Papercuts welcomes BETH MACY, in conversation with WBUR's LISA MULLINS, to discuss Macy's bestselling book, Truevine, the true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. Through hundreds of interviews and decades of research, Beth Macy expertly explores a central and difficult question: Where were the brothers better off? On the world stage as stars or in poverty at home? TRUEVINE is a compelling narrative rich…

JP Papercuts hosts novelists SJ SINDU, Marriage of a Thousand Lies, and LOUIE CRONIN, Everybody Loves You Back to read and discuss their latest works. In Marriage of a Thousand Lies, Lakshmi, called Lucky, is an unemployed millennial programmer. She likes to dance, to have a drink or two, and she makes art on commission. Fifty bucks gets you high-resolution digital images of anything you want (orcs, mermaids, cos-playing couples in sexy boudoir scenes) and a nice frameable print. Lucky’s husband, Krishna, is…

Join Papercuts for a double-author event with MARGOT LIVESEY, New York Times bestselling author of Mercury and The Hidden Machinery: Essays on Writing, and LIZ MOORE, author of The Unseen World. In Mercury, Donald believes he knows all there is to know about seeing. An optometrist in suburban Boston, he is sure that he and his wife, Viv, who runs the local stables, are both devoted to their two children and to each other. Then Mercury—a gorgeous young thoroughbred with a…

Join local authors and Grubstreet instructors KELLY FORD and MICHELLE HOOVER at Papercuts JP for an evening of reading and discussion. From a compelling new voice in LGBTQ and Southern fiction, FORD's Cottonmouths is a gripping tale of crime and desire amid small-town America’s meth epidemic. At once intimate and sweeping, HOOVER's Bottomland follows the Hess family in the years after World War I, as they attempt to rid themselves of the Anti-German sentiment that left a stain on their name. This event…

Join Papercuts J.P. and La Rana Rossa pizzeria for an evening with memoirists ALEXANDRIA MARZANO-LESNEVICH and MELISSA FEBOS. LESNEVICH's memoir The Fact of a Body captures when she began a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working on the retrial defense of death-row convicted murderer and child molester Ricky Langley.  She thought her position was clear. Shocked by her unexpected reaction to the case, she digs deeper and deeper, realizing that despite their vastly different circumstances, something in his story…