books

Inaugural Boston Book Festival is Saturday

david_yamada — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:34:01 +0000

The inaugural Boston Book Festival is Saturday in & around Copley Square. Hey, it's about time!

Meet Julie Powell

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:25:39 +0000

Julie Powell went to Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. She is the Julie in the pair Julie & Julia, the author of the book by that title, and the person Amy Adams plays in the movie by Nora Ephron.

Powell is the young woman who cooked all of the recipes in Julia Child's French Cookbook, one recipe every evening after work at her dead-end office job, and blogged about it. Then she re-wrote the blog into a best selling book.

Powell still keeps a blog. Last week she wrote about the movie premiere in LA, a "screening" she modestly calls it, in a post titled Tales from The Red Carpet. Many of the comments on her blog are readers of her book who took inspiration from it.

Powell also recently wrote this article for The Atlantic's food blog, Being Julie, Not "Julie".

Herald ODs on the drug references

zbert — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:14:05 +0000

Lauren Beckham Falcone reviews a book about "the happiest place on earth" by a "Disney addict" and reveals that she knows more drug slang than the average Mouseketeer. Perhaps that explains why it's so happy, though her references call up some pretty unhappy situations...

Feminism & Dessert

CNW — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:26:23 +0000

Diversity Speaks On Love, Friendship, and Family: A Discussion On Interracial Relationships Within The Queer Community

What could be better than smart talk, swell people and sweet food?

Feminism & Dessert, the first Tuesday of every month, is our monthly series of engagingly informal talks about subjects that impact our daily lives. Join us while we chat about interracial relationships in the queer community. Feel free to bring your dinner, but dessert's on us!

Co-sponsored by QWOC+ Boston

What if Albert DeSalvo were in The Departed?

adamg — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:18:39 +0000

Based on the publisher's blurb, John Daley is intrigued by William Landay's new novel, The Strangler, which tells the tale of "the three Irish-American Daley brothers: Ricky, a thief; Michael, a lawyer; and Joe, a bent cop" in the shadow of the Boston Strangler murders. But Daley wonders:

I don't know how anyone would get the idea that cops in Boston would be named Daley.

Anything but Ordinary

WBUR Arts — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 01:49:21 +0000

Chris Adrian has written for the "New Yorker," and a number of literary magazines. He just published his second novel, "The Children's Hospital" (McSweeney's, 2006). If you appreciate exceptional fiction and haven't heard of Adrian, you need to check out some of his work. First, you can learn more about the man (who lives in Cambridge, incidentally) worthy of all the buzz:

http://www.wbur.org/arts/2006/61880_20061025.asp

Summer Reading Musts

WBUR Arts — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 21:27:32 +0000

Got a great summer read to suggest? Help compile a master list by submitting your recommendation to the WBUR Arts blog.

WBUR arts critic Adrienne LaFrance starts with her picks in a wide range of categories including science, art, history, new fiction, guilty pleasures (but not so guilty you could buy them in a grocery store) and more.

Throw in your two cents by visiting: http://blogs.wbur.org/arts/?p=357.