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“Hundred-Year Retroactive Book Award” at the Boston Public Library

November 2, 2017 | 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Free

The Associates of the Boston Public Library cordially invite you to their Hundred-Year Retroactive Book Award, a competition that weighs the enduring literary merits of three bestsellers, all published in 1917. Contenders for the prize are T.S. Eliot’s Prufrock and Other Observations, Mohandas Gandhi’s Third Class in Indian Railways, and Arthur Conan Doyle’s His Last Bow: An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes. The books will be defended by poet and author Charles Coe, Michael Patrick MacDonald, memoirist, and suspense author Jacquelyn Mitchard respectively. Author Stona Fitch will moderate the irreverent debate, after which the audience will vote to determine the winner. A reception with the panelists will follow.

Details

Date:
November 2, 2017
Time:
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Cost:
Free
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Website:
http://www.bpl.org/general/associates/events.htm

Organizer

The Associates of the Boston Public Library
Phone:
617-536-3886
Email:
associates@bpl.org
Website:
www.TheAssociates.org

Venue

Boston Public Library, Copley Square – 2nd Floor, Abbey Room
700 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116 United States
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Phone:
617-536-3886
Website:
www.bpl.org

Did You Know?

Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.