Joyce Linehan’s Book Salon is renowned in Boston for its packed house, fun and irreverent questions, fabulous company and terrific food. Toward the start of the 2025 baseball season, I brought “Locker Room Talk: A Woman’s Struggle to Get Inside,” to Joyce’s Dorchester, MA home, where the bookseller ran out of copies for people to buy and my hand got tired signing them. In 2024, her book events won the Best Literary Series Award given by Boston magazine.