My favorite National Public Radio host, Scott Simon, did an interview on this morning’s Weekend Edition program with crime novelist Dennis Lehane, during which they talked about his latest novel, Small Mercies, due out this coming week from Harper.
It’s a captivating exchange, during which Lehane recalls the social upheaval and odious enmities he observed while growing up in Boston, Massachusetts, during the early 1970s—a time when court-mandated desegregation of public schools sparked violence in the city. That tumult also caused some people, at least in Lehane’s tale, to examine their place in the world and how they came to believe as they do. At eight minutes long, the conversation is definitely worth a listen.
READ MORE: “Dennis Lehane on Boston, Busing, and the Summer of ’74,” by Dwyer Murphy (CrimeReads).
Saturday, April 22, 2023
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