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  • 2023.20.03_FN-GBHevent_TiyaMiles

    Beyond the Page with American Historian Tiya Miles

    Tue, Oct 3, 2023
    In celebration of 2023 Boston Book Festival, GBH's Callie Crossley of Under the Radar with Callie Crossley talks with Tiya Miles, a public historian and creative writer whose research focuses on African American, Native American and women’s history during colonial America.

    Miles is the Michael Garvey Professor of History at Harvard University, the author of five prize-winning works on the history of slavery and early American race relations, and a 2011 MacArthur Fellowship recipient. She was the founder and director of the Michigan-based ECO Girls program. Her New York Times bestselling book All That She Carried won the National Book Award.

    Miles’s latest book Wild Girls, examines how Harriet Tubman, Zitkála-Šá and Louisa May Alcott, among others, found self-understanding in the natural world and became women who changed America. This beautiful, meditative work of history puts girls of all races—and the landscapes they loved—at center stage and reveals the impact of the outdoors on women’s independence, resourcefulness and vision. For these trailblazing women of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, navigating the woods, following the stars, playing sports and taking to the streets in peaceful protest were not only joyful pursuits, but also techniques to resist assimilation, racism, and sexism.

    Check out all the 2023 Boston Book Festival Headliners and Keynotes at bostonbookfest.org
    Beyond the Page
    Partner:
    GBH Events
  • 2023.09_FN-GBH_Lily-King.jpg

    Beyond the Page with Award Winning Author, Lily King

    Thu, Sep 14, 2023
    GBH is proud to present Lily King for September’s Beyond the Page virtual event.


    Lily King is the New York Times bestselling author of five novels: The Pleasing Hour (1999), The English Teacher (2005), Father of the Rain (2010), Euphoria (2014), Writers & Lovers (2020) and one collection of short stories, Five Tuesdays in Winter (2021). Her work has won numerous prizes and awards, including the Kirkus Prize, the New England Book Award for Fiction (twice), the Maine Fiction Award (twice), a Whiting Award and the B&N Discover Award. She has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and an alternate for the PEN/Hemingway. King currently lives in Portland, Maine.


    King shares insights, challenges and joys, creating memorable characters in her five novels. She also shares the inspiration behind her latest book Writers & Lovers, which explores the themes of ambition, resilience and the power of love. The protagonist embarks on a journey of self-discovery as a talented and struggling writer determined to make her dream a reality.

    This event is hosted by CRB Morning Program Host, Laura Carlo.
    Beyond the Page
    Partner:
    GBH Events
  • This is a photograph of a woman is standing in front of a bookstore. She is wearing blue jeans, a black shirt, black blazer, she has long brown hair. She's smiling. It appears to be a sunny day. The storefront window is full of new book releases.

    Shelf Life: A woman's love of reading takes flight in Chestnut Hill with Hummingbird Books

    Wendy Dodson wanted to create a "magical" place for kids and fight against book bans.
    Shelf Life
  • On the left is a book cover for the novel, "The Wicked Bargain." The cover is an aqua blue seascape, with waves and a pirate's ship in the background. In the foreground is a young man, dressed in brown clothes, holding a flame in his hand. To the right is the book cover for the novel "Third Daughter." The cover is dark blue, with the words "The Third Daughter" written across the cover. There are also illustrations at the top of the book of a diary, and a castle. In the foreground a bottle of potion has drops of liquid spilling out from its opening

    LGBTQ+ authors use fantasy fiction to create safe spaces for readers

    In magical realms, prejudices such as homophobia and transphobia don't exist.
    Music & Culture
  • On the left is a headshot of author Chloe Gong, she is standing in profile. She turns her head to the left and looks directly into the camera. She has straight, chin-length black hair. She is wearing a black, sleeveless top. to the right is the book cover to her new book, "Immortal Longings." The cover is black with gold writing and artwork. In the center of the book cover is a gold crescent moon with the silhouette of a girl standing in the bottom of the moon's curve and above is an upside down silhouette of a man, he's hanging from the top curve of the moon.

    Chloe Gong comes of age with adult debut novel 'Immortal Longings'

    After breaking out with hit YA books, Gong’s new novel is a retelling of Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra.”
    Music & Culture
  • A Vaccine is Like a Memory

    'A Vaccine is Like a Memory' teaches children about the history of vaccines

    Local author Rajani LaRocca says she writes books she wished she had as a kid.
    All Things Considered
  • To the left is a headshot of a man wearing a blue shirt with a dark blue dotted pattern.On the right is the cover of his latest book, "Hope." The cover is a photograph of two kids dancing. The girl is wearing a floral patterned dress, the boy is wearing a black suit. On the dance floor in the background are other kids dancing. It appears to be a formal occasion.

    Andrew Ridker explores a Jewish family’s unraveling in his Brookline-set novel ‘Hope’

    Written during the pandemic, Ridker tells a story of a more optimistic time in America.
    Music & Culture
  • This is a photograph of a storefront of a book store. Hanging in the window is a multi colored striped Progress Pride flag, there is also a Pride Flag. in the storefront window is a table, which has a display of books propped on it and a Pride flag draped over it. Propped up in the window sill is a Black Lives Matter poster with the face of George Floyd , a painting of a red heart and a sign in the window, which says "All She Wrote Books. Celebrate Trans Writers & Stories Every Day"

    Shelf Life: Community and representation inspire All She Wrote Books in Somerville

    The intersectional, feminist and LGBTQ+ bookstore amplifies underrepresented voices.
    Shelf Life
  • several children are sitting on the floor across from a teacher wearing an orange shirt reading a book

    Summer reading in the era of book bans

    Will young people become discouraged from reading?
    Greater Boston
  • On the left is an illustration of the book cover for the romance novel "Love, Theoretically." a woman wearing a pick dress with long brown hair is kissing a talk blonde male. To the right is a photograph of the author, Ali Hazelwood. She's standing outdoors. It is a sunny day and appears to be warm because she's wearing a short sleeved, brown dress. She has long blonde hair. She is folding her arms across her waist. She's wearing glasses. She is smiling.

    With her 'STEMinist' romance novels, Ali Hazelwood creates chemistry with readers

    Author Ali Hazelwood explores academia and other variations on adult education in "Love, Theoretically."
    Music & Culture
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