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Boston New Years Eve Party 2017

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Boston New Years Eve Party 2017

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The Roundtable at Porter Square Books

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If Our Bodies Could Talk, a Conversation with The Atlantic’s James Hamblin

A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women

Anti-New Years Resolution Party

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The Dire Literary Series

Assassin of Youth: A Kaleidoscopic History of Harry J. Anslinger’s War on Drugs

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Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement

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Belichick and Brady: Two Men, the Patriots, and How They Revolutionized Football

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On Baking and Writing: A Talk with Louise Miller

The Case Against Sugar

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André Aciman at Harvard Bookstore

Searching for John Hughes: A Conversation and Screening of “The Breakfast Club”

Boston Poet Spotlight Series

The Kickstand’s Winter Salon: Obsession

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#WritersResist: Boston

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FREE Brown Bag Lunch at GrubStreet: Social Justice Edition

“All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans

The Massachusetts Cultural Council Awards Reading

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Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism

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Together We Rise: A Celebration of Resistance

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Inside the Graduate Poetry Workshop: Receive MFA -Level Feedback on Your Poetry

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Stories of the “Forever War”

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Death Comes to Downton: A Murder Mystery Dinner Party

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Four Stories!

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“From Right to Left and Left to Right: Translating Yiddish Poetry”

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Birth of a Movement: Film Screening and Discussion

Poems for Political Disaster- Readings at The Cambridge Public Library

An Evening of Inspired Leaders: A Favorite Poem Reading With Mass Poetry

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The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead: Stories

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Democracy: A Case Study

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Yuri Herrera and Lisa Dillman, Creation and Collaboration: Signs and Transmigration

Caring for Red: A Daughter’s Memoir

TIMOTHY GAGER’s Dire Literary Reading Series

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Considering Matthew Shepard: A Boston Day of Reflection

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