Funny, like an untended garden sprouting weeds, I find that during my hectic schedule this week comment spam has infested the place. Sorry for the sparse posting - and the sparser reply to comments/email.
Dan Zarella has started an Essential Boston Reading list. I’ll definitely second Common Ground, which should be required reading for anyone moving to this city. I might also add Planning the City on a Hill as a useful history of urban planning in the city that manages to touch on far more than urban planning.
Any other suggestions? It seems that some Henry James deserves to be on there - perhaps The Bostonians, though I’ve not read that. Two of my favorite books are mostly about New York but have great sections that take place in Boston. For fiction, there’s Dos Passos’ USA Trilogy, with its labor riot and its Scollay Square gay bathhouse scene. In the nonfiction category, Edie: An American Biography has Cambridge in all its 60s gay lefty fun.
And a reminder: book club meets tomorrow at 6.
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