Events for February 3, 2017
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1:00 pm
Yuri Herrera and Lisa Dillman, Creation and Collaboration: Signs and Transmigration
Mexican novelist Yuri Herrera, author of Signs Preceding the End of the World and The Transmigration of Bodies, discusses his work in Spanish and English with his translator Lisa Dillman. Boston University Lecture Series in Literary Translation.
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Caring for Red: A Daughter’s Memoir
Porter Square Book is pleased to host a reading with MINDY FRIED, author of Caring for Red. Caring for Red is MINDY FRIED's moving and colorful account of caring for her ninety-seven-year-old father, Manny -- an actor, writer, and labor organizer -- in the final year of his life. This memoir chronicles the actions of two sisters […]
Find out more »TIMOTHY GAGER’s Dire Literary Reading Series
TIMOTHY GAGER's Dire Literary series -- now in it's 16th year -- is pleased to host local writers, LOUISE MILLER, WENDY MNOOKIN, and LOUIE CRONIN for a reading from their latest works. As always, the 7PM reading will be followed by an open mic. There are four open mic slots, with the sign up sheet starting at 6PM. […]
Find out more »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.