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Renowned author, quasi-pugilist, and wife-stabber Norman Mailer was a longtime resident of Provincetown. This summer, dozens of lucky writers are honing their craft in Mailer’s former home there. It's the inaugural year of the Norman Mailer Writers Colony. Here’s a little about how that colony came to be, as well as how it’s going this summer.

-- Deanna Watkins, a 29-year-old mother, was shot to death Thursday night in front of her children at their home in Mattapan. Watkins had a troubled history, having drifted in and out of homeless shelters, and police believe that she was targeted by the masked gunman who killed her. [Herald; BPDNews]

-- Fears that gang violence is on the rise in Boston's southern neighborhoods seemed justified as police revealed that Monday's shooting of a five-month-old baby in Mattapan may have been part of a cycle of retaliatory killings between rival Jamaica Plain gangs. Police believe that the shooting, which left Alianna Peguero in the hospital, may have been a retaliation for the April killing of Luis Troncoso on a basketball court in JP. The Troncoso killing, in turn, is said to have been revenge for the death of Peguero's 20-year-old half-brother, Alan Peguero, last September. Police have hit a wall in the investigation, citing the Peguero family's unwillingness to cooperate. Meanwhile, Bostonians wonder when and where the next battle in this gang war will break out. [Globe]