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Author event with Sara Hunter and Julia Miner and The Lighthouse Santa

Sara Hoagland Hunter and Julia Miner

We recently had the opportunity to host an event with both the author and the illustrator of a new children’s book. The Lighthouse Santa is written by Sara Hoagland Hunter and illustrated by Julia Miner; both author and illustrator are fairly local to us (Miner, in fact, keeps a [...]

An evening with María Dueñas and The Time in Between

photo of María Dueñas credit Pilot Press

Did you happen to see page 11 of the New York Times Book Review this weekend? It was a full-page ad for the novel The Time in Between by Spanish author María Dueñas. We recently had the opportunity to sit down and chat with María during the New [...]

Author event: John Smolens and The Schoolmaster's Daughter

The Bookshop hosted John Smolens with his historical novel, The Schoolmaster’s Daughter: A Novel of the American Revolution.

This novel explores a family torn apart – Abigail Lovell’s schoolmaster father is an outspoken loyalist and prominent figurehead in the community; she and her two brothers engage in acts of espionage to undermine the British forces in Boston. It’s a tale [...]

Author Event: John Lithgow and Drama

Nan (@nanReads), Anne (@anneDeCourcey), Marie (@bostonBibliophl) and I waiting in line for the event.

A few weeks ago I went in to Cambridge to meet some friends for the John Lithgow event that Harvard Bookstore was holding. Yes, I asked one of the event staff to take our photo; we were lined up outside First [...]

The 2011 New England Book Awards

[A quick and dirty blog post about one event from today's NEIBA conference. It took four men in my hotel room to get the wi-fi working ... and they tell me they'll comp it for my trouble. Squeaky wheel strikes again ...]

The 2011 New England Book Awards luncheon was the first official event of the [...]

Salem Lit Fest – Part 2 (Sunday)

Back up to Salem on Sunday morning for the last day of the Salem Lit Fest!

The first two panels I attended were at the Salem Athenæum (isn’t that cool that I figured out how to insert the ligature ‘ae’? And, yes, I had to look up what it was called!). The Athenæum is a 50,000 [...]

Salem Lit Fest - Part 1 (Saturday)

Brunonia Barry, Julia Glass, and Katherine Howe. Note the bank safe behind them (held at Salem Five's community room)

The new, revived Salem Lit Fest was held this past weekend – actually a 3-day fest, it kicked off with a reception on Friday night (which my family schedule kept me from). Aside from the Friday [...]

Author Event with Dawn Tripp and Game of Secrets

Earlier this summer (it is still summer … for a few days, anyway!), we hosted Dawn Tripp with her most recent novel, Game of Secrets.

The novel is part literary thriller, part love story; a story in which a simple board game offers the link that can finally untangle two families’ tragic past. Like a [...]

A visit to The Night Circus

“The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.”

Last week the circus came to town! This wasn’t [...]

Author event with Nina Sankovitch and Tolstoy and the Purple Chair

We vacation on the Cape during the summer, and each year I visit Where the Sidewalk Ends Bookstore in Chatham; this store, in fact, was one of the earlier Spotlight on Bookstores pieces that I wrote.

Where the Sidewalk Ends runs a series of “literary luncheons” during the in-season. The ticket price includes lunch at the [...]

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