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Regretsfully yours: A holiday stroll through the bowels of Etsy with April Winchell (a/k/a Helen Killer)
It's the most garbage-ful time of the year
The only thing worse than giving a gift you made yourself? Giving a gift made by the folks catalogued on Regretsy.
By:
EUGENIA WILLIAMSON
| December 09, 2010
Boston's Best Indie Craft Fairs: Welcome to Craftghanistan
A never-ending quagmire of felted owls, twee pirates, and racy onesies
Indie craft fairs started cropping up in major cities roughly a decade ago, shortly after the Battle in Seattle and long before The New York Times began regularly using the word "hipster." Tired out from kicking in Starbucks windows, anti-corporate urban bohemians hunkered down with crochet hooks and some Oolong.
By:
EUGENIA WILLIAMSON
| December 08, 2010
The schlock opera of Peaches Christ Superstar
The last rubber
Peaches calls me from Berlin.
By:
EUGENIA WILLIAMSON
| December 07, 2010
Why Bookstores?
As the recession claims more and more big chain stores, independent booksellers become hot commodities
Boston is pocked by vacant storefronts. Businesses don't sell in this economy; they just disappear. But there is one exception: of all things, bookstores are selling like proverbial hotcakes.
By:
EUGENIA WILLIAMSON
| November 23, 2010
Washington Street's smallest theater reopens
Tiny drama
Last week, Suffolk University opened the Modern Theatre, the smallest in the row of theaters on Washington Street.
By:
EUGENIA WILLIAMSON
| November 10, 2010
The Book of Clouds
As books turn into data and tweets are archived for posterity, how will readers and academics cope with the detritus of a digital age?
A hundred years from now, how will literary historians deal with 21st-century authors like Tao Lin?
By:
EUGENIA WILLIAMSON
| November 17, 2010
Rad fatty stonewall
Tipping the scale
TIPPING THE SCALE
By:
EUGENIA WILLIAMSON
| November 03, 2010
Writers celebrate Barry Hannah, the biggest literary badass you’ve never heard of
Captain Maximus R.I.P.
Gene Kwak first came across the work of Barry Hannah while studying journalism at the University of Nebraska.
By:
EUGENIA WILLIAMSON
| November 02, 2010
Insane Clowns for Jesus
A librarian probes the theology of Juggaloism
My friend Jenny Benevento's Juggalo infatuation started gradually.
By:
EUGENIA WILLIAMSON
| October 25, 2010
Dinaw Mengestu's subtle take on immigrant blues
White lies
Seriousness sets Dinaw Mengestu's work apart from most novels about the immigrant experience.
By:
EUGENIA WILLIAMSON
| October 19, 2010
Thirty-three reasons you can't miss this year's Boston Books Festival
Bound for glory
The Boston Book Festival happens this Saturday, October 16, from 10 am to 9 pm at various locations in Copley Square.
By:
EUGENIA WILLIAMSON
| October 15, 2010
Shelf life
Interested in a career in books? Here's whatcha do.
Some people visit bookstores so their children can chew objects outside the home. Others, to peruse the latest magazines for free. Still others walk into a bookstore and are filled with a vague but palpable longing.
By:
EUGENIA WILLIAMSON
| October 13, 2010
The Beast with One Back
We feel dirty: The Air Sex World Championships 2010
Never in my life have I regretted not carrying a blanket more than I did last Friday at the Air Sex World Championships.
By:
EUGENIA WILLIAMSON
| October 14, 2010
Interview: David Rakoff
The author ponders the worst
Nine years ago, Wellesley College psychology professor Julie Norem wrote a book in defense of negative thinking.
By:
EUGENIA WILLIAMSON
| October 13, 2010
Lit snobs, hot librarians, and the rise of the literary tattoo
Bookmarked
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich was sitting down for a meal at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, when she found herself under critique.
By:
EUGENIA WILLIAMSON
| October 10, 2010
Interview: Armie Hammer (''The Social Network'')
The actor talks about playing twins, digital-age chivalry, and growing up in the most interesting family that ever existed
Armie Hammer looks like a menswear catalog model.
By:
EUGENIA WILLIAMSON
| October 04, 2010
Interview: Jesse Eisenberg (''The Social Network'')
The actor on Harvard, anachronistic technology, and raging at the patriarchy
Eisenberg's performance suggests he's a genius, and a five-minute conversation does nothing to dispel that impression.
By:
EUGENIA WILLIAMSON
| October 04, 2010
Interview: Aaron Sorkin (''The Social Network'')
The screenwriter on hackers, Harvard, and getting even
Aaron Sorkin is one dapper guy.
By:
EUGENIA WILLIAMSON
| October 05, 2010
Musician + Author = Crap
Worst of Both Worlds
On Tuesday, musician Ben Folds (formerly of the Five) and rock-obsessed novelist Nick Hornby ( High Fidelity ) released a collaborative record called Lonely Avenue . The result of this musical-literary team-up isn't excruciating.
By:
EUGENIA WILLIAMSON
| September 29, 2010
Jesse Eisenberg makes his mark
Wise guy
Jesse Eisenberg's portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network glitters with exquisite rage.
By:
EUGENIA WILLIAMSON
| October 04, 2010
Indie rules
Small-press fiction that sings
Small-press fiction that sings
By:
EUGENIA WILLIAMSON
| September 28, 2010
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