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Blog Post: Top 10 Things to Do in Northampton
A version of this blog post was written for Off the Beaten Path Food Tours in 2019. Arguably the cultural center of western Massachusetts, Northampton is full of attractions to make a day trip worth it, though of course a main highlight is the food. Once largely a mill town, Northampton has undergone an artisanal…
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Book Review: The Art of Being Normal
My review of The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson, cross-posted from my Goodreads account. This is not the queer YA book you’re looking for. Other people have said most of these points, and I am cis and American and therefore doubly unqualified to speak to trans culture/language in Britain, but these were my main…
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Book Review: The Year 200
This post was originally published on the Massachusetts Review blog. The Year 200 by Augustín de Rojas (Restless Books, 2016) Cuban author Agustin de Rojas’s The Year 200 forces American readers to grapple with their assumptions about Cuba, communism, and the human condition. The novel’s Spanish publication in 1990 and English publication in 2016 line up with potentially…
