About Liam Green

Liam Green was born in Brooklyn in 1987 and raised in New Jersey. He attended Emerson College in Boston and in 2009 was the winner of the Fifth Annual Undergraduate Poetry and Fiction Competition sponsored by Hollins University for his short story "A Break From The Neighborhood." He lives in Brighton, Massachusetts, where he is at work on a novel and several screenplays and, due to his negligible Irish-Jewish ancestry, eating way too many mashed potatoes.

Study of the Day: Lovin’ Large

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You’ve all heard of Hungry Man Dinners but what about Hungry Man’s taste in…women? According to a recent study published in the Journal of Social, Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology, researchers found that the hungrier the man, the bigger his preference for, well, larger women. The study asked a group of mixed gender participants to first [...]

What’s Pumpkin Ale-ing You?

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Pumpkin ales have always perplexed me. Not because they’re an inferior type of beer, but because they seem to only exist as a novelty. Although pumpkin ale is, according to the Samuel Adams website, “one of the oldest beer styles,” like pumpkin spice lattes at Starbucks, they’re only there to fill a seasonal niche. (They’re [...]

Guns and Blood and Cities, Oh My!

As a confessed crime film junkie, I’m looking forward to Ben Affleck’s film, The Town, his second adaptation of a Boston crime novel (Chuck Hogan’s Prince of Thieves). Cynics may assume he’s repeating the formula that was successful for Gone Baby Gone. I’d like to believe he’s finding a niche. Location is key in the crime [...]