The Washington Post recently asked several authors which fictional characters would make the best beach buddies. Here are some of my favorite responses:
After some vacillating, Christopher Buckley decides: “I think I’ll go with Magwitch, the escaped convict from Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations. He’d have some fantastic stories to tell, and, as we know, he knew [...]
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Summer Reading: Lounging with Lolita
June 14th, 2009 3 Comments
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Library Love
May 6th, 2009 2 Comments
After living in Boston for nearly three years, I finally got around to getting a library card this winter. Why did I wait so long? I was busy with school and work, yes, but mostly I was just lazy. Also, there’s my small problem of book hoarding. In my mind, borrowing books from the library [...]
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Playing Guitar Hero For Charity
April 2nd, 2009 No Comments
Sounds too good to be true, right? Wrong. Wednesday, May 6, Everybody Wins Metro Boston is hosting a fundraiser to benefit the literacy program. I’ve been volunteering as part of their Power Lunch program since last fall, traveling to a South Boston elementary school once a week during my lunch break to read to William, [...]
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Bibliophilia
March 7th, 2009 No Comments
Bibliophilia is defined as a love of books, while bibliomania is an actual disorder, where the victim compulsively hoards books to the detriment of social relationships and their own wellbeing. Many of us lifelong lovers of books struggle with the fine line that separates the philia from the mania.
I got into a conversation at [...]
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What a Difference a Year Makes: Reflections on AWP 2009
February 24th, 2009 No Comments
I returned from my second AWP conference exhausted, laden with lit journals and assorted swag, and feeling a mixture of inspiration and disappointment. I promptly took a long nap, and only after I woke up the next morning was I able to properly begin processing the 4-day hurricane known as AWP.
This is not to say [...]
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Indie Bookstore Week: Brookline Booksmith
January 17th, 2009 No Comments
One of my favorite things about living in Brookline is being just down the street from Brookline Booksmith, one of Boston’s best independent booksellers. In fact, Boston Magazine named it THE best in Boston seven years of the past nine, most recently this year.
Located just a moment’s walk from the Coolidge Corner T stop on [...]
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The Best of 2008
December 27th, 2008 No Comments
The last weeks of any given year bring a few things that rarely change: the scramble to have something to do on New Year’s Eve that doesn’t suck, making resolutions, and frenetically reliving the past year with every kind of countdown possible.
It seems that everywhere you look, there’s a new “best of” list to [...]
Regrets and Resolutions
December 15th, 2008 No Comments
With little more than two weeks remaining until New Year’s Eve, many of us have already started to think about those nagging little reminders of just how much we suck at life–that’s right, it’s New Year’s resolutions time! With the close of each year, it’s been my own personal ritual to dig out my notebook [...]
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Bizarre Wish List
December 6th, 2008 1 Comment
The holiday season is officially upon us. If you’re anything like me, you wait until the last possible minute to buy gifts for those on your “nice” list. Also like me, you’ve probably discovered that the quality of the gift is often inversely proportional to the amount of time before said holiday (yeah, I’m [...]
Tags: bazaar bizarre · christmas shopping · crafts · Jill
Hot Reads: Fringe Magazine
December 4th, 2008 2 Comments
This just in from the editors of Fringe Magazine:
Hi Fringe Friends,
It’s cold outside, but Fringe 17 is hot. See for yourself: works by Mark Brinker, Jean-Michel Buche, Kelley Calvert, Anna L. Cates, Geoffrey Detrani, Tisha Nemeth-Loomis, Cati Porter, Megann Sept, and Casey Wiley are live and kicking. For optimal web browsing, we recommend viewing Fringe [...]
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