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Oct. 7, 2024: Freshly minted

New music, new book and new science, oh my!

For instance, the debut novel by Easthampton author Sarah Sawyer, "The Undercurrent," takes a winding road through a cold case to explore the connections of family, friends, and location during two tumultuous time periods. We explore her writing process before her launch party at the Williston Northampton School on Oct. 8.

And, a new album from the northeast-grown Americana quartet, Twisted Pine. While being our awesome guests at the Green River Festival, they were incubating a whole new album to be released next week, coinciding with a show at the Iron Horse on Oct. 18. We hear live music from most of the band about the theme and direction of this new set of songs from their upcoming LP "Love Your Mind.”

Plus, Mr. Universe, Salman Hameed of Kainaat Studios and Hampshire College, tells us how we might see with our bare eyes the next destination for the Europa Clipper and a comet that will cross the western Massachusetts horizon this week.

Christopher “Monte'' Belmonte is host and executive producer of NEPM's The Fabulous 413. He was born and raised in Massachusetts and has been a radio host in western Massachusetts for the last 20 years — the last 17 of them as host of Mornings with Monte on The River 93.9/WRSI.
Kaliis Smith is a radio host and producer for NEPM's The Fabulous 413. She was most recently host and producer at The River 93.9/WRSI where she appeared on Mornings with Monte for the Nerdwatch segment and hosted weekday evenings.