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Sebastian Junger will read from A Death in Belmont tomorrow, Saturday, April 7, at the Brookline Booksmith at 2:00 pm. more ›

If today’s fabulous spring weather is inspiring you to get out of the apartment tonight, then you should stop by the Sebastian Junger event we told you about yesterday…and if for some reason you are feeling very studious tonight, why not make it a double header? For those of you who are on the ball, you already bought your tickets to the Jonathan Safran Foer event at the Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline. After this... more ›

Bostonist became somewhat obsessed with the Boston Strangler case after reading A Rose for Mary which chronicles the case from start to finish with such detail that you are instantly taken back to that frightening time here in the city. Written by local journalist and nephew of one of the Strangler victims, Casey Sherman, the book definitely led Bostonist to question if Albert DeSalvo was indeed the Strangler as he confessed to being. When we heard about the new book from author Sebastian Junger, A Death in Belmont, Bostonist instantly thought of Sherman’s tale. Junger, who's most well known for the book about the Gloucester fisherman, A Perfect Storm, has decided to use his family’s own personal encounter with the Boston Strangler and base his latest non-fiction novel upon it. more ›