The Salem Athenaeum is pleased to announce the fourteenth Salem Literary Festival (aka Salem Lit Fest), happening September 5-10. Most of this year’s festival will be held in person in locations around Salem, with a few sessions only offered online. The Lit Fest features more than 40 notable writers from across genres sharing their stories and writing advice with each

“When someone has the promise of what they want whether it’s love, or creativity, or justice – if they have the promise offered to them and see the demonstration of it taken away and denied, they leave yearning for it.” Macey Jennings Macey Jennings is a Beverly-based actress, writer, and playwright from Holden, Maine. She joins Joey on the podcast

Lucia Gaviria, Michael Dello Iacono, and Alison McCarthy – co-hosts of Beverly Talks. by Joey Phoenix “How well do you know your neighbors, Lucia?”“I don’t know all my neighbors, but I do know a couple.”  Have you ever taken a walk around your neighborhood and wondered what goes on in the houses you see? Have you thought about what kind