It’s cold. Winter is long. And so cold. And so damp. Anyone else getting intensely stir crazy? If so, I’ve assembled this list of warm, dry museums to stimulate the imagination and excite ones intellectual faculties! 1. Harvard Museum of Natural History. Free to Massachusetts residents 9am-noon on Sundays (always) and 3pm-5pm on Wednesdays (Sept-May). [...]
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Boston Area Museums under $5!
March 1st, 2010 2 Comments
Tags: Boston · cheap · museums · things to do
Slower than Molasses in January
January 15th, 2010 No Comments
Today marks ninety-first anniversary of the Boston Molasses Disaster. On January 15, 1919, near the North End waterfront, an enormous tank of molasses, molasses swollen and liquescent from the unseasonably warm weather, exploded. Twenty-one people were killed and one-hundred fifty injured as a wave of molasses swept over the area moving at speeds approaching thirty-five [...]
Tags: Boston · Katherine · local history · molasses · North End
December 1 Events
November 26th, 2009 No Comments
Above image of Thanksgiving Turkey courtesy of Rich Man from Flickr Creative Commons. Victor LaValle Location: Barnes and Noble at Emerson College, 114 Boylston Street Time: 6 pm The Good Men Project: Real Stories from the Front Lines Modern Manhood Location: Brookline Booksmith Time: 7 pm Mo Lotman – Harvard Square: An Illustrated History Since [...]
Tags: author readings · books · bookstores · Boston · Emerson College WLP Department · fiction · Independent bookstores · nonfiction
Topics in Lit: Feminism in Boston
November 19th, 2009 No Comments
Ah, but, wait! I’ve got a few more books about Boston for you to add to your reading list. The next three will take us through a history of feminism in our city.* Begin in 1885-1886 with Henry James and The Bostonians, published first as a serial and later as a novel. Said novel presents [...]
Tags: Boston · David Mamet · Henry James · Katherine · Our Bodies Ourselves
November 10 Events
November 8th, 2009 No Comments
Above photo of Southern California Fall courtesy of peasap from Flickr Creative Commons Sebastian Stuart – The Hour Between Jonathan Strong – Drawn from Life Time: 7pm Location: Brookline Booksmith Dorothy Lamb Crawford – A Windfall of Musicians: Hitler’s Emigres and Exiles in Southern California Time: 7pm Location: Porter Square Books
Tags: author readings · bookstores · Boston · Independent bookstores
Straight Outta Compson
October 27th, 2009 No Comments
Crazy guy named Quentin… You might remember Quentin Compson from The Sound and The Fury. You might also remember him from Absalom Absalom. Young Quentin was a good boy from Mississippi who lived the student life in Cambridge. He went to Harvard. He took public transit. He ate poorly. He was deeply troubled. He threw [...]
Tags: Boston · Katherine · William Faulkner
October 29 Events
October 27th, 2009 No Comments
Above photo courtesy of ZedZap(Nick) from Flickr Creative Commons Michael Downing Life with Sudden Death Location: Porter Square Books Time: 7pm Hallie Ephron Boston Detective/Mystery Writers Series Location: BPL Time: 6:30pm
Tags: author readings · Boston · Independent bookstores
Boston Book Festival
October 20th, 2009 No Comments
Above photo courtesy of A. www.viajar24h.com from Flickr Creative Commons Hey Folks, don’t forget that the Boston Book Festival is this Saturday in Copley Square, 10 am-6pm. Check out the website for a full schedule of events and to see when your must-see authors will be presenting at http://www.bostonbookfest.org/index.php/events/
Tags: books · Boston · Boston Book Festival · emerson MFA · nonfiction · publishing industry · writers · writing · writing process
WTF, Stockholm?
October 16th, 2009 3 Comments
You probably all know Stockholm for its eponymous psychological syndrome, in which hostages begin to show a chilling loyalty to their captors. Perhaps, to a lesser extent, you also know Stockholm as the cultural and economic capital of Sweden. But what I bet you didn’t know is that, in addition to all that, Stockholm is [...]
October 19 events
October 15th, 2009 No Comments
Above photo courtesy of A Boy Named Hugh from Flickr Creative Commons. Porter Square Books, 7 pm Workshop for Publishing Poets is a series of readings by poets from the Workshop for Published Poets. Robin Pelzman, Matthew Sisson, and Suellen Wedmore will be reading. Harvard Book Store, 7 pm Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Kahn will [...]
Tags: author readings · bookstores · Boston · poetry