BOSTON — More than 125 guests attended the launch party to celebrate the release of Boston Globe columnist Scot Lehigh’s first novel, “Just East of Nowhere.”
Those at the event, which was held in the University of Massachusetts Club, included party organizers Michael Goldman, Phil Johnston, Tripp Jones, Natasha Perez, Larry Moulter, Frank Phillips and Jan Saragoni. UMass President Marty Meehan stopped by the party and offered a few remarks.
Also on hand at the Club located on the 32nd floor of One Beacon Street with sweeping views of the city were a mix of current and former Boston Globe staffers including: Tina Cassidy and Anthony Flint, columnist Renée Graham, Director of Audio Scott Helman, reporter Mark Arsenault, columnist Marcela Garcia, Peter Howe, Ben Bradlee, Jr., former editorial page editor Peter Canellos, Walter Robinson, columnist Joan Vennochi, former editorial page editor Renée Loth, tech columnist Hiawatha Bray, photographer Pat Greenhouse, Carol Beggy, Deputy Managing Editor Marjorie Pritchard, Alan Wirzbicki, the deputy editorial page editor, Ideas writer David Scharfenberg, and former Globe political reporter Glen Johnson.
Other attendees were Jim Braude of “Boston Public Radio,” Massachusetts College of Art + Design President Dr. Mary Grant, political reporter Alison King, WBZ TV-CBS 4’s Tiffany Chan, state Representative Marjorie Decker, Greg Stone, Jerry Berger, WBZ Radio’s Carl Stevens, John Sasso, attorney Harvey Silverglate, WBUR reporter Steven Brown, former Boston Herald reporter Bob Connolly, politico and public-relations maven Ann Murphy, former member of the Walsh Administration Joyce Linehan, and the book’s publisher Dean Lunt.
“Just East of Nowhere”, published by Yarmouth, Maine-based Islandport Press, will be in stores on July 11, 2023. The Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass., handled the book sales. Kirkus Reviews said that “Lehigh’s fast-paced novel presents an unsettling but earnest portrait of toxic masculinity” and that “the novel is precise in its construction of mood and place.”
All photos by Bill Brett
