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- Associates of the Boston Public Library hires new executive director, MassNonprofit News, December 24, 2025
Literary Lights Dinner
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- Timothy Snyder on The Culture Show, Jared Bowen, April 13, 2026
- Regie Gibson on The Culture Show, Jared Bowen, April 8, 2026
- Let's Be Friends, The Boston Guardian, May 16, 2025
- Associates of the Boston Public Library hosts 35th annual Literary Lights Dinner, Charlestown Patriot-Bridge, May 2, 2025
- Literary Lights 2025 Keynote Elizabeth Strout on The Culture Show, April 2, 2025
- Celebrating kids’ books, honoring booksellers, seeking influencers, The Boston Globe, by Nina McLaughlin, December 19, 2024
- Associates of the Boston Public Library host Literary Lights Dinner, The Boston Sun, May 6, 2024 (Print article PDF)
- Literary Lights Honoree Dan Shaughnessy and Presenter Bill Littlefield, Boston Public Radio, April 19, 2024
- Alison Bechdel on intimacy, mortality and unfettered creativity, GBH'sThe Culture Show, April 18, 2024
- The 7 Most Prestigious Fundraising Events in Boston, Boston Common Magazine, Roxanne Snowden, January 17, 2024
- Calling All Bookworms, Boston Magazine, by Jonathan Soroff, July 18, 2023
- Bestselling novelist relishes the years she spent living in Massachusetts, Fifty Plus Advocate, October 6, 2022
- ‘Downton Abbey’ creator Julian Fellowes feted at Literary Lights dinner, The Boston Globe, Robert Steiner, April 24, 2018
- Boston Public Library Literary Lights 2017, GBH
- BPL honors Appiah, Faludi, and others, The Boston Globe, Mark Shanahan, April 24, 2017
- Party Pics: Literary Lights and ‘Clothes for a Cure’, Boston.com, Bill Brett, May 2, 2017
- Literary Lights Gala, the Improper Bostonian, Dana Bisbee, May 19, 2017
- Let there be Light!!!, The Boston Guardian
- Celebrity scribes at BPL Associates’ ‘Literary Lights’ dinner, Boston.com, April 15, 2013
- This year’s ‘Literary Lights’ include Mary Higgins Clark and ‘Tiger Mother’ Amy Chua, Boston.com, April 17, 2012
- Writers and a dragon at the BPL’s Literary Lights tea, Boston.com, October 1, 2012
- M.T. Anderson and Kate DiCamillo honored at the BPL, Boston.com, September 27, 2011
Hundred-Year Book Debate
- A century later, three literary classics go head-to-head, The Boston Globe, February 9, 2026
- Executive Director, Amanda-Doyle-Bouvier, and Board Member Lisa Fagin Davis on the Hundred-Year Book Debate of 1926, Audacy, February 7, 2026
- Board Member Lisa Fagin Davis discusses the Hundred-Year Book Debate of 1926 with Jared Bowen, GBH's The Culture Show, January 21, 2026
- Hundred-year book debate: Which 1926 classic still stands the test of time?, Boston.com, September 5, 2025
- The Culture Show Interview with Lisa Fagin Davis, GBH's The Culture Show, Jared Bowen, March 4, 2024
- The best books of 1925, GBH's The Culture Show, Jared Bowen, October 29, 2024
- At the Boston Public Library, a literary debate 100 years in the making, The Boston Globe, Henry Bova, February 27, 2024
- Boston Hundred-Year Retroactive Book Award Recognizes Kahlil Gibran, Boston University News Service, February 21, 2023
- Debating the best book of 1922, a re-issue of a key work by Thích Nhât Hanh, and poetry on the streets of Cambridge, The Boston Globe, Nina MacLaughlin, February 10, 2022
Writer-in-Residence
- Boston author gives Muslim children chance to see themselves on the page, WBUR, Katherine Oullette, July 29, 2026
- Write among all the books at the BPL, The Boston Globe, Kate Tuttle, April 16, 2026
- 6 Boston writers share their go-to bars, cafes and restaurants, WBUR, Josh Breeden, December 22, 2025
- The Associates of the BPL’s Writer-in-Residence program to offer $70k stipend to an emerging author, Boston Globe, Haley Clough, May 2, 2025
- Purse for Boston Public Library's Residency for Children's Writers More Than Doubles, Publishers Weekly, by Judith Rosen, November 21, 2024
- An Interview with Writer-In-Residence Yssis Cano-Santiago, Boston Public Library, November 19, 2024
- Associates of the Boston Public Library's new writer-in-residence, CityLine, Karen Holmes Ward, September 1, 2024
- BPR Full Show 8/23: Summer Wrap Up, Boston Public Radio, Jim Braude and Margery Eagan, August 23, 2024
- Yssis Cano-Santiago wants more Latinx YA stories, Bay State Banner, Mandile Mpofu, August 21, 2024
- The BPL's writer-in-residence, GBH's The Culture Show, August 12, 2024
- Choosing a BPL writer-in-residence, The Boston Globe, Nina MacLaughlin, August 7, 2024
- A Real Wordsmith, The Boston Guardian, August 2, 2024
- Novelist Rhonda DeChambeau persisted for many years. Finally, recognition., The Boston Globe, Sara Farizan, October 3, 2023
- See PEOPLE's List of Must-Read Books for Fall 2023, People, September 7, 2023
- Book Club’s next reads are ‘Our Missing Hearts’ and ‘Borderless’, Boston.com, Zipporah Osei, September 1, 2023
- “I think I might have gone on drawing forever.” Annie Hartnett on Giving the Gift of Art, Lit Hub, Annie Hartnett, April 13, 2022
- Annie Harnett on What Living in a Cemetery Meant to Her Novel, Lit Hub, The Maris Review, May 19, 2022
- Jennifer De Leon's 'Don't Ask Me Where I'm From' Explores Latinx Identify, METCO Program, WBUR, Zoë Mitchell and Tiziana Dearing, August 27, 2020
- Sunset Rising: A Conversation with Laura Rees, Literary Boston, Jessica A. Kent
- Telling Lies to Children, Paul Durham Books, Paul Durham
- Novel takes the cake for former Newton Resident, The Boston Herald, Dan Atkinson, March 8, 2017
- A Room of Her Own, Bostonia, John O’Rourke, February 23, 2017
- BPL writer in residence gets movie deal, The Boston Globe, Mark Shanahan, February 19, 2017
- Lisa Rosinsky brings a fresh perspective to her work — and the BPL, The Boston Globe, Eryn Carlson, September 18, 2016
- Jennifer De Leon finally sees her work catch fire, The Boston Globe, By Linda Matchan, September 14, 2015
- BPL writing fellow launches a new career, The Boston Globe, Linda Matchan, January 13, 2015
- Boston Public Library welcomes writer Annie Hartnett, The Boston Globe, Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein, October 13, 2013
Pierce Performance Series
- We Hold These Truths Honored 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, East Boston Times-Free Press, July 8, 2026
- Bring History to Life on Stage: UMass Theater at Plays in Place, University of Massachusetts Amherst, December 9, 2025
- A Revelation of Character: Bringing Abolitionist History to Life, League of Women Voters of Boston
- ‘Faces of Phillis’ imagines Phillis Wheatley’s life for the 250th anniversary of her poetry collection, The Boston Globe, Elena Giardina, December 1, 2023
- Giving Voice to the Abolitionists: An Anonymous Donor Helps to Resurrect History, The Boston Foundation, April 30, 2021
Preservation
- BPL receives major donation of Yousuf Karsh photographs, Boston Globe, Mark Feeney, April 11, 2025
- How the Underground Railroad Got Its Name, The New York Times, Scott Shane, September 11, 2023
- MFA Boston and Boston Public Library Organize Exhibition of Rarely Seen Works by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, ARTFIXdaily, April 3, 2019
- Museums team up to display rare medieval manuscripts, The Boston Globe, Brian MacQuarrie, July 31, 2016
- Boston Public Library Posts Rare 15th-Century Scroll, Fine Books Magazine, Rebecca Rego Barry, July 13, 2015
- New tools getting Boston Public Library’s old treasures online to millions, The Boston Globe, Eugenia Williamson, February 3, 2015
- This librarian helps put collections online, The Boston Globe
- Behind the Scenes: BPL Digital Projects, The Back Bay Sun, Penny Cherubino, April 23, 2013
- BPL Behind the Scenes: The Conservation Lab, The Back Bay Sun, Penny Cherubino, February 7, 2012
- The Race to Save Rare Books, Boston Magazine, William Martin, February 19, 2008
Anti-Slavery Transcription Project
- Boston Public Library asks for help in transcribing abolitionist manuscripts, The Boston Globe, Laney Ruckstuhl, January 30, 2018
- Today's volunteers make sure yesterday's slavery remembered, Telegram, Mark Pratt, February 27, 2018
- Boston Public Library Launches a Crowdsourced Project to Transcribe 40,000 Documents from Its Anti-Slavery Collection: You Can Now Help, Open Culture, January 30, 2018
Literary Spotlights
- What animals can teach people about being "good creatures", The Boston Globe, Betsy Groban, May 11, 2021
Founding Research Collection Initiative
- Boston Public Library receives $2.1 million in private donations to revitalize founding research collection, The Boston Globe, Charlie McKenna, March 24, 2021
- $2.1 Million for Boston Public Library’s Founding Research Collection, Fine Books Magazine, Rebecca Rego Barry, March 2021
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Philanthropic Support
- Philanthropy Below the Radar, The Boston Foundation
- Secret patron helps library unveil history, The Boston Globe, Brian MacQuarrie, January 30, 2013
- 7 Bookish Charities, Gilles Peress, Hamilton Fish, Huffington Post, October 22, 2013
Bid it! Book it! Auction
- Authors show their love for libraries with prizes for the BPL's online auction, The Boston Globe, Mark Shanahan, September 23, 2020
Dutch Lady Discovery
- Forgotten for 300 years, ‘The Dutch Lady’ rediscovered on Copley library shelf, The Boston Globe, Martin Finucane, August 22, 2017
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Exhibitions
- Original printings of the Declaration of Independence on display at Boston Public Library as part of ‘Declarations: Printing a New Nation’ exhibition, 7 News WHDH Boston, April 11, 2026
- Boston Public Library Loans Centuries-Old Illuminated Manuscripts for "Beyond Words" Exhibition, Fine Books Magazine, September 19, 2016
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The Bard unveiled, at the Boston Public Library, The Boston Globe, Cristela Guerra, October 13, 2016