Author Eric Jay Dolin discusses a 19th-century New Bedford whaling voyage that ended in a shipwreck and a clash of cultures in Palau.

The Ghanaian-American novelist discusses using Boston to frame her characters' search for authenticity and a quiet reprieve from elite spaces.

The journalist turned novelist discusses embedded surveillance with gang task forces and how the callousness of young Boston gang members kept him up at night.

The former Longmeadow resident shares how the 2018 Hawaii alert inspired his western Mass.-set debut novel, tracing the local fallout, satire, and trauma of a tech error.

Vermont author Tim Weed grounds a fantastical story with smuggled Mesoamerican treasure and a mysterious missing father in the familiar hills of his home state in his new novel, "The Gatepost."