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JOHN WATERS Makes Trouble with CHRIS CASTELLANI

April 12, 2017 | 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St
Brookline, MA 02446
$5 - $15

Brookline Booksmith welcomes cult filmmaker, beloved author, and cultural icon JOHN WATERS for a conversation with writer CHRIS CASTELLANI. Waters will be discussing his newest book, Make Trouble. When Waters offered gleefully subversive advice about making a living as a creative person to the graduates of the Rhode Island School of Design, the speech went viral. Now […]

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Letters to a Young Writer by COLUM MCCANN

April 12, 2017 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St
Boston, 02116 United States

Boston Public Library welcomes COLUM MCCANN for a discussion of his essay collection, Letters to a Young Writer. Letters to a Young Writer draws on the lessons MCCANN learned through nearly twenty years as a writer and a teacher of creative writing. He offers practical advice, creative inspiration, and a profound call to arms for a new […]

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The Lowells of Massachusetts: An American Family

April 12, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States

Come learn about the family and legacy behind one of the bay state's most famous towns. Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome NINA SANKOVITCH, author of Tolstoy and the Purple Chair and Signed, Sealed, Delivered. Sankovitch will discuss her latest book, The Lowells of Massachusetts. The Lowells were a remarkable family. They were settlers in the New World in the […]

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