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A waiter’s valentine to food and his friends at a now-closed Minneapolis restaurant and fiction about a woman who stands up to corporate betrayal give us two good reading options today. “The Last Supper Club: A Waiter’s Requiem”: by Matthew Batt (University of Minnesota Press,.$22.95) I enjoyed teaching very much, but at the end […]
NEW ENGLAND LITERARY NEWS A new poetry collection about a Cambridge woman unjustly hanged as a witch, and new National Endowment for the Humanities grants for local writers By Nina MacLaughlin Globe Correspondent,Updated December 28, 2020, 10:44 a.m. Email to a Friend Verses of the accused In Cambridge in 1650, a woman was wrongly accused and hanged for bewitching her friendâs child to death. Shortly after her hanging, it came to light that the child froze to death because his nurse left him in the cold woods during a loverâs tryst. Such are the facts that drive Cambridge poet Denis...