Now that COVID is (hopefully) in our rear view mirrors, the Edgartown Library has invited me to give a talk about my memoir, Brassy Broad: How one Journalist helped pave the way to #MeToo, on July 29 at 11 am. The event at the library, which is located at 26 West Tisbury Road, is open to the public and I hope you will join me there.
Brassy Broad tells the story of a scrappy outsider who overcomes significant obstacles to become one of the first in the country to write about the sexual misconduct of powerful men. For instance, I was the first reporter at The Boston Globe to write about the molestation of children by Catholic priests—a decade ahead of the Spotlight team investigation chronicled in the 2016 movie that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. (In my memoir, I explain why it took the Globe another decade to fully expose the Church for protecting pedophile priests). My book also relates how growing up in an unusual intentional community taught me to question authority and helped shape me as a journalist.
After the talk, I will be happy to sign and sell copies of Brassy Broad.
