Events for February 22, 2017
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6:00 pm
YUVAL NOAH HARARI on A Brief History of Tomorrow
Brattle Theatre welcomes the bestselling author of Sapiens YUVAL NOAH HARARI for a discussion of his latest book, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. Harari will be joined in conversation by Harvard's MICHAEL SANDEL, author of Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? and What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets. This event is co-sponsored by the […]
Find out more »Christina Baker Kline at Boston Public Library
The Boston Public Library is pleased to welcome CHRISTINA KLINE, author of the new novel Piece of the World. The book explores the life of Christina Olson, lifelong resident of Maine, sufferer of polio, and icon of American History. Olson was the subject of the Andrew Wyeth painting Christina’s World. But behind the image was a real woman: […]
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Pulitzer Prize Winner MEGAN MARSHALL on ELIZABETH BISHOP
Brookline Booksmith welcomes MEGAN MARSHALL in conversation with JOAN WICKERSHAM about Marshall's new novel- Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast. Since her death in 1979, Elizabeth Bishop has become one of America’s most revered poets. And yet—painfully shy and living out of public—she has never been seen fully as a woman and artist. Pulitzer Prize-winning Marshall […]
Find out more »All Tomorrow’s Parties: ROB SPILLMAN & NINA MACLAUGHLIN
Join Tin House editor ROB SPILLMAN and Boston Globe books editor and memoirist NINA MACLAUGHLIN at La Rana Rossa for this discussion of SPILLMAN's acclaimed memoir, All Tomorrow's Parties. ROB SPILLMAN, the award-winning, charismatic cofounding editor of Tin House, has devoted his life to the rebellious pursuit of artistic authenticity. In All Tomorrow's Parties, he takes us on […]
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.