Don’t miss Newtonville Books’ celebration of the posthumous release of DENIS JOHNSON’s new story collection, The Largess of the Sea Maiden. Authors HEIDI PITLOR, MONA AWAD, JEFF PARKER, STUART NADLER, and CHRISTOPHER BOUCHER will put on their best Denis Johnson voices in order to read from this stunning book .
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.