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BOOKINGS
Author readings around Boston July 3-9
All author appearances are virtual and free unless otherwise noted.
BOOKS
Local bestsellers for the week ended June 26
Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound.
BOOK REVIEW
In short pieces, Hilary Mantel recalls her difficult past
In her newest book, British author Hilary Mantel turns her famous focus inward, exploring her own development as an author and her contentious relationship with the English language in six semi-autobiographical short stories and one essay.
BIBLIOPHILES
Building a library for a better life
As she recounts in her memoir, “The Ugly Cry: How I Became a Person,” TV writer Danielle Henderson grew up Black in a mostly white town under the wing of a foul-mouthed, ferocious grandmother. Henderson also wrote “Feminist Ryan Gosling,” a book based on her popular blog. She talked with us about what she's been reading.
Related Reading
Twilight of the white guys
New books by Tad Friend and Bill McKibben trace the contours of lives played out in an era of great change.
BOOK REVIEW
Regeneration and time travel
Lidia Yuknavitch's book takes place across time, swimming between an imaginable and not too distant future fifty-plus years from now when boat tours bring sightseers to the almost completely submerged Statue of Liberty, swallowed up by rising seas. Then we are taken into the past.
NEW ENGLAND LITERARY NEWS
Poetic postcards to share, a book about a book-maker, and a call to re-read Frederick Douglass
All the bookish news from around the region.
STORY BEHIND THE BOOK
Remembrance and reclamation in ‘We Refuse to Forget’
Oklahoma-raised journalist Caleb Gayle tells "A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power."