We’re just three days from Greater Boston Writers Resist, and it’s impossible to overemphasize the need for free press right now. I hope you’ll consider attending on Saturday. If you need another reason, the kind crew at DigBoston ran an excerpt from Sam Cha’s American Carnage to plug the event, so check out a bit of the opening below and read the rest at DigBoston—or if you’re in town, it’s also in the print edition!—and be sure to come to the BPL in Copley Square on Saturday to hear Sam kick off Writers Resist. Let’s get together and recommit to writing our way through this administration, and making ourselves heard among all the noise.
“I looked down at the thing inside the case, nestled in black foam rubber.
Oh, I said.
Here, said Mat. You wanna hold it?
It was the damnedest thing.
I didn’t, but I did.”
— Sam Cha, from “How We Came to America (1)”
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