Newtonville books is pleased to welcome Jennifer Haigh, author of the critically acclaimed novel, HEAT AND LIGHT, a deftly interwoven set of stories about a fictional town in Pennsylvania. Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away like a bar of soap. Now Bakerton has been granted a […]
Find out more »Porter Square books welcomes local contributors to the anthology Dead in Good Company: A Celebration of Mount Auburn Cemetery. Dead in Good Company is a collection of essays, poems and wildlife photographs of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sweet Auburn, as it is affectionately known, is America's first garden cemetery and one of the country's most distinguished burial grounds. […]
Find out more »Brookline Booksmith is pleased to welcome Elizabeth Wallace and James Wallace, authors of Garth Williams, American Illustrator: A Life. Open the pages of so many children’s classics―Stuart Little, Charlotte’s Web, and the Little House books―and you'll find page after page of Garth Williams' artistry that brought these stories to life. This is the first full biography of Garth Williams […]
Find out more »Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.