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Jane Brox, who grew up in Dracut in the Brox Farm family, will read from and sign copies of her new book “Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives” on Thursday, May 16 at 6:30 PM at the Andover Bookstore, 74 Main Street…
Read More »Merrimack . We live thirty miles inland along the old road to the coast, a road laid down on an early wagon track, which followed the Indian trace—a long day on sure feet giving way to oxcarts that took half the week to return from the sea with their burdens…
Read More »Following is one writer’s highlights in cultural experiences in Lowell and the Merrimack Valley this past year. These are events I attended, so this list is not an attempt to rate the best in the arts and culture for 2012. That’s for another post. Send in your favorite and unforgettable moments,…
Read More »At her Lunchtime Lecture at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center this past Monday, Jane Brox distributed a list of “Works Mentioned” in her talk about “Reading, Writing, and Sense of Place.” The books about Sicily are included because Jane is preparing for a trip there in the fall. By…
Read More »“Writing About Place: Local to Global” — A Talk by Author Jane Brox Monday, April 23, 12 noon, UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center Free and open to the public Award-winning author Jane Brox, a native of the Merrimack Valley, will discuss the way literature is both affected by a…
Read More »Jane Brox will read from her new book “Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light” on Thursday, March 10, at 7 pm, at the Spalding House on 383 Pawtucket Street. This is a Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust event. If you plan to attend, please respond by calling 978-934-0030. “Brilliant” was…
Read More »It’s been ten years since writer Neil Miller in the Boston Globe Magazine shone a spotlight on the Merrimack Valley literary renaissance that was getting noticed at home and far away. The region of Bradstreet, Thoreau, Whittier, Frost, Kerouac, and others has emerged in our time as a literary hotspot. Read the…
Read More »Award-winning author Jane Brox, who grew up and lived in Dracut until recently, will be among the featured faculty at the prestigious annual Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference at Middlebury College in Vermont, August 10 to 20, 2011. For details, visit www.middlebury.edu/blwc Her faculty colleagues will include Chang-rae Lee, Philip Levine, and…
Read More »I have to brag on this one. My friend Jane Brox, native of Dracut and the Merrimack Valley and now living on the Maine coast, made the TIME magazine list of the top ten best non-fiction books of 2010 (#5) with her wonderful book “Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light.” Writes…
Read More »Author Jane Brox will be reading from her new book, “Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light,” this Thursday, Sept. 9, at 7 p.m., at the Andover Bookstore, 89 Main Street. She is a marvelous writer, and in this book she takes on a subject that so surrounds us that most…
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