Hello and welcome to the August edition of the Queer Lit Review! This month, we have an immortal ghost hunter finding new friends, a grotesque mermaid helping a young high schooler after she loses her family, and a gay antique dealer falling for a closeted detective during a murder investigation. These titles may be available…
After Bunker Hill
About nine months after the Battle of Bunker Hill, British military forces were finally persuaded to leave Boston by the installation of cannons on Dorchester Heights in what is now South Boston. Thus ended the Siege of Boston and years of British occupation. But what happened in those months between Bunker Hill and the evacuation…
Tiny Worlds: Dioramas at the Boston Public Library
On the third floor of the McKim building at the Central Library in Copley Square, there’s a small, dark room where tiny scenes come to life in the shadows. You’ll see fighters in a boxing ring, a cozy kitchen where two friends chat over a meal, a group of dimly lit circus performers, an artist’s printmaking studio complete with miniature printing press. Little figures travel through deserts and shipyards, run to seek shelter from the rain, and float down rivers in small boats.
Influencer: The Alice Jordan Story
In a time when library schools were all but nonexistent, Alice Jordan embraced incoming youth services librarians and championed youth patron services. The Boston Public Library defined children as ages twelve to fourteen and considered them a nuisance, interfering with library services for adults. There were no books for children nor a way for them…
Pickwick Club Disaster
July 4, 2025, marks the 100th anniversary of one of Boston's greatest tragedies: the Pickwick Club Disaster. In the early morning hours of Independence Day 1925, a five-story building collapsed upon itself entombing and crushing to death the many celebrants inside. The Pickwick Club collapse left Bostonians shocked and appalled at the many layers of…
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