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Former arts and feature writer for the Daily Hampshire Gazette in Northampton, Massachusetts. Like books, baseball, bicycling, playing music and more.
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Reading Roundup: Steve Pfarrer’s favorite books of 2025

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By Steve Pfarrer
| Amherst Bulletin Verified
During my last several years as the Gazette’s arts and features writer, I compiled a list of my favorite books of the year each December. Though I retired in mid 2024, I’ve continued to write occasionally about books for the Gazette, so here are some of my favorite reads of 2025, consisting mostly of titles from the past few years. Hope you find something of interest here. One of my favorite reads of 2024 was Murray’s 2023 novel, “The Bee Sting,” a tragicomedy about a struggling Irish family.
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Reading Roundup: Steve Pfarrer’s favorite books of 2025

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By Steve Pfarrer
| Daily Hampshire Gazette Verified
During my last several years as the Gazette’s arts and features writer, I compiled a list of my favorite books of the year each December, given that newspapers all do that best-of-the-year thing and I thought it would be fun to get on board, too; I love reading those lists myself. Though I retired in mid 2024, I’ve continued to write occasionally about books for the Gazette as a freelancer, and the paper has given me another opportunity to do so now.
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The battle for equality goes back nearly two centuries: New book examines efforts by Black Americans to fight segregation in public transport

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By Steve Pfarrer
| Daily Hampshire Gazette Verified
Along with Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Kwame Ture, Rosa Parks is one of the celebrated names of the civil rights movement: the Montgomery, Alabama woman who refused to move from her seat on a bus in 1955, sparking a historic bus boycott in that city that in turn helped jumpstart the push to end segregation across the Jim Crow South.
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