Today we're bringing other locales into closer view.
In literature, we dig into Mattea Kramer’s new novel, “The Untended,” which takes a very close look at a fictional woman’s interaction with the very real opioid crisis within a Greenfield backdrop. We hear about treading proverbial lines between the real and unreal on the page from someone who’s been addressing issues like these in the public sphere for years.
We also evoke more than a little Clouseau with the music of someone performing tonight at The Iron Horse. John Carroll Kirby has collaborated with big names like Solange, Frank Ocean and Blood Orange to name a few, but his solo albums evokes more of a free-form electronica. We ask him about the art he makes in collaboration and for himself before you can see him in person in Northampton.
And Word Nerd Emily Brewster, senior editor at Merriam-Webster, takes us back to English’s origins with German words we’ve adopted and remixed for our own linguistic purposes. But the journey is a bit of an ouroboros, except that that word is Greek.
