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Am I Alone Here?
Peter Orner will read from and discuss his new non-fiction book Am I Alone Here? Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live with Steve Almond, author of Against Football and co-host of NPR's Dear Sugar Radio. About Am I Alone Here?: “Stories, both my own and those I’ve taken to heart, make up whoever it is that I’ve become,” Peter Orner writes in this collection of essays about reading, writing, and living. Orner reads—and writes—everywhere he finds himself: a hospital cafeteria,…
Find out more »An Evening with Jennifer Haigh, author of HEAT & LIGHT, and Lindsay Hatton, author of MONTEREY BAY
About Heat & Light: Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town at the center of her iconic novel Baker Towers, in this ambitious, achingly human story of modern America and the conflicting forces at its heart—a bold, moving drama of hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families. 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…
Find out more »A Night of Memoir in J.P. with MINDY FRIED and CAROLINE HELLER
Join Papercuts J.P. at La Rana Rossa for an event with two local authors on their memoirs about family. Caring for Red is MINDY FRIED's moving and colorful account of caring for her ninety-seven-year-old father, Manny—an actor, writer, and labor organizer—in the final year of his life. This memoir chronicles the actions of two sisters as they discover concentric circles of support for their father and attempt to provide him with an experience of "engaged aging" in an assisted living facility.…
Find out more »All Tomorrow’s Parties: ROB SPILLMAN & NINA MACLAUGHLIN
Join Tin House editor ROB SPILLMAN and Boston Globe books editor and memoirist NINA MACLAUGHLIN at La Rana Rossa for this discussion of SPILLMAN's acclaimed memoir, All Tomorrow's Parties. ROB SPILLMAN, the award-winning, charismatic cofounding editor of Tin House, has devoted his life to the rebellious pursuit of artistic authenticity. In All Tomorrow's Parties, he takes us on a journey through the formative years of his youth in search of purpose—through Cold War to post-Wall Berlin and the gritty days of New York…
Find out more »Animals Strike Curious Poses, A Novel by ELENA PASSARELLO
Join actor, writer, and Whiting Award winner ELENA PASSARELLO at La Rana Rossa for this discussion on her novel, Animals Strike Curious Poses. Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000 year old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the 16 essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalized by humans. Modeled loosely after a medieval bestiary, these witty, playful, whipsmart essays traverse history, myth, science, and more, bringing each beast vibrantly to…
Find out more »Novelists JULIE LEKSTROM and JIM SHEPARD
Join JULIE LEKSTROM and JIM SHEPARD as they discuss their respective novels, Mikhail and Margarita and The World To Come. Ranging between lively readings in the homes of Moscow’s literary elite to the Siberian Gulag, Mikhail and Margarita recounts a passionate love triangle while painting a portrait of a country with a towering literary tradition confronting a dictatorship that does not tolerate dissent. Margarita is a strong, idealistic woman, who is fiercely loved by two very different men, both of whom will…
Find out more »Pachinko author MIN JIN LEE at Papercuts JP & La Rana Rossa
Celebrate the magic and vitality of your local indie bookstores! April 29th is Independent Bookstore Day 2017. Papercuts will celebrate with mimosas, cupcakes, and Min Jin Lee, author of PACHINKO and FREE FOOD FOR MILLIONAIRES. Stop in during the day for limited edition merchandise, hand sells from an incredible author, and more! At 6PM that evening, there will be a Papercuts JP Conversation & Book signing for PACHINKO at La Rana Rossa. You can read her interview with The Boston Globe here.
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.