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A mushroom of one's own

The woods around Boston are full of fantastic fungi — if you just know where to look
I can hear the members of the Boston Mycological Club laughing as they read this.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | September 21, 2011

Their cheating hearts

Literary Lites
When Kristina Newman-Scott took over as director of programs for the Boston Center for the Arts in January, she was surprised at its lack of literary offerings.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | September 21, 2011

Book-industry magic: Erin Morgenstern transformed into an overnight literary sensation

Will Erin Morgenstern be the next JK Rowling? Or will the spell wear off?
A year ago Morgenstern was selling tarot-card paintings on Etsy from her former home in Salem, Massachusetts. Now she is the author expected to become fiction's next pop star.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | September 16, 2011

10 authors — and a couple of artists — make the rounds this fall

Word and image
Joan Didion, Umberto Eco, Colin Meloy, Touré, the Boston Book Festival — just trucking out to all these "shows" could keep a person from ever actually getting around to reading a book.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | September 14, 2011

Grace Bonney’s epoch-defining design blog becomes a book

Home pages
Design*Sponge at Home , the first book by the founder of the blog Design*Sponge, Grace Bonney, is a breathtaking, byzantine 390-page encyclopedia of eclectic home décor.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | August 31, 2011

Rainbow coalition

Hair-metal royalty, working-class meatheads, and six-year-olds still mingle at LA’s Rainbow Bar & Grille
It is 1985. I am six years old, sitting in a sticky red leather booth in a wood-paneled room on the Sunset Strip, eating pizza.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | August 24, 2011

Boat people

They cover the waterfront
For around $200 a month, houseboaters get a place to dock — plus electricity, refuse service, and Wi-Fi. There's no security deposit, homeowners' taxes, or assessment fees.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | August 23, 2011

Jesse Eisenberg and Nick Swardson get to work

Teen dreams
Following his star turn as a ruthless, if socially awkward, billionaire in David Fincher's The Social Network, Jesse Eisenberg returns to the screen as a downtrodden pizza delivery boy-man in Ruben Fleischer's 30 Minutes or Less. Nick Swardson plays Eisenberg's tormentor.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | August 12, 2011

Reimagining Porgy and Bess

The A.R.T. takes on the Gershwins' classic and prep it for Broadway
In the new production at the American Repertory Theater, directed by Diane Paulus, Messrs. Heyward and Gershwin have been reworked by two actual African-Americans: two-time Obie Award winner Diedre L. Murray and Suzan-Lori Parks, the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | August 12, 2011

Will Kindles kill libraries?

In this corner: libraries struggling to bring in patrons. In the other: Kindles looking to expand their market. Will it be a bloodbath, or can they hug it out?
This week, OverDrive itself will host its own conference to help libraries deal with a massive onslaught of patrons clamoring to check out books on their Kindles. Can embattled public institutions handle such a drastic change?

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | July 27, 2011

The Game of Thrones author visits his realm

The madness for King George
The immense appeal of George R. R. Martin's storytelling relies, in part, on the innate thrill of the mechanics of power.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | July 22, 2011

Beach reads that don't suck

Summer reading that stands the test of time
Lists of beach reads — though as reliable as summer itself — are, generally speaking, a sham.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | July 18, 2011

Errol Morris's magnificent obsessions

Mr. Natural
The tops of the side tables in Errol Morris's office are entirely obscured by books, among them Remembering Satan: A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory ; The Education of T.C. Mits: What Modern Mathematics Means to You ; French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan's Écrits , and an anthology of Weekly World News stories.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | July 13, 2011

Daily Show vet stumps for Planned Parenthood

No More Bargains
Lizz Winstead has a cold. The New York–based comedian is speaking with me from her home town of Minneapolis, where she has been working on a book due out later this year — and where she caught a heckuva bug.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | July 08, 2011

They feel a song coming on

Hello Trolley!
The night the Bruins took the Stanley Cup, the cast of Improv Boston's T: An MBTA Musical ambushed two carfuls of unsuspecting Red Line passengers.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | June 29, 2011

A cheery reboot for True Blood

Bloody good
As supernatural soap operas-cum-social allegories go, True Blood is as good as it gets.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | June 24, 2011

The return of Tomi Ungerer

Moon man
Last week, the children's book artist Tomi Ungerer returned to America for the first time in over a decade.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | June 27, 2011

We Like Bikes

There has never been a better time or place to be a cyclist
I Love My Bike, a book of street photography by Matthew Finkle, with text by Brittain Sullivan, has captured the imaginations of people in far-flung lands.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | June 15, 2011

Make way for cornhole

How the Midwest's stupidest sport is taking Boston by storm
When I left Chicago for Boston three years ago, I expected to leave a few things behind. Friendliness, for one, and deep-dish pizza, and modernist architecture, and perfect hot dogs, and . . . cornhole.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | June 09, 2011

Ann Patchett finds her readers

Up the Amazon
Ann Patchett forever endeared herself to Bostonians with her 2007 novel, Run, a lyrical take on the Kennedys and crisp New England winters.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | June 01, 2011

Look at This Fucking Hipster Wedding

Marching down the aisle with mustache parties, woodland creatures, and letterpress — lots and lots of letterpress.
If you liked it, then you shoulda put a bird on it.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | May 25, 2011

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