Lauren Simpson // Blog Writer The Reader by Bernhard Schlink was published in Germany in 1995 and in the US in 1997. The story follows a young boy, Michael Berg, who suffers from jaundice, as he meets Hanna, a much…
Laura Elias // Blog Writer Sitting at a red light was not how I had envisioned myself telling my grandmother, of all people, that I wanted to be a writer. Yet there I was, fifteen, on the cusp of sixteen,…
Alli Armijo // Blog Writer What makes you you? What is it that makes a woman a woman? If such existential questions as these keep you up at night, drag queens Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova have got just the…
Olivia Smith // Blog Director Have you ever cut a book down its spine? Back in January, The Washington Post published an opinion piece titled, “If You Love Books, Do Not Cut Them in Half.” The piece was a response…
Julia Brukx // Blog Assistant The city of Salem, Massachusetts, site of the infamous seventeenth-century witch trials and bustling October tourist attraction, announced recently that they would be shutting down for the two weeks before Halloween—traditionally their biggest weekends of…
Emma Shacochis // Blog Assistant Last year, the annual Boston Book Festival took place over the course of a single October weekend. Attendants could wander through the activity tents and vendor stalls that bordered Copley Square, then head inside the…