Local Heroes
Northampton gets a shout-out in Brian Kitely’s new novel The River-Gods, which NPR’s Alan Cheuse digs.
Over on Salon, Kelly Link’s Magic For Beginners makes Laura Miller’s (odd) list of the decade’s best books.
The Pioneer Valley—“arguably the most author-saturated, book-cherishing, literature-celebrating place in the nation.”
It hadn’t quite registered with me that the decade ends in three weeks, until articles evaluating it started to drop. This is it? Have we even settled whether to call it the oughts or the naught[ie]s? I’m as delighted as the next first-worlder by the digital marvels it’s let us take for granted, but culturally I feel we’ve barely caught up to where we were before the hanging chads (tea partiers would doubtless have a different interpretation).
