Events for April 7, 2017
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1:00 pm
On Literary Translation: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin at Boston University
Translating War, Translation War Poet, translator, scholar, and the Irish Professor of Poetry at Trinity College, Dublin for the 2016-2019 term Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin will be giving a talk entitled "Translating War, Translation War." The talk is part of the Boston University Lecture Series in Literary Translation, and is free and open to the public. […]
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Dire Literary Series with Alden Jones, Louie Cronin and Georgia Park
Alden Jones is the author of The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler’s Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia, which was named a Top Ten Travel Book by Publishers Weekly and the Huffington Post, won the Independent Publishers Book Award in Travel Essays and the Foreword Reviews IndieFab Book of the Year in Travel Essays, and was longlisted […]
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Coyote on a Fence presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston
Can you be innocent though proven guilty? Inspired by actual events, Coyote on a Fence tells the story of two men living on death row under vastly different circumstances. Young Bobby Reyburn is a likable, illiterate member of the Aryan Brotherhood who committed a horrific crime. John Brennan is an educated, arrogant writer whose crime […]
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.