Zipporah Osei

1 week ago | boston.com | Claudie Bellanger |Zipporah Osei

Readers Say It’s finally starting to feel like spring and after another long winter, Bostonians are ready to get outside. And let’s be honest, Boston Marathon season always gets us inspired to pick up running.

3 weeks ago | boston.com | Lauren Daley |Zipporah Osei

Growing up in a small coal-mining town in Appalachia, travel “wasn’t a thing,” Jennifer Haigh tells me in a recent phone interview from her Boston home. “But I’ve wanted to go to China my whole life. Then this chance just fell out of the sky.”That chance was a fellowship from the Shanghai Writers Association in 2016. Haigh applied and got it. There, her wheels began turning when she witnessed the megacity’s traffic. “Shanghai makes New York look like a cowtown. In 2016, it was one big traffic jam.

2 months ago | boston.com | Maya Shavit |Zipporah Osei

To celebrate Black History Month this year, dive into a fellow reader’s favorite book by a Black author. While Black authors make up a smaller percentage of the publishing industry than their white counterparts, according to analyses by the New York Times and Lee & Low Books, in recent years, they’ve often been at the center of “book bans” across the country.

Oct 16, 2024 | boston.com | Zipporah Osei |Nia Harmon

Books "Needless to say, sleep would not come quickly!" For lovers of all things terrifying and thrilling, there's no better time to dive into a horror book than the Halloween season. If you're looking for a scary story to get you through the rest of October, Boston.com readers have a long list of suggestions for you. In honor of the holiday, the Boston.com Book Club is reading the fiction thriller "Horror Movie" by Paul Tremblay.

Aug 29, 2024 | boston.com | Lauren Daley |Zipporah Osei

I call J. Courtney Sullivan on a recent sunny afternoon to find her at Wards Berry Farm in Sharon with her two kids. Seven-year-old Leo wants to talk to me. (“I just want to say hi,” he pleads.)“He’s drunk with power. He came to my book launch and asked three questions at the Q&A. He’s loving the spotlight,” Sullivan, 43, says with a laugh. Leo’s pleas are eventually answered: I get to say hi to Leo and Stella, 5, before they scoot off to play.