmith is pleased to announce that broadcasting legend Barbara Walters will be appearing at your favorite local independent bookstore on Thursday, May 22nd at 7pm. She will be signing copies of her best-selling book Audition...

In Flames

by Sharon Steel | May 19, 2008
The Harvard Book Store has some lovely events and readings scheduled for early June -- the main one we're excited about is David Sedaris on June 6, though we just found out it was sold out! Oi. Obvs the HBS would have hosted the former Christmas elf...

Intriguing Australian author alert

by Nina MacLaughlin | February 15, 2008
“The world is getting hotter, the ice caps are melting, because man keeps saying to nature, Hey, our whole idea of a cozy future is to have jobs. That’s all we’ve got planned. What’s more, we will pursue this aim at any cost, even, paradoxically, if it...

Mortified: Love is a Battlefield tomorrow at the Paradise Lounge

by Sharon Steel | February 05, 2008
In this week's fishwrap we chatted with Mortified creator David Nadelberg about social wallflowers, accidental art, and his new romance-themed anthology. It's 275 pages filled with brutally humiliating tales of love and lust and youth. We cannot...

Video: Nick Hornby on Slam, the Sox, Tony Hawk, and Time Traveling

by Sharon Steel | October 29, 2007
Thanks to Brookline Booksmith for hosting the Nick Hornby reading Just to make sure, we decided to wait until the Curse of the Hornbino had been demolished by Your 2007 Boston Red Sox before posting the rest of Nick Hornby's Q&A at the Devotion...

Get Your Harry Potter Slash On

by Sharon Steel | July 03, 2007
If our posting schedule seems irregular in the next week or so, it's because we're really busy listening to "Save Ginny Weasley" on repeat and blushing over novel-length Harry Potter fan fiction that involves...naughtiness: "Please...

HOWL: On the Road in Lowell

by Sharon Steel | June 18, 2007
Having taken meticulous notes and planned the novel during his cross-country travels, JACK KEROUAC wrote the first draft of On the Road in a three-week burst of creativity, taping sheets of paper together so they could run through his typewriter uninterrupted...

This Thursday: Stephen Shore at BU

by Sharon Steel | April 03, 2007
The Nature of Photographs is stuffed with gorgeous prints, from classic images to contemporary pieces and found negatives, not to mention a smattering of work by STEPHEN SHORE , the book’s author and a pioneer in the field of color photography. Nature...

TONIGHT: Grub Street Party

by Nina MacLaughlin | March 15, 2007
Friday night, March 16, Grub Street hosts one of their "Grub Gone . . ." parties. Tomorrow evening's theme: Grub Gone Silly. Besides being boozey affairs (free beer for anyone who brings a book to contribute to the Grub library!), the parties...

Martin Amis live at the Brattle: Listen to him read

by Nina MacLaughlin | February 02, 2007
"Read late Amis -- maniacally alert, secular in timbre but religious in the fidelity of his observations -- and stay on your toes," writes James Parker in reference to Martin Amis's latest novel, House of Meetings , set in the deep, dark...

Paul Auster live at the Brattle: Listen to him read

by Nina MacLaughlin | February 01, 2007
In his introduction to Paul Auster's reading at the Brattle Theatre last night, poet and Phoenix contributor William Corbett compares Auster's lastest novel, Travels in the Scriptorium , to an episode of the Twilight Zone . In the opening of the...

Paper Cut Zine Library benefit show on Sunday

by Nina MacLaughlin | December 15, 2006
Sam Rosen stumbled across the Paper Cut Zine Library in Harvard Square earlier this fall because he was at a "speed friending" event in a neighboring room. "We were like 'whoa, what's this place about?'" he says. And so...

Here Pussy, Pussy: Cynthia von Buhler in Brighton TOMORROW

by Nina MacLaughlin | December 08, 2006
Cynthia von Buhler has lead many lives: in Boston she fronted the S&M-themed musical review Women of Sodom; ran a gallery out of the Allston home she dubbed Castle von Buhler; and created such unforgettable works as the Cynth-O-Matic, a vending machine...

Reading Recap: The Rejection Collection

by Sharon Steel | November 16, 2006
In between trying really hard not to nod off (whoever cranked up the heat at the Brattle, heads up -- it was hella sweaty in there), we took a general sense of great pleasure in sitting in a big room full of New Yorker dorks last night. Ah, NYer- heads...

Uncensored Literary Wednesday!

by Sharon Steel | November 14, 2006
Aside from the Steve Almond/James Joyce dirty business at Great Scott that Nina will be attending (and we can't wait to hear what she thinks of Almond's recitation), here are four more options for your Wednesday. Two of them are naughty omg! How...

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