Preston Gralla

Book Review: The Wild, Dirty, Dignified World of Garbage Collection

September 7, 2026
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This book is the best travelogue you’ll ever read about a terrible place you’ll never want to visit but want to experience vicariously.

Local Author Interview: Tom Perrotta on “Ghost Town,” Grief, and the Perils of Nostalgia

September 2, 2026
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In a new novel set in a 1970s New Jersey suburb, the Belmont-based author revisits childhood, racial segregation, masculine stoicism, and a past that cannot be remembered honestly without its shadows.

Local Author Interview: Milo Todd on Excavating a Lost Queer Berlin

July 17, 2026
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Novelist Milo Todd discusses his novel “The Lilac People” and the challenge of reconstructing queer and trans lives under—and after—Nazism.

Local Author Interview: Lelia Farsakh — A Life in Exile, A Voice in Cambridge

June 8, 2026
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Palestinian scholar Lelia Farsakh reflects on a life shaped by displacement, her father’s legacy, and the political and personal stakes behind her emerging memoir.

Local Author Interview: “Love Is What We Carry” — Andrew Krivak on Storytelling, Memory, and “Mule Boy”

April 25, 2026
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In conversation, Andrew Krivak discusses inherited grief, immigrant roots, and the novel’s unusual form.

Film Review: “Deepfaking Sam Altman” – the “Roger and Me” of the AI Age

February 28, 2026
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“Deepfaking Sam Altman” is an entertaining, off-beat deep dive into the hands-on tech needed to generate deepfakes. It also sounds the alarm about the growing imitative power of AI.

Book Review: Steven Underwood on the New Black Digital Renaissance — and Who Profits from It

February 21, 2026
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What you’ll think of this book will likely rest on what you make of the writer’s definition of Black digital Art.

Book Review: “Racebook” — Internetting While Black

December 13, 2025
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One of today’s most distinctive intellects wrestles with the internet and all its messy consequences.

Book Review: Internet’s Workers, Tech’s Winners — A Flawed Take in “Amateurs!”

October 15, 2025
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There’s a great book to be written about how everyday users create the content that powers the web, while billionaires reap the profits. But this one isn’t it.

Book Review: “Tech Agnostic” — Was the Creation of the Computer Chip our Original Sin?

September 18, 2025
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Although Greg Epstein’s analysis and critique of what he calls a tech religion are on target, his solutions for undoing its damage are bland, vague, and toothless.

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