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The first Out of the Book event will take place Tuesday, June 19, at 7:00 pm at the Brattle Theatre. The event is sponsored by Powell's Books and the Grub Street Writers. Powell's of Portland, Oregon - the top vacation destination for any true book fiend - is producing a series of documentaries about modern authors. The goal is to give authors the kind of exposure that other creative types get. Few authors have the... more ›

When Bostonist gets the Sunday New York Times (and yes, haters, we get the Globe too), we first find the magazine to see if the cover story is sufficiently compelling to make us jump right into it. When that is not the case (sorry, Joan Didion, but if we wanted extended meditations on grief on a Sunday morning, we'd go to church), we go to the Sunday Styles section to see how the other half lives (and marries). In the Styles section yesterday, we came across a weird article about some hot new cocktail, which contained the following rumination on autumn: "[I]n addition to its being the season of fresh opportunities for your social life - refreshed by the summer, being your personal best, a k a serious dating - fall is the season for prickly cactus pears." With this in the back of our mind, we were strolling through various squares in Cambridge later that day and noticed what seemed to us an inordinate number of young couples whom we presumed to be on their way to brunch after a first night together (the tousled hair, the amorous disposition, etc.). We had always thought it was spring that made a young man's fancy lightly turn to thoughts of love. But could it be that the crisp air and the end of summer are the real catalysts of an increase in semi-serious coupling? more ›