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Author Jen Gunter speaks about her new book, “Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Menstruation,” at The Brattle Theater on Friday. Gunter is a certified obstetrician-gynecologist in Canada and the United States, as well as a New York Times bestselling author. TAYLOR COESTER/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Author Jen Gunter destigmatizes women’s health in discussion of her new book on menstruation

Lian Niu February 5, 2024
Jen Gunter, an obstetrician-gynecologist and pain medicine physician, discussed her new book about the stigma that surrounds women’s health issues and the importance of wielding correct medical information.
Books stacked in front of a coffee bar at Trident Booksellers on Newbury Street. MADI KOESLER/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Independent bookstores find new revenue streams in building community

Brett Abrams October 4, 2023
In the modern digital age, with online retailers becoming cheaper and more accessible, independent bookstores are turning toward building community as a successful business model in a competitive industry.
Harvard Book Store is one of many businesses struggling to make money due to the COVID-19 pandemic. COURTESY OF EDWARD EL VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Harvard Book Store publicizes financial struggle, receives outpour of support

Yiran Yu October 29, 2020
Hundreds of local businesses have steadily lost revenue during the pandemic without their usual foot traffic, and Harvard Book Store is among them.
Cullen Murphy discusses his new book “Cartoon Country: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe” at the Harvard Bookstore Tuesday evening. PHOTO BY LILLIAN BROWN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Cullen Murphy remembers hometown in ‘Cartoon County’

Lillian Brown December 5, 2017

Cullen Murphy, an editor-at-large for Vanity Fair and former managing editor at The Atlantic Monthly, combined his longform narrative skills and comic-filled childhood in his latest book, “Cartoon...

George Musser, contributing editor for Scientific American and author of ”The Complete Idiot’s Guide to String Theory” speaks about his recent release “Spooky Action at a Distance” at the Harvard Book Store Monday night. PHOTO BY ERIN BILLINGS/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Author questions definition of space in new book, “Spooky Action at a Distance”

Lillian Brown November 3, 2016

Author George Musser arrived at the Harvard Book Store on Monday evening wearing a “Stranger Things” T-shirt and managed to work references to the TV show into two of the slides of his book presentation....

Investigative journalist Bob Woodward, left, discusses his novel "The Last of the President's Men" during a conversation moderated by David Gergen at the First Parish Church in Cambridge on Tuesday night. PHOTO BY SARAH SILBIGER/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Bob Woodward calls for clear-watered, open-gated politics

Samantha J. Gross October 21, 2015

Bob Woodward, the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who broke the Watergate scandal with colleague Carl Bernstein for The Washington Post in 1972, visited Cambridge Tuesday to promote his...

Boston’s independent bookstores exhibit unique features

Daily Free Press Admin January 30, 2013

Buying books can be a long and grueling process. To the book aficionado, there is nothing better than wandering around the shelves of a well-stocked bookstore. One might know exactly what to look for,...

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