The Salem Witch Trials engulfed Salem, Mass., and surrounding areas for a little more than a year. Twenty people, most of them women, were executed....
Author: Craig Brown
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Nicholson Baker discusses writing, Seacoast-based characters, and saving newspapers by Craig Robert Brown Nicholson Baker made his mark on the literary scene with his debut...
Comedian, nerd, man…robot?
Comedian Myq Kaplan talks writing, open relationships, robots, Twitter, and things comedians don't like to hear.
Cut and paste community
When Sam Paolini returned to their hometown of Brentwood after dropping out of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2010, they felt inspired...
Dive in
photos by Shelby deBruyn In the summer, traffic is at a standstill, the ice cream flows like water, and tourists are packed into every corner...
From the pulpit to the pub
at Pub Theology meetings On a recent Friday evening, on the second floor of The Grog restaurant and bar in downtown Newburyport, Mass., a small...
In your face
When John Norwood Fisher picked up his bass and started Fishbone in Los Angeles in 1979, the music industry was in flux. Disco was in...
Listen up
The RPM Challenge wraps its 10th year and looks ahead to the next decade by Craig Robert Brown, photos courtesy of RPM Challenge For Karen...
Telling tales
Pat Spalding helps first-time storytellers discover their voices and refine their tales Words and photo by Craig Robert Brown Pat Spalding thinks the older woman...
The journey and the destination
Above, Atticus Lish In their new novels, Atticus Lish and John Benditt explore odysseys both internal and external By Craig Robert Brown In their latest...
True detective
Just a few feet from the stone wall separating Portsmouth’s South Cemetery and Route 1A are two gravestones cut in white marble. The graves are...
