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Boston Black Male Artist Collective at the Newsfeed Café
Join us at the Newsfeed Café for a pop-up art show of artists from the Boston Black Male Artist Collective. Artists will be in attendance and will be discussing the impact of arts and culture on the community. The art show is presented in conjunction with KEVIN POWELL's lecture, "Looking for Martin―Dr. King, Community, Civil Rights, Social Media, and the New Activism," part of the Boston Public Library's Lowell Lecture Series. The show is co-sponsored with MATT PARKER, a creative writer, community organizer, and poet/spoken word…
Find out more »Literary Trivia at the Newsfeed Cafe
We're excited for another round of Literary Trivia, presented with Reader Services at the Central Library. It's a book lover's trivia night—and more fun than you thought you were allowed to have at the library—hosted by the Boston Public Library and the Newsfeed Cafe. Whether you're a lover of Langston Hughes or go crazy for Judith McNaught, come test your knowledge of all things literary and battle for victory and prizes. You can enter as a team or an individual, or join forces…
Find out more »Vino & Verse: A Valentine’s Open Mic at the Boston Public Library
In honor of Valentine's Day, local poets KURT KLOPMEIER and KRYSTEN HILL are hosting an open mic of love-themed poetry for the in-love, lovesick, lovelorn, and forlorn! In partnership with Mass Poetry, we're inviting all poetry fans to bring a favorite poem about the effects of Cupid's arrow, either pleasurable or painful. Fortify yourself with a glass of liquid courage, and give a recitation to a crowd of fellow lovers of vino and verse, who'll be there to cheer you…
Find out more »Wrters ELENA GEORGIOU and KL PEREIRA Explore Immigration, Refugees, and Identity at the Boston Public Library
The latest statistics tell us that there are sixty-five million refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced people around the world. ELENA GEORGIOU’s The Immigrant’s Refrigerator plucks a few of these people out of the crowd and brings their stories to life to examine what it means to search for a future that will not only be a place of refuge but also of hope. KL PEREIRA’s A Dream Between Two Rivers is a literary and speculative collection of tales that illuminates…
Find out more »Poetry & the Body
Join Mass Poetry at the Poetry Coalition themed U35 Reading Series "Poetry & the Body." U35 is a bi-monthly reading series for poets under 35, held once each January, March, May, July, September, and November. The series seeks to promote and bolster Massachusetts poets under 35 while giving them a venue to share their work and connect with other poets under 35. On March 26th, come hear PREMA BANGERA, ANGELA SIEW and MELISSA LEIGH GORE perform their work at Newsfeed Cafe in the Boston…
Find out more »The Edible Table: A Food-Themed Reading at the Boston Public Library
CRYSTAL KING, author of Feast of Sorrow, and JENNIFER PACKARD, author of A Taste of Broadway, will discuss their works with DEBORAH NORKIN, Food Writing Editor of Zest!. Themed food items will be on offer to add a tasty accent to the evening! This event, presented by Pangyrus Magazine is free and open to the public.
Find out more »The Edible Page with LOUISE MILLER
The Boston Public Library's Newsfeed Cafe is pleased to host LOUISE MILLER, author of The City Baker's Guide to Country Living and The Late Bloomers Club, in conversation with DEBORAH NORKIN, Food Writing Editor at Pangyrus literary magazine, about baking, and writing. This event is free and open to the public.
Find out more »YZ CHIN discusses THOUGH I GET HOME with MIRA T LEE
The Boston Public Library's Newsfeed Cafe hosts YZ CHIN in conversation with MIRA T LEE about Though I Get Home. About the Book: In these interconnected stories, characters navigate fate via deft sleights of hand: a grandfather gambles on the monsoon rains, a consort finds herself a new assignment, and a religious man struggles to keep his demons at bay. Central to the book is Isabella Sin, a small-town girl—and frustrated writer—transformed into a prisoner of conscience in Malaysia’s most notorious…
Find out more »The Edible Page with JENNA BLUM
The Boston Public Library's Newsfeed Cafe is pleased to welcome JENNA BLUM, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us in conversation with GREG HARRIS, Founding Editor of Pangyrus literary magazine, about her new book The Lost Family.
Find out more »Readable Feast: The Making of a Cookbook
The Readable Feast is partnering with the Boston Public Library for a series of culinary author talks at the Newsfeed Cafe! The first event will be a panel conversation on The Making of a Cookbook: Assembling the Right Ingredients, with Leigh Belanger, author My Chalkboard Kitchen, and Todd Heberlein and Ryan Conroy, co-authors of The Volante Farm Cookbook and Nicole Vecchiotti, publisher of Union Park Press. Both books won top awards in the June, 2018 Readable Feast festival. LEIGH BELANGER…
Find out more »Readable Feast
The Readable Feast has partnered with the Boston Public Library for a series of culinary author talks at the Newsfeed Cafe! Our November event is called Co-Authoring a Cookbook: Bringing Another's Cookbook Dream to Life, in which co-authors and ghost-writers will discuss the challenges of working with other chefs and cooks in the creation of a new work while adding the key ingredient--themselves--to the finished product. The conversation will feature Andrea Pyenson (co-author of Wicked Good Barbecue, Wicked Good Burgers and Grill to Perfection) and Cathy Walthers (author…
Find out more »Readable Feast
The Readable Feast has partnered with the Boston Public Library for a series of culinary author talks at the Newsfeed Cafe! Our November event is called Co-Authoring a Cookbook: Bringing Another's Cookbook Dream to Life, in which co-authors and ghost-writers will discuss the challenges of working with other chefs and cooks in the creation of a new work while adding the key ingredient--themselves--to the finished product. The conversation will feature Andrea Pyenson (co-author of Wicked Good Barbecue, Wicked Good Burgers and Grill to Perfection) and Cathy Walthers (author…
Find out more »Celebrated author ANN HOOD Shares Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Love, Life, and Food
In this warm collection of personal essays and recipes, bestselling author ANN HOOD nourishes both our bodies and our souls. From her Italian-American childhood through raising and feeding a growing family and cooking with her new husband, food writer Michael Ruhlman, Ann Hood has long appreciated the power of a good meal. Growing up, she tasted love in her grandmother's tomato sauce and dreamed of her mother's special-occasion Fancy Lady Sandwiches. Later, the kitchen became the heart of Hood's own…
Find out more »Author Talk with Katrin Schumann, Susan Bernhard, and James Charlesworth
Katrin Schumann, (The Forgotten Hours, Lake Union), Susan Bernhard (Winter Loon, Little A) and James Charlesworth (The Patricide of George Benjamin Hill, Skyhorse) will launch a lively and interactive conversation about family dynamics, reading various excerpts from their books to reflect a different take on the theme, and talking about the reasons behind their craft choices.
Find out more »Jeffrey Colvin presents AFRICAVILLE in conversation with Melissa Rivero at Boston Public Library
Jeffrey Colvin’s assured and captivating novel, Africaville, weaves a rich narrative tapestry from the colorful threads of multiple generations in one family. The title is inspired by Africaville, a real settlement in Halifax, Nova Scotia, whose black population—largely the descendants of slaves from the American South and the Caribbean-- carved out a community against the harsh maritime landscape and against bigotry and racism. In telling this story, Colvin hopes to highlight the many “lost” free black communities throughout North America…
Find out more »Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.