Whether you're venturing out into the world or hanging out on your porch, summer is better with a good book. On Friday mornings through August, we’ll feature an interview with an author from New England who’s got a new novel out for those lazy days in the sun. As the season progresses, you can hear each interview archived here and start your summer reading list.
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A photographer documents her childhood friend's rise to fame. Foreign journalists try to adapt to life in a U.S. city. A clown pines for the love of a…
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The new novel "Annelies" retells the story of Anne Frank, the young Holocaust victim whose childhood diary became one of the most poignant records of the…
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Joan Livingston of Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, has mashed up her actual profession with a measure of fiction and come up with her latest book.…
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Under British rule starting in the late 19th century, many thousands crossed the sea to Kenya from India. This history is central to Amherst,…
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A new historical novel, "The Wartime Sisters," brings to light a community that thrived at the armory in Springfield, Massachusetts, during World War…
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The poet January Gill O'Neil writes a lot about life after her divorce. That includes what she calls the ordinary, boring stuff. But her poems about a…
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Jane Willan calls her novel a "comfortable detective story that elicits lots of cozy feelings." It kicks off our annual Summer Fiction Series.Willan set…
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The latest book by Florence, Massachusetts, author Robert V.S. Redick is a fantasy tale about two brothers running for their lives through a desert during…
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In most road-trip novels, characters walk or drive or sail as they look for answers to sometimes unanswerable questions.We continue our Summer Fiction…
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Our summer fiction series continues with a mystery called "Death and Turtles." It takes place during the Depression -- 1934 -- in England. I met author…