by Clea | Sep 17, 2024 | Boston Globe, Hold Me Down, News, News
Well, at least in the mind of Scot Lehigh, Boston Globe columnist (and author of the delightful Just East of Nowhere). In today’s column, he discusses reading habits – including some bad ones (have you ever thrown a book out of a car?) – and his current faves,...
by Clea | Oct 28, 2021 | Boston Globe, Hold Me Down, reading, Reviews
Today’s Sunday Boston Globe book section hails HOLD ME DOWN as a “propulsive thriller,” saying: “In electric prose, Simon conjures the rock-and-roll world, its drink, drugs, and band-dynamics, and the twin seductresses of excess and success, as...
by Clea | May 29, 2018 | Boston Globe, News, Uncategorized
As many of you may already know, I have an op-ed in the Boston Globe today, talking about “The Americans” and, more to the point, the aftereffects of rape. I wrote this piece because of a theme that seemed obvious to me – how the trauma of rape can derail...
by Clea | Dec 15, 2010 | Boston Globe
My review of Henning Mankell’s latest, Daniel, ran in today’s Boston Globe. I wished I liked it more. I’ve also just read an advance of his last Wallander mystery and, wow, did I hate that. Sometimes, I think, a writer loses respect for his readers,...
by Clea | Dec 3, 2010 | Boston Globe
I’m not usually a Dennis Lehane fan. Usually seems like he’s trying too hard. But going back to Patrick and Angie, he hits all the right notes – the real notes. My review in today’s Globe.
by Clea | Aug 23, 2010 | Boston Globe
We plan, God laughs… my review of Amy Boesky’s moving memoir, “What We Have,” in today’s Boston Globe.
