Archive for September, 2010
Don’t Go There
Piper Kerman grew up in Boston. Her jail memoir is “Orange Is The New Black” Following an unlikely segue of venues, Piper Kerman graduated from Smith College, got involved in international drug trafficking and a decade later, went to jail. Piper’s Sapphic college days brought her under the witchy spell of drug-smuggling Nora who “looked [...]
Friends At Fresh Pond And Hereafter
Gail Caldwell, former Chief Book Critic of the Boston Globe, writes about the writer and Phoenix Columnist Caroline Knapp “Let’s Take The Long Way Home”-A Memoir of Friendship The felicitous confluence of bonds that brought two well-known local writers –Gail Caldwell and Caroline Knapp- into such deep friendship included: being-single, rowing in sculls on The [...]
The Weird Wild Woods
“Dogtown: Death and Enchantment IN A New England Ghost Town” is by Elyssa East Known as a ghost town, Dogtown comprises a brooding 3,000-acre area of abandoned woodland in Gloucester. Its thrilling eeriness casts a mesh of myth over the place for centuries. For painter Marsden Hartley who characterized the place as “Druidic”, mulching his [...]
Lyrically Lost in Liquor
Mary Karr author of “The Liar’s Club”has a new memoir “Lit” which is set in Cambridge. The title “Lit” tilts two ways—referring both to drunkenness and to literature. Beginning her career as poet and memoirist, Karr who’s married to an upper class poet and the mother of baby Dev, begins to drink like a fish. [...]