No severance pay?

All through the 1990s, I worked at the Boston Globe. I made some great friends there and I learned a lot. Now, I’m not sorry I left, but I’ve also always understood why others stayed. It is the biggest newspaper in the region. The most respected and...

Remembering Eddie Bo

It’s funny, I never really played his albums much. But I always turned up the radio when an Eddie Bo song came on. “Check Your Bucket” “Hook and Sling” “Check Mr. Popeye”… Any appearance by Eddie Bo was always the...

HBO takes on “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency”

And I, in turn, take on the Anthony Minghella production in my review in the Boston Phoenix. I quite liked it, largely because Minghella was quite respectful of the books. That said, he did change some things. One difference that I couldn’t fit into this review...

California dreamin’

I’m sitting here in my Cambridge office, hoping the temperature really does hit 50 degrees today, but in my heart I’m in California. In print, too: The San Francisco Chronicle ran my review of “Revenge of the Spellmans” today. Fun book –...