Eagle-eyed readers of the resignation letter noted that the first letter of each paragraph spelled out “RESIST.”
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“Sargent’s Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas” consists of four novella-length biographies of women who sat for the painter.
One woman, after being abandoned while pregnant by her husband, got a job as a maid and ended up discovering the Horsehead Nebula.
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Jonathan Dee’s “The Locals” is a transcendent look at the battered state of the American psyche in the interim between two key years in our recent history: 2001 and 2008.
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“The Red-Haired Woman’’ is packed with so many allusions to myths of patricide and filicide that the plot ends up overdetermined.
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“Autumn,” the first of a planned quartet based on the seasons is composed as a series of letters to Karl Ove Knausgaard’s then-unborn fourth child, Anne.
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Alex Gilvarry’s sharp and absorbing second novel focuses on a Norman Mailer-like character in 1973 New York,
new england literary news | nina maclaughlin
Belmont poet and critic Steph Burt will oversee poetry coverage along with poet and New Mexico State professor Carmen Giménez Smith.
the story behind the book | kate tuttle
The heart of “Rocky Boyer’s War’’ is the daily diary the 23-year-old lieutenant kept for a year during World War II.
The story behind the ‘Spotlight’ movie
A look at The Boston Globe’s coverage of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and the movie “Spotlight,” which is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation.
The ultimate summer reading list
’Tis the season for sun and sand, lobster and leisure, barbecues and books. Especially books.
the discovery
The rhythm of Matthew Welton’s recent poems pulses in your steps.
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A weekly calendar of literary events and author readings.
bibliophiles
Michael Connelly started with the Agatha Christies of the crime world before moving on to James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, Joseph Wambaugh, and Sue Grafton
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Daphne Kalotay’s “Relativity” is the centerpiece of the annual citywide reading event organized by the Boston Book Festival.
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Yoon’s tales guide us through a shadowland of survivors that is tough and elegant and true.
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There’s restlessness in the stories of “Sour Heart.” The characters reach for something that often remains maddeningly beyond their grasp.
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Emily Culliton aims to expose the lie of polite society, Brooklyn-based or otherwise, its barely suppressed derangements and contradictions
bibliophiles
David Grann says he is a slow reader and is a little bit daunted by big books
the story behind the book | kate tuttle
The music writer became a Beatles fan at an early age. In “Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World,” he gives his take on the iconic band.
the discovery
The stories in Richard Bausch’s latest collection, “Living in the Weather of the World’’ are taut and dark.
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Written with CSNNE personality Tom Curran, the book will hit the shelves on Oct. 24.
bookings
A weekly calendar of literary events and author readings.
new england literary news | NINA MACLAUGHLIN
Painter Linden Frederick teamed up with Maine author and Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Russo who assembled some big names for the project
Bigger and nerdier than ever, the event moves to the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center under new ownership.
Ty Burr
Taking stock of the state of illustrated narrative in 2017, one is struck by the many flavors and styles.
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Lizzie is portrayed as a quivering mass of flagrant mental health issues with a serious sugar addiction.
The story behind the Book | Kate Tuttle
“Testify” includes poems about Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, and dozens of other black lives cut short.
“A Boy in Winter” unfolds over three days in November 1941 as the SS take over a small Ukrainian town.
Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound for the week ended Sunday, July 30, 2017.
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A weekly calendar of literary events.
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“The Kelloggs” is the first and last word on the siblings who made a fortune in health and food manufacturing.
New England Literary News
Poems that explore the life of Jesuit priest and mathematician Georges Lemaître and a children’s book about a girl’s quest to rescue her kidnapped grandmother got top honors in this year’s Julia Ward Howe Awards.
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“Beast,” Paul Kingsnorth’s wild and spectacular new novel, strips away civilization’s fripperies to discover the savagery beneath and beyond.
The Discovery
Pop-culture critic Carina Chocano’s smart, colorful, and compelling collection of essays is “You Play the Girl.’’
Bibliophiles
The author says he regularly plucks titles from New York Review Books Classics, reprints of out-of-print books.
Former FBI Director James Comey has a book deal.
The work will examine high-stakes situations over the past two decades, which is expected the Russia scandal and the FBI’s probe of Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server.
A popular TV series about a teen’s suicide may have prompted a surge in online searches for suicide, including how to do it.
INFORMER
Comings and goings of businesses and other organizations in the suburbs west of Boston.
New England Literary news | Nina MacLaughlin
New look at old store; New England Book Award winners; and a memoir of facing tough medical challenges and a tough adolescence
“Mrs Fletcher,’’ Tom Perrotta’s new comic novel, looks at how marriages and families work and don’t.
Bibliophiles
Her most recent book is “Truevine: Two Brothers, A Kidnapping, and a Mother’s Quest.”
The Story Behind the Book | Kate Tuttle
In her new memoir, Jessica Berger Gross describes the decision she made more than 17 years ago to separate herself from her parents and brothers.
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The Discovery
Hannah Kimberley’s new book is a thorough look at a woman who defied the conventions of her time.
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“New People’’ tells the story of grad student Maria’s unraveling and her desperate efforts to hold herself.
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“Sons and Soldiers’’ is a story of courage and determination, revenge and redemption, grippingly told in a fast-moving narrative.
Four Takes
Capsule reviews of “I Got A Song’’; “John Prine’’; “A Freewheelin’ Time’’; and “Woodie Guthrie.’’
Hillary Clinton is calling her new book “What Happened” and promising unprecedented candor as she remembers her stunning defeat last year to Donald Trump.
A grandson of the late Nelson Mandela said that the removal of “Mandela’s Last Years” showed respect for the family’s wishes.
