A summary of Day Two at the Muse and the Marketplace conference, hosted by GrubStreet.

A summary of my day at the Muse and the Marketplace conference, hosted by GrubStreet.

The Muse & the Marketplace, Grub Street’s three-day massive literary conference, is happening on April 6-8, only a few weeks away. It may seem daunting, especially for your first time there. But we asked two local authors, Jennifer Cox and Laura Rees, what kinds of tips and tricks they would advise to Muse-goers.

Tucked away in the back of the Boston Public Library, beyond the arched ceilings of Bates Hall and the paintings of Galahad adorning the Abbey Room, is an office, trimmed in dark wood and warm lighting, with a window that overlooks Huntington Ave., young adult novels stacked on the sill, and a National Geographic poster of the Amazon rainforest tacked to the wall. And though the large wooden desk is free from any type of clutter or notes, it doesn’t mean that work isn’t being done. The office belongs, for the time being, to Laura Rees, the 2017–2018 Associates of the Boston Public Library Writer-in-Residence...

On January 15, 2017, the Greater Boston Writers Resist took place at the Boston Public Library, featuring twenty-five writers, readers, and leaders in the Boston community.

Brit Bennett spoke at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge on Oct. 21 about her new novel The Mothers, which tackles difficult but crucial topics like abortion, racism, suicide, religion, friendship, love, and community. Our reporter writes about Bennett's story about what went in to writing the novel, and the novel itself.

The past few days in Boston have been a celebration of all things books, with the Boston Book Festival and Lit Crawl Boston hosting literary events around Back Bay.