In the face of complex surgery, perhaps the removal of a dangerous tumor in an adrenal gland, an operating room safety checklist can seem like an idiotic distraction to the highly trained, ultra-specialized surgeon.
Sometimes the most intriguing books are those not easily categorized. While Boston-area writer Dawn Paul's new book is fiction, it straddles a cognitive divide between memoir and invention, between what we feel is real and what we believe is imagination.
Like the man himself, Gary Snyder's poems speak with the keenness of a knife blade and the knottiness of a Zen riddle.
Navigating the streets of Boston with a stroller is no easy feat, and Kim Foley MacKinnon, Roslindale resident, journalist and author, knows this. A self-described “city girl,” MacKinnon raised her 11-year-old daughter, Sadie, in Boston and understands the challenges of finding the right day care, child-friendly parks and activities. Foley MacKinnon will be at Dedham’s Blue Bunny bookstore on March 11, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. for Parents Night Out.
Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, regarded as one of the most important novelists and poets in Africa, will be honored during a three-day celebration starting this evening at Wellesley College.
Zombie lovers! Award-winning author and Framingham native Christopher Golden will discuss the just-released anthology he edited, "The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology,'' Saturday at 2 p.m. at Barnes & Nobles Booksellers in Shoppers World, Framingham.
Family values its 'Privileges' in new novJonathan Dee's new critically acclaimed novel "The Privileges" starts with a wedding, impressive for the deft writing that conveys the controlled chaos, the edgy anxieties, the many tensions springing from family members' vying needs.el
Former Framingham resident Steve Forman, who lives in Sudbury half of the year, has just published his second novel about detective Eddie Perlmutter, "Boca Mournings." He'll sign copies of his new book on Tuesday, Feb. 23, at 7 p.m., at Barnes and Noble Booksellers in Framingham.
T.A. DeBonis, whose new children’s book draws on the Monkey King of Chinese lore to shape a modern tale, will be at the 2010 Author Series at Morse Institute Library, Natick, on Sunday, Feb. 21 at 2 p.m. to discuss his series, "The Monkey King's Daughter." Natick authors Laurie and Monty Haas will accompany him and lend their voices to selections from both Book 1 and Book 2 (the screenplay too.)
Adam Haslett, a native of Wellesley, has just published his debut novel, “Union Atlantic,” and will appear at Harvard Book Store on Thursday, Feb. 18, at 7 p.m. to read from it.
