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Shawn Harris inspires kids to picture their futures in Cambridge book tour stop
Shawn Harris got rave reviews from one of the harshest groups of critics out there: elementary school students. Read more The middle class in Cambridge earns less than you think Erupting fanfare and quiet awe rippled through the crowd when the children’s book author and illustrator entered the Cambridgeport School Library. Over 100 first, second […]
Galiot Press marks one year of publishing genre-defying books
Galiot Press is one year into publishing books. How does the Boston-area press fit into the publishing landscape?
‘Verity’is lifeless on page and on screen
“Verity” ⭐⭐ Rating: 1.5 out of 4. The movie version of “Verity,” Colleen Hoover’s hackneyed page lift of Daphne du Maurier’s great 1938 Gothic psycho thriller “Rebecca,” has an all-star cast that may not be enough to give the romance novelist a fourth box office success. Read more Community, developers have mixed response to new […]
When everyone lies, does it create a truth of its own?
“The Award,” by Matthew Pearl Harper, 2025 Stories generally draw us in when we can identify with main characters or the problem they face. “The Award,” Matthew Pearl’s December 2025 novel, focuses on an ambitious but self-doubting writer trying to make it in Cambridge, a promising subject for someone like me. Read more Deaton has […]
Somerville author draws on family history for novel about Armenian genocide
When Sarah Ignatius’ son was in eighth grade, she asked him whether his class was learning about the Armenian genocide as part of its unit on World War I. Read more “Mighty Mary” and the all-woman team that cannonballed America’s Cup His answer: The class was only spending two days on the entire war. No, […]
The CPL’s top 10 August reads
Here are this month’s 10 most checked out books at all Cambridge Public Library locations. Thanks to Susannah Borysthen-Tkacz, Senior Librarian, for providing us with the list. Read more Children born at Mount Auburn Hospital invited to meet “The Dot” author
Pop-up book fair takes hold at Lamplighter Brewing
This summer, Lamplighter Brewing Co. in Cambridge launched a monthly Brewery Book Fair with Book Ends, an independent bookstore in Winchester. Read more Cambridge affordable housing projects to receive over $18 million in state and federal financing It began in July as the brainchild of Book Ends co-owner Lauren Tiedemann, a Cambridge resident and member […]
Children born at Mount Auburn Hospital invited to meet “The Dot” author
From 2014 to 2016, babies born at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge were given a copy of the book “The Dot.” Now, its author Peter H. Reynolds is inviting those kids to meet him. Read more Cambridge historian, Somerville comics press honored with Massachusetts Book Awards The “Dot Kids,” as he calls them, are invited […]
Cambridge historian, Somerville comics press honored with Massachusetts Book Awards
A Cambridge historian and a one-person Somerville comics publisher are among the winners of this year’s Massachusetts Book Awards, the Commonwealth’s annual honors recognizing outstanding books by Massachusetts authors, artists, poets and publishers. Read more Cape Cod environmental crime drama has local flavor, minimal thrills Jill Lepore, a Harvard University historian and Cambridge resident, won […]
Cape Cod environmental crime drama has local flavor, minimal thrills
“The Scallop Plot” by former Boston Globe health columnist Judy Foreman seems like an ideal choice for a Cape Cod guest house bookshelf, a thriller to flip through idly on a rainy day. It’s full of immersive descriptions of Provincetown and vicinity, with plenty of local landmarks and restaurants namechecked. And it leaves the reader […]