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The Belmont Resident Who Took up Writing at 61

July 12, 2024

Greg Stone always wanted to be a writer; it just took him a while to get around to it. After he ended up in the intensive care unit with complications from his back surgery in 2019, it occurred to him that every…

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Author Grace Lin: ‘A Book Can Show You The World’

May 20, 2024

Author Grace Lin: ‘A Book Can Show You The World’ Julie M. Cohen, Belmont Voice correspondent Samantha Huang, 14, said author/illustrator Grace Lin’s books truly resonated with her after she realized “those characters [in her stories] looked like me.” The award-winning children’s…

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Sisters Write about Pre-Internet Childhood in New Book

February 19, 2024

Greta Gafin, Belmont Voice correspondent Longtime Belmont resident Marlene Fereshetian and her sister, Sossi Manoukian, had long dreamed of writing a book together. “We had talked about it for many years,” said Fereshetian. Starting in 2020, as the world shut down because…