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Last month, Lindy West joined Papercuts for an event for the paperback release of SHRILL, her book of essays about the making of a funny feminist, coming of age in a culture that’s hostile to women, especially fat women. It was wonderful to have Lindy join us with 450 fans at the First Church JP in April. But before her event, Lindy discussed reproductive rights and her project Shout Your Abortion with Carol Sanger, author of ABOUT ABORTION. Carol Sanger is the Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, and her book Abort Abortion takes readers on an insightful, original, and eye-opening guided tour of the practices, culture, and legislation behind terminating pregnancy in twenty-first century America. Lindy West is a pop culture critics and comedian and a weekly columnist at the guardian. SHRILL is a new York times bestseller and was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Esquire, the LA Times, and Newsweek.  Copies of SHRILL and ABOUT ABORTION are for sale in-store at Papercuts J.P. at 5 Green Street in Boston, or online at papercutsjp.com. Thanks for supporting your local independent bookstore. 

Jessica Valenti, author of SEX OBJECT, discusses her new memoir with Rachel Hills, author of THE SEX MYTH, followed by a dialogue between Kate Layte and Katie Eelman on the book.  Jessica Valenti - called one of the Top 100 Inspiring Women in the world - is a columnist for theGuardian US and the author of four books on feminism, politics and culture. Her third book, The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women, won the 2010 Independent Publisher Book Award and was made into a documentary by the Media Education Foundation. She is also editor of the anthology Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape, which was named one of Publishers Weekly’s Top 100 Books of 2009.  She founded Feministing.com, which Columbia Journalism Review called “head and shoulders above almost any writing on women’s issues in mainstream media.” Her writing has appeared inThe New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Guardian (UK), The American Prospect, Ms. magazine, Salon and Bitch magazine. She has won an IBIS Reproductive Health Evidence in Activism Award, a Choice USA Generation award and the 2011 Hillman Journalism Prize for her work with Feministing.   Rachel Hills has written about feminism and politics for ABC’s The Drum, The Age, The Atlantic, Buzzfeed, Cleo, Cosmopolitan, Daily Life, Elle, Girlfriend, Glamour, Grazia, Jezebel, The Monthly, The New Inquiry, New Matilda, The New Republic, NYMag.com, Russh, The Spectator, Stylist, Sunday Life, The Sydney Morning Herald, TIME, Vogue, The Walkley Magazine, YEN and more. She is also the author of a book called The Sex Myth: The Gap Between Our Fantasies and Reality, which published in North America, Australia, New Zealand and the UK in August 2015. 

Comedian and author Dave Hill discusses his new book of essays, DAVE HILL DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE, with Boston Globe columnist and entertainment reporter Meredith Goldstein. Listen as the pair discuss comedy, adulting, and Donald Trump.

Steve Almond, author of AGAINST FOOTBALL, essayist, and co-host of Dear Sugar Radio, tals with Lauren Weedman, author of A WOMAN TRAPPED IN A WOMAN'S BODY and star of the HBO series Looking, about Weedman's new book of essays, MISS FORTUNE.

Papercuts and UForge Gallery hosted BreakBeat Poets Eve Ewing, Idris Goodwin, José Olivarez, Sofia Snow, and Franny Choi in an evening of hip hop poetry.

Papercuts J.P. hosted Edan Lepucki, author of the New York Times bestseller CALIFORNIA, for a reading and conversation on writing, gender roles, and post-apocalyptic literature. 

Jennifer Tseng, author of MAYUMI AND THE SEA OF HAPPINESS, discusses the vulnerability of writing, her process, and the politics of sex with Kate at Papercuts J.P. 

On Mother's Day 2014, Papercuts J.P. was happy to host acclaimed memoir writer Abigail Thomas in conversation with her daughter, Jamaica Plain resident and photographer Jennifer Waddell. In this episode, Abigail and Jennifer discuss the process of writing, family dynamics, and Abigail's newest book, What Comes Next and How To Like It, available for sale in store at Papercuts J.P. 

On Thursday, April 30, join Papercuts J.P. at the Boston Cyberarts Gallery for a conversation between David Rose, author of Enchanted Objects, and George Fifield, founder and director of Boston Cyberarts. David's "enchanted objects" are objects that he's designed to respond to our needs and learn to predict them. The Boston Cyberarts Gallery, located just down the street from Papercuts J.P. at the MBTA Green Street Station, is dedicated to fostering and presenting innovative electronic and digital art. As the only independent art organization in Massachusetts focusing on new and experimental media, The Cyberarts Gallery was a perfect venue for David's fascinating technological creations, and the conversation was a riveting one! David Rose is an award-winning entrepreneur, author, and instructor at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on making the physical environment an interface to digital information. His book, Enchanted Objects, now in paperback, focuses on the future of the internet of things, and how these technologies will impact the ways we live and work. His work has been featured at the MoMA, as well as covered in The New York Times, WIRED, and on The Daily Show.

On Saturday, March 14, 2015, Papercuts J.P. hosted local authors Celeste Ng and Joan Wickersham in a conversation on writing the family tragedy.  Celeste Ng's fiction and essays have appeared in OneStory, TriQuarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, and more. She is a recipient of the Pushcart Prize, and her debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Noteble Book of 2014, and was named Amazon's #1 Best Book of 2014.  Joan Wickersham's fiction and essays have appeared in OneStory, Ploughshares, Agni,  The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and more. She has received the Ploughshares Cohen Award for Best Short Story, and her newest book of fiction, The News From Spain, was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, and Kirkus Reviews. Her memoir The Suicide Index, was a 2008 National Book Award Finalist.  Papercuts J.P. is an indepdent bookstore located at 5 Green Street in Boston. 

On Saturday, February 28th, Papercuts J.P. hosted academics Jabari Asim and Emmett G. Price III in a conversation on contemporary Black American issues to close Black History Month. Listen to the dynamic conversation with the live audience here. Jabari Asim is an author, poet, playwright, editor-in-chief at The Crisis magazine, and professor at Emerson College. He is the author of children's books, short stories, and non-fiction books The N Word and What Obama Means. His first novel, Only the Strong will be published this spring 2015. Emmett G. Price III is a leading expert on African American music and culture, an acclaimed scholar, ordained minister, professor at Northeastern University, and author of non-fiction books, including The Black Church and Hip Hop Culture.  Papercuts J.P. is a independent bookstore, established November 2014 in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.